Gelsons Dad
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Prepare the pitch and play 2 spinners. Ass don't even have one decent one in their squad.
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The Official Ashes 09 Thread
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PistonBlue
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Thing is, blue down under, I don't think this was anything to do with your bowlers. Every wicket was given away. It's more to do with our shite coaching and wrong mentality. We beat ourselves, this is the worst Aussie side I can remember.
bornblueegg
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For me its not the preparation, the coaching or anything else. It was the team performance.
We can see it needs to be pitched up, they're told to pitch it up and no other them do.
We can see from the first shambolic innings our mistakes from batting so we do the same stupid thing.
we lost wickets in clusters and did not do a boycott (hate the bloke) but he could get out of a hole like that.
Fair play, our friends from the land of the kangaroo out played us in every department and no doubt I'll have a certain Russian ballet dancer telling me it was Strauss' fault, but no.
It wasn't the ball, it wasn't losing KP or Freddie, it wasn't even the pitch. It certainly wasn't the coaching staff or the teams preparation.
It was, quite simply failure to take part.
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We can see it needs to be pitched up, they're told to pitch it up and no other them do.
We can see from the first shambolic innings our mistakes from batting so we do the same stupid thing.
we lost wickets in clusters and did not do a boycott (hate the bloke) but he could get out of a hole like that.
Fair play, our friends from the land of the kangaroo out played us in every department and no doubt I'll have a certain Russian ballet dancer telling me it was Strauss' fault, but no.
It wasn't the ball, it wasn't losing KP or Freddie, it wasn't even the pitch. It certainly wasn't the coaching staff or the teams preparation.
It was, quite simply failure to take part.
Balls people
Uwe Rosler
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PistonBlue said:Thing is, blue down under, I don't think this was anything to do with your bowlers. Every wicket was given away. It's more to do with our shite coaching and wrong mentality. We beat ourselves, this is the worst Aussie side I can remember.
I think we(australia) had something to do with how poorly england played there was some great bowling(for once this series) but i do agree it is a very very average australian side. But i'll take a draw in the last test and gladly take $100 off an unhappy english friend of mine :P lol
MCFC-alan88
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It's quite simple really, England will play well when the selectors pick on merit and not from the old boys club.
Uwe Rosler
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MCFC-alan88 said:It's quite simple really, England will play well when the selectors pick on merit and not from the old boys club.
lol the funny thing about that is it also applies for australia! its a boys club, and you have to be from new south wales to have the best shot of getting the baggy green
PistonBlue
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Uwe Rösler said:PistonBlue said:Thing is, blue down under, I don't think this was anything to do with your bowlers. Every wicket was given away. It's more to do with our shite coaching and wrong mentality. We beat ourselves, this is the worst Aussie side I can remember.
I think we(australia) had something to do with how poorly england played there was some great bowling(for once this series) but i do agree it is a very very average australian side. But i'll take a draw in the last test and gladly take $100 off an unhappy english friend of mine :P lol
Yeah I could possibly give your bowlers a bit more credit, but I still reckon we beat ourselves. We just have no idea of how to bat in a given situation. I really do despair at our lack of thought.
Enjoy your $100 though mate!
Wheelsy
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That's because the Victorian players they pick such as Hodge, Dussey, McDonald, Harwood, McGain, and WHITE, are all retards.Uwe Rösler said:MCFC-alan88 said:It's quite simple really, England will play well when the selectors pick on merit and not from the old boys club.
lol the funny thing about that is it also applies for australia! its a boys club, and you have to be from new south wales to have the best shot of getting the baggy green
It will interest you to note that there are no NSWmen on the selection panel of Hughes, Border, and Cox.
Wheelsy said:That's because the Victorian players they pick such as Hodge, Dussey, McDonald, Harwood, McGain, and WHITE, are all retards.Uwe Rösler said:lol the funny thing about that is it also applies for australia! its a boys club, and you have to be from new south wales to have the best shot of getting the baggy green
It will interest you to note that there are no NSWmen on the selection panel of Hughes, Border, and Cox.
Fair point. But surely Hodge at least is hardly a idiot??!!
Blue down under
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Wheelsy said:That's because the Victorian players they pick such as Hodge, Dussey, McDonald, Harwood, McGain, and WHITE, are all retards.Uwe Rösler said:lol the funny thing about that is it also applies for australia! its a boys club, and you have to be from new south wales to have the best shot of getting the baggy green
It will interest you to note that there are no NSWmen on the selection panel of Hughes, Border, and Cox.
Two words, BEAU CASSON........