Where is Richard ??

[Scaly piscine]

Read my post to PY below.

How does it matter to you if you cant even notice that he has 'taken over' a thread. If you are here on the forum for the pleasure of it, why not try to ensyre that , that is what you get out of it. Why drive yourself nuts by cursing all and sundry howsoever much they may be deserving of your diatribe-according to you.

But you do notice when someone has taken over a thread even with them on the ignore list because it has page after page of usually a certain two individuals, look at the Vaughan 100th ODI or 100th ODI cap thread - it is absolutely unavoidable. Anyway I ensure I waste as little time reading rubbish BY using the ignore list and it's very useful for those that post sensibly - not so useful for those that post consecutively multiple times and scroll off all the interesting bits tho.

 

[tooextracool]

I dont know if it was a coincidence but there was and has been a distinct reduction in his marathon sessions with TEC.

and if you noticed, nearly all of that has to do with the fact that i have in the last few months cut down on those marathon sessions simply because i didnt want to spend 2 hours just replying to his posts everyday, especially when they werent getting anywhere.

 

[Swervy]

well starting tomorrow, me and the lady in my life are travelling around the country for a week (well, Milton Keynes for 3 nights to visit rellies,and then a few nights in Yorkshire Dales)..if i see Richard scurrying around with a copy of Wisden in his hand, I will report back to you all a week on Sunday

 

[Swervy]

Then of course you get ridiculous threads like this where all of a sudden people make out they like him and miss him, contrary to what has been said previously for months and years - kinda two-faced if you ask me.

its got to be said, i do kind of agree with Scaly here...

The forum does seem to liven up a bit when he is here, but I dont know know whether that is for good reasons really.

the threads when Richard isnt around are faster flowing, people dont tend to dwell on the same old repetitive thing for weeks on end..threads live and then die a natural death..with richard its like he loves the slow agonising death of a well flogged topic.

That said, I do like the discussions/arguements when he is involved, because you can almost hear the blood boiling in his skull after a while, and he invariably takes the bait far too easily.

 

[vic_orthdox]

 

[Richard]

Let's hope he's just on holiday.

I'd have thought that Steve Wayward-Harmison's figures in the last week would have been sufficient to drag him back, although to counter that, Glenn McGrath has been particularly lucky of late.

McGrath hasn't played a Test-match of late.
Nor have I called him lucky once since Adelaide 2004\05, and I'm anticipating excidetly the prospect of seeing him bowl well on flat pitches this summer.

 

[Richard]

To be fair, the first point he made was fairly true - Richard has a habit of saying SP's comments don't have any validity because SP is a moron (or something similar)

I've said his comments regarding me don't have any validity - not because he's a moron, his being a moron has nothing to do with it - but because of his irrational hatred of me.

 

[Richard]

I would say thanks, but then again, I thought not.

 

[Richard]

That said, I do like the discussions/arguements when he is involved, because you can almost hear the blood boiling in his skull after a while, and he invariably takes the bait far too easily.

Well you can imagine it if you want - only time it's ever actually happened was when you insisted that the old ***ist rubbish was right and correct...

 

[Richard]

I believe he said he is on holiday somewhere in the North of England.

He said this in the meet-up thread.

Indeed that was one of a few reasons for my recent 3-week absence.

 

[greg]

He talks too much and he always want to have the last word.

Well the evidence is certainly there in the "last post" column to back up the latter assertion

 

[kendall]

I see you are back with an avengance

 

[roseboy64]

Never had a problem with Richard really. I'm sure he's missed by a majority of the CW public that were active when he was.

 

[roseboy64]

Oh wow. He's back. Didn't notice.

 

[marc71178]

Please tell me he hasn't gone through the entire forum since he left and posted his theories on each of the threads.

 

[marc71178]

I've said his comments regarding me don't have any validity - not because he's a moron, his being a moron has nothing to do with it - but because of his irrational hatred of me.

No, you've said his opinions count for nothing as he's a moron.

Incidentally that has been when he's been one of the many picking holes in the so-called "first chance average"

 

[aussie]

and your reasons for not liking richard being ?

never said i didn't like him...

 

[vic_orthdox]

I would say thanks, but then again, I thought not.

Awww, come on! How can you answer grumpily to that guy?

Would have you preferred a whole cast photo? It's hard to be angry at John Travolta...

 

[Richard]

Maybe I should clarify; my comment in reply to the pic was based on a piece from the Wisden 2005 editorial by Matthew Engel.
I should probably have added a , or two to clarify.

 

[Richard]

No, you've said his opinions count for nothing as he's a moron.

Let's see the comment, then?

Incidentally that has been when he's been one of the many picking holes in the so-called "first chance average"

Nothing to do with that - as you say, there are many, and I've simply said that his attempting to deride anything to do with me can't gain any credence because of the fact that it's done out-of-hand, and clearly without any consideration, just the usual "oh, it's Motson, must be ludicrous rubbish" bullshiiyt.