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    Wacky John and his wacky ways

    By Will 2 years ago, at the end of August Leave a comment on this post

    I can’t make sense of this “boot camp” Australia are going on. John Buchanan has bucked the coaching trend many times, but this is just obscure. They’ve just left for it this morning, and here are the tantalising details:

    Australia’s cricketers have started their preparation for this year’s Ashes series, leaving Brisbane early this morning for a secret training camp somewhere in the Queensland bush.

    Cricket Australia’s 25 contracted players will be in the remote boot camp in south-east Queensland for the next four days.

    Newspaper reports today say the players will be deprived of food and sleep and subjected to a military-style training regime.

    The players were told to pack bare essentials only.

    Deprived of food and sleep is going to help them how, exactly? Will they be similarly rationed during the Ashes, too? Ridiculous load of tosh if you ask me. It goes without saying that if you just happen to be a Queenslander, and have 11-15 new cricketing neighbours, you should contact me immediately!

    Maybe it’s a double-bluff. Perhaps they’ve been transported to a hideaway five star hotel, with signed copies of Duncan Fletcher’s book…

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    4 Responses to “Wacky John and his wacky ways”

  • japaddy wrote:
    August 23rd, 2006 at 12.52 pm

    It’s called team bonding, and it may be tosh but i’ve heard some of the management speak that comes out of Fletchers mouth and i’m not convinced a homo-masochistic bivouac could be any worse.

  • Woody wrote:
    August 23rd, 2006 at 1.19 pm

    It’ll end in tears - an injury to Warnie most likely, although Zen Master Justin Langer finally tipping over the edge as he communes with nature and throttling one of the middle-order can’t be ruled out.

  • Harrowdrive wrote:
    August 23rd, 2006 at 2.15 pm

    Surely it’s the only way to make the Aussies as hard as Fred?

  • Alan R wrote:
    August 23rd, 2006 at 7.13 pm

    I think the idea is to starve Warne a bit so he doesn’t take any diet pills. :-)

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