Test The Ashes Third Test December 17-21 1000hrs @ The Adelaide Oval

[threenewpadlocks]

Safe to assume Trav would captain the team if Smith doesn't play?

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Big difference to "full speed but full and targeting the stumps" and "I'm going to bowl halfway down the pitch at his body and bowl no-balls by over a metre".

If the point was to make Piers Morgan look foolish you don't think sending stumps cartwheeling three or four times would have achieved that just as much as a broken rib?

The point wasn’t really to get him out. He was calling the English players cowards for not being able to deal with Johnson’s pace and short balls, so he was going to cop pace and short balls

It was something that never should have been agreed to and it was soft from Brett Lee to be bowling massive no balls and bouncing him more than necessary

Not sure why we still talk about it over a decade on. Brett Lee came out looking like a w***er which he probably is, Piers came out looking like a w***er which he definitely is

 

[Pistol Night]

I reckon I'll discuss the changes tomorrow. Let’s have tonight be a celebration.

3-0 up. The Ashes are where they belong. Every one of them contributed to it to some degree. Good call

 

[Pistol Night]

The point wasn’t really to get him out. He was calling the English players cowards for not being able to deal with Johnson’s pace and short balls, so he was going to cop pace and short balls

It was something that never should have been agreed to and it was soft from Brett Lee to be bowling massive no balls and bouncing him more than necessary

Not sure why we still talk about it over a decade on. Brett Lee came out looking like a w***er which he probably is, Piers came out looking like a w***er which he definitely is

What was he supposed to do? Bowl some gentle offies to him?

 

[threenewpadlocks]

If we don’t say thanks Cam and Josh you gave it a good old collage try but Webster is better than you both, then I will be stunned.
Only injury can save them surely?

If Webster was self-evidently such a good player, why hasn't he scored more than 11, 6, 14, 8 and 44 in his two shield games and one Australia A game this summer? How is he certainly better?

 

[Snarls Barkley]

What was he supposed to do? Bowl some gentle offies to him?

Not agree to bowl bouncers at a 50 year old man who is backing into the side netting

It was over a decade ago, I’m not reading or posting any more about it. Can people move on from the stupid skit

 

[threenewpadlocks]

The point wasn’t really to get him out. He was calling the English players cowards for not being able to deal with Johnson’s pace and short balls, so he was going to cop pace and short balls

It was something that never should have been agreed to and it was soft from Brett Lee to be bowling massive no balls and bouncing him more than necessary

Not sure why we still talk about it over a decade on. Brett Lee came out looking like a w***er which he probably is, Piers came out looking like a w***er which he definitely is

And the fact that Piers Morgan would have probably still backed away (being scared of a ball even before it leaves Lee's hands) leaving his stumps exposed even if it was a full ball would have been enough to prove the lack of cowardice that he was claiming on the part of the English test cricketers, who weren't backing away to Johnson.

I honestly don't see the point of Lee in using his speed to injure someone (in the quite literal sense, breaking his ribs). Like, what was the point? I loathe Piers Morgan too, even his politics, but I don't believe he deserves physical pain for having such views. And it's in cricket, not politics, something that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.

If in by some miracle that Morgan had not backed away five balls into his over, bounce him on ball six.

Yes, at least we can agree that it was stupid by everyone involved.

 

[Pistol Night]

Not agree to bowl bouncers at a 50 year old man who is backing into the side netting

It was over a decade ago, I’m not reading or posting any more about it. Can people move on from the stupid skit

Fair enough mate. You have your thoughts on it and I have mine. Let’s leave it at that

 

[Pistol Night]

I miss when we we’re hating all of our own players today instead of cuppings Piers Morgan’s balls

 

[largebus]

LOL and now Baz is saying they should've trained less because of how hot it was. The comedy never ends.

He said at times England were "so determined" and had "such high expectations" for the series that it "almost constrained us".

Constrained you from heading to the beach in Noosa?

 

[grumbleguts]

How good does it feel to hold the ashes? I guess I can't ask a ten-year-old English kid.

 

[Pistol Night]

And the fact that Piers Morgan would have probably still backed away (being scared of a ball even before it leaves Lee's hands) leaving his stumps exposed even if it was a full ball would have been enough to prove the lack of cowardice that he was claiming on the part of the English test cricketers, who weren't backing away to Lee.

I honestly don't see the point of Lee in using his speed to injure someone (in the quite literal sense, breaking his ribs). Like, what was the point? I loathe Piers Morgan too, even his politics, but I don't believe he deserves physical pain for having such views. And it's in cricket, not politics, something that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.

If in by some miracle that Morgan had not backed away five balls into his over, bounce him on ball six.

Yes, at least we can agree that it was stupid by everyone involved.

This is the last I’ll say on the matter but get into the psyche of a Thommo, Tait or Lee and see if they have an “off switch” when any campaigner challenges them to a nets session. Born competitors

 

[Bedi]

Head
Weatherald
Labs
Smith
Green
Carey
Webster
Neser/ J.Richo
Starc
Rocc
Boland

6 bowling options
Potential of batting from 1-10

Pretty balanced

Dunno how we can drop Khawaja after what was exactly a match winning knock - 82 runs

 

[Pistol Night]

LOL and now Baz is saying they should've trained less because of how hot it was. The comedy never ends.


Constrained you from heading to the beach in Noosa?

Pure damage control spin now

 

[Substance]

Stokes was asked what he'd change in hindsight, he said the coin tosses. He'd lose the first two and win the Adelaide toss. He also said not to call him/them arrogant after the Brisbane test didn't he?

 

[Substance]

I reckon I'll discuss the changes tomorrow. Lets have tonight be a celebration.

I'll celebrate 5-0. Retaining the ashes was a given.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Imagine if Bill Woodfull was one of the commentators. He'd say, "There are two teams out there, one is playing Test cricket, the other is making no attempt to do so"

 

[Pistol Night]

Stokes was asked what he'd change in hindsight, he said the coin tosses. He'd lose the first two and win the Adelaide toss. He also said not to call him/them arrogant after the Brisbane test didn't he?

So the only thing that cost England the Ashes is “tails never fails”? Huge from Stokesy

 

[Kappa]

I think Khawaja should move to the middle order if hes gonna play, at his age it'd be better to send him out when the balls moving a little slower

 

[Scorpus]

Stokes was asked what he'd change in hindsight, he said the coin tosses. He'd lose the first two and win the Adelaide toss. He also said not to call him/them arrogant after the Brisbane test didn't he?

It's like Stokes wants everyone to make fun of them

 

[Pistol Night]

It's like Stokes wants everyone to make fun of them

Challenge accepted

 

[Substance]

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Usman Lyon Cummins out

Jhye Rocco Smudge in

Inglis Green Jhye Rocco to play in front of Victorians......for the LOLs

We're trying to win, not tank for draft picks.

 

[grumbleguts]

This is the last I’ll say on the matter but get into the psyche of a Thommo, Tait or Lee and see if they have an “off switch” when any campaigner challenges them to a nets session. Born competitors

I faced Thommo and Hogg at separate times as a teenager. Both insanely scary neither of them gave a shit that I was a kid, a leg spinner and treated the bat as a device used to wave at the ball.

Where Thomson was concerned it wasn't even in a game or even in the nets. It was for charity. You donated a few bucks to see of you could last an over against him. And all I kept thinking while facing him was his statement "I like to see the batsman's blood on the pitch." (I am a f**king imbecile)

 

[Cataholic]

Ah, life is good.