Brad Hodge's media career prospects.....

He does have a touch of the NLWL's.

To be fair though, he was getting the shits with Mark Waugh's constant sniping.

G.Wood wrote:Sounds like he should be reading See Spot Run.

If I ever get my copy back from you, I will, woody . . .smarmy qunt!

agree with fred...hodge has no prospects of a media career...he is as wooden as a new york cigar store indian ...that said he is no duffer...this year he is completing a Masters in (no not philosophy) Sports Administration.

Hasn't Grant Thomas got one of them - except he had to wipe the corn-flakes off it before he could hang it on the wall (hence the nickname?)

Fred Nerk wrote:Hasn't Grant Thomas got one of them - except he had to wipe the corn-flakes off it before he could hang it on the wall (hence the nickname?)

is that how Patrick Smith coined the nickname for Thomas?...I could never work it out..

btw - Thomas is one of the more unattractive human beings involved in sport..his one achievement as the saints coach was destroying the ability of a hitherto elite runner - Luke Ball- by making him play when he had chronic osteitis pubis I rank him with sam newman, fevolva and elliot

I was reading Panini's Ashtadhyayi (no not the sandwich, the grammarian) in the original - Sanskrit for you illiterates- and came across this little bon mot which I would share with you:



That's in Sanskrit.

Roughly translated, it starts as follows - "In the fullness of time, in a land far away that lies in the evanescent mists of the distant future, or December 2009 in Australia, there will be a Victorian not named Shane Warne, who will say to his anointed, I will subdue nations and destroy kings. And this prophet, named Brad Hodge, will much derided, heaps of contumely thrown upon his robe.

How we all laughed, etc,

huge guffaw

cripes...poor hodgey...tho he does have legions of supporters and few detractors in Victoria...

so Furri are there cricketers in India that suffer a similar fate (kambli)??

I spose england has their version in Ian Bell - the spirit and future captain of english cricket...except Hodge's Test average is around 56 - a number I doubt Bell could count to let alone aspire to achieving.

horace wrote:....

so Furri are there cricketers in India that suffer a similar fate (kambli)??

Shastri in his later years, Agarkar. Kaif for some.

horace wrote:

Fred Nerk wrote:Hasn't Grant Thomas got one of them - except he had to wipe the corn-flakes off it before he could hang it on the wall (hence the nickname?)

is that how Patrick Smith coined the nickname for Thomas?...I could never work it out..

It was because Malcolm Blight kicked him out of the coaches box on match days when Blighty was head honcho at the Saints.

Ah - he was forever getting tipped out of boxes. Could be.

Whatever, i agree with Horrie that as a coach he was a menace to society, and as a TV 'expert' he is about as obnoxious as they come.