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Originally posted by OLi_A omg england won that test? i was watching that vaughn bat and poor bastard is playing on a team which doesnt complement his class

yeah Harmison, Hussein, Trescothick, Caddick, Hoggard, are all shit yeh?
good one

i meant theyre bowl attack
well england arent really shit its just for some reason australia has pulled ahead like they did in rugby
but the thing is the other teams will catch up cause there is a big never ending cycle which evens out in the end

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yeah boro arent doing too bad this season!!

geremi and nemeth have been great so far this season!

and ehiogu and southgate have been rocks in centre of defence..shame about ehiogu being injured...

being a Toffee i hope we can stay in the top 6 but i can see us sliding towards mid table...we need a spark in centre of midfield..a creative playmaker li tie ( t-shirt) aint good enough to play..

at least we got rooney true champ the kid is good to snatch mcbride and said on loans but i hope we can get col healy from celtic ....if we dont were going to have to wait for rodrigo to come back from injury and slot into the midfeild to give us some flair!

I said it before and i'll say it again, in 2 years it should be even, if we pick this team

Trescothick
Vaughan
Bell
Hussain
Foster
Collingwood
Flintoff
Jones
Giles
Anderson
Harmison

Caddick may have had wickets but he was expensive and blows hot & cold, mainly cold, Flintoff will be fit, giles without broken finger, Anderson is looking good already, Jones when he's fit again, Foster has to replace stewie behind the stumps, 42 will be too old, Hussain as capt, maybe even Tres, Collingwood can bat but also bowl if needed and Ian Bell is our best young batsman

I think in the near future TRESCOTHICK will captain the England side, and we will start selecting more youngsters as we'eve learnt from our mistakes from the last 5 or so years that you can't fill a team with old twats! I also don't see GILES is the answer in our spin department, neither is DAWSON. Giles is getting on and Dawson certainly doesn't look test class. There is other young spinners werth a looking at.

The Barmy Army are the best supporters in the world of cricket by 950 miles!! There is no other test nation that takes any where near as much support to watch an away test match than England does, and fuckin excellent support they were.

Regarding FOOTABLL! There is no a fucking chance you Aussies will beat us!! (Quote me on this!!!) James Beattie!! Look out for the name you Aussies. This man is top class! Id Sven doesn't pick him someone needs to have words in his ears.

James Beattie was Alan Shearers Bootboy when Al was @ Blackburn, basically he is taller than shearer, and has the yard of pace that alan once had, and that he lacks now to make him a candidate for us, but he is shit hot in the scoring charts, and could be a great foil for owen, rooney or whoever gets picked, forget heskey, this man knows where the net is

yay!
go england!
it was good to see them coming back in the last 2 tests! i was hoping vaughn would do well and kinda hoping england would win! like steve waugh said, they just capitalised more on the opportunities. i agree with some of the comments about no young players, this side won't last forever. but then again, they keep winning so there isn't a great argument for change! i guess this means that a whole generation nearly misses out on test selection as the next best players at the same time aren't given a go because they aren't needed. hopefully theres some good talent waiting in the wings...
go poms!

hmm
listening to the abc, and channel 9 i think, they weren't too sure on hussain being captain, they didn't think he made the right decisions and field placings some of the time.

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Originally posted by G K Murray The Barmy Army are the best supporters in the world of cricket by 950 miles!! There is no other test nation that takes any where near as much support to watch an away test match than England does, and fuckin excellent support they were.

haha how good is the barmy army??? i was thinking of starting a thread in the uk forum i hope england come back soon just for them! its great hearing all the chanting and stuff, listening to the last day at melbourne on the radio at work, it was as if you were watching a premier league game or something! i reckon the atmosphere around them would have been great!

hehe
but still...
4-1 australia! w00t

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Originally posted by waXology cricket! bah, its like watching grass grow!

Enough said..

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Originally posted by xxTRANCEBOYxx Enough said..

grrr
shut up sambuca boy!

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Originally posted by Philby haha how good is the barmy army??? i was thinking of starting a thread in the uk forum i hope england come back soon just for them! its great hearing all the chanting and stuff, listening to the last day at melbourne on the radio at work, it was as if you were watching a premier league game or something! i reckon the atmosphere around them would have been great!

actually, i sat near them once during the last Ashes test at the SCG (would've been 1999/2000 season I think). They are fucking annoying to sit near for an entire day's play! Sure, their chants, songs and banter are funny for the first hour, mildly amusing the second hour, but by the time the lunch break rolls around you're sick of listening to it!

I ended up moving so that I could concentrate on the cricket, rather than drunken english hooligans getting sunburnt.

Just my $0.02

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