Nuh, he thinks my pondering to go to the Stickies was 100% just a to troll him. To be fair, in the past it has been, but I was legit about it this season, but he was about to go full meltdown anyway.
Nah man, it used to be a paceman country. Then AD Hunt waltzed on the scene and all the kids wanted to grow up and be like him.
It's been exaggerated further by the fact that our Season 1-8 fast bowling champs have largely gone inactive and declined. Bullpitt, Man and Tyson were the Test pace attack for bloody ages, and that was only eventually broken up by Farny who has also gone inactive now. On the flip side, Wilson, Hunt and Taylor are still active enough to maintain awesomeness, and Ged's still active enough to stay first grade standard at least. We started seeing the emergence of Riddy and Davis last season and I think we'll start to see Howe and Faithful coming through as top-line quicks too.
Faithful is already there as an allrounder. If it weren't for Weaver he'd be a shout for the Test side.
Yeah I'd rate them pretty highly as far as opening bowling combinations went. 1. Vipers (Eggman/Weaver) 2. Allstars (Funkotron/Davis) 3. Stingrays (James/Cambridge) 4. Pumas (Flack/Diggler) 5. Ravens (Faithful/Chung) 6. Crusaders (Ridd/one of their other seamers) 7. Gamblers (Tyson/Rocker) 8. Stickies (Izett/Laing) 9. Cyclones (Edwards/TBA)
Flack is way better at bowling these days than people realise; definitely a better bowler than any of the blokes listed below him other than Riddy. Diggler could be a BS flop in which case they'd drop down a few spots but I think he'll do well.
flack is good, but Surely faithful > flack. and then chung v diggler - chung is good. faithful > flack chung > diggler do you disagree with that rob? which one, ooc?
Flack > Chung = Faithful > Diggler. Unless we're talking about rep cricket of course in which case Faithful grows an extra three arms and is the best cricketer in the history of the game.
Morgie thinking we're going to have 5th bowler issues lol Nino and Me 5th in each of the innings We're going to rape and pillage