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Touch-up to hide the greys
By Will 2 years ago, at the start of September, 1 Comment »
Hmmm. The cricketers’ boot camp looked more like a stunt by a bunch of ageing players desperately wanting us to think they’re tough, young, fit and still have the right stuff. Poor old buggers, I wonder how many of them are using a bit of touch-up to hide the greys.
Jon Edmondson-Jones, Camperdown
Interesting letter to the SMH.
1 Comment »Warne survives the boot-camp (just)
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of August, 2 Comments »
Shane Warne has revealed what he and his team-mates have been up to at the boot camp - a John Buchanan concept - in the past week, including some tasks more associated with the military than sportsmen:
I was shattered. But just as the night went silent, voices screamed: “Go, go, go!”. What on earth was going on? A stun-bomb had gone off, and we were told the area wasn’t safe. We had to move. Now. There were no torches or directions.
All we had been given for dinner was half a can of chunky soup, so our energy reserves were low after pulling vans and carrying litres of water. But we had to go. It was time to prove our mental resolve and move to a different location.Welcome to the Australian cricket squad’s boot camp in regional Queensland, a time where we had only been referred to as numbers, not names, and weren’t allowed to communicate with the outside world.
Despite voicing his indifference to the idea beforehand, Warne said “there’s no doubt it brought the group closer together.”
2 Comments »Wacky John and his wacky ways
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of August, 4 Comments »
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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