Christ you sound fun.
As regards Botham and Gower, I'll miss them both, I think Botham injected a bit of humour into proceedings that Gower seemed reluctant to do most of the time, and Gower provides the in-depth analysis to keep things on track.
As for the series, we really missed a trick in that first test that would have set the tone for the rest of the Ashes. I think the England bowlers developed a mental block about Smith, who was magnificent in this series, the cheating twat.
Broad and Archer were superb, Leach's 92 was quality, Stokes produced arguably the best ever knock by an Englishman in an Ashes test. Our batting was pretty piss-poor throughout, the usual collapses occurring, must be a mental strength and concentration issue. But Smith asides, the Aussies weren't much better, so a draw was probably the right result.
I really enjoyed the cricket over the summer, made up for no football being on. I wonder who will replace Trevor Bayliss as coach?
leach did not make 92 in the ashes ????
its cricket that you can only drawing a series and losing the ashes and the media says it a great summer of cricket really ????