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[Seniorplayer]

On the news Moores openly disappointed apparently.

[golden duck]

Like moores or not, the way he has been treated is appalling. The whole 'rumours' appearing in 3 papers at once - while he is in charge of a game!

Ecb being dicks as normal recently.

[TangoWhiskey]

What the hell is going on at the ECB? How are they ballsing PR up so much?! Everything they do is just an absolute disaster at the minute.

[ProCricketer1982]

Graves defends the ECB, saying they did t leak.. Well, someone did as news got out.. Someone.. In the ECB talked about it to someone they shouldn't.. That's a leak...

I fear with Strauss appointed and now graves defending the indefensible that he's not going to be good enough

[ppccopener]

I think it's appaling

he's not the right person long term but the way it's been handled is just beyond how to treat someone,anyone, employed by a so called professional organisation

the same thing was done to Cook when he got sacked from the one dayers. then today you have Graves coming out saying it's all fine

well it's not fine.

the sacking merry go round continues and each new cycle kicks in and I think most fans have less confidence in the senior management than before

even Vaughan and KP come out on twitter sympathising with Moores and they are well know not to be fans of his

it's embarrassing and wrong.We havnt got a clue in England how to run cricket

[Alvaro]

Crocodile tears.
Vaughan is atrociously two-faced. He changes his mind more often than he does his knickers.

[iand123]

Graves defends the ECB, saying they did t leak.. Well, someone did as news got out.. Someone.. In the ECB talked about it to someone they shouldn't.. That's a leak...

I fear with Strauss appointed and now graves defending the indefensible that he's not going to be good enough

no wonder the press pack who follow England around are scared of upsetting the RCB otherwise their sources of stories dries up. How would Graves know it wasn't leaked by the ECB? He doesn't start there until the 15th! Given the leaks from them previously if be amazed if it wasn't them. Can't think of any good reason for Moores to leak it himself.....

[uknsaunders]

The interesting question for me is:-

What did Moores, do or not do, to make 3 England captains quit first time around, warrant two 12 month spells and cause us to perform so badly. I wonder if we will ever find out?

I know about the fielding drill after a tied NZ game back in 2008 that get's quoted by Vaughan but anything else? Clearly Strauss doesn't rate him either!

[ijmorgan]

Fielding drill? Do you have a link, cheers

[ppccopener]

a guess would be if you hav'nt been there and done it at the highest level it's very difficult to manage and understand the top stars.Flintoff rates him very highly-Lancashire connection thou- and so do many others.
But at the highest level it may be a question of respect,and how to manage the elite.
what works at County level may not work at test level.By all accounts thou in his second spell he was very popular with the players, far more so than first time round.

[uknsaunders]

Fielding drill? Do you have a link, cheers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/27318793

An incident after a tied one-day international against New Zealand in Napier, when Moores ordered the team out for an immediate training session in front of the Kiwis, was a tipping point for the dressing room in its support of the coach.
In his autobiography, Graeme Swann wrote: "Our opponents sat there watching us from their dressing-room balcony, beers in hand, laughing their heads off."It's the most humiliating and degrading session I have ever been involved in."

Speaking at the time of Moores' reappointment, former England captain Michael Vaughan said: "He was the kind of guy who would come in and try to re-galvanise a side that was pretty fine at the time, but his methods with the seniors, Pietersen, myself, Paul Collingwood, Andrew Strauss - players that had been around for a long time - didn't quite work."