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starts tomorrow night at 11.30. We lost the ashes. Just hope it won't be 4-0 by saturday morning.

i think it will be. tbh though an ashes team hasn't won a series 5-0 since 1921 so i don't think that will change. traditionally we always seem to win the 4th test after going 3-0 down. we did it in 2001 and 98/99 i think. so hopefully history will repeat itself

So just to clarify. You think it will be 4-0 but you don't think it will be?  :o

no i think we will win the 5th test  :mrgreen:

Just started after a rain delay, Read in for Jones

the pitch is manky, it reminds me of the morrissey lyric 'trudging slowly over wet sand'...

fucking shit again. 159 all out  :-))( at least they are 48-2

oh dear. pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaase win in sydney.

I see we're doing well again then.  :doh:

Australia 79-3 Freddie taking all 3 wickets  :D still not great though with Clarke, Symonds and Gilly to come

79-4 Hoggy just bowled Hussey  :D hmmm maybe its a good bowling wicket

meh, was looking good at lunch but it's just turned into the usual shite since.

FFS. i went to bed at lunch with them on 111-5 now its 300 odd for 7  :-))(

I blame Monty  :D

Nah, it's just typical of England - can never hold it together when we're behind

Whats happened to all the online highlights ? They dont show any of the action only the interviews with Gower, Hussein, Botham etc.

NMH

haha. when i went to bed last night, hussey had just got out, and the commentators were talking about how hayden hadnt had any form in the series. wooops-eee-dayy-seee

Fuck me is this cricket stuff still going on,my arm would be aching to fuck by now

all out for 419, we're could win this!

straussy's gonna get 300

 :mrgreen:

Got up at 5.30 for this. Woke up and Read was batting with the tail and fair play to him. He batted well the rest was feeble. Got to get things of my chest

Why was Bowling Coach Troy Cooley let go to the Aussies.
Preparation for the Ashes, after the Champs trophy why did they go home for a week why did'nt they just fly to oz. Also more warm ups games before the tours.
Selection. Panesar should of been playing from the start. Strauss should of been captain to offload the workload on flintoff shoulders. Geraint Jones i like him as cricketer his wicket-keeping has improved a lot he made 1 error when he dropped Hussey in Perth. But his batting has declined he needs a year of playing of County Cricket just like Jimmy Anderson did. Read needed to start from the beginning he much better keeper and his batting had improved since 30 months ago in the WI.

Fletcher has to go. 6 years has a coach we have won the ashes last year but this is the third time we have lost it. I would not mine Bob Woolmer has a coach.

My last point is that we are missing Trescothick, Vaughan, Simon Jones who were pivitol in wins against NZ, 2 against WI home and away and against Austraila and South Africa.

5-0 it looks like Glenn Mcgrath will be right for once.

Would you wank over the cricket then Deano?

 :soapy tit wank:

A posh wank maybe :wink:

Why couldn't they have been this shite in Perth ffs,i could have gone down the beach for a couple of extra days :roll:

i do rate Jones but i have to say Read needs to be given a decent run in the side now. Jones was picked to get runs and he didn't. Read isn't much better with the bat but he is a better keeper so why not play him?

if they showed a bit of leg you never know but those pads dont really do it for me

to lose by an innings is just disgraceful.

not much point in having a post-mortem, the lack of preparation was our undoing from day one and the aussies have been rather good.

we can't take 20 wickets in a match, that's the biggest problem.

i think its the batting thats been the problem SY. 5 out of our 8 innings have seen us score less then 250

true, but in a scenario where you're bowled out for lowish scores because of the oppositions excellent bowling you need to match that.

we can't.

harmison's been shite, anderson and mahmood have been totally average. hoggy and flintoff have been consistent but not a great threat. monty should have been in the side for the first test.

strauss, cook, bell, collingwood, pietersen have all done well this series. the convicts kill off our tail and can get any of our batsmen out, we can't do the same.

meh. at least next time it'll probably be different, our youngsters will have more experience and the aussies will have lost a few more of their oap's.

anyway i'll shut up now, dave or boeta will be along in a minute to remind me that i know ntohing about cricket

no, fair points all along.

but to say strauss (one fifty) and cook (one second innings ton) have batted well is wide of the mark.

can't see it being different either, the aussie crop is younger and more talented than us. lets not forget anderson, mahmood, read, monty etc are all much older than the likes of their aussie counterparts