I smell some cheeky vote rigging. My last poll asked you how New Zealand would do in South Africa and up until this weekend voting was very even. One match down already then yet another batting collapse and suddenly I had a host of new voters telling me that New Zealand was going to get thrashed. Ya think?
Anyway. Prior to the late extra votes I had one confident person tell me we were going to kick Protea bottie, nine tell me that Bond, Vettori and Oram would give us a slight edge, three predicting winter rain and dull draws, eight predicting injuries to Bond, Vettori and Oram would dull our edge and four claiming Makhaya Ntini would go through us like a dose of Suzy's special sauce. I am not counting the eight late votes. You know who you are.
My new poll is a very simple "yes/no" affair. Should John Bracewell stay or should he go?
Monday, 8 May 2006
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Hey mate..
Again it's me from Caught Behind... Don't mean to pester ya but I need the response to the e-mail to just confirm things.. We are set for a launch in around 10 days, and details have to be given to the local press etc... Would really appreciate a prompt reply..
Cheers mate!
Mike - I like the Simpson's reference in the poll.
I voted for him to stay. While I think he has not been a good coach and has made some bad decisions, he was hired to take the team through to the World Cup next year and that's what he should do.
He came from Gloucester with a record of being a very good one day coach and a record of being a bad four-day coach. No surprises.
He has had a reasonable record with the ODI side. His record recently included a 330 run chase for victory over Australia. It's now too close to the world cup to have a new coach - let him finish and judge him on that job.
New Zealand's top order batting appeared to be pretty shocking but I think Steyn was an absolute revelation. With the new ball he was doing things that would pretty much sliced through any top side in the world. I think 2-0 is not a fair reflection of the series. On another note is there a drastic fall off in NZ second innings performance. I think fitness may be an issue. In the England series they got outplayed in every second innings and that has played out in the first test match here. thoughts?
The second innings thing is ridiculous. I am sure it is not fitness, but maybe it is a concentration thing? NZ plays less test cricket than the rest of the world and most of the top players miss the best part of the domestic first-class competition. Maybe they are just not used to concentrating for more than one day at a time?
without actually looking to check, his one day record seems pretty good, while his test record ain't so sharp.
why can't they have a separate ODI and Test coach, in much the same way they have separate ODI and Test squads? It works for rugby (15s v. 7s), so why not cricket?
but, in the meantime, definitely keep him for the world cup, and lose him after that.
when do we get our hands on John Wright?
Re. Wright: last week's rumour
was that he will become Wellington's coach.
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