Sunil1z
International Regular
I would hardly call @chris.hinton an England supporter . He is a fairweather fan who will disappear when England start getting defeated again.
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Socerer 01
International Captain
so the average England supporter then
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Explains why this forum is always full of England fans
Howe_zat
Audio File
I've no particular desire to go out to bat for Hinton, but I've seen this levelled at a lot of people lately and it's horse ****. There's no 'post when your team is losing' quota to meet before someone can say they count as a supporter. Of course it's more fun for most people to post when your team is winning. If you like talking about you team when they're losing great, but it doesn't make your posting better.
Sunil1z
International Regular
I understand what you want to say and it doesn’t apply to every poster . However posters who post during both good times and bad times of their team are less likely to make hyperbolic posts and would be more rational in their analysis of their team and players.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Sunil1z
International Regular
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honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
He is a resident one eyed English supporter who lived through various Ashes and other beatdowns.
Or at least that is what he is trying to say. I actually think he is more balanced than he likes to accept.
Not having that mate.
The average England cricket supporter has to put up with alot.
Despite being one of the big guns of world cricket in terms of revenue and influence, we massively under perform because of the way the game is run.
We've had to endure regular drubbings by our most hated rival, both at home and away. I've been watching us since
the late 1970s and apart from the Packer era, we've only won twice Down Under. Believe me, doing all nighters when you're getting hammered doesn't come easy.
It took us over 40 years and 3 final defeats before we won a 50 over world cup.
Yet crowds at home are excellent. We take massive support away from home. The whole Barmy Army concept was built on you must be mad to follow England abroad when we're so shite.
You can accuse English cricket of many things and it has numerous shortcomings, but it's supporters are not one of them.
Adders
Cricketer Of The Year
This is such horseshit and really has irritated me more than it should.
Look mate, if you want to hang **** on England and or its supporters you've got to at least have some substance behind the mud you fling.........England cricket fans are literally the only supporter group in world cricket where being fickle or fairweathered is NOT something they can be accused of.
Edit: beaten by @Ashes81 ..........basically what he said.
Arachnodouche
International Captain
It has induced severe cognitive dissonance in me for sure. Growing up through the 90s, the English were supposed to be staid, stodgy, utterly hapless, at the white ball game in particular. To see the tear they've been on in those formats over the last few years and then to see them apply the same notion to Tests is all
ankitj
Hall of Fame Member
Same feelings exactly. England were the team that was stuck in past. Orthodox to a fault, unimaginative and all that. Now they are transforming one format at a time. And doing it virtually overnight. It's like an anomaly in space time fabric.It has induced severe cognitive dissonance in me for sure. Growing up through the 90s, the English were supposed to be staid, stodgy, utterly hapless, at the white ball game in particular. To see the tear they've been on in those formats over the last few years and then to see them apply the same notion to Tests is all
Exactly we send thousands of supporters to every nation to watch us play win or lose. The 90s we did even tho we were bottom of the test rankings.
Anyway since Hinton has been posting we haven't really failed so this can't even be directed at him
Coronis
International Coach
Give it 7 months, Smith and Cummins will thrash you boys.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
He's been around for years mate, just not with his current style of posting. Top CWer of the year imo.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Yeah like all those other times Australia came and thrashed us here. Might read the old match threads from the last time that happened soon. Oh wait
Maybe you will, maybe you won't.
But if you do, we won't leave the ground by tea like you lot did when we pissed all over you at The MCG, Boxing Day 2011.