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  1. 4th January 2007, 03:30 PM #61
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rossluck View Post
    If you were listening to ABC radio you would have heard what Warne was saying to Collingwood in the middle:

    "An MBA for getting seven [runs]! That's a disgrace ... it's an embarrassment."


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    MBE perhaps?

    For winning a series by two runs 'n all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bitingmidge View Post
    MBE perhaps?

    For winning a series by two runs 'n all.

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    Actually I was listening to that bit in the car and they were talking about maybe the team does deserve something for winning and so on. Well someone should tell them that the winner usually gets a trophy. Players get to have their name in the record as being on the winning team, and of course they get paid a motza.

    However at the end of your career for various outstanding players they do sometimes deserve a mention in the New Years Honours.

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    bye bye Poms, Collingwood is gone still 4 runs short of making us bat again.

    maybe we won't have to.
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    My feeling is that the MBE's were a bit over the top. You can devalue awards by handing them out too easily. A sportsperson should use their profile to help the community for a few years after they retire before they start getting awards like that.
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    Default How long will they last?

    My guess is that they'll only just make it to the first drinks break.

    (Sure glad I don't have fourth day tickets )
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rossluck View Post
    My feeling is that the MBE's were a bit over the top. You can devalue awards by handing them out too easily. A sportsperson should use their profile to help the community for a few years after they retire before they start getting awards like that.
    Just as well they haven't given the Australian team a gong every time they win a series, they'd take as many pages as a small novel just to write all the letters after their names.

    I'm with you Rossluck, winning a game of cricket hardly seems to be of national significance, maybe it shows what an unhealthy state Britain is really in?

    cheers.

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    From the Cricinfo Test commentary:
    9.40am A lovely sunny day at the SCG, the crowd beginning to come in for the 10.10am start ... Shane Warne on the edge of the field being presented with some trophy-cabinet material by a local official. He'll be getting a mass of that in the coming hours ... keep an eye on ebay next week.


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    Sorry, can someone please tell me how often do they play the ashes? Every 18.236 month??

    I need to know it for my citizenship exam. They will probably kick me out anyway.
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    Maybe we can send out McGrath and Langer to open...fitting farewell. Ooh Aah could really enjoy opening!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wongo View Post
    Sorry, can someone please tell me how often do they play the ashes? Every 18.236 month??

    I need to know it for my citizenship exam. They will probably kick me out anyway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Spittin Chips View Post
    Maybe we can send out McGrath and Langer to open...fitting farewell. Ooh Aah could really enjoy opening!
    What a brilliant idea..... and the poms could bowl Read and Strauss - that way we could bat out out the whole 2 days....
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    We play England every2 years, alternating between England and Australia. The next time will be in June 2009 followed by Australia in 2010.

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    Well played chaps!

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