***Official**** Sri Lanka in New Zealand 2014/2015

[Spark]

I would say thattedious "fun facts" bull**** a few pages back was far worse for forum atmosphere than anything else. Holy ****.

No more of that or anything like it please (except in self-deprecating jest) or the points will be many and they will be swift.

 

[indiaholic]

Declared 10 overs too early IMO. But as a neutral this is what you want.

 

[Days of Grace]

Oh, I'm sorry. I'll try to stop getting offended and making personal slurs and insults at someone repeatedly throughout the day while they talk cricket and stay balanced irregardless the conversation.

Oh wait, that's what I've been doing all day.

Your posting about Taylor has been balanced?

 

[Athlai]

You do realise most of the time the forum breakdown occurs, it's because someone such as yourself takes offense at something I've said and spends the next three pages (or in the case of Flem, the next two years) trying to derail any topic or conversation, while claiming I'm the reason the atmosphere sucks in here.

You have the ignore option, some of you even take pride in expressing that you're using it - please feel free to do so if you don't like my posting style, the sheer fact that my notification keeps lighting up repeatedly with "liked" comments indicates that some people do enjoy my posting style. The less time you spend attempting to argue with me about the way I post, the less time you'll spend being offended about how I post.

Should be a pretty simple understanding, because ultimately, I've not seen you add anything to the cricket conversation in the past three pages, except to denounce me for making statements about cricket.

This is a tour thread, I do not have to ignore you, nor is it easy to ignore anyone with the ignore function. It's fairly clear that the general consensus from the blokes I've enjoyed discussing cricket with over the last 7 years that you're the bad apple. And as its a forum, the way you voice that sentiment is to constructively call you out for being miserable.

 

[Blocky]

Obviously Blocky deserves a lot of credit for this innings due to hisrreverse jinxing.

You missed the additional comment where I said Williamson would now go get 165 after Neesham's dismissal.

 

[OverratedSanity]

the sheer fact that my notification keeps lighting up repeatedly with "liked" comments indicates that some people do enjoy my posting style.

This was so great.

Here, have a like. Hope it lights up your day

 

[cnerd123]

Bollocks, no different to reading articles about yourself in the paper from a journalist in my view.

Nah look. You aren't earning any money by selling articles that slag of a cricketer's personality. You actually aren't gaining anything from this. Rest of us post her to have fun and banter and talk some **** and discuss cricket and get into pointless philosophical arguments in comparing ATG cricketers. You seem to post here with an agenda to inform us all about how awful certain cricketers are and waste no opportunity to remind us over and over again what you feel about them. That does come across as a little bit sad.

You've made your point. You think Taylor is a laz **** and that means everything has accomplished should be discredited. Okay good we get it. We all disagree. Topic over. You don't need to keep bringing it up. Move on.

 

[Spark]

390 in 110 is ballsy as ****

 

[Spark]

You've made your point. You think Taylor is a laz **** and that means everything has accomplished should be discredited. Okay good we get it. We all disagree. Topic over. You don't need to keep bringing it up. Move on.

Would agree with this, as a mod.

 

[Blocky]

Your posting about Taylor has been balanced?

Compared to the people claiming he's still our best batsman when he's been dire this year, got himself out stupidly so often and put us from winning positions onto the back foot - yeah, I think it's balanced. You've got to remember I want Ross to get his act together and train hard because I know how good he can be, thats part of the reason I'm so critical of him for being so lazy at the moment in comparison to BJ, Williamson, Latham, McCullum, et all.

 

[OverratedSanity]

390 in 110 is ballsy as ****

I think they've screwed this up. Pitch seems a paradise.

 

[hendrix]

They'll chase it down.

The problem I have is that even if Mathews scores an ATG innings I don't believe SL deserves to win this match.

 

[Blocky]

390 in 110 is ballsy as ****

On a pitch where they didn't take a wicket in over 110 overs too... but I think honestly it'll be a bridge too far to chase down and is "safe" - but draw has to be the favoured option now.

 

[Spark]

I think they've screwed this up. Pitch seems a paradise.

In fairness the way a team bowls with the third new ball (did they actually take it?) is not necessarily representative of how the pitch actually plays

 

[Immenso]

For the record; I'm not happy about this deceleration, at all.

Way too generous.
Don't put your team mates hard work at risk so frivolously.

Just like we didn't last year when it was the captain who put in the hard work.

 

[indiaholic]

Way too ballsy..

 

[Flem274*]

390 is a long way even on a road.

 

[Viscount Tom]

You missed the additional comment where I said Williamson would now go get 165 after Neesham's dismissal.

I was 50 something pages behind so I think I may have missed more than just the 1 post .

 

[cnerd123]

I think they've screwed this up. Pitch seems a paradise.

Nah. Scoreboard pressure, new ball, etc etc. Think SL are out of it.

Would like to see Sanga and Mathews give it a go tho.

 

[Spark]

this is where i'd usually expect to read 50 lose to win jokes except then i realise i'm in a nz tour thread