Cricket

[jb03]

Re: Cricket

Ponting's declaration will prove to be spot on.Poms need to bring in another bat.Pietersen left to bat with the tail again.Jones will be ditched after making a pair.

Bullsh*t. He put us in a position where there was the possibility we could lose when he didnt have to.

Rubbish,The early wicket of Strauss was important.Nothing to gain by batting side going in just before stumps only the bowling side.Poms were never going to get 550.No depth in their batting.

Geez you're speaking some garbage.

At 3-261 with Cook in the 100’s and Pietersen batting well, there was a chance for England.

At 5-366 with Pietersen still in and Flintoff going crazy and England just needing another 200 runs over most of the day, again there again was a chance for England. All on a pretty good wicket to boot.

Ponting could have batted another hour or so in that second innings and made a draw the ONLY possible result for England. As it was, he didn’t do that, and that’s bad captaining to be leaving a side a sniff, no matter how small.

This is just plain wrong.  The best way to get wickets on a flat track is to give the opposition a sniff of victory.  They will attack and lose wickets in the process - just like flinstone did today.

IMO punter got it wrong - he declared too late - 500 was heaps.  475 was plenty.  557 was risking a draw.

Nup. You're plain wrong because unless you’re in the Pura Cup and each team is looking for bonus points, the first thing you do when you declare is to make sure that you cant lose the match. Especially in this case when you’ve got a 2-0 lead in the Ashes !!! Geezuz !! That’s just a no-brainer and captaincy 101 stuff ! And Ponting did not do this.

Geezuz red, This sort of negative thinking is a relic of the Border lead teams of the 80's. Haven't you been watching Australia play cricket in the 90's.

If anything, Ponting declared too late.

 

[Redford]

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Ponting's declaration will prove to be spot on.Poms need to bring in another bat.Pietersen left to bat with the tail again.Jones will be ditched after making a pair.

Bullsh*t. He put us in a position where there was the possibility we could lose when he didnt have to.

Rubbish,The early wicket of Strauss was important.Nothing to gain by batting side going in just before stumps only the bowling side.Poms were never going to get 550.No depth in their batting.

Geez you're speaking some garbage.

At 3-261 with Cook in the 100’s and Pietersen batting well, there was a chance for England.

At 5-366 with Pietersen still in and Flintoff going crazy and England just needing another 200 runs over most of the day, again there again was a chance for England. All on a pretty good wicket to boot.

Ponting could have batted another hour or so in that second innings and made a draw the ONLY possible result for England. As it was, he didn’t do that, and that’s bad captaining to be leaving a side a sniff, no matter how small.

This is just plain wrong.  The best way to get wickets on a flat track is to give the opposition a sniff of victory.  They will attack and lose wickets in the process - just like flinstone did today.

IMO punter got it wrong - he declared too late - 500 was heaps.  475 was plenty.  557 was risking a draw.

Nup. You're plain wrong because unless you’re in the Pura Cup and each team is looking for bonus points, the first thing you do when you declare is to make sure that you cant lose the match. Especially in this case when you’ve got a 2-0 lead in the Ashes !!! Geezuz !! That’s just a no-brainer and captaincy 101 stuff ! And Ponting did not do this.

Geezuz red,  This sort of negative thinking is a relic of the Border lead teams of the 80's.  Haven't you been watching Australia play cricket in the 90's.

If anything, Ponting declared too late.

You better come in here and tell the 20 or so staff who were listening to the radio an hour ago and were saying Ponting declared to early.

I knew you'd converted to a Brightsider, but this is just ridiculous !  ;D

(Geez I sucked you in beautifully. Some of my best work dont you agree ! ?)

 

[mb64]

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Ponting's declaration will prove to be spot on.Poms need to bring in another bat.Pietersen left to bat with the tail again.Jones will be ditched after making a pair.

Bullsh*t. He put us in a position where there was the possibility we could lose when he didnt have to.

Rubbish,The early wicket of Strauss was important.Nothing to gain by batting side going in just before stumps only the bowling side.Poms were never going to get 550.No depth in their batting.

Geez you're speaking some garbage.

At 3-261 with Cook in the 100’s and Pietersen batting well, there was a chance for England.

At 5-366 with Pietersen still in and Flintoff going crazy and England just needing another 200 runs over most of the day, again there again was a chance for England. All on a pretty good wicket to boot.

Ponting could have batted another hour or so in that second innings and made a draw the ONLY possible result for England. As it was, he didn’t do that, and that’s bad captaining to be leaving a side a sniff, no matter how small.

This is just plain wrong.  The best way to get wickets on a flat track is to give the opposition a sniff of victory.  They will attack and lose wickets in the process - just like flinstone did today.

IMO punter got it wrong - he declared too late - 500 was heaps.  475 was plenty.  557 was risking a draw.

Nup. You're plain wrong because unless you’re in the Pura Cup and each team is looking for bonus points, the first thing you do when you declare is to make sure that you cant lose the match. Especially in this case when you’ve got a 2-0 lead in the Ashes !!! Geezuz !! That’s just a no-brainer and captaincy 101 stuff ! And Ponting did not do this.

Geezuz red,  This sort of negative thinking is a relic of the Border lead teams of the 80's.  Haven't you been watching Australia play cricket in the 90's.

If anything, Ponting declared too late.

Yep,Border cost us victory at times with his late declarations.Ponting was on the money & we'll win by around 200 runs.

 

[Redford]

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Unecessarily put us in a position to lose when he didnt have to. Poor captaining, yet again.

 

[mb64]

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Unecessarily put us in a position to lose when he didnt have to. Poor captaining, yet again.

Good positive captaincy

 

[Redford]

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C’mon Jockburn. Get on the “favourite player” thread and tell us about the 36 or so you love, you blue skies Brightsider you. ;D

(Ponting is a dud captain of a great team.)

 

[tannerztigers]

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ALL OVER ... well 1 wicket left. OH WHAT A FEELING IT IS!!!!! :clap :clap :clap

 

[poppa x]

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Unecessarily put us in a position to lose when he didnt have to. Poor captaining, yet again.

Good positive captaincy

The poms have only one batsman averaging over 50 in his career and this is the team according to Redders who were going to possibly knock off 557 on day 5 on a wearing track against the best spinner of all time and one of Australia's best ever fast bowlers.  A total which no team has ever achieved - even the great teams like the current aussie outfit, the west indians of 20 years ago and bradmans invincibles.

 

[jb03]

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C’mon Jockburn. Get on the “favourite player” thread and tell us about the 36 or so you love, you blue skies Brightsider you.  ;D

(Ponting is a dud captain of a great team.)

I've taken a real shine to Kingsley.

 

[Redford]

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C’mon Jockburn. Get on the “favourite player” thread and tell us about the 36 or so you love, you blue skies Brightsider you.  ;D

(Ponting is a dud captain of a great team.)

I've taken a real shine to Kingsley.

What about Gumpus ? Do you and evo still love him ?

 

[Scoop]

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Take that you Pommy gits.

As for some of your songs like "Get your shi**y stars of our flag", We get three dollars for a pound" and "Your Papa was a convict" keep up the great work.

But there is another song I know, "Three-nil, three-nil, three-nil, three-nil, Three-nil, three-nil, three-nil, three-nil"

Ponting and Flintoff played checkers last nite, took seven hours just to figure out who was Red and Black. Great players, so, so captains.

 

[jb03]

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Unecessarily put us in a position to lose when he didnt have to. Poor captaining, yet again.

Good positive captaincy

The poms have only one batsman averaging over 50 in his career and this is the team according to Redders who were going to possibly knock off 557 on day 5 on a wearing track against the best spinner of all time and one of Australia's best ever fast bowlers.  A total which no team has ever achieved - even the great teams like the current aussie outfit, the west indians of 20 years ago and bradmans invincibles.

Gee, the pommies got close in the end! LMAO.

I would ignore Redders pop, he is still bleeding about the non drafting of the Clokes. I think it is clouding his thinking.

 

[Redford]

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Unecessarily put us in a position to lose when he didnt have to. Poor captaining, yet again.

Good positive captaincy

The poms have only one batsman averaging over 50 in his career and this is the team according to Redders who were going to possibly knock off 557 on day 5 on a wearing track against the best spinner of all time and one of Australia's best ever fast bowlers.  A total which no team has ever achieved - even the great teams like the current aussie outfit, the west indians of 20 years ago and bradmans invincibles.

Gee, the pommies got close in the end!  LMAO.

I would ignore Redders pop, he is still bleeding about the non drafting of the Clokes.  I think it is clouding his thinking.

You know we were close on that front as well.

 

[FightingFury]

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Yep, wonderful stuff.......let the pounding continue

3-0 and the ashes back where they belong.

Those tickertape parades are just a distant memory and its back to business as usual.

 

[Rosy]

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What a comprehensive flogging. Hope we stick the boots in while they're down and have a 5-0 clean sweep.

Onya Aussies. Onya Riccardo.

 

[Mr Brightside]

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Hand her back lads,HAND HER BACK


Next time you Pommy bastards you should try an poach some Aussies on to your team rather then the duds you get from everywhere else

:wave :wave :wave :wave :wave :wave :happy :happy :happy :happy :happy :clapping :clapping :clapping :ner :ner :ner

An for the Barmy army :shhh :shhh

 

[lefty]

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What a comprehensive flogging. Hope we stick the boots in while they're down and have a 5-0 clean sweep.

Onya Aussies. Onya Riccardo.

Step on their necks when they are down boys!

 

[FightingFury]

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Hand her back lads,HAND HER BACK


Next time you Pommy bastards you should try an poach some Aussies on to your team rather then the duds you get from everywhere else

:wave :wave :wave :wave :wave :wave :happy :happy :happy :happy :happy :clapping :clapping :clapping :ner :ner :ner

An for the Barmy army :shhh :shhh

Geraint Jones (LOL) is one of there imports who is actually from Toowoomba QLD.

I'm still not sure if he's a double agent or just a pathetic cricketer??

 

[Lidsand]

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geraint jones is worse than lee, although jones may be a better bowler

 

[Tigers of Old]

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The blip on the radar was just that. :rofl


Well done Aussies. Awesome effort.