Dump Doherty, he is and always was useless, Test cricket is no place for left arm dart bowlers.
Dump Hilfenhaus, he has no bowling plan, just walks back to his mark, spins around quickly, then comes back in and tries to bowl the same crap ball over and over again, he lacks the game, the variety, and the pace to be anything but a new ball or green wicket bowler. At least if we dump him for this one we can bring him back into the team for Melbourne before he bowls himself out of the team for the entire summer.
Dump Johnson, he is useless, hasn't scored a run or taken a wicket in years, pathetic really, finally living up to the potential his crap action and wayward bowling always suggested.
Pick Smith for Doherty, and use North to bowl tidy overs if Smith gets tonked.
Pick Harris for Hilfenhaus, because he bowls with pace, gets bounce, and gets swing.
Pick Bollinger for Johnson, because he is quick, gets swing, bowls accurately, never stops trying, and has been our best bowler ever since he got into the team.
Dump Clarke if his back is no good, we don't need some guy scoring 9 runs off 50 balls and bogging us down, and then dropping catches for the rest of the game. Let him rest and get his back and his mind sorted out so he can come back fresh and healed and score more runs.
Pick Khawaja, because at least of all the young batsmen we think have "potential" he actually scores runs, and Adelaide is a nice place for a debut, could be a Mark Waugh/Greg Blewett style Ashes debut ton if they do.
Of course the selectors will do nothing, or very little, and will stay blindy loyal to these crap players because they are Australian and we like to back our boys in a crisis, but really, waiting til we are down 1-0 or until those players form is so dreadful they have to be removed because there is no other option is not good selection, we have to be proactive for a change and not just sit on our hands and idly sit by and wait for the changes to force themselves.
Slowcoach added 4 Minutes and 8 Seconds later...
Oh, and dump Ponting as captain, look how good "his man" Doherty did bowling to "his plan", letting Ponting have even more control over the team is just plain wrong after the dreadful mess he has lead the team into.
Sure, we are missing some greats, but the team has no team spirit at all, and I think a lot of that is due to Ponting, he really isn't a very likeable person and we should dump him so the players can relax a bit more and start afresh with someone new and who might have a positive attitude to the job.
Ponting just thinks acting like a sourpuss Steve Waugh or Ian Chappell is the way to run the team, folding his arms and getting angry when things do not go well, sure, he should expect his team to perform, but really, getting angry isn't going to help, he just looks like a spoilt little boy who can't hack it when things don't go his own way, which of course, is what he is, and always was.
