We're F*cked

[CrazyQ]

The pitch is fine, modern batsman cannot knuckle down to save their life. Australia are 0/80 off 20 overs, pitch is good enough, Australia threw their wickets away as they usually do.

Broad will be very good. If you lose or draw this game, we go number 1

 

[Z_K]

Stuart ****ing Broad. When he took his 4th Friday night, I just about smashed up the lounge room. Flintoff I could have handled, but not that whingeing, dress wearing ****. I want someone to stab him with a rusty knife in front of his family. ****.




Um...yeah....Ashes. Disappointing.

 

[mark73]

This is a situation where they need to do an India. Play it safe, use up the time, block everything and put up with the abuse. They're not going to win but at least they'll retain the Ashes. Problem is, the Australian team is too headstrong, or for want of a better word, stubborn. They'll still think they're a chance.

 

[Z_K]

Can't just occupy the crease for 2 days with Flintoff in the attack and that smug w***er bowling spin out of those foot marks. As best you can, you have to simply pretend it's day one and bat at a pace that is as natural as possible.

 

[mark73]

Can't just occupy the crease for 2 days with Flintoff in the attack and that smug w***er bowling spin out of those foot marks. As best you can, you have to simply pretend it's day one and bat at a pace that is as natural as possible.

Of course you can. Just use the Merv Hughes approach to batting - put the bat where you think the ball is going and stub it into the ground. We've no hope of winning this match, but I see no reason to lose the Ashes. Annoy the shit out of them, take some initiative. If anything, it's bound to produce some anger influenced bowling, then they can hit out.

Wishful thinking?

 

[DarwinRoo]

The pitch is fine, modern batsman cannot knuckle down to save their life. Australia are 0/80 off 20 overs, pitch is good enough, Australia threw their wickets away as they usually do.

Broad will be very good. If you lose or draw this game, we go number 1

Michael Holding said the pitch was shit.

 

[CrazyQ]

Australia are 2/171.

Holding is wrong.

 

[DarwinRoo]

His pubes know more about cricket than you. If he says it's a shit pitch, it is a shit pitch.

 

[CrazyQ]

His pubes know more about cricket than you. If he says it's a shit pitch, it is a shit pitch.

****, people like you shit me. Yes he was a very good cricketer, but he's easily wrong on this subject. The pitch is good enough if you're good enough. Australia were impatient and batted shit, England bowled well. Australia then bowled shit (again) and England punished them.

England scored at about 7 an over at one stage.

Australia are 2/171. Pitch is good enough.

Aussies just making excuses.

 

[DarwinRoo]

****, people like you shit me. Yes he was a very good cricketer, but he's easily wrong on this subject. The pitch is good enough if you're good enough. Australia were impatient and batted shit, England bowled well. Australia then bowled shit (again) and England punished them.

England scored at about 7 an over at one stage.

Australia are 2/171. Pitch is good enough.

Aussies just making excuses.

How is he easily wrong? In the early days of Telstra Dome the surface was shit house and there would have been some great games played on it but does that mean ground wasn't shithouse?

The pitch is shit.

 

[CrazyQ]

What the **** are you on about?

The main problem on this pitch was it would make batting hard. 400 runs were scored yesterday and only 6 wickets lost. England made over 300 twice and Australia could make 400.

Australia, if they lose the game, lost it when they batted shit.

Excuses, excuses....excuses.

 

[Rick18]

Pitch isn't that bad. Problem is that people are used to seeing roads so the minute there's a surface with just a tiny bit in it everyone proclaims it's a minefield.

 

[CrazyQ]

Pitch isn't that bad. Problem is that people are used to seeing roads so the minute there's a surface with just a tiny bit in it everyone proclaims it's a minefield.

Exactly. Batsmen have it all now.

They shit themselves when they have to try.

 

[DarwinRoo]

What the **** are you on about?

The main problem on this pitch was it would make batting hard. 400 runs were scored yesterday and only 6 wickets lost. England made over 300 twice and Australia could make 400.

Australia, if they lose the game, lost it when they batted shit.

Excuses, excuses....excuses.

Was that too logical for you?

Just because runs are scored on it doesn't make it a great pitch. If cricketing experts think it is shit then it is shit.

 

[CrazyQ]

Was that too logical for you?

Just because runs are scored on it doesn't make it a great pitch. If cricketing experts think it is shit then it is shit.

FFS.

1. Runs are being scored at 7 an over during England's innings
2. 1st 3rd and 4th innings, runs have been scored pretty freely
3. Half the bowlers cant produce swing or bowl well
4. Pitch is fine
5. Holding is irrelevant

 

[DarwinRoo]

6. South Africa are still No. 2 in the world.

 

[CrazyQ]

I'm bookmarking your post.

Ponting the shit **** out.

 

[DarwinRoo]

Good for you.

7. North Melbourne >> Essendon

 

[CrazyQ]

Have a sook.

Clarke out.

Here come RSA.

 

[DarwinRoo]

Have a sook.

Clarke out.

Here come RSA.

Who is the one sooking?

England doing something that South Africa can't.

 

[CrazyQ]

Who is the one sooking?

England doing something that South Africa can't.

We beat you at your own house.

England cant do that. Infact no team has done it for 16 years.

Sook it up baby, as of tonight, we will be the number 1 ranked team and number 1 form team.

Australia are finished.

 

[DarwinRoo]

We beat you at your own house.

England cant do that. Infact no team has done it for 16 years.

Sook it up baby, as of tonight, we will be the number 1 ranked team and number 1 form team.

Australia are finished.

And then couldn't back it up.

Should I prepare for the whinging and excuses as to why you didn't win the return series?

 

[CrazyQ]

We couldnt back it up, but you didnt beat us at your home. Call it even.

Over the last 2 years (Even though we havent lost a test besides the Aussie one in 4 years) we have better form.

Rankings will show that.

 

[BlueRoos]

We beat you at your own house.

England cant do that. Infact no team has done it for 16 years.

Sook it up baby, as of tonight, we will be the number 1 ranked team and number 1 form team.

Australia are finished.

you get the no.1 ranking by sitting on your asses in South Africa. Only the ICC's magical cricket formula can come up with that.

South Africa are a fine side and a joy to watch. But the form side? They lost their last series? Australia should use that line when the Ashes draws to its inevitable conclusion.

 

[DarwinRoo]

you get the no.1 ranking by sitting on your asses in South Africa. Only the ICC's magical cricket formula can come up with that.

South Africa are a fine side and a joy to watch. But the form side? They lost their last series? Australia should use that line when the Ashes draws to its inevitable conclusion.

South Africa = Jelena Jankovic