Test The Ashes Fifth Test January 4-8 1000hrs @ The SCG

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

No county cricket for us.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/14790b51-6abd-414b-bbeb-f5e12a5c448e?shareToken=d97f7400c7d3cb506101e36af3ad9df3

Getting their excuses ready early

 

[Linda Lovelace]

It’s just another test match for points!

Steve Smith said The Ashes were done at 3-0 so this next test (5th Ashes) is just part of the test cycle. It’s the same as the coach has said.

The Ashes has been diminished, it’s gone from the biggest single sporting rivalry in the world, it goes back around 150 years, something that had tradition and mystique, to …. just another test match for points !!!!!

Dead rubbers now have some meaning when they used to have none.

Oh, the humanity!

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

 

[MarcMaverick]

Its not like the Poms can't play in the Sheffield Shield, they just don't want to leave their warm houses.

 

[MarcMaverick]

The pitch colour looks like a smashed avo sanga.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

The pitch colour looks like a smashed avo sanga.

It won’t be as bad as Melb only 6mm

 

[jb04]

It’s just another test match for points!

Steve Smith said The Ashes were done at 3-0 so this next test (5th Ashes) is just part of the test cycle. It’s the same as the coach has said.

The Ashes has been diminished, it’s gone from the biggest single sporting rivalry in the world, it goes back around 150 years, something that had tradition and mystique, to …. just another test match for points !!!!!

Yknow I'm kind of okay with this mindset. It's not the 5-0, foaming at the mouth killer instinct I want. BUT the Boxing Day and New Years tests aren't dead rubbers like they may have been in the past, they still mean something in regards to the WTC cycle and I am glad they openly acknowledge that.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Yknow I'm kind of okay with this mindset. It's not the 5-0, foaming at the mouth killer instinct I want. BUT the Boxing Day and New Years tests aren't dead rubbers like they may have been in the past, they still mean something in regards to the WTC cycle and I am glad they openly acknowledge that.

Just let them win the moral deal rubbers

 

[Black Diamond]

Melbourne curator: My pitch is green and spicy.
Sydney curator: Hold my beer.

 

[jb04]

I believe that was a return of service TO Mark Waugh, from a Pom.

An all time great clapback: "Maybe not, but at least I'm the best player in my own family"

 

[katana]

Its not like the Poms can't play in the Sheffield Shield, they just don't want to leave their warm houses.

well most of them can't due to scheduling, and the rest aren't good enough to get a game as there's a lot less state teams than counties.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Melbourne curator: My pitch is green and spicy.
Sydney curator: Hold my beer.

There was 10mm in Melb it’s 6mm here

How about batsmen show an ounce of application?

 

[western royboy]

Thanks! I think when they showed it on tv, they shot from the other end of the pitch

Look I’d be happy with it if it was one of mine, but that would be on a Thursday for a Saturday. It’s very green

 

[katana]

people on bigfooty whinging about the pitch before a ball has even been bowled ffs.

 

[Borisdog]

No county cricket for us.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/14790b51-6abd-414b-bbeb-f5e12a5c448e?shareToken=d97f7400c7d3cb506101e36af3ad9df3

It's an interesting topic. Does it help the Poms more? Or does it just give fringe local players more of an opportunity?

Does playing in a diluted comp against lesser opposition help THEIR Test players?

It's a kneejerk for mine, you want the best you can get in your premier comp.

There were heaps of Poms, Indians and Pakistanis playing in First Grade in my era in Perth but very few in the Shield. I'm sure it was, and is, the same in other states.

Australia has always been fairly "reluctant" to have overseas players in the Shield, and it's even less likely now given the schedules. You can pretty much write off the Southern hemisphere players from it. I can't remember the last one to be honest. Wessels played for QLD before SAF's readmission, likewise Barry Richards for SA. Sobers? Tony Lock played for WA after he'd retired from England.

 

[Headless]

I just hope everybody has such a nice time.

 

[HBF]

Weather looks ok at the moment.

Big day of cricket for me today. Taking my 8 year old to the MCG for the first time tonight to see the BBL.

 

[Joffaboy]

Just let them win the moral deal rubbers

3-2 will be the moralist of moral victories

 

[MarcMaverick]

people on bigfooty whinging about the pitch before a ball has even been bowled ffs.

We're moreso whinging about the date of the test. Should be Day 3 already.

 

[TasSixer]

Green has marked his run up, so he's playing FFS

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

No county cricket for us.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/14790b51-6abd-414b-bbeb-f5e12a5c448e?shareToken=d97f7400c7d3cb506101e36af3ad9df3

That will hurt the counties more than England

 

[icyflakes]

Slug has marked his run up and is in according to Fox. Murph is not in.

 

[Hawksboy72]

OFFS...Do We Really Care about the letters after your frigging names....

 

[MarcMaverick]

Green has incriminating photos of somebody.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Weather looks ok at the moment.

Big day of cricket for me today. Taking my 8 year old to the MCG for the first time tonight to see the BBL.

Unlike your Day 3 tickets I think your tickets are safe for this one