billy2shots Posted December 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 For anyone who hasn't seen it, Piers Morgan getting ruined by Brett Lee. Morgan does well to hide a fractured wrist, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/theashes/10538906/Ashes-2013-14-Piers-Morgan-faces-six-balls-from-fired-up-Brett-Lee-in-MCG-nets-and-gets-dumped-on-his-backside.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted December 30, 2013 Report Share Posted December 30, 2013 Ugh. It depresses me that such good cricketers want to be associated with that pr1ck. I'm disappointed in Michael. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted December 31, 2013 Report Share Posted December 31, 2013 I'm assuming Michael was only watching in the hope he'd get more seriously injured. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 3, 2014 Report Share Posted January 3, 2014 I'm a mug. Headphones in, listening to catastrophe part V playing out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 'kin 'ell! And they all have the nerve to pour scorn on Carberry! Feckers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Cook is finished. He has to be. He looks like a man in tatters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 17-4. I'm about to cry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Actually, I'm wondering if it isn't just funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinspark Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Just about sums up the whole series for me. Bloody awful from start to finish. Has David Moyes been moonlighting as England Cricket Coach? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 (edited) I've just switched it off. Flowers and Cook both have to go. This isn't defeat, it isn't even just a whitewash, it is complete and utter humiliation of English Cricket. None of them have stood up to be counted. They're a bunch of spineless chickens who want to be home as soon as possible. I am absolutely appalled. I don't think any English side has ever capitulated in this fashion. Edited January 4, 2014 by NewNiceMrMe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 17-4. I figured you must have been watching:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 That's why I've switched off. We'll declare on 600-4 now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 (edited) We have been utterly mentally destroyed. Still, I was at Lords last year when we took Aussie apart on a Friday afternoon, I'll always have that. Edited January 4, 2014 by Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Jesus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Innings defeat should make the point nicely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Maybe Ballance will get double digits............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torino101 Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Bunch of spineless c@#ts - never has my respect for the team and players been lower. I watched Many English thrashings and collapses in the past but at least it always looked like the players cared. Angry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Well my going to bed didn't help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy2shots Posted January 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Thought it was worth starting a thread on this now. A little late given the hammering we took in the first test. I for one can't see things getting any better. We were lucky in the summer winning against a very poor Aus team and we even needed the weather to help us out on more than one occasion. Our ability with the bat is the big worry. We have struggled for the last couple of years to score over 300 runs in an innings. That's always going to put us on the back foot and leave us relying on our bowling attack to bail us out. Thankfully we have one of the best attacks in the game but they can't do it every time and when it fails we get destroyed. We'll win. And Billy, with respect, our batsmen are far from woeful. Don't jump on that bandwagon - they are a proper quality unit. We will. So we've had a poor first test, it doesn't mean we're going to lose. Johnson won't bowl as well as that again. Plus, the statistics that out of all his bowling only 12 would have hit the stumps is a very telling one. It could be argued he doesn't need them to, but I think the England batsmen will have learned their lesson and won't make the same mistakes again. I think we'll win it 2-1, possibly 3-1. I certainly don't see the Aussies winning the series. Now about that bandwagon......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Oh dear. You really do have it bad, don't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Billy, just because your natural negative outlook caused you to guess right doesn't make you an expert. Just sayin'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 How come the English bowlers can't finish the job? Aus on the rocks in that first innings, yet managed to get a huge total (relative)? Does their attitude change and they start to think about victory? Sri Lanka this summer - what will the outcome be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy2shots Posted January 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Our bowlers IMHO are quality when playing in England. We are not quick or accurate enough when the ball doesn't swing. Anderson is in the top 3 swing bowlers in the world but when the ball doesn't move he is a fast medium bowler in the low 80mph. Steve Finn must be bowling a bag of crap in the nets to not get a look in. Rankin is 29 and won't be around for too many series. Why not give Finn more time in the middle (apart from the fact he keeps kicking the stumps down). How we can go from number 1 in the world to this, is beyond me. The only thing that comes close is Englands rugby team after winning the World Cup, but at least then we lost a raft of experienced players. Our cricket team or the one that started the series was largely unchanged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 4, 2014 Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Quite - I maintain there must be more to it behind the scenes. I also maintain that our batting line up is top class - you just can't argue against that. One swallow doesn't make a summer, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy2shots Posted January 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 But 5 tests does. Almost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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