I set myself up for today. I have nice food ready, in front of my tv prepared to spend all day looking.
then I see Sammy send the Oz in and I was stunned. now almost a hunderd for none in only a few overs.
this looks like 300+ to win I wont watch it. I have re-organised my plans for the day and I am gone in about an hour. I will not watch this. hope it turns out differnetly than I expect but I will not watch.
mapoui wrote:this is what I keep saying about the blac..or is it westindian... mentality..
we need luck right here to overcome what we have done to ourselves.
we were going fine. Dl and rain, and a bad decison by Watson set us up.
and bam! we come just like that and give it back..on this picth that proved so true we killed them on friday.
I am sure Arnik will find a judicious way to render sending in the Oz a legit decision
I agree with you about batting – I would have batted first. Having said that Sammy likes to chase and “backs his bowlers” so I am not going to second guess the decision.
When I was a lil boy and WI were doing badly I used to get vex and turn off the radio. It looks like you are still a lil boy since you decide to pack your bags and go – ha ha ha ha.
And the decision has nothing to do with a so called WI mentality.
exactly what I expected Arnik..almost word for word.
but watsons desions could be excused because he had no idae what he wicket wud do in st lucia.
and especially after st vincent and recent experience with westindian pitches..last year against indian and pak..watson gambled and lost on friday. understandly!
there is by today no doubt about the pitch at all. sendng in the opposition is as suicidal today as it turned out to be on friday.
there is no excuse for sammys decision. if we lose that is whay..that decision.
and what yu say about sammys backing his bowlers proves my point about the westindian mentality. it is idiotic!
sammys 'backing of his bowlers..as yu claim..is equal to the difference between principled abstract thinking... and a consideration of the facts at hand as the basis of decision-making.
yu have bowlers who are a known quantity. the question is...what can deh do in varying conditions. what they did at arnos vale they may nbot be able to do at gros islet
that is the essence of leadership..tactical thinking based on experience and understanding of the forces at hand and opposed to each other... as well as the nature of the current conditions.
to have an unconditional principled backing of your bowlers, no such questions asked and answered properly, throw them to the wolves in any conditions expecting them to do the unimagible is stupid, incompetent, un-analytical, ridiculous and suicidal.
and it will not enamor the captain with his players. they wont like him and will stop playng for him soon enuff... if this impossibel nonsense continues.
dont make stupid, impractical decisons. and I expected yu to do exactly what yu did arnik...back up sammy. yu are a very un-wesindian person
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mapoui wrote:exactly what I expected Arnik..almost word for word.
but watsons desions could be excused because he had no idae what he wicket wud do in st lucia.
and especially after st vincent and recent experience with westindian pitches..last year against indian and pak..watson gambled and lost on friday. understandly!
there is by today no doubt about the pitch at all. sendng in the opposition is as suicidal today as it turned out to be on friday.
there is no excuse for sammys decision. if we lose that is whay..that decision.
and what yu say about sammys backing his bowlers proves my point about the westindian mentality. it is idiotic!
I love all the armchair captains/coaches - ha ha ha ha.
The game is far from over - how do you know that your boy Darren Bravo will not get a century - ha ha ha ha.
