Ashes 2017

[Guest MattP]

33 minutes ago, m4DD0gg said:

Get a grip, that prat needs to get sent down.

 

Cant control himself after a few beers and is ginger to boot.

 

ECB need to sort themselves our rather than sucking uncle ruperts cock.......some coincidence he rocks up in NZ eh.

Why is it a coincidence? His parents live there, he was born there and it's the place to go to get some competitive cricket at the minute. 

 

Uncle Rupert?

[leicsmac]

1 hour ago, m4DD0gg said:

Get a grip, that prat needs to get sent down.

 

Cant control himself after a few beers and is ginger to boot.

 

ECB need to sort themselves our rather than sucking uncle ruperts cock.......some coincidence he rocks up in NZ eh.

If some accounts are true he gave a homophobic bigot a piece of his mind...were it up to me he'd be in the side without any further ado. But it isn't, so let's see what happens.

 

Also (something I'm happy about) the ECB aren't getting Murdochs money anymore - will be interesting to see if that effects the landscape with Clarke et al.

[m4DD0gg]

40 minutes ago, MattP said:

Why is it a coincidence? His parents live there, he was born there and it's the place to go to get some competitive cricket at the minute. 

 

Uncle Rupert?

 

11 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

If some accounts are true he gave a homophobic bigot a piece of his mind...were it up to me he'd be in the side without any further ado. But it isn't, so let's see what happens.

 

Also (something I'm happy about) the ECB aren't getting Murdochs money anymore - will be interesting to see if that effects the landscape with Clarke et al.

Regardless of whether these 'accounts' are true the bloke committed ABH, what sort of example is it to set by bringing him into the team. Hope he goes down personally.

[leicsmac]

4 minutes ago, m4DD0gg said:

 

Regardless of whether these 'accounts' are true the bloke committed ABH, what sort of example is it to set by bringing him into the team. Hope he goes down personally.

I guess we'll see.

 

In any case, the CPS are officially dragging their feet on this one so it looks like he's not going to be involved in the series anyway.

[GaelicFox]

4 hours ago, m4DD0gg said:

Get a grip, that prat needs to get sent down.

 

Cant control himself after a few beers and is ginger to boot.

 

ECB need to sort themselves our rather than sucking uncle ruperts cock.......some coincidence he rocks up in NZ eh.

 

 

nuts 

[GaelicFox]

3 hours ago, m4DD0gg said:

 

Regardless of whether these 'accounts' are true the bloke committed ABH, what sort of example is it to set by bringing him into the team. Hope he goes down personally.

Bore off 

[m4DD0gg]

23 minutes ago, GaelicFox said:

 

 

nuts 

 

22 minutes ago, GaelicFox said:

Bore off 

Might be how it goes down on the camp site but not in the real world.

[Guest MattP]

16 hours ago, m4DD0gg said:

Regardless of whether these 'accounts' are true the bloke committed ABH, what sort of example is it to set by bringing him into the team. Hope he goes down personally.

Surely he's innocent until proven guilty? Our best player is currently missing the most important series of his life and it might be for nothing.

 

Still wondering what the Uncle Rupert stuff was about? Unfortunately the Ashes was purchased by BT Sport so we now have to watch substandard coverage of probably the greatest sporting event in the World.

[Voll Blau]

18 hours ago, m4DD0gg said:

 

Regardless of whether these 'accounts' are true the bloke committed ABH, what sort of example is it to set by bringing him into the team. Hope he goes down personally.

What an odd wish to have.

[Guest MattP]

No Crane in the 12, Overton set to come in for Ball.

 

Relying on swing with pink ball to win this match. 

[Super_horns]

Have the Aussies managed to get under the skin of Joe Root over the Bairstow incident?

 

That might be exactly what they wanted to do - unsettle our main man.

[Guest MattP]

I don't get all this coming from Root about "not getting down to their level" - it's the Ashes - expect some serious sledging.

 

This team looks a bit mentally weak at the minute, they might need to man up a bit. When I look at Root, Malan, Ali, Woakes and Vince we look a bit puny and timid, which the last team that went to Australia and won certainly weren't.

Edited 1 December 2017 by MattP

[purpleronnie]

1 hour ago, MattP said:

I don't get all this coming from Root about "not getting down to their level" - it's the Ashes - expect some serious sledging.

 

This team looks a bit mentally weak at the minute, they might need to man up a bit. When I look at Root, Malan, Ali, Woakes and Vince we look a bit puny and timid, which the last team that went to Australia and won certainly weren't.

Totally agree, its time to get a bit nasty on and off the field.

[sm1]

Not sure how anybody can defend Stokes actions. Initially he threw about a dozen punches, but the last punch is pure thuggery. The man is walking backwards with his hands raised in a surrender position and Stokes walks upto him and punches him in the face knocking him heavily to the ground. This man could've suffered serious brain injury or even death, thank god he's fine. A friend of mine was attacked and with a single punch his head hit the curb and he suffered massive brain injury, eventually leading to his death. There's blatant CCTV footage of all of this. Alcohol or not there's no justification for that last punch.

[Captain...]

1 hour ago, sm1 said:

Not sure how anybody can defend Stokes actions. Initially he threw about a dozen punches, but the last punch is pure thuggery. The man is walking backwards with his hands raised in a surrender position and Stokes walks upto him and punches him in the face knocking him heavily to the ground. This man could've suffered serious brain injury or even death, thank god he's fine. A friend of mine was attacked and with a single punch his head hit the curb and he suffered massive brain injury, eventually leading to his death. There's blatant CCTV footage of all of this. Alcohol or not there's no justification for that last punch.

I agree, I watched the video and the first bit is all a bit inconclusive, one guy is being aggressor, Stokes fights back and it is a bit of a scrap, but not really Stokes' fault.  When he goes after the other guy and knocks him out, that's when he goes too far, and it can't be justified.

[Guest MattP]

Nothing much is making sense here, 5 live saying it's possible we'll still play Ali as a batsman even if he can't bowl in this test. If that's the case Crane has to play. Has a side ever played in Adelaide without a spinner? 

 

Also, why are we batting Bairstow at 7 on the basis that "he bats well with the tail?" - he's probably the 3rd best bat in the side and we have him now on 30* having to give his wicket away as it doesn't take a genius to realise our tail isnt going last too long against this pace attack.....

[Hirsty The Blue 94]

5 hours ago, MattP said:

Nothing much is making sense here, 5 live saying it's possible we'll still play Ali as a batsman even if he can't bowl in this test. If that's the case Crane has to play. Has a side ever played in Adelaide without a spinner? 

 

Also, why are we batting Bairstow at 7 on the basis that "he bats well with the tail?" - he's probably the 3rd best bat in the side and we have him now on 30* having to give his wicket away as it doesn't take a genius to realise our tail isnt going last too long against this pace attack.....

I read that this morning, seems like muddled thinking. I know that the conditions will suit the seamers because of the pink ball and what not, but to have Root as your only spin option really isn't enough at this level. Ali is a better bat than Ballance without doubt so shouldn't be dropped, but not having another spinner in seems strange. This is where we miss Stokes the most, you could get away with picking 1 less seamer if he were in the team and not weaken your bowling attack, and ensure the batting is solid.

 

Bairstow should be at 6, Ali 7. Bairstow is a proper batsman, leaving him to have to hang around with the tail who can't play the short ball is useless. Ali is a better option because he will throw the willow at it anyway, so he isn't really adapting his game.

 

I'm hoping to wake up tomorrow to Cook & Stoneman batting, as that would mean they have either put on a massive stand for the 1st wicket, or we have rolled the aussies over. Not sure which is more unlikely at this point.

[Bert]

15 hours ago, MattP said:

Surely he's innocent until proven guilty? Our best player is currently missing the most important series of his life and it might be for nothing.

 

Still wondering what the Uncle Rupert stuff was about? Unfortunately the Ashes was purchased by BT Sport so we now have to watch substandard coverage of probably the greatest sporting event in the World.

By law, yep. But everyone has seen what he's done and it's quite clear that he's guilty of ABH. 

 

Personally think he should be involved as well as thinking Andrew Strauss is a complete and utter bellend. The ECB are very similar if not worse than the FA on trying to keep a squeaky clean image. 

[Bert]

7 hours ago, MattP said:

Nothing much is making sense here, 5 live saying it's possible we'll still play Ali as a batsman even if he can't bowl in this test. If that's the case Crane has to play. Has a side ever played in Adelaide without a spinner? 

 

Also, why are we batting Bairstow at 7 on the basis that "he bats well with the tail?" - he's probably the 3rd best bat in the side and we have him now on 30* having to give his wicket away as it doesn't take a genius to realise our tail isnt going last too long against this pace attack.....

Bairstow should be in at 5 or 6, we are wasting one of our bast batters and putting extra pressure putting him at 7. We need him to be able to build a partnership with someone that can get a big score, not stick around with the tail. 

[Guest MattP]

Bowling first in Adelaide, strange 

[STEVIE B]

4 hours ago, MattP said:

Bowling first in Adelaide, strange 

Seems like Root was influenced by the early overhead conditions. Haven’t really bowled full enough to take advantage. We also miss a 90 mph tear away bowler 

[Guest MattP]

Nothing on the pitch at all and we are dropping catches again.

[Izzy]

We’re gonna lose this test too aren’t we 

[Lionator]

We're not going to get close to these in any of the tests, our bowlers are too pedestrian.

[Guest MattP]

Next two hours are huge, floodlights and sunset. If the ball is going to do anything it's this session.