Posted by jrod on June 10, 2009 under QLD | 
Ashley (matrix) Noffke is thinking of leaving Queensland after they told him he was a 4 day cricketer.
He obviously disagrees.
So do the Australian 2020 selectors and the IPL, as in the last 18 months he has represented both of them.
Tom Moody is keen to get his hands on Noffke, because he believes 3 Queensland bowlers, Mitchell, Edmondson and Magoffin are not enough.
Noffke is also pissed he has only been offered a one year contract, but dude, you fall apart with amazing regularity, New Texas are just protecting themselves fianancially.
To be fair, Noffke has always been a bit of a grumpy cunt.
He is no Brad Hodge, but he is just below that level on the shitty stakes.
If he does go, I can only imagine Chris Simpson will start opening the bowling.
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Posted by jrod on March 15, 2009 under QLD, VIC |
Someone asked in the comments the other day if this was the worst Shield Final Bowling line up of all time.
Maybe not, but I can’t think of an attack more tacked together than this.
Jimmy Hopes is opening the bowling, which is scary enough.
Andrew Symonds is the lead wicket taker in the match.
Ben Cutting has the best average of the full timers, with 37.
Ben Laughlin may have been chosen for Australia, but averages 65 in three shield games.
And Daniel Doran must be the luckiest man alive. 27 first class matches with an average of 54. He is an English pro leg spinner, I doubt he could get me out, and if he wants to make me on, and he finds himself in London this year, I will happily take him on.
But without the rain, New Texas could have won this game.
It all comes down to Chris Simpson, someone with a batting average of 20 and a bowling average of over 60.
Last year someone with similar stats captained South Australia, Nathan Adcock, and it was a shambles.
Even before this season started, Simpson seemed like the real deal, at least compared to Adcock.
In the media he said all the right things, and on the field he have done all the right things.
And the team has played out of its skin well.
Considering that he followed Law, Border, and Maher, it’s a risky decision.
If it wasn’t for the rain, Simpson might have ended up with 2 titles this year.
Not bad for a bloke who can’t really bat or bowl.
Posted by Moses on January 20, 2009 under QLD, VIC |
Man Cry
This evening will see Victoria and Queensland fight it out at the Gabba in a high stakes elimination final T20 match. The winner will not only gain entry to the lucrative world club championship, but also the privilege of a Twenty20 lesson from the top dog in Australian domestic Twenty20 cricket at the SCG on Sunday.
The Victorians are píssed off, as having their top players unavailable due to national service is a new problem for them. Now they’ll have to go without the services of Cameron White and David Hussey, who have a ODI on Friday and need their beauty sleep. There is no factual basis to reports that Cameron White Cried, again, at hearing the news, though it does sound likely.
Ryan Harris has been dropped from the national squad so will be available for Queensland, however they’ve replaced him with Mitchell Johnson so that’s probably worse for the New Texas Bulls, who’ll also be missing James Hopes.
CA have also denied requests for the players to be available of for the final, so NSW will be missing David Warner, Michael Clarke, Nathan Bracken, Brad Haddin and Nathan Hauritz.
This could well end up a good experience, as Michael Hussey is keen to explain IPL loyalties come before the state that bought you up, so depending on which IPL teams make the club championship any Australian side could be without their stars when the big bucks are on offer.
Victoria squad: Brad Hodge (capt), Aiden Blizzard, Rob Quiney, Aaron Finch, Andrew McDonald, Matthew Wade, Adam Crosthwaite (wk), Damien Wright, Shane Harwood, Jon Holland, Bryce McGain, Dirk Nannes.
Queensland squad: Chris Simpson (capt), Wade Townsend, Ryan Broad, Lee Carseldine, Nathan Reardon, Glen Batticciotto, Craig Philipson, Chris Hartley (wk), Ryan Harris, Nathan Rimmington, Ben Cutting, Alister McDermott, Ben Laughlin.
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Posted by jrod on September 30, 2008 under QLD |
QLD, the New Texas Bulls
Players that won’t be available for large parts of the season.
Hayden, Roy?, Watson and Hopes.
Losing Watson and Hopes in the one season would cripple most state teams, but the one thing Queensland has is all rounders.
The two bets performed all rounders in state cricket last year were Ryan Harris and Ashley Noffke, they are now team mates, and Noffke has a point to prove.
Last year they were plainly spoken complete fucken rubbish. Actually they were way worse than that.
They were old, stale, and pathetic.
This year the have shed Maher and Kasprowicz, for some unknown reason kept Bichel, and Johnson has gone to be with his girlfriend.
Leadership
Chris Simpson is the new captain, and I don’t know a lot about him, it always seems risky when a team makes a fringe player a captain, but if he is the only choice, he is the only choice.
He said some strong words in the media about hard work and so forth, but so did Nathan Adcock last year, and where is he now, exactly.
Bowling
Ashley Noffke was the best bowler outside of test cricket last year. Ryan Harris was the hardest working man in show bizness last year,
But once these two are finished what does Queensland have. They have no spinners, Andy Bichel and lots of untried bowlers, Noffke and Harris would have to take a lot of wickets, and if one gets the call up, Queensland are in trouble.
Batting
Old.
Unkown.
Strugglers.
And all rounders.
I have never seen a state line up look so bare.
Noffke and Harris may end up with all the wickets and all the runs.
Long in the tooth
Andy Bichel is technically already dead and no one has told him and Martin Love is pensioner, if both of these guys play out the whole year I’d be surprised.
Ready to shed the nappies
Ummmm, shit, lets say Alistair McDermott who makes other red heads look subtle.
Nostradamus
Shield
Last.
One dayers
Last.
2020
Second Last.
The rub
They seem old and ordinary, and the probably are, remember when they were good.
The Robert DeNiro mob
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