Lionator

Japan playing some seriously lovely football here by the way. Direct, quick, skilful, everything we’re not doing.

His actions have massively ramped up oil prices to be fair. Only idiots support his actions at this current moment.

Insane optics today, I don’t really know what to think of it aside from the silliness of global politics. https://english.alarabiya.net/amp/News/world/2026/03/31/uk-pm-keir-starmer-meets-syrian-president-alsharaa-in-london- This fella was head of Al Nusra which on the scale of terror groups, isn’t quite ISIS but very much on a par with Al Qaeda. Now he’s sat in Downing Street with the PM.

Can’t he just do it by executive order?

Also pretty much all research indicates people make better decisions working 32-37 hours per week rather than more and certainly not 168 hours per week like some people on here seem to think.

I heard he also takes 7-8 hours off a day to sleep. Outrageous to be honest.

Nope, I overheard at the Leeds/Bradford game last week a conversation between Titch and someone I didn’t recognised and he was planned to get here on 1st April after the shield final. There’s no reason why Wetherald couldn’t jump on a plane with a days notice really. Visas aren’t really issues with Aussies.

It’s almost like Trump’s stupid and surrounded himself with sycophants. When you listen to Jim Mattis during his first term, you can see the restraint. Now you have lunatics like Hegseth running the show.

This forum be so funny when Ayew bags against England in June.

I would imagine Budinger probably. With Rehan at 4, Hill at 5 and Eskinazi at 6. Patel could easily bat at 3 too but you’d probably want that left/right combo at the start. We’re clearly going to play aggressively as it’s probably our best chance so I genuinely don’t think the order is as important as it would be for other teams. We also bat incredibly deep which I think should help us. Holland at 8, Green at 9, Davey/Scriven (FC averages 30) at 10 and Hull at 11.

Agree! Interesting that it says he’s coming to cement his place in the Australian team. Shows that a) he’s motivated b) Aussie selectors seem to rate the county championship higher than the England selectors do these days.

Same Aussie journalist that said Handscomb wasn’t coming.

So it’s actually Jake Weatherald that’s coming for the start of the season!

First class average in NZ (bowler friendly country) of 40 which is what we need. Though watch him do well in the first month and then immediately get called into the NZ team.

I don’t think it’s a weird obsession. It’s a story of an oppressed, vulnerable population standing against a much more powerful political adversary living under the threat and reality of destruction and displacement (West Bank) while the blame for the current mess can be placed on imperial Britain (Balfour declaration). It’s the perfect recipe for us lefties. It’s also why the Irish are so energised for Palestine because it’s literally a retelling of their own historical tale. And also remembering that history is subjective.

It’s odd that he talks about Islamism being bad but he overthrew Saddam, who was bad for Iraqi’s, but kept the extremist groups well and truly oppressed. Same with Gadaffi in Libya and now the same as Assad in Syria. All terrible people, replaced by even worse actual Islamic fundamentalists in massively destabilised countries. You could argue the same with Iran too. Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think we’ve ever seen a mass casualty attack in the west based upon Shia extremism. And these guys once again want to throw a match on a tinderbox.

I can’t remember which one but in one of the Tim Marshall books he talks about Iran and how it’s basically impossible to invade. And that was before the drone era. Look at the Russians, the only reason they can barely progress in Ukraine is because drones eat you alive.

Seems like they’re prepping for a ground invasion unfortunately, which would be absolutely insane btw. It would be a bloodbath.

Awful incident in Derby and a typically awful response on social media.

He’s basically been recalled into the one day stuff which wasn’t anticipated for when we first got him

SA have some quality batters and don’t have a test series all summer 👀

Sounds amicable, there must be a good reason. Hopefully he can find us a young Aussie who is ready to play on some decent batting wickets. Fingers crossed ECB let us play Rehan this week too.

Handscomb has pulled out of his contract according to the Aussie press for family reasons. Now obviously we don’t know what’s going on in his personal life but the timing is atrocious.

Late and high to be fair. Probably only debatable because the ball went in the stands.

Course we scored from a corner that shouldn’t have been haha