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[Nickauger]

Brett Lee was class!!!! The rest not so much! Was he 3rd seamer in the test team? I always thought he opened up? Probably wrong though!

[Vic Nicholas]

Brett Lee was class!!!! The rest not so much! Was he 3rd seamer in the test team? I always thought he opened up? Probably wrong though!

Those days he was third seamer behind McGrath and Gillespie.

Heck, even Fleming used to open the bowling ahead of him when Dizzy was injured.

Lee's best was at the very start of his career and at the very end. In between, there was a lot of dross. And this was in the middle of his dross period an led to him being dropped for 18 months soon after.

[Nickauger]

Ah OK. I must admit, being relatively young, I only remember him when he was bowling very very quick

[The_Bird]

Ah OK. I must admit, being relatively young, I only remember him when he was bowling very very quick

He was still bowling 90+ mph in 2012!

He was the blueprint for consistently bowling fast over a long career. Got a fair but of tap every now and then.

[The Palmist]

Australian team fans and supporters deserve everything coming to them. As much as I admire the organisation and their ability to not give up....I will never have any sympathy for them.

Sore losers they have always been!

[WalkingWicket37]

Sore losers they have always been!

[The Palmist]

lol May the force be with you 22/7

[Vic Nicholas]

Australian team fans and supporters deserve everything coming to them. As much as I admire the organisation and their ability to not give up....I will never have any sympathy for them.

Sore losers they have always been!

Oh yeah, and everybody else are GOOD losers?

Please, get a  grip of yourself.

You sound like a boorish winner who loves sticking it up people.

Then, when your team does go on the slippery slope downward, rather than face the music, you will vanish like a fart in the wind.

I know your type only too well.

[The Palmist]

You sound like a boorish winner who loves sticking it up people.

Yes I love sticking it up but not everyone, just Australians.

A team whose coach calls on masses to misbehave with guests deserves everything coming it's way.

Your reactions only proves my point about you being a sore sore sore loser.

Loser Loser Loser na na na na na

[FattusCattus]

Oh yeah, and everybody else are GOOD losers?

Please, get a  grip of yourself.

You sound like a boorish winner who loves sticking it up people.

Then, when your team does go on the slippery slope downward, rather than face the music, you will vanish like a fart in the wind.

I know your type only too well.

Cor Vic - that's a bit rough! As someone who spent the nineties and noughties watching a poor England get hammered by an excellent Australia, I had to put up with a fair amount of boorish behaviour by their press, their fans, many of the players and most Aussies living over here.

The boring '5 nil' pronouncements of people like McGrath and Warne, the overuse of sledging from Merv, the press writing off every England touring side, and smug Aussies in every pub in West London.

It is simply cyclical as we are currently in the ascendency - but it wasn't so long ago that some Aussies had cornered the market in being 'boorish winners'!!

[The Palmist]

It is simply cyclical as we are currently in the ascendency - but it wasn't so long ago that some Aussies had cornered the market in being 'boorish winners'!!

That's probably what he meant when he said "I know your type too well"   

[Vic Nicholas]

Yes I love sticking it up but not everyone, just Australians.

A team whose coach calls on masses to misbehave with guests deserves everything coming it's way.

Your reactions only proves my point about you being a sore sore sore loser.

Loser Loser Loser na na na na na

Sore Loser Exhibit A:

On this very site only a couple short years ago:

"We will be number 1 test nation for the next 20 years"

- It lasted a whole year

"Australia is now in a West Indies type decline and will be lower than Bangladesh and Zimbabwe"

- we played off for the number 1 test playing nation with SA just last summer, and barring the idiotic "rotation policy" may nearly have got there (undeservedly or not).

"Cook and Trott will score thousands in the 2013 home Ashes"

- they didn't

"Anderson will be licking his lips the whole series against the (No Swearing Please) Aussie batsman and take 30 plus wickets at a sub 20 average, ditto Swan"

- they didn't.

"Ryan Harris will break down after one test...hahaha"

- he didn't

"Steve Smith is a joke, will be lucky to make a run in the series as Anderson will destroy him".

- not quite.

.....then there were these pearls of wisdom...

Upon England being white-washed Pakistan...

"That Ajmal is a cheat..."

Prior to SA beating your brains in a home series in 2012...

"We will win this series 2-1"

- no you didn't

...need I go on hombres Palmist?

And yes I DO know your type well.

If Australia fluked an Ashes series win this summer (it would have to be a fluke because we are not good enough), I am 100% certain that blankbats.co.uk will be a Palmist free zone for at least 12 months as you go into a self imposed exile rather than face the music.

Cheers and all that!
Vic

[rbblack]

Got to love an Aussie backed into a corner. It's why playing you guys in (any) sport is my favourite match up.

[The Palmist]

...need I go on hombres Palmist?

Look man...you lost and you were not the better team on the day. It happens even to the best [or those who think they are the best]. You may get your day probably by fluke as you have rightly mentioned yourself.

You do have a very appealing women's cricket team, let's give you that.

[ProCricketer1982]

While wanting England to win again, I'm really not going to pretend we are that much better! Aussies nearly won two tests and the only real difference between the teams was a rampant Ian bell and less collapses (eng). Tbh, it'll be even closer this time and I think it really could go 2-1 either way