roberto wrote:but seriously we are a friendly bunch, we welcome you Poms with open arms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN_btZ6tfw8

Erm....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 145104.stm

But it's OK

When questioned about the incident, Sutherland (Australia's top cricket official) said: "I don't think there is too much racist about that."

roberto wrote:

hip priest wrote:

roberto wrote:
ok look, you've best player is NOW a Irishman

Umm...

Full name Andrew Flintoff
Born December 6, 1977, Preston, Lancashire

Bells out, Joyce in

You're point is?

(Bell's playing again now, by the way)

sunlore wrote:english sports

This was BRILLIANT.

As for the Ashes, I'd love to see England actually have them - as in not just keep them at Marylebonne.

I suppose it's possible. Remember, the Dems won this year.

-A

I live a couple of miles away from the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) and i'm going to see a couple of days for free. And i'm not really into cricket. My mate in England is frothing at the mouth over this.

hip priest wrote: there must be some over-confident Aussies about.

Yes!


England. You will fail!

I am looking forward to this series much as I look forward to Christmas; with a self-imposed festive, positive outlook on the familiar grind.

We'll put that performance down to first day nerves, shall we?

Funny stuff on BBC Radio 4 this morning, featuring comments from Aussies in the crowd. I don't remember which English bowler they were talking about, but the comment was "Oh for crying out loud, look at him, he can't even finish his bottle of water, and we're on level 4 water restrictions here". My (English) tea was spat across the kitchen table....

hip priest wrote:We'll put that performance down to first day nerves, shall we?

We could also put it down to the poms being out of their depth against the aussie team. Harmison seems to be elsewhere, it's a point of technicality that his body is in australia playing cricket. I saw one lovely delivery from him to Ponting on day one that just beat the edge, and he followed it up with a short delivery on the legside that Ponting pulled to the boundary - it seems indicative of the game so far. The tourists batting lineup looks fragile too - the english top order seems positively new zealand in their zeal to get back to the pavillion, and I can't shake the feeling that I felt like I was watching the pakistani team throwing a game in the field on day one.

England will need dramatically better mental focus if they're going to get close to the aussies.