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50 days to the ASHES

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liquidlunch

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Here we come again,different look to the 2005 side but a blend of experiance and youth.Even bringing a 30 year old uncapped wicketkeeper in.Taken him 10 years but he has finally earnt the right to represent Australia.Chokko Manou will make an impression when he finally gets a go
The Aussie Ashes squad is as follows: R Ponting (c), M Clarke (vc), S Clark, B Haddin, N Hauritz, B Hilfenhaus, P Hughes, M Hussey, M Johnson, S Katich, B Lee, G Manou, A McDonald, M North, P Siddle, S Watson.
Hope you fine Englanders are getting ready to get yer pants pulled down and bottoms firmly smacked:D:D
Australia 3-1
 
Bob Willis was just on TV poking holes in everyone apart from Mitchell Johnson, but he's a miserable bastard so I don't take him at face value. I have to say though that if the groundsmen have any sense, they'll prepare raging turners; they're already forecasting a hot Summer, so with luck the pitches will be nice and dusty.
 
Nemo said:
Bob Willis was just on TV poking holes in everyone apart from Mitchell Johnson, but he's a miserable bastard so I don't take him at face value. I have to say though that if the groundsmen have any sense, they'll prepare raging turners; they're already forecasting a hot Summer, so with luck the pitches will be nice and dusty.
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He makes me laugh, he's such a curmudgeon. He hasn't got the time of day for poor umpiring either.
 
liquidlunch said:
Here we come again,different look to the 2005 side but a blend of experiance and youth.Even bringing a 30 year old uncapped wicketkeeper in.Taken him 10 years but he has finally earnt the right to represent Australia.Chokko Manou will make an impression when he finally gets a go
The Aussie Ashes squad is as follows: R Ponting (c), M Clarke (vc), S Clark, B Haddin, N Hauritz, B Hilfenhaus, P Hughes, M Hussey, M Johnson, S Katich, B Lee, G Manou, A McDonald, M North, P Siddle, S Watson.
Hope you fine Englanders are getting ready to get yer pants pulled down and bottoms firmly smacked:D:D
Australia 3-1
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What do you think of your squad? It's only 6 batters and one spinner isn't it?
 
Great!

50 days until i can watch another woefull England performance!

Oh well, At least I've seen us lift the Ashes once in my life time!
 
liquidlunch said:
Here we come again,different look to the 2005 side but a blend of experiance and youth.Even bringing a 30 year old uncapped wicketkeeper in.Taken him 10 years but he has finally earnt the right to represent Australia.Chokko Manou will make an impression when he finally gets a go
The Aussie Ashes squad is as follows: R Ponting (c), M Clarke (vc), S Clark, B Haddin, N Hauritz, B Hilfenhaus, P Hughes, M Hussey, M Johnson, S Katich, B Lee, G Manou, A McDonald, M North, P Siddle, S Watson.
Hope you fine Englanders are getting ready to get yer pants pulled down and bottoms firmly smacked:D:D
Australia 3-1
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Jimmeh and Draco are gonna fuck up your quote unquote batsmen and you know it :p
 
can't wait, will be great to watch whatever the result

but it will be 2-1 to England
 
I think it's looking well set. To early to tell. Whoever wins the first test will win the series. Or maybe not.
 
I hate this talk of the recent 2 games against the Windies 'setting the stage' for England doing well in the Ashes. :mad:

Its' obvious we're gonna get whacked as per usual. the Windies clearly didn't give much of a toss about those two games.
 
It will be 1-1 going into the last test, England will panic and get big Al Shearer to rescue the top order by sloting him into the number 3 spot after Bopara gets 4 successive pairs. Kevin Keegan to replace Monty as the second spin option too.
 
The Aussie squad looks very strong to me. I reckon they'll start with Hughes, Katich, Ponting, Clarke, Hussey, North, Haddin, Johnson, Siddle, Hauritz and Clark. Katich could be a possible weakness, considering he had a terrible Ashes series in 2005 and that might play on his mind. Since moving up the order his record seems to have been better.
Cardiff is still usually a turning pitch, mind you given all the changes/ground relaying etc it may have changed considerably this year. Croft has taken bags of wickets in Cardiff the last few seasons though.
 
The Australian press (at least, the stuff I just googled) doesn't seem overly enthusiastic about the squad selection. I don't know if this is par for the course.
 
Alex B said:
The Australian press (at least, the stuff I just googled) doesn't seem overly enthusiastic about the squad selection. I don't know if this is par for the course.
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because its all we have got in the place.We cant find a full time spinner to compare to Warnie(probably never will)but Katich is handy for backing up Hauritz.Lee andStu Clarke are coming back from injury so we will have to see how they go.Haddin better watch his arse as Manou is a top keeper who is hungry for his chance.All in all it should be a good series in which we will retain the urn.:p:p
 
llion said:
The Aussie squad looks very strong to me. I reckon they'll start with Hughes, Katich, Ponting, Clarke, Hussey, North, Haddin, Johnson, Siddle, Hauritz and Clark.
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I hope that's their team. If I were Aus, I'd ditch the idea of playing a spinner altogether and go with a four-pronged pace attack with North/Katich/Clarke to do any spinning duties. Lee, Johnson to open the bowling with Clark and Sidle first and second change could be a (old-style) Windies-like proposition. The pace quartet was key to England last time, meaning that there was no let-up whatsoever after the new ball burst, and I think it could be for Aus this. Sod the full-time spinner – if you haven't got one, don't play one. The Windies never worried about it.

I suspect Katich will do well this time. As will Hughes. Hussey's the man I think may well fail, Ponting's had an ordinary year, and I could see Clarke and Haddin failing too.

But the key battle will be the strike bowlers. Anderson is a world-beater on his day. Johnson too. Both can be erratic when they get it wrong. My guess – whichever of these two takes the more wickets will be on the winning team.
 
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