TSOS – MacGill to concentrate on First Class Cricket
December 5, 2006
In true TSoS style, Stuart MacGill has made a story about himself to get himself in the news.
This latest endeavour sees the TSoS announcing he will no longer be playing domestic one-day games for New South Wales, so as to give two up and coming cricketers a chance to be noticed by the selectors.
This is a dramatic turnaround for TSoS, who is normally talking up his chances or tearing strips off selectors for not picking him, but if you look deeper into his comments yesterday, the real TSoS comes out.
He was quoted as saying to ABC radio “I just thought in reference to World Cup selection, it would be a shame if I was to keep any of them out and prevent them from staking their claim… Nathan and Jason Krejza are great all-rounders who have got very successful histories in one-day cricket and if I’m right both of them will be picked to play for Australia at some stage, probably very shortly, and then a spot will open up in the Blues team again.”
What MacGill really wanted to say was…
“I am better than Warnie and the only reason I don’t get picked in the Australian Team is because Merv Hughes has it in for me. I remember back in 1994 when I toured with big Merv and we went to the bar for a drink, he ordered a beer and I ordered a cheeky little chardonnay. Merv ‘cracked the sads’ and said “that no girly boy chardonnay drinker should ever play for Australia, and one day he would personally ensure this would never happen again.”
When I asked Merv to confirm this story over a few crisp cold VB’s, he said the story is true, except for the fact that Merv really said “No wonder you can’t turn the ball MacGill, not only do you whinge like a girl but you drink like one too and if I get my way these two things would be at the trop of my list for reasons not to pick someone, if I was a selector for the Aussie team”.
Not long after this Merv sculled 6 pints, ate three packets of Smiths Crisps, four pies, farted and pinched the barmaid on the bum…what a legend.
Cheers
Dave
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Peter Webber | December 5, 2006 at 12:47 pm
Merv Merv Merv
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Triton | December 6, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Is it a coincidence that MacGill’s initials are SM?
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Wes | January 10, 2007 at 7:28 am
Now that Shane Warne has retired from cricket, do you think its now time for Stuart MacGill to take over as spinner for Australia especially on the Test arena?
This is very good chance for him and its up to him to utilise it fully.