YOU'RE TAKING THE FOOD OUT OF MY NETWORK'S MOUTH

Bailey whacks Nine's 'tactic'

AUSTRALIA'S acting captain, George Bailey, believes Channel Nine is deliberately talking down one-day cricket to secure a favourable broadcast deal.

''I can probably understand it coming from Channel Nine. They are going into negotiations about the TV rights and I think that was a pretty tactical move to try to talk down one-day cricket and what the Australian team is putting out.''

Australia has been rotating the bi- and tri-series teams since we lost the 1996 World Cup and Cricket Australia decided the likes of Tubby Taylor could not dissect the Dijon in the 50 over format. Look back through the archives (general, not here) and you will probably find that every time the rights came up for negotiation Steve Crawley or his predecessors at Nine complained about the make-up of the F50 side.

By the way, while you are knee deep in archives (specifically here at the AGB this time) you will also find those rotations conduced (thanks, Gideon) a commotion. Trouble is the rumpus is always framed as though it is the first time rotations have been an issue. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to re-write it anew." You'll get a pass this time since the latest brouhaha involved the Test team and although rotations, horses for courses and advanced man management looking forward have been mooted for some time, Mitchell Starc's rotation was the first time the NSP has followed through, and left me scratching my head. No, not Siddle and Hilfenhaus.

Anyway, George Bailey might want to give Stakeholders Sutherland a heads up next time he obliques Cricket Australia's official and valued broadcast partner. Perhaps he did.

Comments

[Russ]

Talking down attendance is always good for Nine, because they know people will settle on the cricket at home regardless. I still think CA are going to pull a fast one next week. BBL semis don't clash with the ODIs so the players will probably be released. The players "selected" for the following week will need to rotate for Warner and co. Lock it in that it will just happen to be the players engaged in the BBL final who make way. Conversely, if they hadn't run the rotation now, then it would have been harder to rotate those players back out.

[m0nty]

Speaking of Nine, I had this comment deleted off a photo on Nine's Facebook page:

McDonald was a McNuggety batsman, in the mold of McCosker and McCabe. He was noted for the speed of his delivery, much like McDermott and McGrath, though he could tweak his menu of offerings like MacGill if asked. His great rivals at domestic level included "Hungry" Jack Ryder and "the Colonel" Leyland Sanders.

Gorbless you for providing a place to preserve this witty riposte for riposterity, TT.

[M. Patard]

God bless St Ronald, and thank you m0nty for your fine words in tribute.

I grew up in Bankerstown with the first McDonalds ever at Yagoona, free cheeseburgers all round, and a Big Mac for Man of the Match. Absolutely love McDonalds I do.

Clean toilets, great sauce, real ozzie beef. Even learned the 20 second thing and they paid out:

Two all beef patty special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onion on a sesame seed bun.

Not even T. S. Eliot gave you a burger for memorising the first stanza of The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock.

[m0nty]

Eliot merely lacked the commercial partnering opportunities. He was totally up for some cross promotion. The Wasteland was a perfect fit for a Mazda ad. He was the Body Rockers of his day.

[The Don has risen]

The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock.
now that is a poet of Heineken taste.

It is the greatest poem of all time.

[M. Patard]

I always thought the poem would work better as thus:

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
And what about Siegfried Sassoon?

"What about him?" She asks in a delicate swoon.

"Sorry", I respond, in somewhat disarray.

I meant, "Vidal."

[M. Patard]

Turn down the love! Turn up the hate!

[The Don has risen]

A very VB response

[Big Ramifications]

Tony Tea is a paid shill for HBO's The Wire. I caught some of his work on Youtube last night.

[lou]

I hope Georgie Porgie doesn't give anyone a heads up. He'll become as bland as the others if he gives CA warning every time he opens his gob. They'll shut it for him.