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Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:04 pm
by daysofourlives
northerner wrote:We are doing bloody well in this series considering how many guys arent good enough... two batman and two bowlers is all that can be considered to have had impactful series. We are very fortunate to have the worlds best batsman and the worlds best bowler... pretty barren after that.


Im sorry but youre far too easily pleased, The series should be over and it would be had anyone of the other 10 blokes been captain in the 3rd Test

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:22 pm
by northerner
daysofourlives wrote:
jackpot jim wrote:
mal wrote:Pat Cummins bowls to Joe Root on 54 runs
Snick
Tim Paine and David Warner[first slip] dont even attempt to catch a ball within reach of both players
4 runs
The ball ends up near the advertising sign which was Specsavers !


Paine is like a cardboard cut out with anything that is more than a foot to his right. He's costing Australia Test Match Wins with his incompetent keeping, pathetic referrals and lack of attacking intent in the field as Captain. :oops:


Lets not forget after letting the catch go that the very next over from Cummins he referred one out of desperation because he couldn't handle the pressure that HE just put on the team. It wasn't even close. He is a liability, good blokes don't win Test matches but they can certainly lose them. He has already cost us one Test without question, if he loses the Ashes he should stay over there.

Your opinion mate. IMO lyon lost it. Couldnt bowl out the opposition in a 4th innings (again) and dropped a sitter for the runout. Seems to have escaped the attention of those with different agendas To me Lyons skill error was worse than Paines indiscretion.

Lets see how Lyon goes this time...if he performs as he shld we will win.

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:27 pm
by northerner
daysofourlives wrote:
northerner wrote:We are doing bloody well in this series considering how many guys arent good enough... two batman and two bowlers is all that can be considered to have had impactful series. We are very fortunate to have the worlds best batsman and the worlds best bowler... pretty barren after that.


Im sorry but youre far too easily pleased, The series should be over and it would be had anyone of the other 10 blokes been captain in the 3rd Test

You aint listening... the reason I respect Paine is he was a major driver in changing us from a team that NO ONE liked.... that was abhored by opposition and Aussie fans to one that is now respected. There is no one else at that time who had the diplomacy and experience to handle the situation as he did.

You want to point blame? Try the opening bats (he has more runs than them) or the spinner who couldn't take a return for a runout.

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:35 pm
by RB
northerner wrote:You aint listening... the reason I respect Paine is he was a major driver in changing us from a team that NO ONE liked....

I'm not sure that that's entirely true, but anyway, it doesn't seem to have been very effective in terms of winning matches.

northerner wrote:that was abhored by opposition and Aussie fans to one that is now respected.

I hardly think it's respected, just listen to the pommie crowds, mind you they're unlikely ever to be kind to an Australian team.

Ultimately, I'd like us to be respected for winning matches.

northerner wrote:There is no one else at that time who had the diplomacy and experience to handle the situation as he did.

Again, I disagree, once the sandpaper trio were banned there was always going to be some sort of reaction to that in the way the team did things. All teams used illicit means to achieve reverse swing prior to March 2018 (not that excuses players wearing the baggy green), we just copped the heat for it.

I can accept that the team atmosphere under Lehmann was a little toxic (although they flogged England in the previous series), but any improvements have been down to a number of factors. And the idea that the prior team culture caused grown men to cheat is bollocks.

All Paine's really done is try to introduce tokenistic stuff like the hand-shaking thing, and speak in press conferences like he's giving an interview in Woman's Day.

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:47 pm
by The Bedge
I agree with you RB

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:09 pm
by Jim05
Starc bowling ok today

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:17 pm
by Jim05
Ripper from Starc.
The tail will be crapping themselves

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:18 pm
by Armchair expert
Absolute peach

4 more of them Starcy

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:19 pm
by helicopterking
Starc with some Cricket Porn

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:20 pm
by The Dark Knight
Starc gets it right and bang!

212 test wickets for Starc, equal with Merv Hughes.

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:20 pm
by Grenville
Jim05 wrote:Starc bowling ok today


I was just about to say he was bowling like John Maguire on speed before that last cherry.

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:25 pm
by The Dark Knight
Gotta love a good specialist number 8, a very typical English Village Cricket type of thing.

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:31 pm
by Grenville
The Dark Knight wrote:Gotta love a good specialist number 8, a very typical English Village Cricket type of thing.


Mark Ealham style.

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:38 pm
by DOC
The Dark Knight wrote:Gotta love a good specialist number 8, a very typical English Village Cricket type of thing.


To be fair he is normally a specialist 7.

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:45 pm
by Jim05
Save them now Stokes you flog

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:45 pm
by The Dark Knight
Starc nicks off Stokes, huge wicket!
Archer almost run out first ball then the specialist number 8 plays a nice cover drive for 4. It's all happening.

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:48 pm
by The Dark Knight
DOC wrote:
The Dark Knight wrote:Gotta love a good specialist number 8, a very typical English Village Cricket type of thing.


To be fair he is normally a specialist 7.
I know and I usually like watching Buttler bat in ODI cricket but everytime an opposition has a specialist number 8 I have to mention it and keep calling them it.

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:49 pm
by DOC
The Dark Knight wrote:Starc nicks off Stokes, huge wicket!
Archer almost run out first ball then the specialist number 8 plays a nice cover drive for 4. It's all happening.


Thanks Bill.

Wade having a word or two to Archer.

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:50 pm
by am Bays
Wade having a nice chat to Jofa...

Re: The Ashes 2019

PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 9:50 pm
by Armchair expert
Run through em by Lunch, come on