19 Dec 10
Originally posted by karoly aczelOh the sweetness!! Still uphill for the Aussies, but hey, what a performance!
A wicket with the last ball of day 3. Surely the Aussies will roll them from here...
I reckon Prior will try to knock off those runs, he seems pretty fired up. Even with England at 4 for not much, with Peiterson gone, there are 2 more days to play on a decent batting wicket...
The curator at Melbourne will be influenced, but its a drop-in pitch so....
YEEEEEEEEHaH!!!! The Aussies smash the English at Perth.
Johnson back to his best,etc,etc......
20 Dec 10
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Originally posted by Shallow BlueSpringbok was seen too much as an Apartheid symbol. Change was needed.
I don't care how politically correct and possibly even well-meant it was, I still strongly dislike that name and think the change was a big mistake. Springbokke are antelope: graceful, fast animals always ready to spring into action. Proteas are plants: they sit there and get eaten. Not the best name for a sports team. Could'nt they at least have pissed the Limeys off by calling it the Suikerbossies?
Richard
No-one really cares what a team is called, as long as they win.
Sorry for the small hijack: India humiliated by The Proteas by an innings and 25 runs. Should have been an innings and 200+ runs, if not for the little Master making his 50th century (after all these years, he's still showing signs of his brilliance, although it has faded these paste few seasons) and Dhoni throwing caution to the wind.
Also, finally Kallis got that elusive double ton. He's just continually showing why he is rated as a legend of the game. Well done Jacques!
21 Dec 10
Originally posted by CrowleyIts a good time for a hijack as we wait for the boxing day test.
Springbok was seen too much as an Apartheid symbol. Change was needed.
No-one really cares what a team is called, as long as they win.
Sorry for the small hijack: India humiliated by The Proteas by an innings and 25 runs. Should have been an innings and 200+ runs, if not for the little Master making his 50th century (after all these years, he's still sho ...[text shortened]... ton. He's just continually showing why he is rated as a legend of the game. Well done Jacques!
Other than Tendulkar getting to a mammoth milestone of 50 centuries, Michael Hussey became the first player to score six consecutaive 50's in Ashes Tests.
22 Dec 10
I saw Freddy Flintoff earlier, he's commentating on a British satellite tv channel...I had to to look twice and even three times as there wasn't a ball nor a bat in sight and he was giving good history on this particular game with support for an Aussie contender...any idea what he was commentating on ??
Unless you saw it, you'd never guess...DARTS, the world darts champs. I'm no darts aficionado but what a surprise that was, good old Freddy really sounded as though he knew his onions to boot 🙂
22 Dec 10
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Originally posted by RevRSleekerwas it not Flintoff who paraded around the pitch, waving his shirt in some kind of taunting act as if he were re claiming India for the British Raj during a tour of India? Btw Rev, are you Lancashire or Yorkshire?
I saw Freddy Flintoff earlier, he's commentating on a British satellite tv channel...I had to to look twice and even three times as there wasn't a ball nor a bat in sight and he was giving good history on this particular game with support for an Aussie contender...any idea what he was commentating on ??
Unless you saw it, you'd never guess...DARTS, the a surprise that was, good old Freddy really sounded as though he knew his onions to boot 🙂
22 Dec 10
Originally posted by robbie carrobieLol, he's certainly a character...Lancs, every time ! Technically I'm a Cheshire lad but Old Trafford's county ground just mere few miles up the road from where I was born 🙂
was it not Flintoff who paraded around the pitch, waving his shirt in some kind of taunting act as if he were re claiming India for the British Raj during a tour of India? Btw Rev, are you Lancashire or Yorkshire?
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23 Dec 10
Originally posted by RevRSleekerWhy would that be a surprise? It is, after all, a "sport" notorious for the amount of cheap beer consumed before, after, and occasionally during play. Sounds exactly the kind of thing Mr. A. Frederick Flintoff, Esquire, would be familiar with, dunnit?
I saw Freddy Flintoff earlier, he's commentating on a British satellite tv channel...I had to to look twice and even three times as there wasn't a ball nor a bat in sight and he was giving good history on this particular game with support for an Aussie contender...any idea what he was commentating on ??
Unless you saw it, you'd never guess...DARTS, the world darts champs.
Richard
23 Dec 10
Originally posted by Shallow BlueSir, you make an entirely valid point..I cannot add nor indeed take anything away from it 😀
Why would that be a surprise? It is, after all, a "sport" notorious for the amount of cheap beer consumed before, after, and occasionally during play. Sounds exactly the kind of thing Mr. A. Frederick Flintoff, Esquire, would be familiar with, dunnit?
Richard
26 Dec 10
Originally posted by RevRSleekerPost by RevRSleeker in another thread: -
Lol, he's certainly a character...Lancs, every time ! Technically I'm a Cheshire lad but Old Trafford's county ground just mere few miles up the road from where I was born 🙂
"Quite right indeed, a man after my own heart lol..Old Trafford is a borough of Trafford and merely part of Greater Manchester...it's akin to calling a Salford club a Manchester club, not so..but that aside, Old Trafford's not far away from the City old ground and Eastlands just as. Old Trafford is full of 'foreigners' come saturday anyway, all professing to be their greatest fan..as a friend reminded me recently:
An old fan hears a whimpering shout from another closeby, 'united, united' ...the old fan asks, 'is that Mancs or perhaps a Cheshire accent ?'...'nooooooooo' says the 'new guy,' it's a London accent and my mate here has come all the way from Paris to see united..the old guy quips back, 'well mind you're own business and p**s off back home then...you're taking seats my sons would spill blood to have !' "
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Thanks for making me laugh
Merry Christmas dude