Graeme Swann

[MrPrez]

I think Swann agreeing with you should set off red lights tbh.

 

[MrPrez]

Also, hilarious that an Aussie supporter calls English players idiots. Pot, kettle.

 

[Spikey]

The really difficult part is working oh which England players Swann isn't referring to. Let's go through the side:

Cook - uppity. Basically wears a sign on his forehead that says "I'm a private school tosspot" (all private school students are tosspots ftr)

Carberry - honest bloke. Won't be him

Root - thinks his **** doesn't stink. But it does

KP - well, yeah

Bell - had one good series and think he's God's gift and is living off it without putting in on tour

Stokes - decent player but seems a knob. Should fit in well then

Prior - knob jockey

Broad - same as Bell

Bresnan - solid bloke. Not him

Anderson - dining out on past glories and still gobby despite getting a pasting. Is a dick head.

Panesar - pisses on people. I mean, come on.

Can't blame Swann for retiring

what a post

 

[GIMH]

So I'm reading that Swann says his comments were about nobody who plays for England

 

[adub]

The really difficult part is working oh which England players Swann isn't referring to. Let's go through the side:

Cook - uppity. Basically wears a sign on his forehead that says "I'm a private school tosspot" (all private school students are tosspots ftr)

Carberry - honest bloke. Won't be him

Root - thinks his **** doesn't stink. But it does

KP - well, yeah

Bell - had one good series and think he's God's gift and is living off it without putting in on tour

Stokes - decent player but seems a knob. Should fit in well then

Prior - knob jockey

Broad - same as Bell

Bresnan - solid bloke. Not him

Anderson - dining out on past glories and still gobby despite getting a pasting. Is a dick head.

Panesar - pisses on people. I mean, come on.

Can't blame Swann for retiring

someone's having a golden summer, but it ain't anyone English

 

[fredfertang]

So I'm reading that Swann says his comments were about nobody who plays for England

He's clearly not familiar with the work of Denis Healey - someone really needs to tell him to stop digging

 

[Spark]

Most likely many in the team share his opinion tbh, so the substance of his comments is no news to the inner sanctum, even if the timing is a bit... odd.

 

[Burgey]

Monty aside, who will provide Magnus Effect for England in the future?

 

[BoyBrumby]

Always thought Swann was quite a character. Shame

In my experience "character" is often a synonym for another "c" word entirely.

Wasn't Anderson-Broad-Swann talked of as something of an anti-KP cartel within the team last year?

That was sort of what I meant with my "he's either with you or against you" and "hint of the schoolyard bully" comments. Tim Bresnan (bless his heart, but clearly not Mensa material) is very much the Karl Pilkington to his Ricky Gervais and Anderson's Stephen Merchant, if their Twatter exchanges are anything to go by. Which is fine if a player can take it, but some can't.

There's no doubt KP is an awkward character and it's also inescapable that he is an outsider, so it's not hard to imagine he has been the victim of some similar "banter", which, given his awkwardness and his need to feel wanted/loved, could've lead to the situation we saw last summer.

So I'm reading that Swann says his comments were about nobody who plays for England

Stable door. Horse. Locking. Bolted, etc.

 

[Hooksey]

It made sense and they tried it in Adelaide. 1 It didn't work and 2 they no longer have 2 good spinners to choose. If Swann was still there they may well have gone down that path again in sydney dependent on conditions especially as Stokes has done ok but it isn't an option now.

By calling up both Scott Borthwick and James Tredwell to their Test squad, England are keeping their options open to the possibility of playing 2 spinners in Sydney.

 

[jackbyrne91]

Certainly didn't expect this when I started the thread about him being dropped from the ODI team a week ago!

My thoughts are this. I'm almost certain he has been told he is dropped, as is Prior. So who cares? He obviously thinks "I've been dropped, there's no chance for me coming back, f*ck it I'm going home for Christmas"

As the point of this thread showed - he has already been dropped in ODI's for Tredwell, so no surprise that this has come now to be honest.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Am disappointed Kerrigan isn't in the team. It's been far too long between quotes and pics from 'The Castle'.

 

[GuyFromLancs]

Swann should have gone out in style - not by playing well, by walking straight up to Dave Warner on boxing day, and nutting him in the nose to enthusiastic applause from ... well the whole world really.

 

[Spark]

Yes, but whose honour would he be defending there?

 

[GuyFromLancs]

Yes, but whose honour would he be defending there?

Cricket's.

Warner is a loathsome individual. A very good bats, but an 'orrible bastard through-and-through

 

[the big bambino]

Punching someone defends cricket's honour? Well Warner is a knight in shining armour then.

 

[Hurricane]

I don't understand why the hate in the thread for swann leaving suddenly. Damien Martyn equally just left mid series iirrc and no one got on his case. Seems like double standards.

 

[GuyFromLancs]

Punching someone defends cricket's honour? Well Warner is a knight in shining armour then.

Come on, it's Warner. The rules of engagement can be put aside.

Like my owd Grandad would say - that lad's got it coming

 

[Adders]

I don't understand why the hate in the thread for swann leaving suddenly. Damien Martyn equally just left mid series iirrc and no one got on his case. Seems like double standards.

Well certainly my feelings towards Swann are not of hate but more of bitter disappointment. And tbf Damien Martyn left a team stomping towards a 5-0 victory.........hardly the same as Swann deserting the sinking ship.

 

[Spark]

Punching someone defends cricket's honour? Well Warner is a knight in shining armour then.

Was a joke based on Warner saying he punched Root because he was "defending Hashim Amla's honour" somehow.