They've started having them at all kinds of random days though.
Bring back Thursdays, I say!
The Ashes 2009
- Thread starter Santino
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Bring back Thursdays, I say!
TrippyLondoner
Well-Known Member
I know that,but usually when they do that they start a test on a wednesday and the next on a thursday, still though might be a good atmosphere since they're starting it tmrw.
liquidlunch
fargonebeauty
me too,thats why i asked ^^^ up there .Fucken cunts,took the day off tomorrow.11.20pm thursday here so i was going to watch the whole day/night,have friday off plus the weekend
Kids in bed,all ready for a big night but now i need to know how to unsnort a line of whizz?
tangerinedream
Density of Sound
You'll have to play stick cricket all night....
liquidlunch
fargonebeauty
ah well it could be worse,have heaps of Rum,coke,ice etc.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Ask Warne.
tangerinedream
Density of Sound
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Botham would never have got caught.
liquidlunch
fargonebeauty
no one should.What you do in your spare time is your business.Its when you do too much of everything and go for a walk in public talking Swahili that you might get noticed
TrippyLondoner
Well-Known Member
Just heard on the radio that ponting said 'the barmy army are the best supporters in the world', i'll see if i can be bothered to find a link later to that.
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
Just heard on the radio that ponting said 'the barmy army are the best supporters in the world', i'll see if i can be bothered to find a link later to that.
I hear there's a planned demonstration by Newcastle supporters outside SJP tomorrow in protest at this blasphemy!
TrippyLondoner
Well-Known Member
I hear there's a planned demonstration by Newcastle supporters outside SJP tomorrow in protest at this blasphemy!
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Mark Butcher retired.
Placid Casual27
Gorau Chwarae Cyd Chwarae
Fuck I just got given two top-drawer Headingley tickets for Sunday, so my weekend is now Herts to Cardiff for the football Sat and back to Herts, then drive up to Leeds Sunday morning what a mad buzz. Will have to stay sober Sat and Sun but no great hardship
Headingley only test ground apart from Durham that I haven't been to, so I am well bloody excited
Get in there you beauties
Headingley only test ground apart from Durham that I haven't been to, so I am well bloody excited
Get in there you beauties
Placid Casual27
Gorau Chwarae Cyd Chwarae
Cheers boss. Luckily Sat is the train. To be fair I would walk to the Test if I had to. Just hope we do it.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Actually he was caught on 107 occasions during his test career, 25 by the wicketkeeper.
paulhackett
voiced by strother martin
Typical Roebuck to get it everso slightly wrong - yes, Kolpak is an issue (I can't see why the ECB pays counties money to employ non-qualified players in addition to the overseas ones) but Strauss left SA at 6? Prior at 11? Doesn't he know anything about society?
I hate the fact he calls the English Poms, when he's left England for Oz, and then SA..
Spanker (as an insult not as a signature..)
paulhackett
voiced by strother martin
Prior out.. injured playing football this a.m.?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
(Bigger fish to fry today so i'll jusy say one more thing on Roebuck, i was talking to some aussie mates last week, they reckon he's now pretty much despised in both Aus and SA as well due to his habit of two-facedly writing contradictory things depending on whose paying him. The internet has caught him out. Enough Roebuck - onto the game!)
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Kolpak is a major issue, and one that appears to be exacerbated by the disgusting exclusive Sky deal, which means that counties can afford to employ Kolpak players despite the penalties.
For me, it's all to do with where you learned your cricket. So, for instance, Devon Malcolm, despite only coming here when he was 16, quite rightly played for England, the country where he started playing the game. Likewise Strauss and Prior.
But Pietersen and Trott have no business playing for England, and really neither did Andy Caddick. The Kolpak players are to a man second-tier talent, not good enough to challenge for international places but battle-hardened and a relative bargain at £50 a year for what are in effect instant senior pros. That in turn severely limits the opportunities for younger players to come through. They aren't battle-hardened and in many cases will never get the chance to become so.
paulhackett
voiced by strother martin
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
They don't. They pay a 'bonus' for every England-qualified player that plays, so the counties are penalised for playing Kolpakers. But not enough, evidently. The short-term interests of individual counties are in conflict with the long-term interests of the game.
