The Ashes

I'm silently judging you all

for starting a thread I do not understand.

my judgement is final

bettielee said:

I'm silently judging you all

for starting a thread I do not understand.

my judgement is final

Click to expand...

You're on a sticky wicket there, all right. Better watch out Old Hack doesn't york you, or you'll end up looking like Ricky Ponting at silly.

Old Hack said:

We haz dem.

That is all.

Ha!

Click to expand...

Oh just bugger off.

Blimey. Even in the eighteen straight years that they were ours, you still kept 'em... howzat?!



Good on you, Pommies. If there's any solace for the Aussies to take from this, it's that Simon Katich stoutly refused to blame the "overbaked" wicket, crediting the English attack. You play the wicket, you take the decisions. For once, someone isn't blaming the groundskeeper or the umpires.

Justin Langer will have to eat every word of his intelligence report on the England XI. So be it.

See you in two years!

Old Hack said:

I shall now hang on to my hat as a mod transports this thread over to the tail-end of the other (and meanwhile, I shall watch Freddie Flintoff swigging from his Champagne bottle once again on Sky).

Click to expand...

He is The Enemy. But, ever since this moment, he's been a hero to me:

Priene said:

You're on a sticky wicket there, all right. Better watch out Old Hack doesn't york you, or you'll end up looking like Ricky Ponting at silly.

Click to expand...

Anybody else think that Punter looks like a younger GWB, or is it just me?

poetinahat said:

Blimey. Even in the eighteen straight years that they were ours, you still kept 'em... howzat?!

Click to expand...

Apparently the urn is too delicate to be moved once every few years. Museums regularly shunt Minoan relics around, but small Victorian flasks just can't take it (see Parthenon Marbles, the).

Australia's got great batsmen still, but their bowlers were too often shambolic. If you can't remove Jimmy Anderson or Mony Panesar in forty minutes, you've got problems.

poetinahat said:

Justin Langer will have to eat every word of his intelligence report on the England XI.

Click to expand...

There's always at least one former Australian making unfortunate comments about the English. They usually get drunk, make rash bets and then have to walk down Oxford Street in Freddie Flintoff thongs singing Jerusalem.

poetinahat said:

See you in two years!

Click to expand...

The ones in Australia don't count.

poetinahat said:

Anybody else think that Punter looks like a younger GWB, or is it just me?

Click to expand...

I believe they're keeping a place in the Neighbours cast open for him.