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« Reply #420 on: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 00:49:18 » |
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that has to be tongue firmly in cheek
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This is the water.
And this is the well.
Drink full and descend.
The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within.
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« Reply #421 on: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 06:13:58 » |
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Hope not many of these useless fuckers are in the one day squad
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« Reply #422 on: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 07:59:09 » |
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I wouldn't expect us to come away from Australia with anything than a whitewash in the ODIs, either. Can't wait for the summer.  |
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Never , under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night
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« Reply #423 on: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 10:00:27 » |
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Perhaps we should have a series versus Namibia or Kenya to try and get our confidence back.
Unless . . . . . .
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« Reply #424 on: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 10:48:46 » |
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I wouldn't expect us to come away from Australia with anything than a whitewash in the ODIs, either.
Oh no. I had forgotten about the ODIs and had been consoling myself that this thread would finally be closing tomorrow sometime. |
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« Reply #425 on: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 12:39:29 » |
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I liked this from the BBC website:
"With a single shot, the 36-year-old short-sighted colour-blind Rogers had scored as many as any of England's first five batsmen managed in their entire innings".
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« Reply #426 on: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 17:38:05 » |
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For some reason was looking forward to watching our new-look team bat, but what a nightmare...sorry at 17-4 I went to sleep, watched I think 29 minutes before deciding that's it and off to bed I went...total utter embarrassment, the Aussies already have way to many!
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« Reply #427 on: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 17:42:02 » |
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I know, I was just suggesting that he's got a decent chance of top scoring for someone ostensibly picked as a specialist bowler. He's pretty much a like for like swap for Root really, but been picked for completely different reasons.
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« Reply #428 on: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 23:01:43 » |
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Trying to salvage some of the damage with a hearty bet on Bailey to be first man out today at 5/6... Keep going Chrissy R...
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« Reply #429 on: Sunday, January 5, 2014, 00:39:08 » |
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« Reply #430 on: Sunday, January 5, 2014, 00:40:21 » |
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Good odds those.
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« Reply #431 on: Sunday, January 5, 2014, 09:06:21 » |
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Well I hate to say it but I'm actually glad that's over. Been put out of our misery good and proper and an example of exactly the reason why needed to enjoy every moment of our victories against them the last 3 series. Nothing lasts forever but we'll be back.
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« Reply #432 on: Sunday, January 5, 2014, 09:27:38 » |
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After all of that, I still can't get my head around how you go from 3-0 in the summer to 0-5 less than 6 months later. The embarrassing thing for me was that at no point was there even a contest. It was a procession. A long, drawn out formality. Quite how Jonathan Agnew managed to maintain the enthusiasm to report on this non-event for over a month is beyond me.
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« Reply #433 on: Sunday, January 5, 2014, 10:27:58 » |
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After all of that, I still can't get my head around how you go from 3-0 in the summer to 0-5 less than 6 months later. The embarrassing thing for me was that at no point was there even a contest. It was a procession. A long, drawn out formality. Quite how Jonathan Agnew managed to maintain the enthusiasm to report on this non-event for over a month is beyond me.
Because Aggers gets paid to do it , maybe? Generally somewhere warm and sunny too! |
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« Reply #434 on: Sunday, January 5, 2014, 10:43:17 » |
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Get the increasing feeling that England were not a happy bunch of "mates". Cricket is a very individualistic game but it also requires a good team spirit which seemed lacking at times. Probably when the autobiographies are eventually written we might get to know where it all went wrong.
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