Field Theory: Sing when you're winning
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It also has a spoken word interlude, which I believe qualifies it for 'O for Awesome' status. (In our household, songs are considered to be officially awesome if they have spoken word interludes...
Word.
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I’d like to see him scoring some runs in something other than multiples of 6 at some stage too.
No see. Both yesterday, and earlier in the year when he got 77 against England by smashing it everywhere, he was not out.
The problem wasn't that he was scoring sixes, it was that Chris Martin wasn't doing the same thing at the other end.
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I'm not sure how the interlude would play out. I just figure it's got some lovely long notes that would sound O for Orrrsome when belted out by 20,000 voices. It's one of those songs that rises and falls, much like Swing Low. Maori's a good language for song, I think every syllable ending on a vowel is a big plus, as in Italian. I think.
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Also it would be nice if the Maori language was known internationally not just for one rather odd poem being yelled angrily, much though I love it.
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What happens if you're a fan of both baseball and cricket? Do you carry a white flannel... catcher's mitt or something?
Catchers mitts/fielders gloves tend to be made from leather and/or vinyl. One made of white flannel would certainly give the glovee an extra something to concentrate the mind on getting the catch just right with the added extra of being able to wipe sweaty brow.
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What happens if you're a fan of both baseball and cricket? Do you carry a white flannel... catcher's mitt or something?
Nah the baggy trousers are fairly similar to cricket whites.
Although why were the Blackcaps wearing what looked like white tshirts?
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Ricky Stuart apparently shockingly bad at losing, having abused the referee at a chance meeting at a hotel on Saturday night.
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Although why were the Blackcaps wearing what looked like white tshirts?
Canterbury strikes again! I don't like the shirts - they're not cricket.
It's also weird having a shirt sponsor (DEC) who doesn't appear to have a presence in NZ.
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Ricky Stuart apparently shockingly bad at losing, having abused the referee at a chance meeting at a hotel on Saturday night.
Little brother doesn't know his place apparently.
Stuart often chucks a wobbly - he was the a Union half-back before he went to League, so it's kind of expected right?
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Astle's batting explosion 3-4 years ago against England in Chch when we were hopelessly behind their total is probably the greatest forlorn chase I've ever seen.
It was quite simply, breathtaking. And yes, I have the video saved on my youtube account. But what's often forgotten that it was Astle who dropped Thorpe when he was on single figures...Thorpe, typically, then went on to make a double century.
Astle was a strange batsman because he was a purist's nightmare in the way he shuffled around the crease, but he had such quick reflexes that he could muster shots that more classically correct batsmen couldn't. Brett Lee said he was difficult to bowl to for precisely that reason- he had no backlift.
But I think there's a certain level of masochism in supporting NZ in test cricket, especially at the moment, where it seems that each time the top order goes out to bat it's merely delaying the inevitable. It's especially frustrating to see them capitulate against Mitchell Johnson, who really isn't any great shakes with the ball- certainly he doesn't have any of the deadly variations in swing or pace of the greats, nor even the frustrating accuracy of a McGraugh type bowler. And yet the kiwis cowered as if he were Ambrose or Marshall.
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I was impressed with Johnson. He was getting just enough swing for a left arm quick to be dangerous. He was pretty acurate when I was watching, and he was fast. His bowling speed was regularly in the 140s. He was about as fast as Lee. Not saying he's as good as McGrath, but most aren't.
Glenn McGrath (Tests): 563 wickets in 124 tests
Bowling ave: 21.64, Econ rate per ov: 2.49, Strike rate: 51.9 balls.That's amongst the undoubted greats.
Mitchell Johnson: 56 wkts in 14 tests
Ave: 30.50, Econ: 3.12, strike rate: 58.5That's pretty good. It's better than Vettori's figures and comparable with Kapil Dev's.
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I call the mentality 'Cricket Goth'. You float about full of woe, all emo-like, and every now and then something wonderful happens when you aren't expecting it.
'Cricket Goth' is a great description of tragic cricket tragics.
I found myself strangely elated after the weekend's game. Like I had come to enjoy the pain.
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I was impressed with Johnson. He was getting just enough swing for a left arm quick to be dangerous. He was pretty acurate when I was watching, and he was fast. His bowling speed was regularly in the 140s. He was about as fast as Lee. Not saying he's as good as McGrath, but most aren't.
Oh, he's certainly decent, that's for sure- NZ would love to have a bowler like him in the side- but I do think most of his wickets were a resuilt of poor technique from the NZ batsmen rather than genuinely fierce bowling. He's been shown up by the South African and Indian top orders already, and NZ has pasted him around the park in ODIs before, too. It's the NZ batting order's lack of discipline that gets to me.
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It was quite simply, breathtaking. And yes, I have the video saved on my youtube account.
I bought the DVD. Two hours of it (plus three ODI innings from that same tour).
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Hmmm, if you're after a homegrown song that the crowd might actually sing I think we'd be on firmer ground with 'Gutter Black' or 'Bliss'. Very chantable by a liquored or even non-liquored crowd, much stronger (less woosy than Slice of H) and Gutter Black even ticks the colour box.
All together now, ...
My luck in the gutter black
I guess I'm running back
To you
You in my brain; you in my heart
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we could change our theme colour to pink and have 'Pink Frost'. Or blue and have 'Blue Beat'. I'd love to hear thousands of people singing 'a-chick-ee-chick-ee-chang-chang' in a stadium
There should be some kind of knockout-tournament Battle Of The Kiwi Songs With Catchy Nonsense-Syllable Bits.
Slice of Heaven vs. Counting the Beat
Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop vs. Bliss
Nature vs. Slice of Heavenetc.
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