end of season thank you

Well that is it from me for this season.

I will hopefully be back next year to cover the bushrangers as best I can.

Perhaps next year the VCA may grant me the Interviews I asked for.

Depending on what happens with Cricket With Balls I might even have more time to write and watch the Vics.

I would like to thank all the people who made this blog possible and the ones who supported it.

Big Daddy for all but suggesting it.

Sime for telling me it was the important blog,even though he never read it.

To the pseudo couple I stalked.

All the Victorian players who google their own names.

The cricket slags who tried to work out if the players had girlfriends.

Nice Bryce, Dirty Dirk & Future PM for the way they play the game.

To Banh, Moses, Sarah (even if she did delete some of her comments), Nashy and all the others who commented.

The Vics for giving me such a season to follow.

As for me, Cricket With Balls will continue unabated, and also some of you may not be aware that I also have an afl blog.

It's called footy on ice, so if your interested pop on over.

Because a day without blogging is a day without venting about crap no one wants to listen to on the bus.

Cheers.

Uncle J Rod.



PS Thanks to Ken Piesse as well. Not that I've ever met him, had advice from him, or any sort of contact at all. But thanks.

v for venereal

Is it over?

Can I return to normal programming?

My boys have been humbled.

There is a passage from V for Vendetta that sums up how I felt before the game.

Dominic: What do you think will happen?

Finch: What usually happens when people without guns stand up to people *with* guns.

Victoria has a very good team, but not a great team, NSWales has an armoury.

The pain of the situation is the false hope that you build up.

If NSWales were 2 for 400 on the first day, I could have said, well ok, they are too good, the deck is too flat, we aren’t up to it.

But on the first day Peter Sizzle and Dirty Dirk threw Nswales around a little.

Siddle was damn near unplayable, and Dirty Dirk got out some very handy batsmen with some very good bowling.

Even the batting looked good whilst the big three were around, but once they went, Victoria went into collapse mode, and that as they say, was severely fu©ked up the ass.

Nice bryce got thrown around the crease like a blow up doll.

Dirty Dirk was fast but not particularly virile.

Future Pm David Hussey was assassinated and then performed seppuku.

The Big Bear and the X man got some small grooves happening in the second dig, but were down right ugly in the first.

And SOT Jewell was awoken from his slumber, but still couldn’t quite get up the hill.

Course there were good things.

Peter Sizzle took 9 wickets with a shoulder that Jesus couldn’t fix. (His shoulder reco is next week).

Brett Lee did not make a hundred, Stuey MacGill got slapped around.

We made them win the game.

They only made 280 in the first dig.

Three finals in one year.

From this side we only lose 1 player for next year.

Bryce McGain gained good experience, always good for a young chap like him.


But please.

Next year, oh for fu©ks sake, let it be next year we win, please aliens let us be good and win the shield next year, or let us be sh1t and for it not to matter by January.

Thanks boys, been a pleasure following you as always.

Never boring.

sam peckinpah presents

I know Victoria have no hope of winning the pura Sheffield cup Shield.

I’m not stupid, although once I spent 8 minutes trying to get my headphone jack into my ear whilst holing the earplug in the other hand.

No one is going to get over 600 runs to win a final.

It just aint possible, Don Bradman couldn’t do it, Natalie Portman couldn’t do it, and neither can Future Pm David Hussey.

But, that hasn’t stopped him trying.

Not only that, but he has managed to wake up Nick Jewell as well, who apparently wants to play one day cricket next year.

They put on 52 to runs in just under 9 overs against Bracken and MacGill.

Hussey hit two sixes in an over off MacGill, ok so that is so out of the ordinary.

But Nick Jewell hit the ball regulary off the square and played attacking cricket shots.

That has to mean something, doesn't it.

To me the whole Hussey and Jewell slogathon reminds me of the end of the wild bunch, when the outlaws all look at each other, nod and stroll calmly to their death by shedding as much blood as physically possible.

Hussey would be a great man in the wild west, he would eventually die spectacularly, but on the way he would take down about a hundred guys, and he doesn't have nearly as gay a walk as John Wayne.

I see Nick as the straigh laced gunslinger whom all the baddies think is crap, but is obviously good by the way the director shoots him.

Then he helps the hero right at the end, without getting his suit dirty.

This game is deader than Alan Ladd, but why not kick some ass on the way out.

If beating NSWales is not possible at least make their millionaires look like clowns for 5 minutes.

Or let the Huss go down with one hell of a bang.

go peter sizzle

Now I know that the Vics are foxing.

Surely no one would allow Beau Casson to make runs unless they were playing with the minds of the opposition.

I said if he made a hundred this game it would take 5 days, he has certainly proved my point for me.

Congrats to Peter Sizzle on getting 8 wickets in this match so far.

That is a hell of an effort, if only someone else could take wickets as well the Vics might actually finish this innings.

The good news is Brett Lee might make his maiden (I’m assuming) first class hundred.

I am still pretty confident Victoria can score up until 900 runs, but any more than that and we might struggle a bit.

brief

All you need to know about this session is that Victoria took alot of wickets.

Yay the Vics.

those cheeky monkeys

Getting the score at lunch, and knowing that in all reality the game has well and truly slipped beyond our grasp, I was disconsolate for all of about 30 seconds.

There were no tears, but there was a general malaise that had affected by very being.

However then a lightbulb went on above my head.

I remembered David Hussey and his double hundred to beat the speedblitz blues a couple of years back.

This is obviously what Victoria has been planning the whole time.

How else would the let a rookie make a spectacular hundred.

I am sorry boys, I just never saw it coming.

So now I’m assuming that this is a cunning plan that is intended to inflict maximum pain on New South Wales.

Sounds like a brilliant idea, just don’t take it too far gents, because if they make, say 800 runs, like the look like doing, Hussey is only good for about 400 of them, and after that the rest of you are going to have to share them.

But kudos to you on this wonderful initiative.