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  • Start date Jun 30, 2015
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Jack Griffin

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #211
A depressing 44 for 3. This one will be over before you know it.
 

Otis

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #212
Jack Griffin said:
A depressing 44 for 3. This one will be over before you know it.
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It's almost as if the Aussies are playing on a different wicket, at a different ground, with a completely different type of ball, in completely different conditions!
 

Otis

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #213
What's the biggest margin of defeat ever?
 

Grendel

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #214
Otis said:
What's the biggest margin of defeat ever?
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You can't say as some are by an innings.
 

stupot07

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #215
70/7 of 30 overs..... And we managed to take just 10 wickets in the match....


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Otis

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #216
Grendel said:
You can't say as some are by an innings.
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Yeah, fair point. Wasn't thinking of that in the equation.

This is totally embarrassing though and you do wonder how much damage this is going to do psychologically to the England team.
 

Otis

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #217
stupot07 said:
70/7 of 30 overs..... And we managed to take just 10 wickets in the match....


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The wicket looked so docile and it was a real toil for England to take any wickets at all.

The pace and bounce the Aussies are getting is astounding in comparison.
 
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Macca

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #218
Piss weak stuff again, toffs v toughs. No coming back from this, cancellation of Sky Sports earlier than I thought!
 

Otis

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #219
Macca said:
Piss weak stuff again, toffs v toughs. No coming back from this, cancellation of Sky Sports earlier than I thought!
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Feel you may be right Macca.

This is a men against boys defeat and it's now going to take something extraordinary for England to regain the momentum.

We know now there will have to be changes, but wholesale ones? You would have to say not, but Lyth and Bell's places especially are under threat and we need to seriously look at our bowling attack too.

Ali could move up to opener and we try and strengthen the bowling attack that way, but suddenly, after the euphoria of Cardiff, it's all beginning to look a little desperate.
 

stupot07

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #220
Otis said:
Feel you may be right Macca.

This is a men against boys defeat and it's now going to take something extraordinary for England to regain the momentum.

We know now there will have to be changes, but wholesale ones? You would have to say not, but Lyth and Bell's places especially are under threat and we need to seriously look at our bowling attack too.

Ali could move up to opener and we try and strengthen the bowling attack that way, but suddenly, after the euphoria of Cardiff, it's all beginning to look a little desperate.
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Now 101/9.

Big concerns about Lyth, Ballance and Bell. I'm not convinced by Ali as an opener, perhaps bring in Hales? I know roots got out cheaply twice in this match but he needs to move to 3. Who else is there to bring in? And actually it's easy to blame the batsmen, but we've took 10 wickets for over 800 runs, our bowlers are struggling.
 
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Grendel

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #221
In two recent series England were hammered in Perth and Headingly but recovered to win the series.

It's been a horror show but it's one one.
 

skybluejelly

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #222
That really has got to be biggest waste of a tenner ever ..


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Grendel

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #223
skybluejelly said:
That really has got to be biggest waste of a tenner ever ..


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Go and put a tenner on again - you'll get better odds now.
 

SkyBlue_Bear83

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #224
I'm not an expert on cricket but even I know this is a disgrace, we were always likely to lose but we haven't even put up a reasonable resistance. Australia could have made another 600 in there second innings had they wanted and then we come in and our players look like they've never picked a cricket bat up in there life.
 

Otis

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #225
Macca said:
Piss weak stuff again, toffs v toughs. No coming back from this, cancellation of Sky Sports earlier than I thought!
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Otis

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #226
Otis said:
What's the biggest margin of defeat ever?
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Here's the answer, sort of.
 

chiefdave

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #227
All over, what a shambles. Not one player scoring over 25 in the second innings on a perfect batting pitch.

Otis said:
What's the biggest margin of defeat ever?
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According to the BBC its England's third-largest defeat in terms of runs against Australia.
 

Otis

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #228
chiefdave said:
All over, what a shambles. Not one player scoring over 25 in the second innings on a perfect batting pitch.



According to the BBC its England's third-largest defeat in terms of runs against Australia.
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Didn't I just say that?
 

Otis

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #229
chiefdave said:
All over, what a shambles. Not one player scoring over 25 in the second innings on a perfect batting pitch.



According to the BBC its England's third-largest defeat in terms of runs against Australia.
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Fair play to them if they did.
 

Otis

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #230
Lost by 405 runs.

Think I need to pinch myself and say that again. England lost by 405 runs.

Shocking!!!
 

chiefdave

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #231
bbc.co.uk said:
13 of the last 14 Ashes series have been won by the team that won the second Test
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Johnnythespider

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #232
I think when so little fight and heart is shown it's time to question the leadership, any "man" that can shoot an animal that is in a pen with no chance of escape shouldn't be captain of anything !!
 
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Macca

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #233
Ok thanks for that now let's talk cricket again. We bottled it before the game started with pitch and it backfired. They win the toss and it showed that without the right pitch conditions our bowlers just aren't frightening enough. Once they posted a big score we had the double whammy of scoreboard pressure and Ozzie fear. That's fucked it because mentally they are totally in the box seats now whoever we bring in
 
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skybluejelly

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #234
Grendel said:
Go and put a tenner on again - you'll get better odds now.
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Worse thing is I only went in the bookies to put a fiver each way on Jordan speith as it said he was 14-1 on odds checker when I got there that was online odds only and I did not want to take 8-1 ..a fool and his money ..


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kdrinkell

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #235
Macca said:
Ok thanks for that now let's talk cricket again. We bottled it before the game started with pitch and it backfired. They win the toss and it showed that without the right pitch conditions our bowlers just aren't frightening enough. Once they posted a big score we had the double whammy of scoreboard pressure and Ozzie fear. That's fucked it because mentally they are totally in the box seats now whoever we bring in
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The top order have been shocking for a while now are the old cronies blinkered of fkn what ?
So much for putting to bed the KP question,I think he should be begged to come back in as obviously we are struggling,it was just the Aussies poor form at Cardiff that made us look good .
 
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Macca

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #236
kdrinkell said:
The top order have been shocking for a while now are the old cronies blinkered of fkn what ?
So much for putting to bed the KP question,I think he should be begged to come back in as obviously we are struggling,it was just the Aussies poor form at Cardiff that made us look good .
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We probably need 3 KP's to be honest
 

kdrinkell

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #237
Macca said:
We probably need 3 KP's to be honest
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Compton,Barstow and KP
 

Otis

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #238
Buttler has been poor with that bat too. Think more was expected of him.
 

Grendel

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #239
kdrinkell said:
The top order have been shocking for a while now are the old cronies blinkered of fkn what ?
So much for putting to bed the KP question,I think he should be begged to come back in as obviously we are struggling,it was just the Aussies poor form at Cardiff that made us look good .
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The last thing we need is that c**t back
 

Otis

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #240
Macca said:
We probably need 3 KP's to be honest
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Kevin Peterson, Katherine Parkinson and Karl Pilkington.
 
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Macca

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #241
Kitchen Porters
 
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Macca

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #242
Grendel said:
The last thing we need is that c**t back
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He is quite a good c**t to be fair but regardless I don't think its the answer. The team needs a psychologist
 

kdrinkell

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #243
Grendel said:
The last thing we need is that c**t back
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Yeah lets stick with the ones we have now…zzzzzz are you Australian ?
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #244
kdrinkell said:
Yeah lets stick with the ones we have now…zzzzzz are you Australian ?
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No but I can only assume you are Piers Morgan
 

kdrinkell

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  • Jul 19, 2015
  • #245
Grendel said:
No but I can only assume you are Piers Morgan
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No I am not the same person who allowed a fake picture of Iraqis to be published in a newspaper being abused which must have cost lives
 
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