The Ashes 25/26

[Staff]

What the actual feck is going on here 

[STEVIE B]

Lose this game & the scars will last for some time. 

[Ted Maul]

Two days in a row, I get up and dressed, head downstairs and put the kettle and TV on just as we somehow lose our third wicket since I last checked the score 5 minutes before. 

[Jon the Hat]

If you just got up, I’d go back to sleep.

[Staff]

4 minutes ago, PhillippaT said:

Sorry guys - it's all my fault - I swapped to the cricket after the F1, and... Oops.  

Please go back to the f1 or anything else 😂

[The Year Of The Fox]

Just now, Ted Maul said:

Two days in a row, I get up and dressed, head downstairs and put the kettle and TV on just as we somehow lose our third wicket since I last checked the score 5 minutes before. 

Do us a favour next time then.

Edited 22 November 2025 by The Year Of The Fox

[Ted Maul]

You'd think we would just reign in the expansive drives a bit when things get tough. 

[STEVIE B]

......Can we bat for longer than the 1st dig, 32.5 overs ? 50/50.

I know it's a bouncy track, but we look like rabbits caught in headlights. 

[eddylcfc]

It’s a really odd approach given our ‘bazball’ has tempered slightly in the last 12 months or so. There were signs our top order had found that happy medium.

 

Seems an odd time to revert back against this attack and on this pitch.

 

Hard to see Australia being rolled twice so fearful we have thrown this away!

[Ted Maul]

This might not make day 3.

[STEVIE B]

10 minutes ago, eddylcfc said:

It’s a really odd approach given our ‘bazball’ has tempered slightly in the last 12 months or so. There were signs our top order had found that happy medium.

 

Seems an odd time to revert back against this attack and on this pitch.

 

Hard to see Australia being rolled twice so fearful we have thrown this away!

Lose this & l really can see a 5-0 incoming. Any confidence will just melt away. 

[eddylcfc]

Just now, STEVIE B said:

Lose this & l really can see a 5-0 incoming. Any confidence will just melt away. 

Agreed. With Cummins and Hazelwood back too… 

 

And Lyon who will play a bigger role…

 

Have to give Starc credit. He was the one of the main three who I thought would start to show decline, but he’s been superb.

[Super_horns]

Lead near 200 will probably be enough at this rate .

 

Bowlers have exploited the conditions and poor batting atm .

Edited 22 November 2025 by Super_horns

[trabuch]

Not out

[AKCJ]

****ing hell England.

[Tommy Fresh]

No bigger a spike than the Australian one yesterday

[AKCJ]

Not sure why its taking the TV Ump so long?

[trabuch]

Just now, Tommy Fresh said:

No bigger a spike than the Australian one yesterday

Exactly

[smudger63]

13 minutes ago, STEVIE B said:

Lose this & l really can see a 5-0 incoming. Any confidence will just melt away. 

Yes and once again those at the top will be blaming the county game, and call for less county's to "make the competition stronger". Even though most of these players have hardly played any county cricket over the last few years. They're much too busy being rested and playing golf. 

[AKCJ]

That's a woeful decision.

[Tommy Fresh]

**** off  that's mental when the one yesterday wasn't given and looked exactly the same

[trabuch]

Smith shouldn't have started to walk.

[eddylcfc]

With the evidence, and on field decision of not out - how is that conclusive enough to overturn? Particularly given the decision yesterday. 
 

 

[ealingfox]

So they couldn't give the Labuschagne one yesterday but that was enough to overturn a not out decision? **** off.

 

There's our excuse for taking the moral victory at least. 1-0 England 

[Super_horns]

8 minutes ago, eddylcfc said:

With the evidence, and on field decision of not out - how is that conclusive enough to overturn? Particularly given the decision yesterday. 
 

 

Michael Vaughan reckons Smith’s  reaction gave it away or suggested he was out .

 

But definitely wasn’t conclusive at all .

Edited 22 November 2025 by Super_horns