Geeves takes on Gayle and Haddin

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Feud ... Gayle v Haddin was a bit of entertainment says Brett Geeves. Source: Gregg Porteous / News Limited

Monday night was New Year's Eve. If you went to the Hobart waterfront and enjoyed the fireworks, you no doubt stepped over a broken glass, saw a fight between two teenage girls and waited more than three hours for a cab home.

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All this to witness someone standing on a pontoon, throwing half a dozen sparklers in the air.

Note to Hobart Council - a fireworks budget of $11.80 may have got the job done in 1985 – but it's not working for you in 2011.

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Sydney and Melbourne on the other hand, spent enough money to buy Gina Reinhardt's favourite knickers.

If the Falls Festival or any music festival was your thing, you're reading this stuck in a 5000+ car traffic jam, while police randomly (I'm pretty sure random doesn't mean every) breathe test cars and search them for Olivia Newton-John's ex-boyfriend, Patrick McDermott.

You probably haven't showered in three days and the fact you're wearing a turtle neck to cover the hickey on your neck is only adding to your god-awful smell. Enjoy your shower.

Maybe you attended a house party?

Someone spiked the punch and on the stroke of midnight you took the opportunity to kiss everyone too far.

Tongue kissing is for behind your high school gymnasium, the back seat of the movies, public transport and if you're from South Australia – family reunions.

You should not attempt to tongue kiss your girlfriend's grandmother on the stroke of the new year.

No amount of punch makes this acceptable, unless she looks like a wrinkly Anne Hathaway.

I am thinking most of you cricket-loving nuffies are deeply involved in the KFC T20 Big Bash League and possibly some of you enjoy bird watching, or birding as you would refer to it - making you a birder.

Ba Ba Ba Bird, Bird, Bird, Bird is the word.

Now, I hadn't planned on penning anything until day one of the next Test.

Mostly because I am lazy and if you are attempting mental imagery of me right now, think Jabba the Hut, wearing a KFC bucket head that was once actually full of chicken (what a plug!!) and a Nowitzki singlet that is now six sizes too small.

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Now think about Brad Haddin's attempt at upsetting Chris Gayle.

Now think about whether or not this was done as entertainment or if they are actually feuding.

Let's compare Gayle v Haddin and Muscle-man Manou v High-pants Hussey of 09/10.

Big Bash cricket was a different beast back then.

It was a pride-based beast where players were representing their states, as opposed to cities that most of them aren't from.

They wore clothes that bared their state's colours, the colours that are traditionally simple because that's how cricket should be – not the types of colours you could expect to see at a nine-year-old girl's slumber party.

So when Manou took exception to the antics of Dave Hussey, it meant something and if you watched the match and the way the crowd became involved, you knew that this was a rivalry that was not based on entertainment.

This had been built up over a decade of first class games and was as real as the troubles of Greece's economy.

The next time Dave Hussey played at Adelaide Oval in front of the SA fans, he was booed un-mercifully.

In true Hussey style he dominated. He lives for on-field controversy and thrives under the pressure of having to perform.

This was real cricket, played for real points and by men who cared for the result and not the pot of gold that was waiting for them at the end of the rainbow (rainbow is end of tournament).

Watching Gayle v Haddin felt like watching two school chums slowly grinding each other down to the point that one explodes and rips the others shirt, causing the kid with the ripped shirt to get a beating from his old man when he made it home.

That's what dads do when a school shirt is ripped. It's their rite of passage.

This was a feud made for entertainment, much like Family Feud or Judge Judy and should be taken as seriously as these two shows and current day wrestling.

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