INDIA’s champion cricketer Virat Kohli has retired. It will be wonderful the next time we play India that we don’t have to dismiss that competitive p…. person. Bit of a stutter there.
Of all players that you would like to see the Aussies dismiss for a duck, Kohli would be the first choice.
Then if India happened to dismiss an Aussie for a duck, Kohli would be the first to mouth off. Was never a fan of that.
But in all his faults, the bloke could play cricket and was always a stylish cricketer to watch. If he was in our team, we would have loved him.
I WOULD like to revisit an incident from a few weeks ago in the AFL.
North Melbourne’s Paul Curtis tackled Port’s Josh Sinn and received a three-match ban for rough conduct. His appeal of this decision was overturned.
I believe the key to all this lies with the push in the back rule.
If they paid push in the back every time a player was tackled from behind and propelled forward onto their front/face, it would only take a couple of weeks and coaches would have their players tackling differently. These were always paid push in the back until moderately recently – I’m thinking around about Chris Judd’s time etc.
It should be unacceptable for a player from behind to just grab, pin the arms and fall on the running ball carrier. If he didn’t pin the arms it would have been a legal tackle according to the AFL. Of course, unless he still was concussed which is an anomaly in the rule.
Therefor the fault lies with the AFL. Change the rules so a tackle that players are being fined for is deemed illegal regardless of an injury to a player, whether arms are pinned or not, rather than just cite them following a review.
Zach Merrett’s incident with Nick Blakey was an indication that the AFL are not taking the head injuries seriously.
Merrett hit the ball but in doing that also hit Nick Blakey’s head. So, by that logic if you bump a player legally below the shoulder and his head whiplashes and hits another part of your body and is concussed it should be a legal bump, but it is not.
Sorry, but there appears to be quite a few inconsistencies coming into the game. One of the reasons is they don’t want to pay too many free kicks. In doing that they are having ball up after ball up.
Country footy is umpired better than the AFL, as they pay what they see, not what they are instructed to allow. End of gripe.
CAMERON Green has been called into the Test squad for the World Test Championships in June and July.
Think that selector Bailey wants Green in the side but is his form up to it? He scored a century in his first innings for Gloucester before four single-digit scores. He has not been bowling.
Don’t think they can put Webster and Green in the same team. Keep Webster in as the allrounder and Green will be out until his form warrants selection.
The selectors are also talking of opening with Labuschagne. I have greater confidence in Konstas scoring as an opener than any of the others, possibly with the exception of Head, but would you disrupt the batting order to have Head open for a test? Give Konstas a go and tell him to play red ball cricket i.e. no ramp shots until after he’s 100.
NOTICED that Robert Jarman is in the lead in the Royal Hotel Footy Tipping with 57, just one ahead of Skid and Colleen Scriven.
Autopro’s tipping is probably the town’s largest and would be as competitive as … well, very competitive. See that Gabby Hayes is in front on 59. Glenice Hayes is on 57, a couple behind hubby Gabby. You can catch him Glenice.
In the Sporties footy tipping the leader is Geoff Pay on 59, with manager and former leader Charmane having hit the skids and is now down the list a bit. Coming second at Sporties on 57 are Diddy, Digga, Deary and Corey W.
ALWAYS on the lookout for new information for the Komment, I asked the staff at Autopro in Kerang if they had anything on their boss Lefty.
One of the friendly staff said, “he hasn’t done anything abnormally stupid lately”.
A FEW weeks back the tip was made for Cohuna Kangas to win the flag.
Not too sure if the confidence we had then is still around, following the Kangas’ loss to Mallee Eagles by 30 points. Woorinen defeated the Mallee Eagles a week earlier, so there appears to be more than just a one team race in the Central Murray.
BEEN talking a bit about the local footy next year and wondering what will happen to the GRFNL? Personally, I think it should all stay as it is.
A very tough decision needs to be made which obviously will not please everyone. I will most likely be one of them.
Hope in making the decision they think of ‘local football’ rather than where clubs recruit from.
