STEVIE B

....The amount of driver's that somehow manage to drive around in the evening without lights on. How is it even possible ?

There was a Dutch football expert talking about RVN on TalkSport recently. He said he is very mindful of having an organised, solid defence. We will see !

To a degree. Unfortunately we rarely win Test match series away in India, Australia or West Indies & just lost in Pakistan.. England need to start doing a bit better abroad, hopefully winning this series in NZ kickstarts something. For me, we have a bit of an obsession with The Ashes, especially away from home, where we generally get humiliated. We should go all out to beat other sides too.

Morrissey ?

England's arrogant approach will generally go 2 ways. All out for 160 on a green top, as this will probably end up, or 500+ on a flat track. Surely 'bazball' can be tweaked or tempered to the type of wicket or state of the game. Yes, it’s generally exciting, but becoming too predictable.

As long as Belgium keep picking him he'll always have a swagger, be arrogant & believe he's better than he is. Surely they will drop him pretty soon based on his performances for us.

He would destroy it now !

Wow. 3-3. Reading down to 10 men. Extended highlights on BBC at 6.

Reading down to 10 men.

The thing is, most people gauge being successful differently. I suppose staying up this season will probably be a start, then become a steady, established mid-table side, maybe a cup run occasionally. That’s probably my take. Maybe some would see that as having no ambition & we should be pushing for top 6 year on year. It’s a tricky one.

NZ look a shadow of the side that won in India. The bowling looks very average at best....obviously they will now win this series 2-1 !

Never been to NZ, but have been fortunate enough to see England play twice in South Africa & Barbados, also managed a trip to Zimbabwe in 1996. Have met some great people. Thoroughly recommend it to anyone with an interest in cricket/travelling etc.

No chance Carsley takes it. He doesn't like & struggles with media attention. This was all very clear during his brief stint with England recently. No way would he want the scrutiny on a weekly basis.

Fontaines D.C tonight in Nottingham. Should be good.

I heard David Lloyd talking earlier. He was saying the Tests are being played on drop in pitches. These apparently dry out very quickly, so maybe NZ is much different than it was. 3 is still too many, especially when Root is more than handy.

Looking forward to TalkSport saying we should have given him more time & should be thankful we had him. They (& media in general) are so out of touch with clubs below the top 6/8. Can't wait.

We had very little choice due to our financial position. Obviously that has now changed. We should be in a better place now regarding choice & applications.

Yes. It will keep happening unless something is addressed. The sooner the greedy big fish bugger of to a European League the better, although that is possibly a different issue.

This has been mentioned by various pundits etc. They literally do no research, totally forgetting about Wes Morgan & O'Neill.

Absolutely ridiculous.....it's have

....Was a cracking ball through from Kane though & a decent pen tbf. I'm all for him being 'rested' more than he is, but credit where it's due....

It basically means we end up losing to teams such as Portugal, France, Spain, Germany & Netherlands etc & probably end up back where we are now.

Tbf, only the American's like the English from my experience !

I will never understand why anyone boos a national anthem. Maybe I'm old school, but why bother ?

Roll ? My mum is originally from Desborough (she soon escaped !), l recall her using that pronunciation many times.