The Ashes thread

[Harv]

Haddin

[Bari]

IMO, the Aussie will still bowl England out, they have declared now with a lead of 240+

[Reece]

Urgh this is just embarrassing.

[Shaggy]

Completely cringeworthy.

We went over 24 hours without a single ****ing wicket. Took them about 24 minutes to shift two of our useless ****s. Cook ****s me right off.

[Bari]

I have never figured out why Robert Key never makes the England team other than the he's slighty fat.

[EwarWoo]

I have never figured out why Robert Key never makes the England team other than the he's slighty fat.

I think for the final day we should randomly pick 9 people from the crowd via lottery as ring ins.

I don't think they could perform any worse......

[dww]

I have never figured out why Robert Key never makes the England team other than the he's slighty fat.

I think there is a good case that his captaincy skills would be very valuable.

One of the Aussies on TMS made an interesting point that these days a lot of the batsmen that make their team may come n young but then get dumped to improve areas of their technique. At the minute Cook looks like he has things to work on even though he has all the talent in the world. I think we need to make it harder to keep hold of a jersey and in the last year the first person to suffer should have been Pieterson as he has been crap and thoughtless. He is obviously one of the worlds most exciting batsmen but he disappoints too much for England and needs to learn the advantages of being more intelligent and not always looking to score as quickly and riskily as possible.

[Shaggy]

That'll be game over then.

[Le Chef]

Three days ago, with the Aussie attack I thought we had a very good chance of winning. I'd forgot how poor some of our batsmen can be - We are always ten minutes away from a collapse

[Bari]

I think there is a good case that his captaincy skills would be very valuable.

One of the Aussies on TMS made an interesting point that these days a lot of the batsmen that make their team may come n young but then get dumped to improve areas of their technique. At the minute Cook looks like he has things to work on even though he has all the talent in the world. I think we need to make it harder to keep hold of a jersey and in the last year the first person to suffer should have been Pieterson as he has been crap and thoughtless. He is obviously one of the worlds most exciting batsmen but he disappoints too much for England and needs to learn the advantages of being more intelligent and not always looking to score as quickly and riskily as possible.

[Leyton388]

Simply put England are **** and 2005 was a freak result.

[jono]

Flintoff's gone!!!

[sniffer]

I'd forgot how poor some of our batsmen can be - We are always ten minutes away from a collapse

Yep that's about it we just never seem to be able to bat

[anfieldanfield]

You can get 5/6 on Australia to win the test match.

With 15 overs remaining, they'll get the two wickets they need.

Good value.

[dww]

This is a great contest now. I like Anderson. Feeling bizarrely optimistic - possibly just a result of a whole day being pessimistic