The Official Brisbane Test Thread

[bennylaird]

Oh so sad, I'm so sorry for the Barmy Army, here you lot have a tissue.....

Next time see if you can find more than one cricketer to send out, seriously.

[Prince Charles]

Next time see if you can find more than one cricketer to send out, seriously.

Owwwh Cricket?

We thought it was a beer swilling contest, thats the team we sent out..

Charles :confused:

[bennylaird]

Might be over there next year, got a spare cot you can put us up in mate? Nothing fancy?

[ozwinner]

Gees that Charles is a pompus prick isnt he.

Al

[bitingmidge]

Ok chaps here's a report from the Gabba as I saw it today:

Security- no eskys allowed in, no drinks in cans, no backpacks, no cameras "with telescopic lenses" whatever that means.

Fun Police: - no trumpets or noise makers, no Mexican Wave, specially no beach balls, SMS a particular number and Mr Plod will come and stop anyone smiling if they are annoying you. Don't sell tickets in blocks so that the Barmy Army and the Fanatics are scattered through the ground....... what happened to the hill, if you bought a ticket there you knew what to expect and if you didn't want to be part of it, you sat elsewhere.

I go to watch the cricket, and always sit in a no alcohol area so can't be accused of being one of "them", and I know it's not a one-dayer, but it's a bit sad when the atmosphere is killed so artificially. At one point a notice on the big screen warned about the consequences of racial villification!

I guess that means we can't say the poms are hopeless any more! :mad:

So anyway, I turned up with my stuff in a clear plastic bag (as requested), no bottles or cans, no knife, left my camera at home because I didn't want to have it confiscated because of it's "telescopic" lens, wore a beige shirt and put on my dullest face, and took my seat.

It was hard not to smile even when the score hit 500, then at 600 I did (briefly) but by then the boys in blue were busy ejecting the bloke in front of me who had snuck in a third of a cup of light beer so I got away with it. Gotta love the SMS thing and video surveilance.

Then someone must have doctored the pitch during the changeover, because it got a bit harder for the poms, but with all the security cameras on the patrons, I guess they didn't find who did it!

Top day, shame about all the rules.

Cheers,

P

[Prince Charles]

Might be over there next year, got a spare cot you can put us up in mate? Nothing fancy?

No problem old chap we can clap you in irons for your stay, most pleasent.

Charles.

[namtrak]

Ok chaps here's a report from the Gabba as I saw it today:

...........

You were at the cricket? Fantastic!!!

Are you going again today Mr Funbags?

[bitingmidge]

Nah, today my grandson is watching it ball by ball with me on tele, and listening to the ABC coverage.

At five weeks, he can already play better than half the pommy team.

Cheers,

Funbags (actually he'll have a crack at them at every drinks break :eek: )

[craigb]

.... watching it ball by ball with me on tele, and listening to the ABC coverage.

I tried to do that yesterday arvo but now bloody Channel Nine is delaying their coverage by at least 10 seconds so the bowlwer has bowled and the batsman played his shot by the time they show it on telly. :mad:

I thought it was promoted as "live" coverage. Bloody breach of the Trade Practices Act if you ask me. :mad: :mad:

[Gumby]

Top day, shame about all the rules.

It does seem an over the top reaction but I think it's just another of our freedoms lost because of a dickhead minority. It's been getting gradually worse each year.

[martrix]

hey Midge, did you email the ABC with your complaint? They read one out this morning which sounded exactly like yours!

Sounds like the Gabba crew are run by Family First fun police.

Barmy Army aren't allowed to do any chants, yet at half time its OK blast out advertising about how crap and whingeing the poms are?
Even the trumpet man got the boot, wheres the culture gone?

[bitingmidge]

hey Midge, did you email the ABC with your complaint? They read one out this morning which sounded exactly like yours!

Sounds like the Gabba crew are run by Family First fun police.

No it wasn't me, but I wasn't alone by a long shot!

Champ's songs are funny "between consenting adults in private" or as a retort to the barmy army but when promoted by the fun police when the barmy army has been neutered, are just over the top crap! (There. I've said it!)

Actually the crowd booed them off the paddock after the two song concert!

I did get as far as drafting one to Cricket Australia, but didn't send it. By and large the rules are from them, although you have to work really hard to find them:
http://cricket.com.au/_content/docum...000078-src.pdf

I defy anyone to convince a boofhead security guard that the 18-200mm lens on the Nikon isn't "telescopic" even though it is quite clearly allowed under the rules!

I have no problem with the authorities stamping on the dickhead minority, but they are always going to be there.

I do wonder though, how many of the blokes giving away their stash of illegal canned softdrink outside the gate in the morning were part of the dickhead minority!

It was nice of them to put on extra catering to cope with the no esky rule, and at $4.00 for a packet of crisps, they probably didn't lose much money through that innovation either!

I think the best form of defence is to attack. So if you are going to the cricket sometime soon, SMS the secret number and complain about an official near you... that should keep them occupied!

All credit to one (by now former) Gabba Security guard yesterday, who copped the loudest cheer of the Australian innings. A beach ball which had somehow found it's way into the crowd, and defied the efforts of police (yes, police!) to retrieve it, finally landed on the paddock.

This bloke thought he'd do the right thing and quietly flicked it back into the crowd, then discovred that you can't make yourself small while you sneak back 50 metres to your post with 45,000 people cheering their lungs out.

That's how bad it's got.... cheering for a security bloke! :eek:

Cheers,

P

[Daddles]

Peter, Peter, Peter. I listened to a segment on Ch 9 where they interviewd the head goon (or someone like it) and according to him, the rules are all reasonable, no-one suffered or was inconvenienced, the spectators are unanimously behind them, etc. Really, you must have gone to the wrong cricket match.

Richard

[Daddles]

Ponting's decision not to follow on - disgusting. You can't convince me that the marketing gurus haven't had a quiet word in his ear about keeping the match going longer than two days.

Farce, pure farce.

But what would I know, Tony Greig agreed with him ... though I heard a suggestion that Ian Chappell left the commentary booth in a fury

Richard

[Gumby]

Ponting's decision not to follow on - disgusting. You can't convince me that the marketing gurus haven't had a quiet word in his ear about keeping the match going longer than two days.

Farce, pure farce.

But what would I know, Tony Greig agreed with him ... though I heard a suggestion that Ian Chappell left the commentary booth in a fury

Richard

It seems the thing to do these days. In the past it was unheard of. Then we lost a test by doing it in England (1981 I think) and another in India from memory. Now it's win or draw but in the main, give the others no winning chance.