The Ashes are here!

[Damo1977]

Originally Posted by Beery

Boo-hoo! Grab a tissue and have a good cry about it.

I am too poor to have tissues with the taxes we pay for the English Royal family to have holidays here, I have to use toilet paper!

Originally Posted by Beery

Surely Australia is free of the colonial yoke by now. I mean you got your independence ages ago. Surely you play with the big boys these days, and surely there's no 'allow' about it. Adults make agreements, and England is no longer the world's playground bully, so if Australia only gets a copy of the urn/trophy thingy, the Aussies must have agreed to that. If Australia was a child among the nations of the world you might have a point, but otherwise this part of your post just sounds petulant. I thought we poms were supposed to be the whingers. I mean in 18 months, when you Australians win the Ashes back, if I come on here with a similar attitude to the above quote, I'd never hear the end of it, and deservedly so.

Colonial yoke? pfffffffft But we are a child among nations, we are only 200yrs old well 217 to be precise. (only 104 of those is officially Australia). WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH give us the Urn!!!

On a serious note, we only let you poms win so people wouldn't lose interest in cricket.