I am getting old. I want to avoid serious issues today and concentrate on football and cricket.
Football
The socceroos were woeful against Bahrain. The selection was strange. Behich and Duke are clearly past their best. We had no creativity in the midfield and it showed up bigtime. For all the possession we had we rarely looked like scoring. We allowed the opposition to frustrate us and it showed in yellow cards. ( The referee was poor and some of the yellow cards were mystifying).
At least we have found a right back. We had pace upfront but for some unfathomable when the young man came on and looked good on the right he was switched to the left where he did not know what to do.
We play Indonesia tonight and they drew with Saudia Arabia after leading them.
We can only hope they improve a lot.
Cricket
The poms have finished their summer of cricket. The West indies were more cold than hot and Sri Lanka were not much better until the Pommy batsmen batted as if it did not matter in the second innings at the oval.
From an Ashed perspective the poms have good depth in batting and wicket keeping. Their fast bowlers apart from a 34 year old Wood could not break 90 mph. This is not good if they come to Australia. Their spinning options are worse. finger spinners are money for jam out here and there was no attempt to promote their legspinner.
It seems we will be relying on an aging pace attack. This may work. more to say after the series with India is concluded
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