England team changes

[LIONS then DAYLIGHT]

As one of few remaining England fans on this site, as the rest have gone AWOL, i would like your thoughts on the current England side and i ask you to consider some of my recommendations.

Firstly,

Drop these players immediately -

Nixon
Joyce

Include these players

Cook (why he went home i don't know)
Vikram Solkani (sp) this guy did alright and at least he was good in the field
Foster/Jones (Jones was a decent one day bat and Foster looks alright)


Recruit Tubby Taylor as a fielding coach for a session or 2.

Thoughts?

 

[eddiesmith]

Re: Edward Smith

You have NFI

 

[jezza]

Re: Edward Smith

Potential coach of England then

 

[Gets!]

Re: Edward Smith

You have NFI

Well enlighten us then ya wally.

 

[LIONS then DAYLIGHT]

Re: Edward Smith

Well enlighten us then ya wally.

Agree entirely.

 

[TheBushranger]

Re: Edward Smith

My recommendations are:
Get rid of Nixon and Joyce.
Take the captaincy away from Flintoff.
Retire Michael Vaughan from all forms of cricket- his knee is not up to it.
Stop playing nothing players like Lewis.
Play Hoggard.
Find some decent English players in your county system and stop playing players from other countries e.g. Pietersen, Strauss, Jones.
Develop your own players.

 

[HBF]

Re: Edward Smith

What else is there to talk about at the moment?

My recommendations are:
Get rid of Nixon and Joyce.
Take the captaincy away from Flintoff.
Retire Michael Vaughan from all forms of cricket- his knee is not up to it.
Stop playing nothing players like Lewis.
Play Hoggard.
Find some decent English players in your county system and stop playing players from other countries e.g. Pietersen, Strauss, Jones.
Develop your own players.

Pretty much spot on TB.
I think that the last point is the most important.

 

[The_Reaper]

Re: Edward Smith

Cook should not play

Don't want to ruin his good technique by playing ODI at this stage of his career

 

[Ysaye]

Re: Edward Smith

Cook should not play

Don't want to ruin his good technique by playing ODI at this stage of his career

?????????????

I don't recall seeing Pontings or Husseys technique altered in anyway by them playing both forms of the game? Or Tendulkar or Dravid?

And HugeBluesFan, I think you are a bit harsh on Strauss - he has basically lived his whole life in England.

 

[RoosterLad]

Re: Edward Smith

I heard Cook has retired from one day cricket.

 

[Mr P@H]

Re: Edward Smith

RL-i don't think so

Strauss is as much English as Symonds is Australia, they moved from their birth countries at the same time, so if we get rid of Strauss we want Symonds.

Joyce has some talent as showed the other day with a good 40 odd, Not too sure about Nixon still, Read just slogs itm Jones is crap, Foster ain't up to much. Pothas can be the only man to replace him.

 

[metallicamatty]

Re: Edward Smith

RL-i don't think so

Strauss is as much English as Symonds is Australia, they moved from their birth countries at the same time, so if we get rid of Strauss we want Symonds.

Joyce has some talent as showed the other day with a good 40 odd, Not too sure about Nixon still, Read just slogs itm Jones is crap, Foster ain't up to much. Pothas can be the only man to replace him.

Isn't he South Efrican? Would be another import

 

[Mr P@H]

Re: Edward Smith

Isn't he South Efrican? Would be another import

Might as well, the rest of them are total rubbish... And he's Greek (Well he was before he got a UK passport)

 

[TheBushranger]

Re: Edward Smith

Why has the thread title changed?

 

[Squizza]

Re: Edward Smith

Why has the thread title changed?

Because LtD is a tool.

Why make a thread directed only at 1 poster?

 

[DIG]

Re: Edward Smith

For the first game of the world cup, they should aim for a lineup something like this:

Trescothick
Strauss
Vaughan
Pietersen
Flintoff
Bell
Collingwood
<enter hack keeper of choice here, i'd go back to Geraint>
Hoggard/Lewis
Panesar
Anderson

Bowlers - Hoggard, Anderson, Flintoff, Panesar, 5th bowler out of Collingwood and Pietersen.

And just hope some of their bats come good, use Loy or Joyce if necessary. Deeper batting lineup should help. Dalrymple has to go, useless.

 

[RoosterLad]

Re: Edward Smith

Bell and Collingwood to come in when some big hitting is required??
they need to find someone who can bowl a bit and tonk the ball and bring him in the side for that dud Collingwood

 

[glengowan]

I don't think England can be saved from an early exit from the WC, but if I was the coach I'd talk Harmison into coming back. He has performed in the Windies before and his form by the end of the Test series was good. They also need Hoggard.

Get rid of hacks like Nixon, Dalrymple and Tremlett.

My WC team:

Strauss - make him captain
Pieterson - open with him
Loye - he's a bit of a dud, but can at least score quickly if he gets going
Bell - needs to play the Martyn role
Flintoff - coming in at 3/20 is better than coming in at 4/20
Vaughan - he's still a better batsman than anyone missing out so try him down the order and if he gets injured again it doesn't disturb the structure too much
Read - can't believe they don't pick him, he's that much better than Nixon and Jones
Anderson - here starts the long tail, but at least they're genuine bowlers!
Harmison - can at least hit big
Panesar
Hoggard

Rest of squad - Collingwood, Cook, Mahmood, Jones, Lewis

 

[DIG]

Re: Edward Smith

Bell and Collingwood to come in when some big hitting is required??
they need to find someone who can bowl a bit and tonk the ball and bring him in the side for that dud Collingwood

Yeah agree with that, it's too hard, maybe put Loye in the middle order instead - or see if they can poach a 2nd rate Saffie between now and the WC.

Harmison's retired from ODIs Glengowan.

 

[ShearMagic9]

My WC squad:

Strauss
Loye
Pietersen
Vaughan
Flintoff
Collingwood/Bell
Ravi Bopara (averaged over 40 with the bat at a SR of 88 in the Natwest Pro40, also averaged 30 with the ball so can bowl about 5 or 6 overs) or Jamie Dalrymple
Prior
Lewis
Anderson
Panesar

 

[WeSt CoAsT EaGLeS]

Re: Edward Smith

My recommendations are:
Get rid of Nixon and Joyce.
Take the captaincy away from Flintoff.
Retire Michael Vaughan from all forms of cricket- his knee is not up to it.
Stop playing nothing players like Lewis.
Play Hoggard.
Find some decent English players in your county system and stop playing players from other countries e.g. Pietersen, Strauss, Jones.
Develop your own players.

Good point. Chris Read keeper though.

 

[Sylvia Saint]

Best XI

Trescothick
Strauss
Vaughan
Pietersen
Collingwood
Flintoff
Dalrymple
Read
Lewis
Panesar
Anderson

 

[eddiesmith]

Red card? Hahaha

Joyce making some more runs, yeah we should drop him

Fact is no one can be taken seriously if they suggest picking Jones and dropping a promising player like Joyce

 

[eddiesmith]

Ha and Nixon was our 2nd best batsman, well done LtD you want us to drop our 2 best batsman, you have outdone yourself this time

 

[ShearMagic9]

Yes, very good work LtD.

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