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The Ashes 2015

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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,315
    (Although Buttler is in stealthily abysmal form and needs a score)
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    edited August 2015
    Leuth said:

    The only one who should be dropped, based on today, is Lyth.

    Any other answer is ludicrous.

    So, you are saying that Buttler deserves to stay based on his performances?!
    That was a dreadful shot.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,315
    Oh shit, he got out. Bye!
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    Bloody hell, take the dog for a walk. Bump into Mr Fanakapan, have a nice chat, come home and England have collapsed.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    edited August 2015
    Buttler is increasingly pi55ing me off with the way he gets out.
    walks when the umpire gives him not out at Lords, then doesnt review when 1) he was the last batsman and 2) was missing wicket - and now playing an absolutely ludicrous shot. It just shows a sign of having zero mental strength.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,790
    We really have batted like school kids.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,765
    92-7
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    Stokes c Nevill b Marsh 15

    92-7

    Roles have been reversed. Oz dug in & we didn't.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Bring back Matty Prior.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Abysmal.
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,790
    The_President said:

    Bring back Matty Prior.

    Sam Billings is in great form. Well he was 'til he dislocated his finger today.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    Broad c Vogesb Mitchell 0

    92-8
  • StigThundercock
    StigThundercock Posts: 3,722
    Cook's rabble of workshy p!sstakers should be rounded up and made to stand outside the exits at close of play today and personally refund the fans while inviting everyone to boot them squarely in the balls for their blatant surrender. Investigation should immediately begin into betting patterns on the margin and rapidity of Australia's victory. At least massive corruption could explain the last 2 days.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    Wood was caught with the score on 96. But was called back, as it was a no ball.

    102-8
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    107-8 bag of shite.

    On the positive side, I was thinking of buying chappers spare tickets for today :smile:
  • dickplumb
    dickplumb Posts: 4,835
    England's batting today has been absolutely terrible. At least four maybe five have got themselves out. Lyth is not good enough, Butler has had an atrocious run.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    dickplumb said:

    England's batting today has been absolutely terrible. At least four maybe five have got themselves out. Lyth is not good enough, Butler has had an atrocious run.

    I know i keep on about it, but its not just the fact that Buttler keeps getting out - but its the way he keeps getting out- its almost as if he doesnt want to be out there.
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,655
    Is Tavere still alive? We need him to coach the English batsmen to properly value their wickets. I'm sure the crowds could live with England accumulating a run an over if it cut out these collapses.
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    I spent twenty odd years wishing the England cricket team could emulate their convict counterparts batting displays. But this isn't the 80s and 90s, so don't copy the current nohopers.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Covered End said:

    107-8 bag of shite.

    On the positive side, I was thinking of buying chappers spare tickets for today :smile:

    Strange how chappers doesnt contribute to this thread- yet it seems like he's got tickets for every day.
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  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Boycott talks a load of (repeated) bollocks.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,246
    The_President said:

    Boycott talks a load of (repeated) bollocks.

    Not when we collapse like that he doesn't

    Say what you like about Geoffrey Boycott he could protect a wicket and whilst his style of play wouldn't have lender itself to how we have tried to play this series he understands the importance of knowing where your stumps are and knowing when to be sensible
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Like most people I can't stand Geoff boycott, but he's almost always right. It's an irritating balance of me agreeing with almost everything he says and wanting to throttle him.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    If he talks about the corridor of uncertainty or stick of rhubarb and his mum again, i swear i am going to stick that rhubarb right down his arrogant yorkie throat.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    kentaddick said:

    Like most people I can't stand Geoff boycott, but he's almost always right. It's an irritating balance of me agreeing with almost everything he says and wanting to throttle him.

    Apart from the odd "That's not for me to say, that's for the coaches/the selectors" etc when he doesn't have an answer, I agree completely.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Reminds me of a coach back when I did archery. Knew every single thing about the sport, no question, about as expert as its possible to be. But a steaming cock of a human being. Total arrogant jerk. Wife beating c*** I'd rather not know.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    The balls that Cook and Bell got would have got anyone out - but the shots played by Lyth,Bairstow,Stokes and Buttler were abysmal .
    In my view, Bairstow and Lyth dont have 'it' - Bairstow is one of the worst players i have seen of the bouncer at Test level- (and you can imagine the type of stuff that Steyn,Morkel and Philander are going to give him this winter!), and i am also starting to have serious doubts over whether Buttler has the mental toughness to play in the Test team - think it may well be time, as AA says, to give Billings an extended run, now that the Ozzies are out of the way for a couple of years.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,954
    Weird one, Buttler. Seems to have it all but is getting out in daft ways.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,315
    Billings!??! Ludicrous Kent bias. Check the bloke's FC batting average. There must be about 4 or 5 in the queue ahead of him.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Leuth said:

    Billings!??! Ludicrous Kent bias. Check the bloke's FC batting average. There must be about 4 or 5 in the queue ahead of him.

    I'm a Surrey fan.

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