MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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So, no Flintoff! Trott to come in with the bat, perhaps?
Weather looks good until Monday for Leeds, here goes!
Some Aussie breaking triggering the fire alarm too??
hmmm.....
Prior injured in warm-up.
oh dear... no flintoff 😯 could this be your 'McGrath' moment?
Priot had a back spasm playing football in the warm-up, definite parallels with McGrath!
GODDAMN IT!!!! WHY CAN'T UMPIRES GET A FRICKIN DECISION RIGHT!!!!!!!
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sorry... a little annoyed 😆 🙄
are there lives feeds on the tinterweb for this?
Kiwi umpire refuses to give decision in favour of Portaroo bowler. Hmm. Greg Chappell's moment of shame still coming back to bite them in the ass time and time again? 😉
frickin sheep shaggers and their inferiority complex... it's not like they would've won anyway, stupid ridiculous decision from Chappell 🙄
Good start this from Hilfenhaus, good line and length (though that bouncer was a bit ropey 🙂 )
are there lives feeds on the tinterweb for this?
[url= http://www.cricinfo.com/ ]Cricinfo[/url] is pretty good. Or if you're a Sky customer I think you can access it over the web?
I don't think anyone could claim that either Aussies or yorkshire people have inferiority complexes?
😆 Aussie's don't shag sheep, our women are way too hot, here's a typical representative:
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Hold the phone! Dang! What a catch!!
your typical aussie woman looks like a horse? jesus.
That might throw the cat amongst the pigeons, the English batting lineup is looking a little weak without Flintoff & KP...
doh!
11for 1
frickin sheep shaggers and their inferiority complex...
What have the welsh got to do with anything? 😉
the ball's just moving around a little bit isn't it... tricky conditions for batsman
yeah but kylies an exception real sheilas look like this....
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ah bugger!
Mwuhahahaha! Bopara really doesn't look like a suitable Number 3 to me... see ya later alligator 😆
That link doesn't seem to be working now but link 2 on here does - http://www.realhq.net/
Bopara gone! not looking good
DAMMITDAMMITDAMMITDAMMITDAMMITDAMMITDAMMIT
Looks like we needed an extra batsman or 5 after all....
Bopara gone...yay. unfortunately we'll almost certainly have to see another innings from him before the selectors realise he's sh1te...
Nothing wrong with Kath (I hope my missus has her figure at 50 or however old she is 😆 )
Bopara is pathetic.The ball didn't even do anything.
How long will centuries against a non motivated village team keep him in the team ? Anyone remember Sri Lanka ?
Gower is probably right about Bopara -they should bat him down the order until he has more experience. Ponting batted at 6 for years.
Not knowing owt about the sport but
(a) Can England lose the Ashes still?
(b) Is that not what normally happens? Fantastic start, rave reviews, lots of hype, then......uh oh?! As dead as a Dingos Drongo
Bopara couldn't hit a barn door with a shovel. He's absolutely no right to be batting that far up the order
[i](a) Can England lose the Ashes still?
(b) Is that not what normally happens?[/i]
yes and yes.
Shit - big trouble now for England.
Ase. Bell gone for 8. Hopeless!!!
Yeah baby, yeah! Good ball from Mitch 😀
Johnson in 'good ball' shocker. Whatever next...
He's bowling quite well today, getting some movement... he'll get an LBW shortly, I'd put a little bet on it 😉
bring on the rain
[i]He's bowling quite well today[/i]
shame for the Aussies it's taken till the 4th game of 5...;)
Bell-end
shame for the Aussies it's taken till the 4th game of 5... 😉
Meh... we only need to draw the series after all, we'll be fine 😀
For the enjoyment of all Pom's everywhere: [url=
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all out for 80?
Bit optimistic, that...
Ben Dirs on the BBC:
England coming apart like a badly-packed kebab...
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maybe not too optimistic after all... 😀
Game over 🙁
Well lets see if Broad is worth his place as a batsman!
Game over 🙁
For Grumm...
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Plenty of time left in this one, though it is an ABYSMAL start from Engerland... good tight bowling from the Aussies though and just enough movement in the air to make it difficult
Nice bit of swearing there from Haddin!
Well lets see if Broad is worth his place as a batsman!
FAIL
Ohhhhhh dear... shocking morning for the Poms... absolutely shocking... this is more like it 😈
Meh that catch didn't carry!
72-6 😆 not a good start
Oh go home... his fingers were definitely beneath it (and anyway, even id it didn't, which it did, it'd make up for the LBW decision first ball 🙄 )
Oh well - feeling slightly less gutted as I had some tickets for the fifth day which I couldn't make it to - looks like I'll get a refund anyway. 😉
even id it didn't, which it did, it'd make up for the LBW decision first ball
Who's first ball? Broad's first didn't hit him on the pad.
Who's first ball?
Strauss', I guess....
ah, sorry, didn't make that clear 🙂 yes I was referring to Strauss (though thankfully in the end it didn't cost much 😀 )
Forgive me, but given the overcast conditions and headingley's reputation for swing I'd assumed that we'd been put in having lost the toss.
The weather forecast for tomorrow and Sunday is good and will be a good time to bat - so what the **** was Strauss thinking of??
(10/10 hindsight)
Well at least we've passed our lowest total at Headingly, and looks like we should get 100.
What do you reckon on our chances at the Oval - looks like we'll be needing a win (though realistically we always needed to win one of these matches)?
England coming apart like a badly-packed kebab...
Why does this remind me of Selina Scott?
Actually, why are we being so pessimistic? According to the Hawkeye stats we've still got 10% chance of winning this (and almost as much chance of salvaging a draw)!
I'm as positive about getting 100 🙂
That should read NOT ofc.
Two landmarks in one - 100 runs, 53 innings 🙂 Got to take the positives from this!
You can edit your posts, brassneck, or given we've now gone past 100 you could just leave the first and edit the 2nd 😉
****SOCKS.
jeez.
And that, as they say, is that... top half-days work from the Aussie bowlers 😀 Now to see if our batsman can carry it on and twist the knife a bit 😈
All out for 102!!!!! Grrr what a shower of...
According to the Hawkeye stats
what are these Hawkeye stats you speak of?
where the aussies playing possum all this time
how come theyve gone from sh!t to brilliant in a week and how come weve done the reverse?!
No worries - Harmy will get 8 for 20.
I do think Harmison will be a bit of a handful, the pitch looks to have a bit of bounce in it, should suit him
edit: though I don't know about 8-20 🙄
how come theyve gone from sh!t to brilliant in a week and how come weve done the reverse?!
Because, sadly, natural order has been restored to the Universe.
(Don't expect to see Button on the F1 podium for the rest of the season either)
yeah come on - our turn now....
well, Harmison only took 2 balls to bowl a ridiculously wide wide 🙄 😀