zacharias on 6/12/2006 at 09:49
haha, nice try...but even if he'd taken it a draw was probably still most likely as the aussies would've dug in 2nd innings.
It certainly wouldn't have meant england would certainly win.
Goblin on 6/12/2006 at 10:05
Your lads are going to have to do something drastic about batsmen if you're going to get anywhere in the coming tests now that we've got another fast bowler in Stuart Clark starting to really come into his own.
Convict on 6/12/2006 at 12:05
Quote Posted by Para?noid
you're a dumb cunt
1) who the fuck plays ping pong
2) it's called football
stop nosing around in places you don't belong you overweight shit
The UK invented ping pong so I used that. Here we call rugby union/league/AFL football not soccer. What makes you think I'm overweight? If you can't take sledging don't play sport.
Paz on 6/12/2006 at 13:30
Quote Posted by zacharias
even if he'd taken it a draw was probably still most likely
I agree - even if we'd managed to enforce the follow-on, I suspect Australia would have set us a minimum of about 180 for our second innings.
And we can all guess how THAT might have turned out.
Giles should have held that catch, but it's nuts to pin a five day game on an individual incident. It's like when Warne dropped Pietersen in the final test in England, OH HE'S DROPPED THE ASHES!!! Yeah, let's focus on one mistake instead of the 5,000 things he did to keep the team in contention in the first place.
Para?noid on 6/12/2006 at 14:25
Quote Posted by Convict
If you can't take sledging don't play sport.
I don't play sport? I spectate?
I just resent fucking Australians who think they are so fucking on top of shit, like we're watching a football match. Sure, let the players throw around insults to rile each other up but take your fucking mouthy, pedestrian hooliganism bullshit somewhere else you disgusting animal
Also I think you're overweight because you have the demeanour of somebody who is rejected by the world : unbeleivably fat people
Personally I enjoy cricket because it isn't solely made out of hormonally imbalanced shit for brains like yourself. If you haven't got anything worthwhile to contribute, FUCK OFF, stop kicking a man when he's down you cunt
Convict on 6/12/2006 at 14:28
Pedestrian hooliganism? I think being a potty-mouth is far more like pedestrian hooliganism.
I am not fat either.
Para?noid on 6/12/2006 at 14:31
You are so fat, look how much you're trying to defend it
Fat fuck
Para?noid on 6/12/2006 at 14:48
Yeah that's it you heard me
And don't come back
jeez
Jakeyboy on 6/12/2006 at 17:23
Quote Posted by Paz
Giles should have held that catch, but it's nuts to pin a five day game on an individual incident. It's like when Warne dropped Pietersen in the final test in England, OH HE'S DROPPED THE ASHES!!! Yeah, let's focus on one mistake instead of the 5,000 things he did to keep the team in contention in the first place.
Good point, except there aren't really any other things Giles did to keep us in contention.
Paz on 6/12/2006 at 19:26
I think Giles got one guy out in the first innings, so he almost breaks even .. um .. well, possibly.
It's crazy that he's playing at all though, he's had no test cricket for 11 months or something. Oh I'm sure he'll slip magically back into (fairly average at best) form if we just stick him in the team!
He has some incriminating photos of Fletcher, presumably. More likely he just moves in the right circles - I get the impression that selection is still a bit of an old boys network (I'm clutching for some kind of reason behind treating Chris Read like shit all the time).
