He crumbled like a scared little school girl in Australia’s 1st innings in the second test in India and he could only bowl long hop rubbish at the end of the first test when we needed some quality bowling.
As a matter of fact, I don’t believe he has ever looked like scoring runs in any real pressure situation what so EVER!! It is one thing to score a century when the team is in a good situation and the innings is looking fine. It’s a completely different thing when you come out to bat with no runs on the board and the team is looking to you to make the runs. In all situations where Clarke has been ‘depended on’ he has failed.
As I correctly predicted the demise of the pretender Weekend Hussler I now turn my superior sporting knowledge to attack one of the more over-rated players of the past 30 years. What also perturbs me about this little pretty boy is that he thinks he can use his apparent position in the team to get rid of one of his main threats in Andrew Symonds. Clarke knew his position in the team (as vice captain) was in danger to this big Queensland dynamo and plotted his demise with complete disregard to his ‘friendship’ with Symonds and the Australian teams requirements for someone of Symonds character and ability. Heck, had Symonds been in the team and turned on the same performance for Australia as he did for Queensland (at the exact same time mind you) in single handily defeating Tasmania at the GABBA, Australia would definitely have won the first test.
After the dropping of Symonds, Clarke reflected “The main concern from us is Andrew’s commitment, to playing for this team and in my opinion and I know the rest of the leadership team’s opinion, you need to be committed 100 per cent” Good one champ, I guess that’s why you flaunt your girlfriend around in front of the cameras at every possible opportunity.
Michael Clarke is a show-pony NIFF!!! And until he is dropped we lay exposed to his niffy abilities under pressure.
I have spent the last three days secluded at a winery in the beautiful Hunter Valley. Only problem was each day I would rise and shine early, have breakfast, then lock myself in a conference room for hours on end speaking of subject matter, that would interest less than 0.000000000001 percent of the worlds population, to 20 other niffs. Yes I had the time of my life.
But now as I sit in my hotel room nursing a broken spirit and looking forward to a plane ride home I thought I should tend to my flock (even though I have a piddly dial up connection). As I flicked the TV dial tonight I came across an inspired interview with Bob Carr former premier of NSW. During this interview all Mr Carr could talk about was the environment and how the governments of today are doing nowhere near enough to rectify this ‘global warming’
WHAT!!!!?
Like Al Gore and other former politicians who have had their time in power Mr Carr is now trying to tell us what should be done. I am sorry El’Dipshit didn’t you just have a crack at the job? And now that you have finished you can’t just shuffle off gracefully can you? No, you will have a dig at all and sundry including the bloke who is trying to pick up the pieces of your mess.
At least Peter Beattie has run off to LA to ‘lecture’ over there and John Howard has kept his thoughts relatively to himself. I can’t stand these Monday morning quarter backs trying to tell us what’s going wrong and how we should try and fix it. You had your chance champ and whether you stuffed it up or weather you feel like you succeeded perhaps you should keep the interviews to a minimum.
Maybe write a blog … and if you do real good and I mean real good, you just may be as successful as I am.
I notice that plans muted earlier in the year to build a net under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco are coming to fruition. I remember at the time this was first suggested that I thought it was quite interesting. Interesting for a number of reasons, one being that San Francisco is pretty much understood to be the homosexual capital of the world, second of which it is has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Why is that?
Anyway, back to the net
If you want to commit suicide, and you jump off a bridge, and you land in a net, did you suddenly lose the will to continue the suicide attempt?
I think if you were committed to the cause wouldn’t you just crawl to the end of the net and role off the end? I mean, even if you for some reason break your leg and you are lying in that net in pain, surely you must think that you have even failed at suicide, making you even more determined to ‘do the deed’.
There is a chance, I would give it in the 75% area, that this could be the very last Ford v Holden (General Motors) battle at Mt Panorama with both manufactures ‘afloat’ for a long time. For years, the staple diet for Australian motor sport fans has been dominated by these two large auto manufacturers, the trouble that both of these companies face in the next 18 months may prove insurmountable for one if not both of them.
Ford from a stock value high of nearly $40 in the late nineties has sunk to the value of a cheeseburger at $1.99
General Motors a stock value high of nearly $100 in the late nineties has sunk to a value of a big mac meal at $4.89
Both of these figures tell a pretty bad tale but the worst figures lie with GM. The companies shareholder equity has gone from 10.2 billion in 2005 to –6.5 billion in 2006 to –37 billion at the end of 2007. Yes you read correctly MINUS 37 billion!!!
For the last 3 years GM has made a loss of (10.5 billion), (1.9 billion) and (38.7 billion). I am not sure, but would you like to earn shares in this little venture? I know I wouldn’t.
How much longer do you flog a dead horse?
I am sure Australian racing fans will get used to Toyota v Ford at Bathurst in the next couple of years.
A new book about the worlds second richest man has just been released. It is interesting to me because I have a genuine interest in this man and that this book is the only book ever written about him with his full cooperation. Warren Buffett has vowed never to write a book himself so I am guessing this is the closest we will get to his insight and business acumen.
She no picnic at 976 pages about one man but I am sure if you are interested about the subject it will be worth the investment of time.
I had an enjoyable weekend even forgetting the destruction of the Storm at the hands of the Sea Eagles.
The Albion hotel provided many hours of entertainment with a few winners and many laughs had. A feared pretender proved to be so with the not so mighty Weekend Hussler capitulating in the straight at Flemington. It was a tough run where he was forced to sit three wide most of the way. He did his best and I am not counting him out of the Cox plate but as I suggested in a previous post, anyone willing to smash him at low odds is taking a pretty big gamble in my estimation. If anyone wants to back him at less than the $5.00 mark in the Cox Plate you are a braver man than I.
On to the cash register.
Blacks a Fake is the greatest pacer in the history of the world, as far as I am concerned. I mean you see he is running, you walk up to the cash register, ring the bell and collect the freaking CASH!!!! It is that freaking simple. I made the short walk from the Breaky creek hotel after a luscious steak to watch Blacky go around and I must admit I was a bit excited. I was even more excited as Blacky dominated a small three horse field to turn my $100 into $200. If you ever see him on the board and think that $1.70 is to short just remember two things. Blacks a Fake is a cash register and Weekend Hussler is a pretender.
Congrats to the Beaver for a fairytale send off from the NRL even though it cost me a zillion dollars. But after a weekend where my massive ‘MORALS’ prediction was made to look pretty stupid I thought I would show you and upset that I didn’t try to predict.
If you enjoy watching a small white guy win a fight against pretty muscly dark dude then watch the following. Light heavyweight Seth Petruzelli yesterday filled in for the injured Ken Shamrock to step up in weight class and on only a few hours notice to fight heavyweight Kimbo Slice.
