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[manno]

Just wish someone can smash the smirk of Lyons face and his spitting tongue

 

Love the goat! For such a maligned player, who constantly comes under scrutiny for his inability to bow his side to victory. He's stood up admirably. Not easy living up to the expectations of a country based on the last half decent spinner we had. For him to then deliberately focus even more pressure on himself before this Ashes series by making public comments to take some
media heat off Marsh, Paine and Bancroft shows how much he's willing to give for this team. Amazing fielder, tidy bowler. Humble. Love the goat!

Hope he rips through the poms today. 

[skip1973]

Love the goat! For such a maligned player, who constantly comes under scrutiny for his inability to bow his side to victory. He's stood up admirably. Not easy living up to the expectations of a country based on the last half decent spinner we had. For him to then deliberately focus even more pressure on himself before this Ashes series by making public comments to take some
media heat off Marsh, Paine and Bancroft shows how much he's willing to give for this team. Amazing fielder, tidy bowler. Humble. Love the goat!

Hope he rips through the poms today. 

Agreed, champion bloke as well, had a few chats with him.

[Biggie Smalls]

Regarding Vince being an aesthetically pleasing (good technique ?) batsman vs gutsier/less pretty batsmen etc -
There's a reason why some batsmen at test level look ugly yet score runs . Often they've got a weakness /achilles heel and they abort that shot or avoid the things that get them into trouble . For example , steve waugh wasn't so pretty towards the 2nd half of his career . He used to have a nice looking pull and hook shot . He got in trouble with those shots so aborted them . Took balls on the body for the rest of his career and looked ugly (but gutsy) doing it . If vince is to succeed he needs to do a similar thing re his cover drives to short of a length bowling .

[brokenbat]

People should also be very critical of Root. Strokes a lot of pretty 50s, but has a terrible conversion rate to 100s. Morw should be demanded from Englands best player.

[edge]

People should also be very critical of Root. Strokes a lot of pretty 50s, but has a terrible conversion rate to 100s. Morw should be demanded from Englands best player.

Well, today's his chance...

[edge]

And that's a shitter of a decision, cheers Aleem and Marais.

[Shinpathy]

Aussies paid them off last night
bunch of cheats

[brokenbat]

And that's a shitter of a decision, cheers Aleem and Marais.

Seemed pretty legit to me (AS well as Tubs and KP in the com box)

[edge]

Seemed pretty legit to me (AS well as Tubs and KP in the com box)

Not that arsed what those two think, commentators aren't paid to rock the boat! Nothing on hotspot and the ball was past the edge at the time of the mark on snicko, not to mention the ball deviates in the opposite direction to the 'nick'...

[skip1973]

Not that arsed what those two think, commentators aren't paid to rock the boat! Nothing on hotspot and the ball was past the edge at the time of the mark on snicko, not to mention the ball deviates in the opposite direction to the 'nick'...

I imagine the umpires, commentators and players aren't that arsed what you think either.

[skip1973]

Aussies paid them off last night
bunch of cheats

Is that you Milo?

[mdg20]

Seemed pretty legit to me (AS well as Tubs and KP in the com box)

Yeah not sure what the issue is, snicko showed enough to stick with the on field decision. Would it have overturned a Not Out from the umpire maybe not

[smilley792]

Someone remind me why I got up again?

Oh well, we had 1 decent day, can't remember having a decent day last ashes series down under.

[WalkingWicket37]

It was fun while it lasted...

[smilley792]

People should also be very critical of Root. Strokes a lot of pretty 50s, but has a terrible conversion rate to 100s. Morw should be demanded from Englands best player.

Root is our best player, but yes his conversion rate is poor.


The lads got alot off pressure on his shoulders. Nobody else(cook included) is doing much to help him out in terms of batting. And he's having to captain the side to.

Maybe if the rest of the top 6 converted there pretty 30s to decent scores more often, he'd then convert more 50s.

But for now, as he's our only hope, let's not all turn on him and heap more pressure on.