THE TORCH

Exactly.

Jezzas example is the tip of the iceberg. They find a positive (and often an exaggerated one) for the Oz team from EVERY play, EVERY ball, and on A LOT of irrelevant matters between deliveries! It all adds up. Try watching 10 overs and as you do count up the number of rantings and ravings they direct at their team (NicholASS included!). Dont worry about negative ones because there wont be any. A visiting player may bowl an inswinging leg cutter that beats the batsman and they will concentrate more on how still the batsmans head was, or the fact that the Aussie quicks will have a feast on this pitch, etc, etc, etc. Basically they are embarrassing and it must be affecting the attraction of watching televised cricket from Oz. Terrible.

They are something else Jezz. I came back from golf, flicked it on , watched 2 overs and then had Benaud rant on about Hussey fielding superbly by grasping the ball in 2 hands. All this while the super slow-mo was on. I promptly changed channels and then had a mate text abusing the commentators - and he had flicked over too!! Not only are they diabolical in terms of bias but they are actually bloody limited when it comes to cricketing nous! An embarrassment, even by Australian standards. Why couldnt SKY give a commentary option of absolutely NO COMMENTARY and just the pitch mics operating? I could watch that version. They are so bad even their most die hard NZ supporters have had a gutsful!

Hahaha! A rating scazzzf bad sportsmanship! Brilliant. I know what is worse...you wasting my time by typing such dribble!!! Australia eh?!?!

Haha!! Still havnt got over that NZ v SA VB Finals Series huh??!! The only ones Canada should have a gripe at is themselves!!! They should have won MORE games in their pool to ensure they went through - pure and simple. Unlike Snedden, Im sorry you DIDNT catch that piece of logic

Says a lot that the 7th State pushed the "Top 6 Combined" to 6 runs! And we'll flick in a wee catch that Snedden took, which Greg Chappell packed a sooky moo-moo about and declined to leave the crease. Number 2 in the Australian Hall of Fame.

Direct from the Australian Hall of Fame.

It would suck: Having to wait 3 more years to try and get the Rugby League World Cup back. Having a dweeb like Simon Katich dong you one in your own dressing room. Being the Aussie media trying to make your mind up on how you rate Ricky Ponting. Being Ricky Ponting. Being at third man, claim a catch, and then see on the big screen that you're a liar. Being Brad Haddins conscience. Being in the Channel 9 commentary box. Being positive that you can not be caught out off a wide. Being Australian.

Yep. What makes him so popular on TV/radio anyway?!?! Hes a ranter of the highest order! He slags teams and then when thay are successful hes sucking up to them bigtime. No wonder though - Deaker is his mentor afterall!

Who cares its only Australia!

Hes excellent. He was missed at Nelson this year. Had a substandard replacement instead.

While NZ stays wet we keep getting burnt eh MA? Gotta love the Top of the South!

What a complete balls up.

Agree with most of what you have said here TM. The 2 days at Nelson were exceptional in terms of entertainment for the kids. Effectively kept them out of my hair while I enjoyed my coofin chilly full of Coronas and Corubas! Thats what the real race goers want if you are reading/listening RACE "organisation"!

Better than OP?? Shes killing me at the moment! Ya take something and she screams past ya (ie Cassini). I back her on Pitmans and she has a moose. I remember when she used to ride the tidy Hawera galloper Arigna - lets just say she could have won a few more on it! Ah well we ALL have a jockey like that dont we?! Good luck to her. She seems to ride really well the more congested the calendar becomes.

Well done again Don!

Cheers Bruce. Court Ruler please at $14.

Regal Governor $12 Can I select my Wellington Cup fancy now Bruce??

:D Please Jeeza - stop it! Im in the "Oh how we laughed" zone so much that my ribs are splittin! Brilliant.

Not as articulate as a Patea scholar eh?!

Stephen Fleming did the same thing vs South Africa a couple of years ago to keep Oz out of their VB Finals Series. He got praised and yet Lawson gets bagged!

I switch off when SD speaks now so can not tell whether he is niggling Rodley or not. He definitely used to niggle Luke Radich and you could sense the frustration on Lukes face and in his responses to SD - in the end though he ignored Davis and rightly so. Weird behaviour indeed.

Brilliant.