Andrew Symonds

[Stevo]

I know it sounds very minor to miss a team meeting but this guy has racked up the misdemeanours and given his age he is unlikely to changes his ways any time soon.
Is it time to pull the trigger on him as an international cricketer?

[1eyedog]

Re: Andrew Symonds

I know it sounds very minor to miss a team meeting but this guy has racked up the misdemeanours and given his age he is unlikely to changes his ways any time soon.
Is it time to pull the trigger on him as an international cricketer?

Can he still play for England? Hate to see him bludgeoning our attack in the future, like Wessels did to lesser extent though of course.

[LostDoggy]

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SS wanted to go fishing in Darwin but would have been have sent home.

OK he missed a meeting, but they were play Bangladesh!

[ledge]

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By the sounds of the press release it got a lot worse when they had meeting with him, sounds like it has got personal as well, a few harsh words thrown both ways about each other in a heated arguement maybe?

He obviously planned it, which makes me wonder was the team meeting planned after he had planned fishing trip?
Every thing is very vague at the moment.

[GVGjr]

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I know it sounds very minor to miss a team meeting but this guy has racked up the misdemeanours and given his age he is unlikely to changes his ways any time soon.
Is it time to pull the trigger on him as an international cricketer?

I agree, he hasn't shown the ticker required and it's time to find someone else. I'm not sure if that will be Watson but hopefully Symonds doesn't get straight back into the side.

[Happy Days]

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I was presented with an interesting theory (not mine FWIW so feel free to shut it down without fear of awkwardness ) that he did committed these fishing-related mishaps on purpose so he wouldn't have to go back to India to be called a monkey again.

[bulldogtragic]

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I was presented with an interesting theory (not mine FWIW so feel free to shut it down without fear of awkwardness ) that he did committed these fishing-related mishaps on purpose so he wouldn't have to go back to India to be called a monkey again.

A rouse ey. Interesting.

[GVGjr]

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I was presented with an interesting theory (not mine FWIW so feel free to shut it down without fear of awkwardness ) that he did committed these fishing-related mishaps on purpose so he wouldn't have to go back to India to be called a monkey again.

He doesn't like touring the sub continent unless there is a truck load of money. He will tour the West Indies and England but isn't happy at the other places.

I think he should have run his race as a test cricketer.

[Bornadog]

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He doesn't like touring the sub continent unless there is a truck load of money. He will tour the West Indies and England but isn't happy at the other places.

I think he should have run his race as a test cricketer.

Can't agree, he is a great player, although does have personal issues. On field, is brilliant.

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Can't agree, he is a great player, although does have personal issues. On field, is brilliant.

On field, he just made a golden!

Vics smashing Qld - Nannes has 5/40 to follow his 4/45 in the first dig.

Qld 7/114 lead by 6.

[GVGjr]

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Can't agree, he is a great player, although does have personal issues. On field, is brilliant.

I'm not doubting his ability, just his desire and commitment. He's been looking for ways not to tour the sub continent for a while now (he is the most vocal about not going to Pakistan) and yet has no problem playing in the IPL when the big money awaits. The days are gone when you can pick and choose which test series you will play.

[GVGjr]

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On field, he just made a golden!

Vics smashing Qld - Nannes has 5/40 to follow his 4/45 in the first dig.

Qld 7/114 lead by 6.

Terrific win by the Vics. Nannes got 7 wickets and in the end it was an easy victory.

[Mantis]

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Terrific win by the Vics. Nannes got 7 wickets and in the end it was an easy victory.

If he can stay on the field this year I'm sure he will take a stack of wickets, he can seriously bowl...

[KT31]

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Can he still play for England? Hate to see him bludgeoning our attack in the future, like Wessels did to lesser extent though of course.

Even Sockeye could bludgeon our attack.
And he took four days to make a ton.

Players like Symons will muck up , but if they perform discipline them some other way than missing matches, you can't have totally regimented team if Punter is captain.

Lee has been overated for years and the selectors have made him our number one strike bowler.

Time for Australian cricket to pull their head out of the sand and realise that there are other cricketers in the country than those that play for NSW.

[LostDoggy]

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It's funny how these things come back to bite you -- pick all these NSW players and they get there and just go to water.

I'm not Vic-centric -- pick the best players you have -- but some of those NSW guys should never have been picked in the first place. Noffke and D. Hussey should be WAY ahead of some of those guys in the squad. If Hodgey is considered past Test cricket, then Katich should be also. If scoring a ton of runs in domestic cricket is supposed to get you back in the side, then Matthew Elliott should have been recalled a few years ago. Katich ran his race years ago.. we're looking backwards.

A fit McGain would have been handy. Well, for years the team has been relying on Glenn and Shane to pull their collective pants out of the fire, we'll see what they're really made of now.