NickiSlater's Slats Topic

[NickiSlater]

Donny Slats will still make it back into the Australian team let's not forget this please!

Just in case anyone doesn't know I am the ex MrsTarrant. I have decided to remain loyal to the one man from now!

[Donny]

Will Langer get runs today ?

A couple more failures and his place at the top of the Aussie batting order could be in jeopardy.

If this transpires and Slats starts the season with a couple of centuries ....... I wonder ??

[NickiSlater]

Sounds too good to be true but I will never lose hope!

I can't wait for the season to start! Go Slats!

[Donny]

Alfie out for 2 !!!

Nicki, do you have a little J Langer doll with pins stuck in it ?????

[couragous cloke]

LOL wouldnt be surprised. Hayden will be unmoveable

[commonwombat]

Sorry, don't fancy Slater's chances.

1. He'd have to be scoring bucketloads of runs for NSW. Incumbents have box season having match practice already whereas Pura Cup barely started.

2. They may well look at younger options.

3. He'd really have to have his shit together on and off field. He has burnt many bridges at Natl and NSW level, at admin and playing level. Offside with Waugh.

4. Not likely to get ODI call-up which can keep a player in public and selectors eyes. Is an inferior fieldsman to other contenders.

[NickiSlater]

LOL no Donny but I think I should! commonwombat stranger things have happened!

[commonwombat]

Nicki,

Not saying it is impossible, but wouldn't wager much money on it.

Slater's ego and personality problems grew in proportion at a time that his performances were steadily heading south. His performances would have to be so outstanding as to overrule the distaste with which he is held in many circles.

This is not based on personal animosity to Slater or media reports but backed up from contacts inside NSW Cricket. Essentially, people will put up with a prick, if their performance is good enough, but it comes back to bite them on the bum when things go pear shaped.

[gobbles21]

Langer gone for 8 in the second innings.

[NickiSlater]

Yeah commonwombat I hear you I heard all the terrible things too don't worry I understand what you mean I just find it so hard to belive that Slats is a prick haha! gobbles thanks for pointing that out always nice to read haha!

[commonwombat]

Nicki,

Not criticising you. Media reports are one thing, true or exagerrated. I have stated what is a widely held perception of him in NSW Cricket. I happen to a Sydney first grade umpire and have umpired M.Slater on a number of occaisions. Sadly, he has proven this perception accurate.

I respect yr opinion and belief that he is a first rate cricketer and should be in the Test team. We can only agree to disagree. He may indeed make it back but his performances will have to be exceptional to repair the bridges he's burnt. His age and relatively mediocre fielding may also count against.

Still, you may be proven right and good luck to you.

[Donny]

"Realistically it's a very slim chance. But I also know that it's my mindset that'll maybe create that opportunity again. It's like Dumb and Dumber – when the girl says, `You've got a one in a million chance of sleeping with me,' and Jim Carrey says, `So you're saying I've got a chance' . . . I live by that."
Michael Slater on his chances of an international recall

[piedys]

Sorry to burst your bubble ladies, but Slater is a prick. And a rude one at that. A good mate of mine told me this story first-hand, much to the dissapointment of us both.
After a ODI day/night match at the MCG in the mid '90's, several Australian players made their way in the early hours to "The Saloon Bar", a popular yuppie bar/club in South Yarra, just out of the city.
Slater had been run-out that match in a mid-wicket mix up with Mark Waugh. My mate had been to the game, and went with his friends to this venue too by coincidence. And my friend, who just failed to make the grade at district level cricket in metro-Melbourne, thought he'd wonder over to "good ol' Slats" and say hello. Rightly or wrongly, he attempted to start the conversation with "bad luck about the run-out tonight Slats". Mr.Slater, P.R. genius that he is, decided to reply with "f@ck off idiot", and walked away.
Couldn't say i was overly shattered when this person lost his spot in the Aussie XI.

Dyso

[Donny]

With respect, piedys, as much as you may trust your mate, that's still second hand info. You don't know it to be true.

Slats might have said exactly that but unless he said it to you, you shouldn't post it in a public forum. We've had plenty of the same thing turning out to be incorrect in GD.

Oh, they were posted in good faith - all from 'a reliable source' or 'a good mate told me' but nonetheless second hand. I'm not saying your mate was lying but it's not all that far from Slats saying,"Look, I don't want to talk about it. Please go away" (celebs are constantly hassled by fans) and your mate getting pissed off and relating it to you the way he did.

[piedys]