Ashes 2023
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Happy for the Vettori protege to get a wicket.
England have a few niggles so they can’t afford to be too expensive OR DROP CATCHES
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Huge effort from England
Need wickets this session
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Broad gets his bunny
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And Root breathes a sigh of relief as Crawley is the one catching the edge 😉
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Someone needs to explain to Jonny bairstow that if you are going to make jokes, you need to fucking score runs to back it up
Otherwise you look like a stupid fat ginger fluffybunny who got out by being dumb, can't keep for shit, and can't score runs
Also Australia are in a bit of a pickle at the moment
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The Telegraph's Simon Heffer goes completely OTT on the MCC identifying & discipling members for their behavior towards the Oz players at Lords - hysterical stuff. link
This is an over-reaction: it stinks of a witch-hunt; and although the schoolboy code of honour where sneaks are concerned is doubtless precisely the sort of thing the modern MCC wishes to eradicate, reeking as it does of elite public schools, such divisiveness is hardly designed to create a happy atmosphere within a club already riddled with cliques and internal hostility. One struggles to avoid comparisons with life in Castro’s Cuba or occupied France, where the authorities governed through a network of universally-detested informers. In any case, the video footage suggests a large number of offenders.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Ashes 2023:
The Telegraph's Simon Heffer goes completely OTT on the MCC identifying & discipling members for their behavior towards the Oz players at Lords - hysterical stuff. link
This is an over-reaction: it stinks of a witch-hunt; and although the schoolboy code of honour where sneaks are concerned is doubtless precisely the sort of thing the modern MCC wishes to eradicate, reeking as it does of elite public schools, such divisiveness is hardly designed to create a happy atmosphere within a club already riddled with cliques and internal hostility. One struggles to avoid comparisons with life in Castro’s Cuba or occupied France, where the authorities governed through a network of universally-detested informers. In any case, the video footage suggests a large number of offenders.
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@mariner4life said in Ashes 2023:
Someone needs to explain to Jonny bairstow that if you are going to make jokes, you need to fucking score runs to back it up
Otherwise you look like a stupid fat ginger fluffybunny who got out by being dumb, can't keep for shit, and can't score runs
Also Australia are in a bit of a pickle at the moment
To be fair, over the last year that has not been his problem.
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@Machpants said in Ashes 2023:
I'm not bitter, I just hate cheats.
So, with absolutism you'd include Martin Crowe and Chris Pringle on your hate list? They took a bottle cap on the field to scratch the ball up
As well as Atherton of course, with the dirt in the pocket.
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@nzzp said in Ashes 2023:
@Machpants said in Ashes 2023:
I'm not bitter, I just hate cheats.
So, with absolutism you'd include Martin Crowe and Chris Pringle on your hate list? They took a bottle cap on the field to scratch the ball up
As well as Atherton of course, with the dirt in the pocket.
Yup
Funnily enough I'm ambivalent about Lance Armstrong. There a reason they didn't award the TdF titles to second place for his 7 stripped titles, cos they know so the top riders were doing it.
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@Machpants said in Ashes 2023:
@nzzp said in Ashes 2023:
@Machpants said in Ashes 2023:
I'm not bitter, I just hate cheats.
So, with absolutism you'd include Martin Crowe and Chris Pringle on your hate list? They took a bottle cap on the field to scratch the ball up
As well as Atherton of course, with the dirt in the pocket.
Yup
Funnily enough I'm ambivalent about Lance Armstrong. There a reason they didn't award the TdF titles to second place for his 7 stripped titles, cos they know so the top riders were doing it.
I'm reminded of the Noel Coward quote: "The lofter the righeousness, the lower the morals"
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@nzzp said in Ashes 2023:
@Machpants said in Ashes 2023:
I'm not bitter, I just hate cheats.
So, with absolutism you'd include Martin Crowe and Chris Pringle on your hate list? They took a bottle cap on the field to scratch the ball up
As well as Atherton of course, with the dirt in the pocket.
Firstly, I feel there are degrees. It’s first class sport and as @NTA said, there are no angels. The sandpaper thing was just too much of a thing and it was not one bloke cheating, it was an orchestrated strategy. But the worst thing was that Smith and Warner bullied the younger guy into doing their dirty work and hung him out to dry. Those two fluffybunnies are back in the team and Bancroft has lost his whole career.
It’s fucking shameful.
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@Catogrande By that token, Armstrong is also near the top of the tree. A team orchestrated doping programme and a systematic discrediting and humiliation of anyone who tried to blow the whistle
