Australia is one nil down.
True.
And they need something special.
You and & I know what that is, but the man wont say it.
But I will be so bold.
Australia needs Andrew McDonald.
I am sorry to Mitchell Johnson, Phil Hughes, Marcus North, Peter Siddle or Brad Haddin, but someone needs to make way.
Australia needs a “Mac-Attack”.
You know it makes sense.
He had to be taken off against Northants, lest he get the whole side out with his wobbly slow ones.
He is the answer to the question the selectors haven’t asked yet.
“How can we win the ashes, out England England and look stylish doing so?”
McDonald is Australia’s ace in the hole; no one in the English camp is expecting him in the side.
His presence will confuse them greatly, “Why this man plays like one of us, yet with flame from his head, how shall we ever defeat him”.
The world is ready for more McDonald.
And Australia needs to play this trump card now.
If you think picking Andrew McDonald is the wrong move, think of the look on Shane Watson’s face if McDonald was picked before him.
Exactly.
Imagine MacDonald and Hauritz coming in at 7 and 8, could the poms cope with such a concentration of mediocrity?
and by mediocrity, I mean #hauritzisgod
he can replace Hughes for sure..
Really, it’s hard to understand how there aren’t a lot more dibbly-dobblers in the world..I mean, it really is amazing to see how much the likes of Colly and Ganguly swing the ball when in England…a Mac-attack might just be the dose the Aussies need!
Could be a red dwarf style ‘reverse universe’ series for the aussies
Mitchell absolutely useless
Hughes absolutely useless
Hauritz our best bowler
M Clarke saving his best for when the team actually needs him
Hilfenhaus persistently dangerous and miserly
Lee injured only to return a snarling reverse swinging menace
Hussey starting to score runs and looking fluent
Norths rendition of the ‘feast or famine or is it famine or feast rorschach’ oh, I guess he’s hard to find an opposite for!
Watson returning as man of steel to bludgeon run a ball tons at the top and scythe through the top order at a strike rate of 40 while swinging both ways en route to being offered the lead role in a remake of the six millon dollar man
McDonald to make quickfire 50′s in the lower order and look like taking shitloads of wickets
The million dollar question- is he good enough to bat 7 in a test? First class avg 37.4, 2 100′s from 51 matches.
Bowling wise he would get the job done.
For the look on Watson’s face and because Ronnie wouldn’t stand over the body of the deposed one with his arms raised triumphantly in the way Watson would.
Plus, we need more players that the English press thought were CRAP pre-series. It is like a cast-iron ticket to a decent series.
I suppose what maddens me is that they are planning to pick MItchell again. He isn’t ‘suddenly’ going to come good and they could lose him this way.
I think Nielsen has laid the ground for Johnson to be dropped by talking about looking at the conditions at Edgbaston. They can now claim that the surface doesn’t suit Mitchell’s style of bowling. The style being shit bowling.
Gingers in cricket! Every team should have one – England have got two!!! – well, one and a half, anyway.
You know it makes sense.
Neilsen on Macca “he’s a ripping bloke around the team”
That’d be enough for the Poms to pick him.
I hugely resent the way the Australian team is morphing into the English team. A long series of would-be all-rounders, people who are ‘good in the dressing rooms’ , christ,even before Hayden retired, someone, possibly Punter who should know better, said that ‘he was looking good in the nets’ and last but not least,a strike bowler with a dodgy temperament.
I feel like any chicken we ever let out of the frickin’ coop is coming back to roost but without laying any eggs.
For fucks sake, they need the other Andrew. Andrew Symonds.
You just saw what a drunkard (flintoff) can do.
Symonds ftw
Mac Attack!! (laughed so much shit came out of my nose!)
I agree with Yad, pissheads all the way!
Honest triers bowling medium pace have alwatys done well in England. Heck, India won a World Cup due to efforts of Amarnath, Madan Lal, Binny and Sandhu.in England. Then in 1986 Madan Lal and Binny were joined by Chetan Sharma in their pwning of the England batsmen in the Test series.
In 2001, Sanjay Bangar took some important wickets and batted like a modern day Tavare to frustrate the Englishmen and suck out all their mojo ahead of the Ashes series. Yes, people forget the contribution that India had in the humiliation of England in 2001.
So McDonald should play. If he plays, I bet on him pissing all over Bell and Bopara.