Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Cook isn't the captain, is he?
He is yes. Although Trading Standards may have something to say about the description as such...
Cook isn't the captain, is he?
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Cook says
"Its an emotional dressing room now, but when we look at it tomorrow morning we will see we did a lot of good things, but the last few overs were not so good. Proud of the way the lads stuck in, but we couldn't pull it off unfortunately. We showed how close we were today, and like I said it took an amazing innings to beat us."
Is he on drugs!!?? Man the hell up. That was a shocking defeat in which you f*cked up tactically thinking the game was done at 244-9. We showed how close we were today; what, that the Aussies could have their no.9 and no.11 in with 6 overs left needing 57 and still beat us with balls to spare!? This shows how far behind we are Cook, not how bloody close we are...
Where is his anger and passion!? We've lost every bloody game against them, and he's saying how close we are!? He's now frigging deluded. His captaincy is fast becoming an embarrassment with press comments like these, let alone his performances with the bat, and his tactical ineptitude.
fyp - apart from that I entirely agreeIf the situation had been reversed and we needed 50 odd with the last wicket pair at the crease, what would we do ? probably nudge and nurdle and hope for Wides and Byes and probably fall 49 runs short. In that situation Faulkner played positively as there was nothing to lose and upset the odds. That is the difference between them and us.
You know better than this though. He'd be equally damned if he started calling players out in public and giving them a piece of his mind a la Di Canio. That is the last post of a captain/ manager that's lost the dressing room in any sport. We must have all learnt not to pay any attention to what sporting figures say in interviews now, it's all meaningless mumbo jumbo. That's the purpose of their media training.
He doesn't have to issue a tirade against his team, or pick anyone out, I just mean show you're upset about it. Tell us that it's difficult to find positives when we've been beaten again. I do know better, but to say "we showed how close we were today" is frankly insulting to all our intelligence. The match may have been close, but we aren't. It sounds deluded and desperate. I don't pay too much attention to it, but certain interviews do reveal a state of mind.
I'd imagine he is desperate. As I said up above, I stopped watching after the 4th Test on this tour and I've watched some serious horror shows from England through the years and always derived enjoyment from it. This series NOTHING. I shudder to think where his confidence and morale are at. I really don't know how you lift yourself from this.
To be fair to him, the thrust of what he said makes a bit of sense. They've been ritually humiliated by the boys in canary yellow all tour. It must have felt a bit better to at least get close to them.
Yes, it might make sense, but it's completely the wrong way for him to be presenting it. He could be saying "we showed today that even when we play well, we've got to work even harder to get the wins. We cannot take any positives from the game because we lost from a winning position, but we can look at the things we did well and try to improve...".