The Ashes are here!

[Lamarck]

Originally Posted by Jace11

Beery, you may be able to get Test Match Special radio commentary over the internet. I know the BBC make it available online.. I actually listen to it while having the sound down on the telly.

Jace11,

I'm afraid you won't be able to listen to the radio while watching the TV once it's on Sky next year - there's a couple of seconds delay on their transmissions. I found out while watching Channel 4 through our Sky system. The radio tells you what's happened before you see it on the TV!

Fantastic series, though. Put simply, the Aussies were knocked backwards by our attacking cricket and self-confidence, all reinforced by Vaughn's clear tactical supremacy over Ponting. Never mind them playing below par - we didn't let them play well.

I really hope Sky give Simon Hughes a job. His analysis adds so much to the viewer's understanding and enjoyment of the game.

[Damo1977]

Look at the happy English supporters!! Looks like there will be a population increase in England!

[mog]

Originally Posted by Lamarck

Fantastic series, though. Put simply, the Aussies were knocked backwards by our attacking cricket and self-confidence, all reinforced by Vaughn's clear tactical supremacy over Ponting. Never mind them playing below par - we didn't let them play well.

True to a large extent, especially regarding Ponting being tactically outclassed, but one look at Australia's results against Bangladesh and various county sides suggests there was more to the Ashes loss than England's game.

[mog]

Originally Posted by Damo1977

I say "Ponting gotta go". First because of his pathetic tactics the whole english summer and also Us Waugh fans still remember his smart arse comments when Steve Waugh retired

I don't think Shane Warne should ever have been ditched as captain in the first place. I don't care what he does off the field, there is no doubt he is a cricketing genius. This system where Ponting is officially captain while everyone including Ponting turns to Warne for advice is an inherently flawed one.

[Damo1977]

Originally Posted by mog

This system where Ponting is officially captain while everyone including Ponting turns to Warne for advice is an inherently flawed one.

I agree with that.....Warne has a brilliant cricketing mind. Even they he is a nutcase off the field, it shouldn't factor into his 'Day job'.

[Beery]

Originally Posted by Damo1977

Congrats to the English team!!! But you are still officially Number 2.

Blimey, talk about a back-handed compliment. 'Well done for beating us, but it's not a real victory' - is that it?

Who has the Ashes?

LOL.

Heck, the Aussies beat us most of the time. I think maybe you could be a bit more magnanimous on one of the few occasions when we do win. Or is sportsmanship and fair play completely dead?

We will be Back !

Congrats to the Brits, well done.

Ya saucy sods

[Damo1977]

Originally Posted by Beery

Who has the Ashes?

LOL.

Heck, the Aussies beat us most of the time. I think maybe you could be a bit more magnanimous on one of the few occasions when we do win. Or is sportsmanship and fair play completely dead?

You lot always have the Ashes, you never ever allow us to take them home when we win a series. But we are so thankful that you English 'allow' us to have a replica to take home.....

Sportsmanship and fair play? Pfffffffft Thats what lost us the ashes.... :hmm: Just if we could clone Steve Waugh, 'sportsmanship and fair play' would be extinct.

[Jace11]

I for one didn't know our erstwhile SH3 mod manager Beery was even english, I thought he was a yank with a strange cricket fixation or a thing for men in white. You live and learn..

[Beery]

Originally Posted by Damo1977

Sportsmanship and fair play? Pfffffffft Thats what lost us the ashes.... :hmm: Just if we could clone Steve Waugh, 'sportsmanship and fair play' would be extinct.

Hmm. I thought sportsmanship and fair play were particularly Australian character traits - or at least it's part of your national myth that they are. I thought you prided yourselves on such things. I guess it just goes to prove that national myths and reality coincide infrequently. But is winning at any cost really winning? I'm not so sure.

[Beery]

Originally Posted by Damo1977

You lot always have the Ashes, you never ever allow us to take them home when we win a series. But we are so thankful that you English 'allow' us to have a replica to take home.......

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

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.

I'm an Expat Brit Living in Australia. I have served both countrys in their respective Defence Force's. I always back Australia and the UK in any International Arena. So when its Australia V'S England all I ask for is a damn good contest and be damned who wins

I'm glad in away that English cricket is on the rise ( Finaly ) but sad that it was at our expense. But the good thing is this will only make the Australian's more determind. Every so often a swift kick in the pants does wonders! I freely admit I'm not an avard cricket fan like some here, even after I use to play for Fremantle Mercantile. All that realy matters to me is that the Lads in white do the best they can on the day and lets all see a game of cricket at its best - Australia V's England. It dont get any better than that.

I'm fortunate that 2 of my mates are very close to some of the Legens of Australian Cricket. 1 was an A Grade Umpire and the other knows a few via the Fish an Tackel trade ( seems some of our lads are keen fisherman ). So on the rare occasion I bump into these living legends and even they agree, its been a long road for English cricket and its now good for Australia to have some 1 worthy come up to bat.

[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.

[Damo1977]

Originally Posted by Jace11

I for one didn't know our erstwhile SH3 mod manager Beery was even english, I thought he was a yank with a strange cricket fixation or a thing for men in white. You live and learn..

Yes I thought the exact thing except the thing about 'men in white'. Can you explain why that enter your mind? :rotfl:

[Damo1977]

Originally Posted by Cdr Gibs

I'm fortunate that 2 of my mates are very close to some of the Legens of Australian Cricket. 1 was an A Grade Umpire and the other knows a few via the Fish an Tackel trade ( seems some of our lads are keen fisherman ). So on the rare occasion I bump into these living legends and even they agree, its been a long road for English cricket and its now good for Australia to have some 1 worthy come up to bat.

An expat living in Australia,......... :hmm: who has a friend that knows an Aussie cricketers......... :hmm: ..... :hmm: ...we lost the Ashes :hmm: A.... :hmm: SPY is in our midst.....At last I have found the reason why we lost the Ashes, it wasn't because England played well, it was Cdr Gibs selling secrets.... :rotfl:


On a serious note... for Beery and other poms (pommie showers!! )
I hate to admit it but it was the best series ever that I have seen, and if we had to lose the Ashes, I must say that it couldn't have gone to a more worthwhile and spirited bunch of English cricketers