Australia v West Indies, 2nd Test, Adelaide, Dec 4-8

"So he did the limbo "

I misread that and wondered "since when did Pup become so generous"

The part of the new review process that I'm loving is just how often the players get it wrong. With luck the the merciless, uninformed castigation of umpires might find it's proper place.

I liked Nein's idea that the match referee should be the only one with referral rights. If he thinks there's been a howler, he throws the orange light on and requests a review.

Fark off all these frivolous referrals.

skully wrote:I liked Nein's idea that the match referee should be the only one with referral rights. If he thinks there's been a howler, he throws the orange light on and requests a review.

Fark off all these frivolous referrals.

Skully, you then have to ask the question, what happens next? The answer is that there will be 10 reviews per day & the Nein imbeciles will then be asking why is the game being slowed down like this?

Fark off all these frivolous referrals.

I may have misunderstood you in my previous post. Genuine frivilous appeals are a blight but there is a mechanism for dealing with them.

Give the umpires the power to refer all decisions ...

Give both sides the opportunity to refer as well ...but add a(n increasing) runs penalty to struck down referrals.

Let the crowd decide. Give them control pads with the options 'yes' and 'no', to the question, "Was this out?".

DJ_Smerk wrote:Let the crowd decide. Give them control pads with the options yes and no, to the question, "Was this out?".

tac wrote: As stupid as that suggestion is ...it's one of your cleverest yet

just saving time

embee wrote:Give the umpires the power to refer all decisions ...

Give both sides the opportunity to refer as well ...but add a(n increasing) runs penalty to struck down referrals.

You then open up a shitfight about the number of runs. I do like the intent of the current system, particularly the benefit of the doubt mantra that may need to be more carefully explained to some of the couch sitters.

Gayle killing time to shoo away Ponting's over-rate blushes.

In the NFL the head ref walks to the sideline and reviews the call on a monitor there ...saves the problems of what happened with the second chanderpaul referral ...wouldnt take any longer for the ump to walk to the boundary to look at a monitor there than the current review system

This is all well and good, but explaining it to Ponting would need a theory of it's own.

Watson gets the ball to reverse and topples Nash's leg stump.

The snoozer commentators appeared to have more information on the decision making process for referrals than the Australian ones. They were going on about half the ball had to be inside "the area of certainty" etc.

Of coursre that could have just been Ian Smith making sh!t up but it sounded impressive

Nein commentators in forgetful mode. They're talking like the WI haven't won a Test for a few years.



NSR by Nein Commentators.