I suggest you grow a brain and a bit of maturity, calling someone an arsehole because they're stating a fact that someone disagrees with, then when someone external to the conversation shows that fact to be true, the person still maintains an ignorant viewpoint is the sign of someone who shouldn't be posting on an internet forum.
Haha, he apologises and you double-down with more belligerence and insults. Classic Blocky.
I'm not here to make friends, nor enemies. I'm here to discuss cricket and my opinions versus others, and also hold people to account when their opinions are wrong, or when they're trying to argue a basic fact. If people get their panties in a knot because I post in an assertive style and am not afraid to back up my opinions - that's up to them to control. I'll control the fact that I don't call them a bunch of idiots when they make blatantly stupid points.
Yeah with your mad tail you need to set something decent here.
Tough titties, the guy insulted me over the fact that I was pulling up someone who refused to believe a fact, even after someone else proved me right. And threw a stupid insult out, I get blamed for starting a lot of the arguments and personal ****, but to be honest, most of the personal **** is thrown my way and I hardly bother responding to it, until it gets to a head like this where someone is making a conversation out of how I deal with people.
I didn't call you an arsehole for stating a fact. I did it because of the mean and spiteful way you stated that fact. And because I had just received some bad personal news and that put me in a bad mood. But I don't want to prolong that discussion. It is not relevant to the state of the match, or much fun - and frankly you seem to lack insight into your own poor behaviours so I doubt very much whether further discussion will achieve a change in those behaviours.
McCullum opens, Watling bats 5.
Develop him is the answer. Get our best bowling coaches to work on him night and day. He doesn't need to improve by much (I only have only seen him in ODIs mind you) just a 10% improvement will lift him to bowl one fewer bad ball an over and that should suffice for what we want out of him.
Was a combination of Neesham top-scoring and Jerome Taylor bowling crap really.
The rate was high during the Taylor-Williamson partnership and remained that way to the end, really.
On face value, perhaps. But you're completely ignoring that Pidg is in his third Test, has never really had to nurse a tail in his life, has a guy much his senior at 10 who rates himself as a batsman, and if he gets into a mentality of turning down runs and altering the way he plays, especially so early in his career, probably gets out anyway. He's not Michael Hussey, he's not even a top 7-8 batsman at FC level. Seems like you've been around cricket a long time, sometimes it's worth scratching deeper than 'guy gets out, either amazing nut or poor shot' or in this case just blindly blaming a guy who deserves a lot more for the ticker exhibited
