Lionator

From that squad Patel Budinger Masood Handscomb Hill Cox Trevaskis Mike Scriven Wood Green Bat deep. Young guns in too.

I know we want to do well and we will with that batting line up but I think it’s really important that we see Wood and Green playing most games even if they get knocked around a bit. Long term development is just as important.

Australia will be a real test of how far he’s come as the pace and bounce of the pitches, should in theory show his weaknesses that we saw in the second innings of this test. If he can avoid that, then he’s onto a winner. Great lad too .

They would be the select others, which kinda shows the problem is that our bowlers just haven’t been good enough in long spells.

Don’t think England have been too bad in terms of attitude, the real issue this series is aside from Root, Stokes and others and very rare occasions, we’re just not that good.

One person nobody seems to talk about anymore is Matt Potts, I think he’d have been great this series

Far worse than Wrexham for me, at least their two owners are a tiny bit funny. Brady is just a weirdo and the delusions of grandeur are off the scale.

I always think that when you have to promote the ‘truth’ about something, it’s usually to justify your inhumane actions ie. Israel and Russia. If there is a group being marginalised (LGBT+, Gazan’s, Ukrainians) then solidarity is fine. This is not that. This has absolutely no place in a football stadium. It’s pure propaganda.

Another one who’s mates with Ballague 🥹

I think you’re thinking of Akil who runs the line on the prem

Is this close to their first team?

This game is done. Once these two are in, they’re impossible to get out. They had their chance and Siraj blew it.

A front 4 of BEK, Mav, Fatawu and Ayew would destroy most championship teams, let not beat around the bush.

Love Brook but his luck is a joke

Nothing makes sense, on one hand NASA and the Russian equivalent are meeting on great space project terms, Witkoff is in Moscow and Rubio talks nicely about Lavrov. On the other hand Trump does this. At least with Biden you knew both sides hated each other. It’s all theatre for these guys. I bet they’ll cut a deal on Ukraine soon enough, or we all die.

How the hell did Ghana not qualify for a 24 team AFCON

Means we need 21 points from our final 3 games to secure promotion. Means we could technically lose every game and still get promoted. One win will do it, as would two draws.

They should declare, let us get a quick 100, then set them 150 off the last 20 overs of the day.

Not sure where these rumours are from, he was a sub at Derby last week. He’s being rested for the final championship games where he’ll be keeper after Handscomb leaves. It’s just that the pitches have meant we need an extra bowling option and Cox is sadly the most credible person to drop

Don’t wanna be all “pay nurses footballers wages” but they’re hardly asking Eric from the war torn Democratic republic of Congo to stump up for the ritz are they?

Wow Tongue is basically me but 30mph quicker

England selectors might have a sigh of relief if this rules Woakes out of the ashes. Sad for him ofc.

LCFC and SWFC fans when somebody mentions ‘points deductions’

I’m sure there’s a catch and it’s a shame it’s due to the hundred but this sounds very optimistic. Incidentally Gould has always seemed to have a thing for us from when he was at Surrey, always bigged us up and stood up for the other smaller counties. So it’s probably a good thing he’s the current CEO at this important moment.

That’s what makes it dangerous. Finally we see a decent pitch in this series. Reckon the Indian bowlers should be able to cause issues too