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Facebook trying to attract the black fern members

So you’re a Kiwi, and you’re on your computer all day long, but you think Facebook is for boring wankers, and teenagers pretending to be adults.

Well you may be right, but you may want to join facebook just so you can subscribe to this group.

Brad Haddin is a cheat“.

It’s description is simple, Brad Haddin is a cheat and on the anniversary of another day shameful in Australian Cricket History.

And it’s recent news packs a punch, “Brad Haddinis a cheat and should not be allowed to play international cricket
it was clear as day the ball didnt hit the stumps.

It only has 14 members, which is not meant as a gag at the expense of New Zealand’s ever dwindling population.

Some of the comments are great.

“After what happened in the first game against NZ, Brad Haddin should never be referred to as being “Australian”. He is a useless, lying, fuck knuckled cuntox and should never again have the honour of wearing the baggy green or any other green. Brad, do Australian cricket lovers a favour and go and share some needles with some African AIDS sufferers, you might, MIGHT, garner some sympathy from Australian fans. Until then, you will onyl ever find sympathy in the dictionary, right between shit and Syphalys…” Mycho Boyle

Amazing that in his eyes cheating makes you less Australian.

“28 years to the day of the underarm, Dirty cheating Cunts!!” Kere Heath

Which is true, and shows an excellent use of Wikipedia.

“i cannot believe he is claiming nothing was wrong,ponting,haddin and the umpires shud be fined and haddin dismissed from international cricket” Drew Inglis

Dismissed from international cricket, he means the ICL, right?

So get over there you crazy kiwis.

It’s all sorts of fun.

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I think i have got every available phrase someone has typed into my site in the title.

So enjoy Braddin’s wonderful work.

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Brad Haddin keeps the Australian way

Every one day series should have a major controversy in the first game, you know, just to keep us interested.

Enter Brad Haddin.

Neil Broom is newly into the kiwi team.

He is batting behind Grant Eliott, so the kiwis obviously don’t have such high hopes for him.

Then he is facing the door knobs of Michael Clarke and he misses one.

Dot ball.

You’d think, but magical wicket keeping can change cricket games.

Brad Haddin seeing the ball was going to narrowly miss the stumps decided to give Clarke an “assisted bowled”.

It was done with the grace of mobsters doctor.

He just eased his hands in front of the stumps (illegal) and then when taking the ball hit the stumps and bails with his gloves (majorly fucken illegal).

It was something you would expect of a Victorian Wicket keeper in a final.

The super slow mo is interesting, with Haddin looking straight down at the stumps for a while, and then eventually making his way over to the huddle.

This may be the first time I thought Haddin had what it takes to be Australia’s keeper.

Thommo says:

Ponting is a two head and his petulant spray vis a vis Vettori just proves it

Utter Bastardtry.

In the old days would be down in the beautiful folklore of trans tasman cricket, but this should give Ronchi a chance to play against the country of his birth.

Would also like to say great umpiring from square leg, with the third umpires helping out with stumpings, surely they could notice little things like the keepers gloves being inches in front of the stumps.

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round and round

How confused is Australia?

Andrew McDonald has 2 first class hundreds in 44 matches.

Brad Haddin has 11, with a test hundred, from 100 odd first class matches.

Cameron White has 13 from 90odd matches.

They all average pretty much 40, McDonald 38, Haddin 41 and White 40.

This is where it gets interesting.

In India Haddin batted at 7, and White at 8.

In Sydney Haddin is still at 7, and McDonald at 6.

For Victoria, White bats at 5 and McDonald at 6.

You see what I am saying.

Hopefully.

White bats before McDonald, who bats before Haddin, who bats before White.

That is the Australian middle order circle of doom.

Lucky they all aren’t playing at the same time, Ponting’s head may have exploded putting the team in.

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Braddin rocks Radelaide, but lets not jump on the wagon just yet

Brad Haddin just made the innings all his supporters have been waiting for.

It was a top knock.

Especially to watch, the brutalised the Kiwis.

Australia weren’t in alot of trouble before he made it, but they wouldn’t have finished many in front of New Zealand without him.

But let us not get the hand cuffs, whipped cream or video camera out just yet.

This was on a flat batting pitch.

Against the 8th ranked team in world cricket.

With an attack not suited to the conditions.

An injured strike spinner.

And a simple chance being put down.

So its good, and impressive, but it still needs to be seen in perspective.

This was the break out innings, but only last test he dropped a catch he shouldn’t have been going for.

The good news about this innings is that he batted NSWales style.

The Haddin before this was not the NSWales one, this one was.

He took on the bowlers.

He backed himself.

And he changed the game.

Without him, New Zealand still had a hope.

With him, New Zealand looked like a battered house wife/husband/same sex partner/blow up doll.

If he keeps batting like this, he will make more than one eye catching test century, and Luke Ronchi and Tim Paine will have to wait a lot longer.

Haddin’s real test though is against South Africa, what this has done, is bought him lots of time.

And if you are going to make a test century, you might has well make it one people will remember.

Twas a rollicking good time innings, maybe not so much for the kiwis.

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Rixon sticks up for his boy

Brad Haddin is struggling.

Sure this makes me happy, but others are less so.

Especially Steve Rixon, his former teacher and coach.

He believes the pressure has gotten to Brad Haddin, and so that Australia don’t miss out on one of their best ever keepers, he should be given a 2 year run without the chance of being dropped.

RIXON YOU MAD FUCKER.

If the dude can’t handle the pressure of test cricket and the selection process, why the hell would we give him two yers, he’s 31 already.

Ronchi and Paine aren’t putting any pressure on him, so it’s all in his head, life is tough though Brad, get through it, or get out of the way.

Test cricket is all about the pressure.

If he can’t handle it, maybe this game isn’t for him, if it is, he will make runs and stop fumbling and solidify his spot.

There are no free rides because he has put in for the NSWales cause.

He has been given 8 tests Rixon, 4 of them against the 7th & 8th ranked teams in the world, and nothing has come of it.

His keeping is slipping, his batting is average, and he looks like a shadow of himself.

Maybe getting dropped will fire him up.

Maybe Ronchi and Paine aren’t ready, but how long do you carry a bloke because people think he has earned his spot at the level below.

That isn’t how this works.

He earned his spot, and now he needs to keep it by performing.

8 tests is more than most players get to prove themselves.

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Braddin your time is now

I knew Brad Haddin would get the number one keeping job.

I wouldn’t have picked him, but the selectors now love picking well performed 30 year olds, and Haddin had been the apprentice for so long, Ronchi never stood a real chance.

If that is how they are doing it, so be it, but 8 tests in and where are the performances.

His keeping has been average, at best, he has played injured instead of letting replacements in, his batting, while being handy, has not been near his shield standard, and so far he has not provided any impact.

Going out to a Jesse Ryder straight one, with a loose shot on the up.

He is lucky though, because Luke Ronchi has not been firing for the Warriors this year.

If he was, Haddin might be told he has the summer to settle the spot.

The only keeper in Australia to be batting at an average over 30 is Tim Paine.

And this is his first full year of wicket keeping at shield level.

The boy is a freak, no doubt, but he has never had a full break out year with the bat, and it took him forever to get rid of Clingleffer for the main spot with the gloves.

All this is helping Haddin, but the selectors wont keep him around forever, in India he was batted ahead of Cameron White, so the selectors still believe in him, but for how long.

He is older than Ronchi and Paine, and the one thing we know about Ronchi is impact.

The boy is all impact, and when Haddin let him come in for the one dayers in the West Indies Ronchi made 60 odd off 30 odd.

People tend to remember that.

Now Haddin is at home, on the pitches that suit him, he has to perform.

Australia is not good enough to carry someone anymore.

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Australia bat on lithium

How to win a test match, with New Australia.

Make 166 runs in 85 overs on the third day, to lull the opposition into a true sense of security.

Brilliant.

Yes there are reasons.

India bowled defensibly.

The moon is in it’s block till death position at the moment.

And it is day of the wombat I am sure.

But what the fuck were they doing?

Everything was so good yesterday, they got to 200 at like 4 an over.

Then it all went wrong.

You expect King Probot Mike Hussey to bring the scoring down, that is his thing.

But Haddin and Cam?

What the fuck is going on?

Is Tim Neilson putting rohypnol in their cereal?

I have seen Haddin and Cam bat a lot, but in this series it’s as if they are some photo copied version of themselves.

Why pick attacking players, and hold them back.

Surely this is not the players doing, I don’t believe Brad Haddin even knows how to defend.

This was a tactic, because everyone did it.

It wasn’t even just these guys, it was Clarke, Watson, Krejza and Johnson.

Johnson, the man who slaps the ball to all parts, prodding like a turd with pads on.

For fucks sake man, you aint a batsman, you is a hitter, not a bad one at that.

A quick 40 odd could have given us the edge.

The only edge Australia have now is the razor blades all Australian fans got out whilst watching this days play.

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Brad, your passport is revoked

Brad Haddin has toured as the big dog on two test tours.

Both times he has injured his hands.

In the West Indies he was able to finish the test series with finger nails coming off, puss coming out and a broken bone.

Fun times.

Obviously he likes that, and to prepare for the Indian series he has gone and done himself a mischief again.

Apparently it is not that serious, but serious enough that King Probot Mike Hussey got to keep at the end of the warm up game.

With 4 tests to go, I think it’s safe to say that Brad will not make it through till the end.

So let’s get Ronchi over there, and let Haddin get ready for keeping in home tests.

In my perfect Natalie Portman inspired world. Ronchi would keep, but this isn’t my world, this is someone else’s world, so I understand that the wicket keeping job is for NSWales, and cannot be given to a Kiwi Sandgroper that I like.

I don’t understand why keepers can’t be a horses for courses selection anyway.

Ronchi is an international man, and has played in the IPL.

Haddin used to play for the ACT, and should be kept at home where it’s a safe environment for his kind.

It makes sense.

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Haddin’s head game (no oral jokes today)

Here is a fun game for you to play at home.

Sime & I discovered this after watching Brad Haddin in a few state games.

Watch how late he lifts his head.

The bowler is almost in delivery stride some times.

And I have seen him pull away more times than any other batsman.

Sometimes it is the only interesting thing about Haddin.

Other times his batting is good to watch.

EDIT: Greg Blewett just mentioned it, how can he be commentating and reading my blog at the same time, the man is a genius.

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