peter such
― claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 01:40 (fifteen years ago) link
(case closed)
So LJ, Bell makes the squad. I like Bell, but he must be dropped. He's lacking confidence and needs back in the county championship to make some runs along with Vaughan. Give Shah a chance lord knows he deserves it. But if Vaughan has a good start to the county season he's gotta be no3 unless all the batsmen fire against the WI.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 01:40 (fifteen years ago) link
it might win them the Ashes, but what good will it do in the long term?
sentences that contradict/answer themselves, part 4573 in a series
pfunkboy that is all manifest, shah should have been in for india. you are far too cynical about the likelihood of vaughan's inclusion. i'm telling ya, he's definitely played his last game for england
― claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 01:42 (fifteen years ago) link
"he's gotta be no. 3"
frankly insane use of "gotta", the man has patently lost it
― claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 01:46 (fifteen years ago) link
It's Thorpe all over again. Assuming Bell does play against WI and he does fail, clearly Shah isn't considered good enough. So who will come in if not MV? He has a great record against the Aussies. (all depending what he does at the start of the season for Yorkshire though)Shah is no Pietersen so I don't see a massive campaign for him to replace Bell or Vaughan unless he hits a few centuries in the Caribbean.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
also symonds to be given heaveho not haidoss u_u
― Filmer Thomas (wilter), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
And LJ I assume you don't want Monty to play?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 01:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey, Mark Ramprakash averages over 40 against the Aussies. He's a dead cert, surely.
Thorpe was still run-hungry and his exile from the team was not form-related. The situation is completely different.
Shah is considered good enough to make all the squads. If he wasn't considered good enough, he'd have stayed home with the ODI specialists.
Plenty of young(er) batsmen are making a mark at county level, and would be considerably better bets than a past-it Vaughan. This rhetoric ("who else but Vaughan?") is the wistful pandering rhetoric of the inane tabloid presses.
Don't assume Bell will fail against the Women's Institute. Don't assume he'll start ahead of Shah.
Monty is a terrible cunt and I'd rather see Rashid or even Swann eventually usurp him. Start with Panesar, though, because nothing gives confidence like a West Indies tailender. N.B. the tail starts at 2 and temporarily secedes for Chanderpaul. Maybe he'll get something guileful into that empty skull of his.
― claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link
N.B. You'll probably interpret it literally, so I'll inform you now that the Ramprakash thing was a sarcastic joke.
― claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Monty is a terrible cunt
A bit OTT even by your standards.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Never seen Withnail And I, have you? Hate having to explain my references.
― claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link
not for about 15 years, no.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 02:00 (fifteen years ago) link
ARE YOU THE FARMER?!
― Filmer Thomas (wilter), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 02:03 (fifteen years ago) link
We've gone on holiday by mistake...
― claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 02:04 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry i loled at that jesus Withnail!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Victorian all-rounder Andrew McDonald and NSW left-armer Doug Bollinger are set to be called up into a squad of 13 for the Sydney Test.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/cricket/hayden-to-survive-but-changes-imminent/2008/12/30/1230399186421.html
― Filmer Thomas (wilter), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 03:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Jason Krejza is the long term soloosh imo
if haydos is gone they should get jaques back in asap. i'd swap hussey and katich too, but that's me.
― prins tuomas (haitch), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 03:32 (fifteen years ago) link
So KP wants Vaughan in his team and Moores doesn't. KP wants Moores to keep in the background and guess who doesn't. Moores doesn't have a great record. KP is gonna be the one that comes out on top methinks.So who will replace Moores? (and be KP's yes man) or will KP resign/get sacked?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Moores is history
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
So no crappy compromise til after a disastrous WI tour/ashes mauling?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
What KP wants, KP gets
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Moores doesn't have a great record but at the same time KP is an inexperienced captain(tho i can see that having vaughan there to help him is a good thing from that point of view, but he has to make runs before he can be considered)I cant see KP getting full power somehow. but they cant take moores side.Im all for Moores being replaced, but who with?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm with KP on this one though. No other England captain would be any different.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Bumble! I don't know, but there must be other guys around who could do as good or, preferably, a better job (xp)
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
One who can get Harmison, Monty, Vaughan and Bell firing? (since KP insists they get picked)
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^those four fuckin' players
― REMOVE THEIR EARS (country matters), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Mind you, Moores is right about picking Vaughan
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah in an "it would be flaming fucking madness to pick Vaughan" way
KP going down a little in my estimation over this, sure he's showing himself to be strong-headed but he also needs to LET GO when it comes to inspirational captain-batsmen who are now without a shred of form
Owais Shah is the real loser in all of this tbh.
― REMOVE THEIR EARS (country matters), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
LJ wouldn't have picked Brearley
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
it was different in the 80's, nobody was scoring any runs at all except like javed miandad and allan border
also brearley was some sort of great pulsing cricket brain and a jolly decent sort. he had an education, you know
― REMOVE THEIR EARS (country matters), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
You may as well pick me as pick Vaughan
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
(and viv richards, and gordon greenidge)
― I have "boned" two lesbians. Anything can happen. (country matters), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
(and some others)
I'd only play if I was above Bell in the order though. I'd have to insist on that.
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
so as long as you go to a proper university you're good enough to play for England?
Not sure that Monty's stupid either- he has a degree from Loughborough, and always seems quite thoughtful to me.― Neil S, A degree in computer science. His final mark is unsupplied. Let's face it, his cricketing ability probably had a say in his acceptance, especially at Loughborough. Let's just be glad he's an international cricketer rather than a video-store clerk, eh?just got offed
― Neil S,
A degree in computer science. His final mark is unsupplied. Let's face it, his cricketing ability probably had a say in his acceptance, especially at Loughborough. Let's just be glad he's an international cricketer rather than a video-store clerk, eh?
just got offed
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, playing cricket doesn't mean you know how it works; ― Just got offed,
― Just got offed,
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
it's time to get English cricket back to where it shone brightest: as the pastime of the aristocracy
― I have "boned" two lesbians. Anything can happen. (country matters), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Lord Trueman. The Earl of Gooch. The Bishop of Boycott.
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Forget recent triumphs? Who was it who spread the game across our glorious Commonwealth, our Empire? The nobs, that's who.
― I have "boned" two lesbians. Anything can happen. (country matters), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Bloody underarm poofters
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh dear oh dear oh dear, but on the other hand, lolz:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/7815038.stm
― Neil S, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/card/archives/nelson-muntz.gif
― Nottingham: it's the new Abu Dhabi (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Morris did a Gallian on him.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link
RIP English Cricket, Ashes to be taken away, etc, etc.
― Nottingham: it's the new Abu Dhabi (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 11:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Just like you Aussies have been pulling a rope-a-dope with your tactical decision to lose to SA, so Pietersen pursues a wily long-game move to make Andrew Strauss captain just in time to lose to West Indies, allowing his triumphant come-back as captain in time for the Ashes!
― Neil S, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Not even Strauss could fuck up a series against the Super Stamford XI West Indies, surely?
― Nottingham: it's the new Abu Dhabi (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 12:03 (fifteen years ago) link
We'll see, I actually think Strauss would make a good captain, but the dressing room will now be "in turmoil" as sports hacks like to say.
Odds on Pietersen taking Australian nationality?
― Neil S, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 12:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, no thanks. He's no Kepler Wessels.
― Cape of Good Hope: ILX's New Home of Cricket! (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 12:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I would think he'd have even less friends in the Australian dressing room than in the England one!
― Neil S, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 12:10 (fifteen years ago) link