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Problem is it's not a difficult home Test program for 2026 - New Zealand & sri Lanka. Duckett will make runs against them so they have to decide whether they need a sort-term boost or there's a more long-term approach again. Ideally someone steps upand makes early runs in the CC to force their...

Can't really argue he's being selected for potential when he's played 100 innings.

Not a shock that again a part-time spinner can't make the required impact or scoring rate control.don't blame the player - blame the structure and management. They fast track Bashir because they know they need one but he doesn't get anywhere near enough cricket - county selection, county...

Not fit for purpose. Besides current set-up convinced that unproven potential should be promoted over players actually producing results.

Problem is there are so many things you can eviscerate this team & its management for. Likes of McGrath was saying it would be a 5-0 (always does) but the reasons he gave are exactly panning out. You can't bazball bat on Aussie wickets against disciplined bowling, you can't take wickets in...

It was so obvious they should have suspected something at the time.

Also embarrassing that they can't get Snicko to work properly.

Probably a bowling performance that sums up England's approach recently. One good quick can't compensate for 2 sloppy ones. Australia gifted most of their wickets. Dropped catches costly again. Jacks part-time spin doesn't look like it can take serious wickets - going to need a very friendly...

Textbook narcissist

So Australia bring in their front-line spinner. England have to admit defeat that the Bashir experiment hasn't worked out (not all the player's fault) and go with a spinner (Jacks) who only bowled 75 overs and managed 5 wickets in County Championship this summer. Going to a minor miracle for...

All sides are to blame for this travesty. It's not a new situation as it happened during his first term as well. It was also happening during Obama's Presidency. Democrats have had chances to remedy this when they held the White House but didn't do so. Under Biden 10000s of unaccompanied...

basically they were praying they could get 3 Tests out of him. Says a lot about their confidence in the next tier of quicks.

It's amateur hour. If Australia were 2 down would they be off on holiday???? On the verge of a full-on expletive-laden rant about this whole situation - which has been simmering since some really amateurish cricket from the Pakistan & India series.

they've got a shout - 2 decent drivers as well. You'd like to thnk Aston Martin might take a jump forward under Newey - but their driver line-up is probably the weakest on the grid.

Mercedes probably the team that have focussed most on reg changes since their announcement as they've been comparatively so far "off the pace" with the current specs. Wonder whether there might be changes coming there - Woolf selling a chunk of his ownership. Has the team got stale under Woolf?

Piastri & Norris both had more faster laps than Max. McClaren "got away with it" as they stopped developing their 2025 car after the summer break and moved the resources to the 2026. Red Bull kept upgrading and even giving Max the extra new power unit to keep him happy - worried he might walk...

Also maybe from a drivers championship POV papaya rules is a high risk strategy? Red Bull's strategy team is way ahead of McClaren's?

An outstanding drivers championship this season and thrilled for Lando to take it in the end. Can't wait for the next season and all the changes coming.

Trescothick was spouting platitudes yesterday as well. All sound like football managers trying to save their jobs just before they get sacked for poor results.

going to be a strategy race. Max will have to back the pack up and hope someone can attack McClarens from behind. Then he risks exposing himself to the undercut. Could it all be about pitstops and yellow flags? Lando just has to survive the first lap even if Oscar sends one. Plus there will be...