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Are England getting humped then? :urff:
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Slightly. :|
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markfiend wrote:Slightly. :|
The likelihood of a win are?....................
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scotty wrote:
markfiend wrote:Slightly. :|
The likelihood of a win are?....................
In the first test? Unlikely unless we can clone Flintoff or KP and Bell have a particularly good partnership.
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Australia have already won this one. 549 runs ahead with England 3 wickets down at the end of day two?

Even if the entire Australian side dropped dead, England would still struggle to win this one.
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markfiend wrote:Australia have already won this one. 549 runs ahead with England 3 wickets down at the end of day one?

Even if the entire Australian side dropped dead, England would still struggle to win this one.
That good eh!
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Worse. :evil:

Ah, well, summer 2005 didn't seem like real cricket, what with England winning the Ashes.
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markfiend wrote:Worse. :evil:

Ah, well, summer 2005 didn't seem like real cricket, what with England winning the Ashes.
I was thinking that the last time The Ashes were played for "The vAshes" thread was on about page Four by the time you won, Ritchie must be up to his eyes in nappies :innocent:
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I think its funny that we are only about to start the third day of the first test match and the press/radio are already saying that it is a foregone conclusion that the Ashes will be heading back to Oz :urff:

Brisbane is not the happiest of hunting grounds for us and to write off the series already is just plain daft. We lost the first test in the summer and went on to win the series.

Radio 5-F'kin-Live has a lot to answer for with their s**t phone-ins that are all frequented by inane inbreds who drone on about how much better cricket was when the ball was made of rancid cheese and I.T.Botham bowled a ball to himself, hit it in the air, and then caught himself on the boundary...

Sorry. Where was I? Oh yes - I think we can still triumph down under, but we haven't made the world's best start.
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streamline wrote:I think its funny that we are only about to start the third day of the first test match and the press/radio are already saying that it is a foregone conclusion that the Ashes will be heading back to Oz :urff:

Brisbane is not the happiest of hunting grounds for us and to write off the series already is just plain daft. We lost the first test in the summer and went on to win the series.

Radio 5-F'kin-Live has a lot to answer for with their s**t phone-ins that are all frequented by inane inbreds who drone on about how much better cricket was when the ball was made of rancid cheese and I.T.Botham bowled a ball to himself, hit it in the air, and then caught himself on the boundary...

Sorry. Where was I? Oh yes - I think we can still triumph down under, but we haven't made the world's best start.
Seconded.

I really want them to get it togther.
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I stress that I'm not writing off the series, just the match 8)
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markfiend wrote:I stress that I'm not writing off the series, just the match 8)
No probs with that, Mark (and you are probably right!) - I'm stressing at the media hype/coverage/phone ins!

But I'm calming down now.. :wink:
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scotty wrote:
markfiend wrote:Slightly. :|
The likelihood of a win are?....................
about the same as a 'new album'!
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who cares anyway? its well known that we come up with all these sports only for the rest of the world to kick our arses!
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bushman*pm wrote: C R I C K E T S U X X X ! ! !
How dare you say that! Game of Kings (and all that..)

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the 'fatwah' is wing its way to you! :twisted:
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markfiend wrote:Australia have already won this one. 549 runs ahead with England 3 wickets down at the end of day two?

Even if the entire Australian side dropped dead, England would still struggle to win this one.
Eeeh what? :?

We from the north will never understand this game... :roll:
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Beth wrote:
streamline wrote:I think its funny that we are only about to start the third day of the first test match and the press/radio are already saying that it is a foregone conclusion that the Ashes will be heading back to Oz :urff:

Brisbane is not the happiest of hunting grounds for us and to write off the series already is just plain daft. We lost the first test in the summer and went on to win the series.

Radio 5-F'kin-Live has a lot to answer for with their s**t phone-ins that are all frequented by inane inbreds who drone on about how much better cricket was when the ball was made of rancid cheese and I.T.Botham bowled a ball to himself, hit it in the air, and then caught himself on the boundary...

Sorry. Where was I? Oh yes - I think we can still triumph down under, but we haven't made the world's best start.
Seconded.

I really want them to get it togther.
Obviously it would be fab to spank them. Or even sneak a win. But it ain't gonna happen.

As for radio phone-ins, imagine what kind of halfwit would actually ring up one of these phone-ins, believing people 'out there' are remotely interested in their opinion. Then imagine the kind of drivel that they're gonna spout. Then turn the radio off and put some music on. Sorted.

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markfiend wrote:Australia have already won this one. 549 runs ahead with England 3 wickets down at the end of day two?

Even if the entire Australian side dropped dead, England would still struggle to win this one.
Eeeh what? :?

We from the north will never understand this game... :roll:
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Looks like the bookies have already written us off for the whole thing. Fair enough this test has gone but Coral have us at 12/1 to retain the Ashes with the Ozzies at 1/14!!!! Ridiculous odds.
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markfiend wrote:Australia have already won this one. 549 runs ahead with England 3 wickets down at the end of day two?

Even if the entire Australian side dropped dead, England would still struggle to win this one.
We'll get better, although I feel that a key reason we won the Ashes last time was Troy Cooley and where is he now!

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more cricket???????
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