The Dark Knight wrote:gazzamagoo wrote:Lightning McQueen wrote:You can see how unpopular the Aussie team is just by looking at the traffic on this thread.
Less than a dozen posts, most of them negative, we get more traffic on a Redbacks match and this is meant to be the first day of summer, getting the parents to sign an early finish at school form so we can run home and watch the first ball.
Most stuff on here is negative anyway.
Yep it's mostly middle aged blokes having a whinge about how they don't like the team or how the cricket isn't the same as it was and was better 'back in their day'.
Seems people can't just enjoy it for what it is or if you don't like it don't watch it.
That is me, I guess I was spoilt with the characters of the game in the 80's and 90's and then the genuine good blokes like Gilly, Symonds, Dizzy and Haydos. Chuck in the gritty hard nosed skippers like Border, Waugh, Ponting and Clarke who make it pretty clear that I grew up at a fortunate time for Australian Cricket.
I loved these guys, I loved Australian Cricket, it was exciting to watch, I was proud to be an Aussie. I just can't seem to have the same excitement or vigour to watch the current team, of course I want them to win, I want Head and Carey to succeed but I tend to just check the score on my phone every now and then, I used to be a massive Smith fan a while back too, I don't have the same respect since he became Marnussed.
So in a nutshell, I don't really watch it.