Posted by jrod on March 13, 2009 under QLD, VIC | 
I think it’s safe to say that Victoria did not throw off any skeletons on day one of the shield final.
At the moment the skeletons are standing behind them with their pants down.
They were 2 for 236.
Game over.
Fuck off Queensland, the Vics have this.
Then a classic Victorian collapse.
Apparently it was so beautiful that Ken Piesse had a tear in his eye.
By stumps Andrew Symonds had 3 wickets and the Vics were 6 for 281, and New Texas were more than in the game.
I said this last year, and i will recycle it, if you are playing an away shield final all you can ask for is at the close of day one you still have a chance to win.
New Texas do.
Victoria even compounded the mini failure by giving a bat to Dirty Dirk Nannes, and sending him out to bat.
Fucking stupid mother fucking ass clowns.
Dirk can’t bat, sorry Dirk, but he can’t.
And nightwatchmen are a stupid fucking theory anyway.
4 balls he lasted.
It gives New Texas more momentum, and more people, like me, will start talking about the Vics exceptional skill at fucking up in finals.
Fuck.
Sorry, some good things happaned as well.
The Future PM David Hussey is back baby, he made a hundred, it has been a long time since his last one, but he saved it for the right time.
At the other end Chris Rogers just put his shoulder into it again, the man is made of runs this year.
With Marcus North in the national side, Western Australia have really missed a trick there.
6 wickets is a good start for New Texas, but Matthew Wade has made two hundreds on the trot, Cam made one last week, and doesn’t mind batting against Queensland.
Also Damien Wright is still to come, and he has beenpissing off shield teams all season with the bat.
None of this matters right now, as it is pissing down.
Really fucking pouring.
At best they look like losing most of the day.
At worst the hole day.
What is even worse for Queensland is that this might liven up the pitch, and you don’t really want a lively pitch if the oppisition has over 300 on the board and has the most potent attack in shield cricket.
And Dirty Dirk might be pissed at being forced to bat.
Posted by jrod on March 8, 2009 under QLD, VIC |
Victoria has not lost a point in the Shield this year.
Pause for gasp.
That is some sort of season, and as far as I can tell, this may be the first time in history that a team has down this.
This is not the best year for shield teams, South Australia, NSWales, and New Texas have L plates on.
Western Australia have completely imploded, and Tasmania don’t seem to be able to get the most out of their vast talent pool.
On paper, I picked Queensland to come last this year, next week they play off in the final.
This latest game has shown how much better Victoria are than the second best team, and last week they showed how much better they were than the third best team.
Bowling New Texas out for 300, and then making over 800.
800, huge numbers.
This is a classy line up.
Brad Hodge has been in average form shield this year, no Brad I wont take that down, and to be fair, was in average shield form last year, that stays too Brad.
But the ego loves making runs against Queensland, and when their attack is lacklustre, which it is, he really likes cashing in.
Rogers is the 4th best opening batsman in Australia, but he made his 4th hundred for the year, to go with 5 half centuries.
Matthew Wade, back to back hundreds, is making a huge run to be Australia’s back up keeper, 2 tons at an average of 47 for the year.
Cameron White has been flirting with Australia this year, he comes back home for a hundred.
Rob Quiney was good enough this year to warrant selection for Australia’s 2020 side, and an IPL contract, but is still a nearly man in shield cricket with a 94.
Nick Jewell failed in this match, but has averaged over 40 with 600 odd runs at the other end of Rogers, and was the man who scored a 90 against a rampant NSWales in the shield final last year.
And Future PM David Hussey made ANOTHER half century.
Unless the Junction Oval wicket throws up a corrugated green strip, Victoria should win, or draw, with ease.
Should is the important word here, we all know that no one chokes like Victoria, but too lose from here, that would take something very special.
Posted by jrod on February 26, 2009 under TAS, VIC |
That is what it is.
The final is at the junction, who is going to kick the bushfire concert off, so they are relaxing.
Blooding people we haven’t heard of as well.
I mean who is Gilmour?
And Eyelids is playing, has an import ever played less for his state while being fit than he?
Ofcourse the team still starred, first team of the year to survive day one at Bellerive.
And they did so with a pair of run outs.
Son of Tony Jewell and Chris Rogers put on a lazy 160 odd at the start.
That makes it hard to get bowled out on day one.
The ego of Hodge came in and made 70 odd.
366 on day one of a match is pretty good, especially when you are
batting on a pitch covered with the skeletons of previous bad first day
totals.
The ball really zips around when it hits skeletons.
And all this is a good thing, because Victoria’s bowling does look as flimsy as it has been in a long, long time.
Pattinson and Wright are obviously proper bowlers.
John Wayne Hastings is a all rounder, albeit with a 5 for against NSWales, and Gilmour, who the fuck is Gilmour?
How many injuries do we have to our bowlers?
Because I have never heard of Gilmour.
True.
We don’t need to win this ofcourse.
But while we’re there, we might as well.
Posted by jrod on December 30, 2008 under NSW, VIC |
It is a good time to be Vicotiran.
Chris Rogers and Damien Wright sensed this.
David Hussey has always known.
Oh, so you don’t believe me.
Brad Hodge, test spot.
Bryce McGain, test spot*.
Cameron White, test spot.
Peter Siddle, test spot.
And now, from no where, and here is where we thank Merv Hughes, Andrew McDonald.
How the fuck is this happening.
Is Merv beating Andrew Hilditch up.
Suddenly it is raining Victorians, and not before time.
Remember when a test player was injured, or dropped, or retiring, and you said to yourself, I think whatshisname could go straight in, shame he is a vic.
No more.
Now even when there are other options, even NSWelsh ones, a vic goes in.
White/McGain before Casson.
Siddle before Bollinger.
Now McDonald before Noffke, Henriques, Geeves, North, and Smith.
There is a chance that there has been a huge mistake, and that Andrew McDonald is not the man who was supposed to be picked.
Congratulations to Andrew, and lets hope we can get a Vic to stick in the side for a while.
*He did get a spot, if not a test.
Posted by jrod on December 15, 2008 under VIC, WA |
Victoria might have had more downtime than they expected in recent times, as have their opponents, but they were right on the money.
Gerard Wright has always been a tuff sonofabitch on helpful surfaces, and he took the first four wickets.
In that bunch were Marsh, North, & Pomersbach.
Not fucken bad.
Later on Dirty Dirk fired up to finish off the tail.
And the warriors were scattered for 211.
Being that the vics won the toss and sent the warriors in, you can hardly say 211 is the worst score ever.
However you would still expect Victoria to get at least 250.
Bandy must be making some waves over west, batting at 3 in this line up is pretty damn special.
And he did it with style.
66 and a bunch of 4’s and a 6 to get there.
Now all we need is a Chris Rogers hundred.
And we know how much he likes doing that.
Posted by jrod on November 26, 2008 under VIC, WA |
Sorry about the title, i just could not help myself.
Chris Rogers was obviously bored in Western Australia.
Last year he struggled a bit with the bat.
Couldn’t make any white ball teams, and looked flat.
Now he is an adonis of modern batting, and i am sure some newspaper has called his form bradmanesque by now.
Yet again he carries Victoria to a win over Western Australia.
Just a pretty little 75 before letting the big bear take over from there.
But this one has got to hurt Moody, because Rogers left to play white ball games, because WA didn’t let him.
It’s hard to blame WA, but with Ronchi batting at 7 this week, and Rogers running roughshod over them, its gotta hurt.
Victoria are happy now, some of the rabid faithful are even considering Rogers Victorian already.
Unheard of.
It took the big cheese 5 years to do that.
Victoria is riding Rogers, and their general top form, to the top of every ladder there is.
That feels good.
And they only thing that stopped them from going to India and winning was terrorism.
The boys are looking good.
Posted by jrod on November 24, 2008 under VIC, WA |
Chris Rogers burnt his home down on the 2nd day.
Well on the 4th day he burnt down the houses next door, the local school, the fish and chip shop and everything else he could pour petrol on.
Chasing 320 off 70 overs shouldn’t be easy, but with an over to spare and with two of the finest red nuts going around it was.
As if Chris Rogers killing the Warriors wasn’t bad enough, for most of the time the Future PM was with him.
Two former warriors coming back to town to steal the points.
Must be heartbreaking.
It’s happened to us enough times though.
Rogers is now in the sort of form that Jesus would be jealous of.
681 runs @ 88 with 3 hundreds and 2 50’s.
Ouch.
At the other end Future PM David Hussey is getting the starts, showing the dazzle, but failing to cash in.
3 half centuries this year. 9 last year, and only one hundred in that time.
Should we be worried, probably not half centuries from him are better than hundreds by most.
But we shall keep watching it.
Now the Vics go to India with a skip in their stride.
Posted by jrod on November 22, 2008 under VIC, WA |
Nothing is tougher than going home after leaving your place in disgrace for another woman/parent/sect.
They know your every weakness, they are out for blood, and only by raising your hands at the end of the day can you truly win.
Chris Rogers now knows what that feels like.
He went home, and he said come and get me biaches, in his best gangsta voice.
Western Australia came hard, they cut down his partner like he was nothing, they took a sword to his number 3, and FPM, a fellow who knows all about going home was smashed in front of his many eyes.
He saw them all come, and he saw them all go.
But Chris held firm.
His red hair shining in the harsh sunlight and littered with the blood of his new brethren, and the stain of dodgy genetics.
He went there an ex warrior, he comes home, a bushranger.
There is simply no argument.
Now his former home have 115 reasons to hate him, and he can never truly go home again.
By the time he had spent himself all over the Waca, Victoria was in the place to pick up the 2 first innings points.
Those points, if they are collected, shall be known as Rogers forever after.
Posted by jrod on November 5, 2008 under NSW, VIC, WA |
No one in Victoria thought it was a bad idea to get Chris Rogers.
But we were getting him on the back of, what was for him, an ordinary season.
Victoria finally had an opener they could rely on, in SOT, and we knew that one more would give us a seriously top class batting line up.
Well here it is.
No weak links in the top 6, not one, in a Victoria top 6.
Rogers didn’t have to beat much yesterday, but this is his 3rd score in the shield in 3 games.
And this one has all but assured us of Victory you would think.
Not that he hasn’t caused some problems.
Foxsports got all confused with all those rangas out on the field, and put up a picture of Dominic falling over instead of one of Rogers classy shots.
And the Headline Blizzard has lost his white ball opening duties.
Other than that it is all good.
Victoria continue their tradition of having ridiculously productive openers.
Andrew McDonald doesn’t stand out as much.
FPM and the Ego don’t have to come in with the score 2/0.
And Chris Rogers gets to live in the best city in Australia.
Now boys, lets knock up a 200 lead, and then slap them back in.
Posted by jrod on October 23, 2008 under QLD, VIC |
Sometimes when you are the bigger man, you need to pick up your family, your friends, your team mates and say, this one is on me.
Dirty Dirk Nannes had one of those games.
He started with 4 wickets in the first innings.
4 of the only 5 batsmen Queensland have, Hopes, Love, Noffke and Harris.
Then when he batted, which he does with no skill at all, he got 10 points Quiney to his maiden first class hundred, and put on a lazy 70 odd for the last wicket.
He made a solid 16*.
That would have been enough for a normal man.
Dirty Dirk is no normal man.
He is the Genghis Khan of modern first class cricket.
He is a beast.
He is Elvis pre jump suit days.
He is the freakin Predator of Victorian cricket.
So he follows up his excellent all round performances with a devastating 7/50.
GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER.
He came, he saw, they paint balled.
Would the Cricket Victorian person who called him a hack please resign, you’re embarrassing yourself.
What I wouldn’t have given to watch the big fella destroy the New Texas bulls.
Dirty Dirk in full brutal flight is like nothing you have seen.
When those limbs come in at full pace you are not sure if he is going to hip and shoulder the umpire, clean bowl someone or fall over.
The action is one of such ungraceful beauty, that it defies words.
Dirty Dirk just has to be seen to be believed.
And apparently the bulls didn’t see too much of him.
Back to the game…
It wasn’t overly impressive, other than DD and 10 points.
Chris Rogers made ANOTHER half century, and Wright did well with 4 first innings wickets, i’m slowly warming to Gerard.
Jon Holland was rested incase he had to travel to India, i suppose.
Victoria really needed this, you can’t play the two worst teams in the comp to start with and not get some points from it, but more importantly, it was a brutal victory and 10 points finally broke his hoodoo.
Special points should go to David Hussey for having the balls to say the Angry man Harwood “isnt the smartest guy going around”.
Well done boys.
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