The Ashes

STEED · 11-21-06, 06:52 PM

Congratulations to Australia for wining back the ashes.

May as well get it over with, England players don't look like they are up to it and there performance has been like a wet weekend in Manchester.

bookworm_020 · 11-21-06, 07:54 PM

I won't celebrate untill Australia lifts the urn in triumph at the end of the final test match.

My Brother in law would want to shoot you on the spot as he has ahd great fun in reminding us who won the ashes last time, and I don't think he wants to give it up! (he's English, but I forgive him for it!

)

You never know, we thought we would wipe the floor with the English, but got thumpted well and truly!

(They played better by a clear margin)

Time to go get plasted

diver · 11-21-06, 08:40 PM

This has to be the most anticipated Test series of all time (well at least since the very first Ashes after the death of English cricket).

Boxing Day test at the MCG will be HUGE!!!

C'mon Aussie C'mon (C'mon)

bookworm_020 · 11-21-06, 09:44 PM

Did you get tickets????

If you did, your a lucky B!@%$&#!

Tried for some here in Sydney, but no joy. I've never seen so much intrest in an Ashes series in Australia.

Can't wait for it to start, the Barmy army needs taking down a peg or two!

TarJak · 11-22-06, 02:14 AM

Steed, I wouldn't chuck the towel in too fast. While' I'm hoping for a return of the copy of the ashes to its tradtional home (the real ones stay in England except for the occasional promitional tour), I think it will be a lot closer than some might think.

I also had a hard time from my brother-in-law and father-in-law last year. Being married to a pom can be hard at times.

SteveW1 · 11-22-06, 05:16 AM

Hopefully the aussies will put up a better fight this time round,

If they dont win the first test maybe we should send in the PM IX to beat the english again.

cmon aussies

diver · 11-22-06, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by bookworm_020

Did you get tickets????

If you did, your a lucky B!@%$&#!

Tried for some here in Sydney, but no joy. I've never seen so much intrest in an Ashes series in Australia.

Can't wait for it to start, the Barmy army needs taking down a peg or two!

Nah but I think theres still a few left for the later days of the Melbourne test, the benefit of having a ground that could potentially get a crowd of half a million for a test match.

STEED · 11-22-06, 06:45 PM

Watch out for that Barny army they eat raw meat.

lesrae · 11-22-06, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by STEED

Congratulations to Australia for wining back the ashes.

May as well get it over with, England players don't look like they are up to it and there performance has been like a wet weekend in Manchester.

For Christ's sake cheer up man

STEED · 11-22-06, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by lesrae

cheer up man

Bloody cheek

Hey Marvin kid how you been, parking cars. :hmm:

bookworm_020 · 11-22-06, 06:42 PM

Here we go, here we go, here we go! Can't wait to see how the first test goes. Lets hope for a good fight from both sides (with the Aussies winning!)

STEED · 12-18-06, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by STEED

Congratulations to Australia for wining back the ashes.

May as well get it over with, England players don't look like they are up to it and there performance has been like a wet weekend in Manchester.

STEED has a big grin on his face and a smug look.

England tried to stop the Australian bulldozer with a pea shooter and lost, they could not even defend the ashes if they tried. Hang on they did

the time has come to sack Duncan Fletcher as coach and have two league tables, England top of the second league ahead of the rest of the world and in the first league all on there own and top of the world Australia.

Moving on to the last two games England had better win them or it will be a double blow ending in a white wash.

horsa · 12-18-06, 08:38 AM

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England tried to stop the Australian bulldozer with a pea shooter and lost, they could not even defend the ashes if they tried.

Come on , they could do with a bit more support than that. Dismissive generalisations sound great for crowd pleasing, but they don't do justice to the likes of Collingwood, Pietersen, Panesar, Hoggard and various others. The balance between winning and losing is a very fine one and in this case it was badly upset by several factors including some bad selection, muddled preparation, untimely absences and injuries, and a very strong Australian team, on song, and playing in their own back yard.

Talk of “sack Fletcher” doesn’t solve anything either . He is still a very fine coach that England could do well to hang on to. Yes he has made mistakes, particularly with selection ( not his prime role) and arguably the preparation, but he has also had to oversee a damaging succession of disruptions which included the loss of its Ashes winning captain.

Konovalov · 12-18-06, 08:51 AM

Well said Horsa.

I'm waiting for the panick merchants in this country to sound off again on how English cricket is broke and that there needs to be radical changes made to the way the game is run in the UK. Sack the coach, sack the ECB, and on and on and on. There is no need for all the doom and gloom. Horsa has it spot on. I hope that for the sake of English cricket and indeed world cricket, that the powers that be listen to those with the thoughtful, objective, and accurate opinion such as the likes of horsa and not to the panick doom and gloom types that come out of the woodwork when anything goes wrong.

Can you believe that an Australian living in the UK is saying this?

STEED · 12-18-06, 08:59 AM

England faced the best in the world and they should have put up a better fight but they did not and they paid the price for it.

By the way, I am not saying sack the team but it's time for them to improve in there training a good start would be are weak tail end get that sorted out.

11-21-06, 06:52 PM	#1
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	The Ashes (The Cricket Thread) Congratulations to Australia for wining back the ashes. May as well get it over with, England players don't look like they are up to it and there performance has been like a wet weekend in Manchester. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT! Last edited by STEED; 02-12-07 at 05:18 AM.

11-21-06, 07:54 PM	#2
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	I won't celebrate untill Australia lifts the urn in triumph at the end of the final test match. My Brother in law would want to shoot you on the spot as he has ahd great fun in reminding us who won the ashes last time, and I don't think he wants to give it up! (he's English, but I forgive him for it!) You never know, we thought we would wipe the floor with the English, but got thumpted well and truly! (They played better by a clear margin) Time to go get plasted __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"

11-21-06, 09:44 PM	#4
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Did you get tickets???? If you did, your a lucky B!@%$&#! Tried for some here in Sydney, but no joy. I've never seen so much intrest in an Ashes series in Australia. Can't wait for it to start, the Barmy army needs taking down a peg or two! __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"

11-22-06, 05:16 AM	#6
SteveW1 Watch Officer Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 331 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 0	Hopefully the aussies will put up a better fight this time round, If they dont win the first test maybe we should send in the PM IX to beat the english again. cmon aussies __________________

11-22-06, 06:45 PM	#8
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	Watch out for that Barny army they eat raw meat. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

11-21-06, 08:40 PM	#3
diver Engineer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 213 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	This has to be the most anticipated Test series of all time (well at least since the very first Ashes after the death of English cricket). Boxing Day test at the MCG will be HUGE!!! C'mon Aussie C'mon (C'mon)

11-22-06, 02:14 AM	#5
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	Steed, I wouldn't chuck the towel in too fast. While' I'm hoping for a return of the copy of the ashes to its tradtional home (the real ones stay in England except for the occasional promitional tour), I think it will be a lot closer than some might think. I also had a hard time from my brother-in-law and father-in-law last year. Being married to a pom can be hard at times.

11-22-06, 06:42 PM	#11
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Here we go, here we go, here we go! Can't wait to see how the first test goes. Lets hope for a good fight from both sides (with the Aussies winning!) __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"

12-18-06, 08:51 AM	#14
Konovalov Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: High Wycombe, Bucks, UK Posts: 2,811 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Well said Horsa. I'm waiting for the panick merchants in this country to sound off again on how English cricket is broke and that there needs to be radical changes made to the way the game is run in the UK. Sack the coach, sack the ECB, and on and on and on. There is no need for all the doom and gloom. Horsa has it spot on. I hope that for the sake of English cricket and indeed world cricket, that the powers that be listen to those with the thoughtful, objective, and accurate opinion such as the likes of horsa and not to the panick doom and gloom types that come out of the woodwork when anything goes wrong. Can you believe that an Australian living in the UK is saying this? __________________ "In a Christian context, sexuality is traditionally seen as a consequence of the Fall, but for Muslims, it is an anticipation of paradise. So I can say, I think, that I was validly converted to Islam by a teenage French Jewish nudist." Sheikh Abdul-Hakim Murad (Timothy Winter)

12-18-06, 08:59 AM	#15
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	England faced the best in the world and they should have put up a better fight but they did not and they paid the price for it. By the way, I am not saying sack the team but it's time for them to improve in there training a good start would be are weak tail end get that sorted out. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!