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Post by stretfordendling© on Dec 3, 2006 13:23:04 GMT
Thats what you get by staying in Sutton until 11pm after drinking
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Post by medibot on Dec 5, 2006 8:21:39 GMT
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Post by malxscfc on Dec 5, 2006 9:39:42 GMT
Oh well. That kills this thread for another few weeks, I guess!
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Post by bh on Dec 7, 2006 2:23:08 GMT
That's true Malxscfc.
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Post by medibot on Dec 7, 2006 4:01:52 GMT
I've been thinking about this, hard not to when you've committed so much time to it and you spent your day selling newspapers with Freddie grimacing in anguish on them but...
This leaves us in a situation where the only way to react is to win the next 3 tests, if we ever wanted to win (as opposed to retain with a drawn series) the ashes we'd've probaly had to do this anyway. Now there's a fair bit of motivation to do this. Prove you're as good as you think you are and do it properly or you'll be back to being nearly men again.
After all we did knock 551-6 against them, that isn't exactly indestructible form from the Aussies and we really shouldn't be making the same second innings mistake ever again, otherwise we may as well send my Dad and his Beddington 4th XI down under.
Put it down as a never again f**k up and move on.
Monty is needed though, not only for the bowling but for the sheer brilliance of the mans influence on the crowd and the opposition. We love him, they're scared of him, it's a no brainer.
Sadly Fletcher has his little bum-chums (to use a classic playground phrase) so that probably won't happen.
Show some balls, use your brain, the ability is there to wipe the smiles off the Australians faces.
Another thing is, if we pull the rabbit out of the hat and don't lose, Warne may well jack it in and then Australia are in deeper dog sh*t then they think they will be, i've not heard of any bright you Australian spinners coming through the ranks and they are cripplingly reliant on him for key wickets. Not totally obviously but i do wonder where they'd be without him sometimes.
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Post by amberaleman on Dec 7, 2006 22:24:04 GMT
I know very little about cricket, but I do know there's absolutely no chance of England winning the next three tests against Australia. Ashes blown away, sorry.
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Post by bh on Dec 8, 2006 4:58:15 GMT
You raise some valid points Medi, but I certainly think we may be missing Vaughan, and to a big extent Jones. Both vital members out the side last year. I'm afraid the replacement bowlers Anderson and Mahmood don't appear to cut the ice at the moment.
Changing the subject slightly, couldn't believe I got a mailing from Lords today asking me to put my name down for tickets next year, for the tests and one dayer's, talk about the bad timing!!
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Post by malxscfc on Dec 8, 2006 9:24:27 GMT
Changing the subject slightly, couldn't believe I got a mailing from Lords today asking me to put my name down for tickets next year, for the tests and one dayer's, talk about the bad timing!! You Showoff, you!! OASN, Australia are 2 Tests up, but clearly the Barmy Army have got them rattled: news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/6219992.stm
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Post by bh on Dec 8, 2006 20:41:55 GMT
Na not really I've just been to the Middlesex V Surrey 20twenty the last couple of seasons, and now they send me all the bumph!
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Post by medibot on Dec 15, 2006 4:18:52 GMT
Curse of Nick (it only goes well when i'm not listening) back in action. Along with the curse of the commentator... Looks like Flintoff is telling Pieterson to calm it down... next ball, Flintoff out. Jones has never had a duck... two minutes later... jones goes for a duck.
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Post by medibot on Dec 15, 2006 7:32:55 GMT
f**k me, it actually got better. Pieterson, Monty and Harmison tided us over and then... LANGER OUT FIRST BALL!!! Half my street has just been woken up to me shouting F*CKING GET IN!
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Post by malxscfc on Jan 5, 2007 19:06:21 GMT
For those of us who don't have Sky. A f*cking godsend ;D I thought it'd be suitably ironic to end our interest in the Ashes [until 2009] by quoting the first thread on the subject. Not so much 'irony', as an iron poker, don't you think.....
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Post by medibot on Jan 5, 2007 19:25:21 GMT
Ah well, at least i did lots of useful things like screwing up my sleep patterns, getting stressed, wishing i could pick the test side etc... oh wait... Never mind, rough with the smooth, come 2009 with some sensible management we should win them back. Oh yeah, Martello, what was that you said about Shane Warne again?
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Post by martello on Jan 9, 2007 17:33:41 GMT
Oh yeah, Martello, what was that you said about Shane Warne again? Yeah yeah, I know - I suggested he MIGHT still be around til 2009. But I'm glad to have been around to see him throughout his career - started watching cricket on TV in 1993, when the Aussies came over here and a blonde-haired surf dude (typical Aussie-looking) bowled the greatest leg-spin delivery of all time to up-root the off-stump of a fading Mike Gatting. Stunning. 600 wickets later and he's called it a day. Take a bow, Warney - pick an all-time XI from the last 100 years of test cricket and he's an automatic choice for the spin bowling spot. Now p*ss off and come over and help our youngsters! ;D
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Post by coops on Jan 9, 2007 19:08:38 GMT
Yeah yeah, I know - I suggested he MIGHT still be around til 2009. But I'm glad to have been around to see him throughout his career - Absolutely, he is amongst a handful of sports starts that I feel absolutely privileged to have seen play in the flesh, and what's more, being a member at Edgbaston, I got to meet him after the test in 2005! The little fat genius nearly beat us almost on his own in that test, which was probably the best test match ever played.
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