1 day to go!

[fredfertang]

You mean like the lower taxes?



(don't come in here with your unpaid holidays & sick, I just don't wanna hear it )

for fear of going too far off topic we'll have to agree to differ!

 

[howardj]

Massively pumped.

1st session, 1st day, 1st Test of an Ashes series.

It brings a tear to the eye of all purists.

Don't really care who wins - just want a cracking series.

 

[Uppercut]

Unbelievably excited. Counting down the hours. 21 to go.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Won't be able to sleep tonight, I am so excited. I will actually cry if it rains as well.

 

[Nate]

Totally reckon it will rain, and spoil life for us all.

 

[superkingdave]

When do we reckon the number of posts will surpass that in the last Ashes forum (15202 iirc), currently at 6816...6817.

 

[Richard]

I know I'll be getting zero sleep tonight

I had not much the last two nights - will have a good and propa' night tonight. Then, well... ensure to wake by 9:30 or so.

 

[Richard]

When do we reckon the number of posts will surpass that in the last Ashes forum (15202 iirc), currently at 6816...6817.

Reckon probably mid-Lord's TBH.

Incidentally... 16 hours until the program starts.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Had to change my avatar back to the original, realised my new one had a British flag in it. Can't have that during the Ashes, nosiree.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Well my gall stones have come good/bad for me, so I get the first test in its entirity from the comfort of me own living room. Ill wind that blows no good and all that.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Had to change my avatar back to the original, realised my new one had a British flag in it. Can't have that during the Ashes, nosiree.

Thanks for reminding me to take Mike Hussey out of my avatar, I love the bloke but it is bad karma for the Ashes.

 

[Furball]

Thanks for reminding me to take Mike Hussey out of my avatar, I love the bloke but it is bad karma for the Ashes.

Good shout, need to remove Mitch from mine.

 

[Richard]

Thanks for reminding me to take Mike Hussey out of my avatar, I love the bloke but it is bad karma for the Ashes.

Just don't make any more avatar bets with year-long durations.

 

[stumpski]

Being self employed has occasional advantages - this is one of them

I bet the Christmas party sucks though.

 

[fredfertang]

I bet the Christmas party sucks though.

worst evening of the year - and to make it worse I have to pay for it

 

[Richard]

Build-up

Was going to post this in a separate thread, thought it might as well go here though...

Anyone else had the feeling that, relatively speaking, this series has sneaked up on us? The run-up to 2005 seemed to be never-ending, so that when the first ball was bowled it almost seemed like the end of one road already - Andrew Miller talked in April of "the longest and potentially most tedious phoney war in Anglo-Australian history" and he wasn't wrong. The run-up to 2006/07 likewise. Talking, here, about the immediate prelude to the series; obviously all series' were being anticipated years in advance in moderation - the end of one Ashes is always the countdown to the start of the next one.

But this year, though there's been the usual amount of "it's an Ashes summer" stuff, it just seems like we're here - the day before the series - without too much hoo-haa. Perhaps because of the fact that in 2005 there was a whole load of ODI cricket (and that Twenty20 match).

Or perhaps I've just had greater variety of things on my mind this May and June than in 2005.

 

[zaremba]

Perhaps you're just getting old, Richard? Perhaps your enjoyment of life is starting to wane. Now is the time to turn to drink, drugs and prostitutes. Worked for me.

 

[Richard]

I turned to drink maaaaaaaaaaany years ago, and have long planned never to turn to either of the others.

















OH, WAS THAT POST IN JEST??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think not.

 

[fredfertang]

Perhaps you're just getting old, Richard? Perhaps your enjoyment of life is starting to wane. Now is the time to turn to drink, drugs and prostitutes. Worked for me.

in what way?

 

[stumpski]

Yeah the '05 series started stupidly late, didn't it - almost two weeks later than this one (which is still too late for those of us who got used to series starting in June, but that's another matter). There has been a fair old build-up, but the T20 WC distracted from it for a while.

I sometimes wonder what would happen if the Ashes were played in a (football) World Cup year, which has never happened although it's clashed with the Olympics a few times. Would result in a huge downsizing of the hype surely.