Forbes Klemm

Which week?

@vline_bendigo It’s all good & well to offer free travel. Very generous. So @VLine must know people will jump all over this. But when you revert to a Sunday timetable, meaning less trains, you would think they’d be smart enough to equip them with six carriages. Wouldn’t you? 🤦 #Standing2hours

V/Line trains will run to a weekend timetable for the Good Friday and Easter Monday public holidays. Scheduled coaches will run to an altered timetable. More information available at: go.vline.com.au/4t7Us7L

@Dublin_Dragon @RoryBurnside @VicStateCricket Barely

@ForbesK4 @RoryBurnside @VicStateCricket The entire batting order have played long innings in recent games. That's just how luck goes sometimes, as annoying as it is.

After 6 months it all comes down to the final day.

@NeilMur73809257 @SueDee98 @JohnEdw36223405 @VicStateCricket Does Travis Head still play Sheffield Shield?

@ForbesK4 @SueDee98 @JohnEdw36223405 @VicStateCricket Glen Maxwell? Bahahahaha! Now that's funny. Does he still play red ball cricket?

Hurting but so grateful for all of your support. We're building towards something special 💙

@VicStateCricket If only the batsmen could do their job - or even half of it.

Lead from the front all five days, taking 5 wickets and scoring 64* in a Final 💪 Our guy just keeps getting better.

@VicStateCricket Can you include decent pitches as one of those special things you’re building?

@CathP82 @VicStateCricket You don’t say. They picked their best batting line-up, and they let us down.

@VicStateCricket Just needed someone to make a high score

@atonymosca @VicStateCricket @WLudbey … who weren’t up to it.

@VicStateCricket @WLudbey Great season. And still giving young players opportunity at the very end. Love it.

@HagemanRoss @VicStateCricket There are actually alarming signs for the future. I’m worried.

@VicStateCricket A really good season could have been a great one but it wasn't to be. Good signs for the future.

@SueDee98 @JohnEdw36223405 @VicStateCricket Matt Short … Glenn Maxwell if you want to go down that path.

@JohnEdw36223405 @VicStateCricket Still the Vics played a leaser SA team

@JohnEdw36223405 @JohnMorris1963 @VicStateCricket Or the ability to bat for long innings. Our contrived pitches have taken that away.

@JohnMorris1963 @VicStateCricket Technology would obviously assist with the likes of no balls and other uncertainties. As a Victorian, it hurts to lose after such a strong season. We need to look at Alex Carey and McAndrew as role models for next season. Our players just didn't have their hunger #peaheartbatting

@Dublin_Dragon @RoryBurnside @VicStateCricket That’s what I’m saying. Playing on these wickets that are doctored to produce results inside 4 days, relying on the bowlers to get them their outrights, they don’t know how to bat for long periods. A mindset & skill lost.

@ForbesK4 @RoryBurnside @VicStateCricket Victoria have 9 capable batters. Problem is that capable doesn't always cut it in the finals.

@White_Adam I’m sorry to say our batsmen are overrated, and unable to perform when it matters. That is why none of ours are ever selected in the Test team.

Six months comes down to this morning. #SheffieldShield

@Dublin_Dragon @RoryBurnside @VicStateCricket The point is, we thought we picked 6 or 7 capable batsmen. Turns out they weren’t. #ShieldFinal

@RoryBurnside @VicStateCricket O'Neill got 60* in the first innings and Chief who has scored a ton and a 50 in his last 6 innings. They are capable batters.

@VicStateCricket This summer was spent building towards something special. Clearly it wasn’t a decent wicket.

@smokiedawson Cricket Victoria are going to have to live with this one. You just don’t lose home Shield finals. Ever. They need to explain why it is this state cannot produce Test cricketers or decent wickets.

Really disappointing finish to the final this morning. Vics offered no resistance whatsoever #SheffieldShield

@Turkey_Boy13 @DanielCherny Why are you abusing the journo? He’s telling us what happened, and providing an opinion. Is that so despicable?

@DanielCherny Weak as piss article grow some balls and report something properly without trying to make a story

Sheffield Shield final’s injury sub is a farce — and it must not seep into Tests codesports.com.au/cricket/substi…

@NewLeafBrian @vline_bendigo @VLine I’ve done the same. Offered to do their scheduling for free. No response. Clearly intent on maintaining low standards for as long as they exist.

@ForbesK4 @vline_bendigo @VLine Same thing happened when I went to bulldogs v giants game. 10.08am for 1.15 game. 3 carriages and Bendigo people standing when it got to us. Complaint made. Offered to come out of retirement to take over persons position.

it’s very disturbing that so many passengers had to stand the entire 90 min journey from Castlemaine to Sthn Cross because bumbling @vline_bendigo only put 3 carriages on a popular morning peak hour service. In times of need, we can rely on @VLine to let us down. #FuelCrisis

@NewLeafBrian @vline_bendigo @VLine Simply bewildering.

@ForbesK4 @vline_bendigo @VLine What makes it worse is you get to Kyneton and all the trains are in the siding sitting there like stale bottles of piss.

@ChloeMacSweeney Are we the only freaking state to not be able to produce a fantastic batting wicket at all, let alone when our state requires it as a minimum standard? Otherwise what is the point of earning a home final? #VICvSA #ShieldFinal

Would be very Victoria to play so well all season, only to stuff it up in the Final. A big Kelleway/Harris partnership sorely needed!! #SheffieldShield #SheffieldShieldFinal #VICvSA