johnny punkster Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12123_4758640,00.html great timing there lads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Even though I'm not a big cricket fan, I can't make head nor tail of this. Boyks was on the radio this morning and actually made some sense, he said that Strauss would be likely to take on the job - but who would be the OD captain? Because Strauss can't get into the side - and the powers that be were making the noises that they want a captain to captain England in its entirety, not one man for the test side and someone else for the other teams.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 "Sports Administrators in Total Balls-up Shocker." Car crash waiting to happen. I'm thinking back to when Pieterson was at Notts and Jason Gallian threw his bags off the balcony and him out of the club. Great player, but hardly captaincy material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ritchie82 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Without KP in the team we won't get near winning the ashes back. If he's in a huff he'll just go and play 20/20 for the rest of his playing days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Without KP in the team we won't get near winning the ashes back. If he's in a huff he'll just go and play 20/20 for the rest of his playing days. Boyks said that n'all. He said KP will bugger off to the IPL and make a fortune.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny punkster Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 pieterson has always been showing signs of his spoilt brat tendancies ,but his role of captain just pushed him to another level of it. top class cricketer,tosser of a person. the fact the england squad leave for west indies in 2 weeks or so means england are left with possibly an emergancy manager for that tour. the aussies will be giggling their arses off now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny punkster Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 Without KP in the team we won't get near winning the ashes back. If he's in a huff he'll just go and play 20/20 for the rest of his playing days. well to be honest,if thats his plan,feck him. england may need his talent,but they don't need his selfish me me me attidude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 I think Pieterson is too patriotic to turn his back on the chance to represent his country Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny punkster Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 I think Pieterson is too patriotic to turn his back on the chance to represent his country or he's too greedy to not want to boost his bank balance. he was proberbly the most vocal of EBC's stance against allowing contracted players going there. its "me me me" all the way with him. his toys are out of the pram and the wailing is open to the public. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macca Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 What a farce?! Get Capello in charge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 It is very rare in cricket that making your best player your captain works. Flintoff would be the obvious example when he lead the team in Australia. Brearley would support the other extreme - couldn't hold a bat but got the best out of the team. Giving Pieterson the job because "it would make him more responsible" - after he'd got himself out when on a high score a couple of times - was always barmy. A cricket captain needs to have displayed responsibility and leadership before being given the job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 (edited) Nice to see Sky Sports keep up their standards by getting it totally wrong. What the feck do they know about cricket anyway? As I understand it, neither have resigned - the ECB agreed this morning to sack them both. In which case it's the inevitable ECB outcome - the blazered buffoons have achieved the worst of both worlds. I say reinstate Moores and Pietersen, tell Pietersen that Moores is boss ... and sack the rest of the ECB. And ban blazers. Edited January 7, 2009 by garcon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsslatic Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Brearley would support the other extreme - couldn't hold a bat but got the best out of the team. Like Vaughan?! Someone else will come in, lead the team for a couple of years...and when the position becomes vacant again then KP will fill it. That someone will probably be Fred...despite what happened in Aus...he's the only one with a pretty much guaranteed place in both teams, and I don't think the ECB will go for seperate captaincies again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 I'd be happy with Strauss in the one day side tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny punkster Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 strauss named new captain. pieterson claims not to have resigned this morning when moore was sacked,but later this afternoon when he was told to "resign or be sacked".... part of his press statement.... "I wish to add that I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done and during my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB. At no time, contrary to press speculation, have I released any unauthorised information to the media regarding my relationships with the players, coaches and the ECB itself." whats he getting at i wonder???? rumours flying about on cricket messageboards of him being a naughty boy with other england team members wives.. persons concerned have since not had a look in on the england set up since. jonathon agnew and graham gooch both stating pretty much the same concern.. "just what the hell is going on in that dressing room - its become a total mess???" news of the world will be on high alert at the moment. andy flowers suggested as a candidate for taking the coaching role... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footy68 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 And there's me thinking he bats for the other side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 And there's me thinking he bats for the other side. South Africa? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny punkster Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 And there's me thinking he bats for the other side. he's married...has had some pretty damn good un's before her too... but,maybe he could like some other "things"!????? not for me to say or suggest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeslover Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 he's married...has had some pretty damn good un's before her too... but,maybe he could like some other "things"!????? not for me to say or suggest. People who are in the papers for dating Caprice tend to have have paid for it. Apparently money can buy her time away from the cameras as well, so long as it's lots and lots of money I've said before now that Pieterson is the campest cricketer I've ever seen when you are at the match, not that being camp is any guarantee of an unorthodox stance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footy68 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 My thoughts exactly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny punkster Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 so,if your assumptions are true,the fact that there is some..lets say..."dirty sheets"... in the england dressing room still... wonder how those ex-england players and their wives are feeling??? oh...i believe it is pural,not singular. as for caprice,not a new story really she is "purchasable",but i wonder what his wife thinks???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futchers briefs Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 I agree about the camp bit - though he's a bloody big 'un for all that As for him leaving, as he not said that even though he's left the captaincy, he now wants to concentrate on the tour and then winning the ashes? If some of the whispers are right - they're surely not going to take him are they? Saying that, on form, he is without doubt, our best batsman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny punkster Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 nothings been said as to whether his place isn't there anymore for the tour to WI,but with all the shindigs happening today,and whats come out re: the dressing up being a complete mess,who knows what might happen before then? 2 weeks today they fly there...not much time to try to get things right,but ECB need to appoint a VERY strong management team ASAP...would beefy like another crack at stuffing the oz...although from the dressing room? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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