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Subject: Steve Waugh retires
I feel that, as counterpoint to the recent Steve Irwin stunt, it's a good time to pay homage to a more suitable Australian role model.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/aus_v_ind_2003-04/3372303.stm
He may have been the architect of many a humiliating England defeat over the last 18 years but I take my hat off to a truly great sportsman at the end of his international career!
Subject: Re: Steve Waugh retires
Now you're talking maddog ! A much better representative of our country. ;)
Thanks for your lovely comments. Although I'm not much of a cricket fan, I have to say that Steve Waugh truly has proven time and again just what a great sportsman he is, both on and off the field. :)
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I particularly liked the bit in the article about "monstrous snakes made from hundreds of empties being held up for admiration...."
- sounds like a great day on the Hill!
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Did the ECB pay him off?
If so, could they 'retire' the rest of the Aus squad?!!
Certainly a fine player...one of the greats...
Subject: Re: Steve Waugh retires
Yep ! Here is an anglo-Australian thread in the making if ever you saw one !
Thanks for your comments, Paul and Maddog.
We are replacing him with Ricky Ponting, who averaged 100+ in test last calendar year. Just thought I would mention that ;D
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Oh lawks! More hammerings...
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Yep ! Here is an anglo-Australian thread in the making if ever you saw one !
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There will be a prize for any of our American friends who can post here with an insightful comment on the prospects of the England cricket team in the next Ashes series...;)
Subject: Re: Steve Waugh retires
It's always a bit sad to see a great sportsman retire. Also makes me feel very old!
Just imagine if the Poms took home the Ashes - there would be knighthoods all round for the boys! ;)
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It would be like Johnny Wilkinson, but hundred times more over the top.
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It would be like Johnny Wilkinson, but hundred times more over the top.
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Oi, Jonny Wilkinson OBE if you don't mind ::)
Anyway, I shan't worry about any over the top reaction to an England Ashes victory just yet....I would have settled for a series win over Sri Lanka!
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Oi, Jonny Wilkinson OBE if you don't mind ::)
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Oooooooooo. He's an OBE! An OBE. And all he had to do was kick a ball over a goalpost. :)
Subject: Re: Steve Waugh retires
Yeah, OBEs for Jonny and Martin Johnson, Clive Woodward is now Sir Clive Woodward. MBEs from pretty much everybody else involved.
I say recognition is fine but why perpetuate this idea that Britain still has an empire? It's the sort of backward looking anachronistic jingoism that really frustrates me.