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*Official* Ashes Series Thread
- Thread starter Neil Pickup
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chris.hinton
International Captain
Marc, I prefer to discusss this privately with you please email me at Chrishinton19@yahoo.co.uk and i will answer your question
chris.hinton
International Captain
ok, Swap Foster around with key but i will still keep my team
Hoggard is Shot basically it will do him good if he has a bit of a rest, he played non-stop for 2 years . Chris Schofield needs another chance and with the Aussies winning the ashes it will lift the pressure and he will prosper
When is there a full squad for England?Originally posted by Rik
Let's see how you would do any better with half your squad missing...Originally posted by anilramavarma
It has been a spineless display in the last 2 tests. Why don't they atleast put up a fight? If they play with half the discipline of the Aussies, they can make this a better contest.
Hussain formulated some grand plan to snare Hayden and succeeded partially, now I guess he and Fletcher will chart out similar plans for Ponting for Perth.
That will be the signal for Langer, Martyn, Waugh & Gilchrist to shine, I suppose.
This excuse has been doing the rounds for quite a while now. The fact is that a even with a full-strength squad, the scoreline would still have been 2-0 for Aus by now. It's all to do with discipline, application, attitude, confidence. England has shown themselves to be lacking in all these areas. Unless they improve by leaps and bounds in these, full-strength or half-strength will be effectively equal to no-strength.
Gotchya
State Vice-Captain
I probably agree with that sentiment. England should have grouped themselves better, but currently I noticed that the press are out hunting !
"Professionally these are painful times ... a crushing Ashes defeat and early exit from (next year's) World Cup would surely guarantee the end of the Hussain era"
"What's the most useless thing in sport? A ticket to the fifth day of an England Test"
This is not very inspiring, and is unsporting. Hell even the Pakistani press do a better job. I mean before even the WC has started you start to think it all up, its going to be an early exit Nasser will be packing his bags, this is not the right attitude towards players and very painful for them to read such comments. I mean it is okay to be critical, but such demoralising crap is utterly useless.
"Professionally these are painful times ... a crushing Ashes defeat and early exit from (next year's) World Cup would surely guarantee the end of the Hussain era"
"What's the most useless thing in sport? A ticket to the fifth day of an England Test"
This is not very inspiring, and is unsporting. Hell even the Pakistani press do a better job. I mean before even the WC has started you start to think it all up, its going to be an early exit Nasser will be packing his bags, this is not the right attitude towards players and very painful for them to read such comments. I mean it is okay to be critical, but such demoralising crap is utterly useless.
Gotchya
State Vice-Captain
I probably agree with that sentiment. England should have grouped themselves better, but currently I noticed that the press are out hunting !
"Professionally these are painful times ... a crushing Ashes defeat and early exit from (next year's) World Cup would surely guarantee the end of the Hussain era"
"What's the most useless thing in sport? A ticket to the fifth day of an England Test"
This is not very inspiring, and is unsporting. Hell even the Pakistani press do a better job. I mean before even the WC has started you start to think it all up, its going to be an early exit Nasser will be packing his bags, this is not the right attitude towards players and very painful for them to read such comments. I mean it is okay to be critical, but such demoralising crap is utterly useless.
"Professionally these are painful times ... a crushing Ashes defeat and early exit from (next year's) World Cup would surely guarantee the end of the Hussain era"
"What's the most useless thing in sport? A ticket to the fifth day of an England Test"
This is not very inspiring, and is unsporting. Hell even the Pakistani press do a better job. I mean before even the WC has started you start to think it all up, its going to be an early exit Nasser will be packing his bags, this is not the right attitude towards players and very painful for them to read such comments. I mean it is okay to be critical, but such demoralising crap is utterly useless.
Mr Mxyzptlk
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I fully agree with this. That crap has been going on for years and has to stop.
Neil Pickup
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Chris, are you trying to elevate Chris Schofield to Ajit Agarkar-levels of mentioning on CW?
And yes, the press in the UK are the most brain-dead bunch of short-sighted, ignorant capitalist morons with the sole desire to sell papers that I've seen.
If you want fair critique of Hussain, read my "Nightmare on Vulture Street" article
And yes, the press in the UK are the most brain-dead bunch of short-sighted, ignorant capitalist morons with the sole desire to sell papers that I've seen.
If you want fair critique of Hussain, read my "Nightmare on Vulture Street" article
marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
I'm not so sure there - if England had a fully fit side, then I reckon we'd only see about one of the 2nd Test bowling attack in there and certainly at least one batsman different.When is there a full squad for England?
Tresocthick
Vaughan
Butcher
Hussain
Thorpe
Stewart/Flintoff
Stewart/Flintoff
Giles
Caddick
Jones
Gough.
That would be a lot better side than what we've got at the moment, and wouldn't have folded so dramatically in either Test - I think with that side it may be 1-0 with a draw, but not 2-0.