Australian cricket coach's comments??.?

Question

I have just read comments from Our coach about Andrew Symonds..It seems that the Australian team have had enough and Andrew is set to be left out of the team line up for the Border/Gavaskar matches...

Here is a few comments from Tim,Re-Indian tour and Andrew Symonds...

Australian cricket coach Tim Nielsen admits he's not banking on having Andrew Symonds in India, and that he must plan to be without his star allrounder in a gruelling Test series.

Time is running out for Symonds to be included in the year's most-anticipated Test series, as he is still considering his future after his latest disciplinary lapse.

Australia will announce a touring squad within weeks to defend the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, and besides not knowing who their front-line spinner will be, Nielsen is not counting on having Symonds at his disposal.

"I don't think we can at the moment, I don't think we can bank on much at all at the moment," said Nielsen, part of the leadership group which sent the Queenslander home.

"The only thing we can bank on is providing as much support as we possibly can for him to make the right decision for him and for us, to come back into the group 100 per cent committed.

"But how long is a piece of string?

"I don't know if Roy (Symonds) would understand or know how long it's going to take. I certainly don't."

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My question is do you think the ACB will stand by Andrew and help him through this rough trot??

Is it best for Andrew and the team that he is not going to be in India?

Do you think this may cost us the trophy in the end??....

http://au.sports.yahoo.com/cricket/news/article/-/4981552/coach-banking-symonds-india

Answer 1

What is this rough trot ? & what are the emotional problems that he is supposed to be going through ?. Surely you're still not referring to the incident last year with the Indian team. Look, I was all behind Symonds at the time & maybe the ACB didn't stand up for him firmly enough but for christs sake Andrew's a big boy now, and maybe it's not nice being called a monkey but cricket is a hard nosed game these days & sledging is a fact of life, and I'm sure Andrew has had unpleasant words to say to his opponents. I think he should just grow up and stop being so precious and be thankful for all that he has received from the game.

Answer 2

well, first, it would be about time they stood by him, god knows they did when the harbhjan singh issue came up! if you know someone in your employ is having problems, but you still use his services and dont try to help him, well, things can get very out of hand very quickly!

from a players point of view, well if he doesnt 100% want to be there, then his presence will have a negative effect on the playing group, if he 100% wants to be there, then he can only have a positive effect

from a playing point of view, simply put, he HAS to play, a handy medium pacer, a very good player of spin and his offspin will be invaluable in a team that doesnt yet have a first choice front line spinner, HOWEVER if he doesnt go, theres this bloke called Katich whos been in pretty good form lately, and hes a handy part time spinner too

Answer 3

what a great Q mate, you made my day blissfull !

Roy Smonds is a "CRICKET" and he understands the trot he is passing through at the moment but i think he is himslef to blame as he understands the tension between him and the opposition players and may be he and CA have made a decision to keep Symonds preserved !

hope this helps!

god bless!

best regrads !

Answer 4

As I answered in another Q here this morning, Symonds has intimated that he may opt out of cricket altogether, as he is very disallusioned with CA's handling of the Bhajji case & I can't blame him for that! CA cut off their nose to spite their face by bowing to BCCI's demands over that, & it just may lose them the world's best allrounder. Frankly, I hope he does quit & go to England to play, he has the right. It will serve CA right..To answer your actual Q Ange, I don't expect they will, they let him down before.I know as well as everyone else that he has his problems, but CA's behaviour earlier in the year,  only exacerbated the problems.

Answer 5

i think he should be given one last chance

Answer 6

This is bad news for cricket fans. The series just won't be the same without Symo. I was really looking forward to how he would play the Indian bowlers especially Harbhajan Singh!

Answer 7

I think the ACB has already stood up and supported Symonds. He should have been sent home from England in 2005. He should have been disciplined for the incident in SA, remember that rugby players have been disciplined for their behaviour in SA. I do think the ACB did show a lack of guts on what happened here but Suymonds has had his chances and he has blown the lot of them. Good bye and good riddance.

And appa, if you are going to make racist remarks about anyone, you shouldn't be on here and I have reported this.

Answer 8

He missed a meeting that no-one knew about until later that morning to relax before a game and got damned. If that prepares him good on him. Shane Warne, you know that part time sorta bowler chappy from Mexico, said there were far to many meetings and not enough of the game. Didn't the lad from tassie drink enough beer on a plane that the state changed the speed limit to honour him? Didn't a certain aussie captain and wicket keeper hold the record just before him? And shock horror they are all legends!

So to answer the questions you take the best you have and in his case he would almost select himself because of the psyche edge he has with the indians and the fact that the crowds love him - see IPL.

Will  the ACB stand by Andrew and help him through this rough trot?? They never backed their players before, so why start now.

Is it best for Andrew and the team that he is not going to be in India?

How could it be best for the team to get the s**t kicked out of them? Last time I looked we are without McGrath, Gilchrist.... and so on, Haydens doubtful, Pontings in rubbish form, we don't have a spin bowler worth a d**n...and so on. We got a bunch of newbees and they are gunna need all the help they can get. Nielsen has played less cricket than my Gran so beyond being the coach, which I agree with a large number of people is redundant at this level (Bradman, Chappelli, the Doug etc. didn't seem to need one), so it raises the question who do these newbees look to for international experience?

Do you think this may cost us the trophy in the end??....Stupid question but a goody. One man shouldn't change the fortunes BUT we all know that it can and does. Leave him out and be vilified by the nation, the press and even the Indians, Leave him in and be vilified by the nation, the press and even the Indians! My vote would be for cricket - he plays it the way its meant to be played - so he stays!

Leave the coach at home and make it hard for India.

Oh and by the way he hasn't shoved a beer glass in his girlfriend face.