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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 13, 2025 4:33 pm
I wonder if this incoming defeat will be enough for the arrogant selectors to make some changes?

Different opener,different no 3,different spinner please

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Now Crawley gone flashing to slips again….get rid!

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Number 3 is a problem area for England.Dont think we’ve had a decent one since Jonathan Trott

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 13, 2025 12:00 pm
There was simply no chance Pope was lasting over 20 minutes this morning with the ball doing a bit and pressure on.

Something that a number 3 should be able to handle

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Average wise - Cook Strauss averaged 40.40 as an opening batting pair. Duckett Crawley average 43.62 (51 innings). I suspect this might be something the selectors are looking at as well as pace of scoring. I agree that probably the reason he plays is because him and Duckett can score quickly….its a...

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dandeclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 10, 2025 12:16 pm
Which other stats are not good enough?

5 centuries in 102 innings isn’t good enough I’d say

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Pope trying his best to get out here

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I wonder if Stokes will bowl first if he wins the toss in the next test? Well he was arrogant enough to bowl first on this flatbed of a wicket so who knows. There’s nothing wrong with putting the opposition in first providing you have the bowlers to back it up,which we haven’t. India have scored ov...

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TheFamilyCat wrote: ↑
Sat Jul 05, 2025 6:00 pm
Sibley has apparently completely remodelled his game, he even scores runs quickly in T20s now.

He needed to,he just looked awkward at the crease

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Milltown1882 wrote: ↑
Sat Jul 05, 2025 5:26 pm
Triple ton from Sibley this week.

Dom Sibley is another one who had a chance at test level and looked out of his depth.
I guess if he keeps scoring like that though they will have to consider him,can’t be any worse than Crawley can he?

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Crawley averages 32 in county cricket so I don’t know who ever thought he would be good enough at international level

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Oldham…never seen us win there including a couple of 3-0 defeats,one in the 82/83 season and one where we got our keeper sent off (think it was Marlon Beresford)

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I don’t blame the law or the manufacturers,I blame human beings who are incapable of screwing a top back onto the bottle after they have finished their drink

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Goal scorers were an ex player,a racist and someone with a man bun…it can’t get any worse really

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I think Phil (Cav) used to live in digs up Cambridge Drive area of Padiham with another geordie lad we called Youngy. They both occasionally, alongside a very young Andy Payton, used to play football with us local kids on the field that was to the left of the old railway line going from Padiham pow...

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Good effort man,it’s hard trying to get new music out there to folk

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ecc wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 14, 2024 2:04 pm
Houdini. LOL

Yeah his real name escapes me also

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Sky Sports still going with that utter 5hite Celeste song I see

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Can we still sack Southgate at the end of normal time?

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Jumpin’ Jack Cork to head in a 90th minute winner

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Silkyskills1 wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:52 am
I never descend any stairs now without holding on to a rail. Dodgy left ankle can give way anytime. Never thought it would come to this.

It started with a twist

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Sad,pathetic rsoles who should be nowhere near a football match

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It didn’t help when the police decided to put it on fb with no evidence at all and people will automatically believe that but it was good to see all those that knew the person call it out for what it was,complete boll**ks…I’m glad it’s all been sorted now and you can all carry on with your lives

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This is the first time I’ve heard Rio Ferdinand on co-commentary and hopefully the last,he’s awful…good game to watch though

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Big fan here
Absolutely gutted about this,nobody could ever reproduce the guitar sound or tone that Geordie had which means Killing Joke will probably be no more but what a great back catalogue they have left us

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Just turned it on.Why’s that bloke from Homes Under the Hammer doing co-commentary?
It’s dull,I’ve turned it off again

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jrgbfc wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 29, 2023 9:45 am
For those still watching England are showing a bit of fight this morning at least.

…until we go in to bat

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Steady on.....first to the gig..last to leave, all the tools to fix broken amps and guitars... Generally a sore neck from shaking head watching the egos in front twiddling knobs instead of playing the song... Sore throat from shouting at the singer stood at the bar talking shiiiiite... :lol: Try ge...

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All those who are against this could always turn their deaf aids down a touch

However having been in several bands,drummers tend to be unreliable bell ends anyway

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Pretty embarrassing defeat really and to not be able to bat for the full 50 overs against this lot says it all but it’s only what we deserved to be honest

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Used to love Sapphire and Steel as a kid…R.I.P

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Derek Dougan looks like he’s in his 50’s in the photo on the front of the programme but that also applies to lots of footballers from that era when you see games from The Big Match revisited

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Peter Cook

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The turtle scene in Cannibal Holocaust
The bathroom scene in Snowtown

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We seem to be batting like there’s an hours left of play (which might be the case if this carries on)

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Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 09, 2023 2:15 pm
I was listening to BBC Sports commentary earlier and they said England have had only 1 partnership over a 100 and 4 over 50 the whole series.

Seems to be a common problem

Hardly surprising with some of the shots we’ve been getting out to

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And it continues…Bairstow gone

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We just haven’t been able to get any partnerships going of over 50 to frustrate the Aussies

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jdrobbo wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 07, 2023 5:59 pm
Starts at 6:30pm

Sky are showing Somerset v Nottinghamshire on 3 separate channels

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A batting average doesn't take into consideration what may be an anomaly, therefore its not a good representation of consistency. Which is what the other poster was trying to say when they removed his 267 from the average. https://thrimanne.medium.com/standard-deviation-vs-mean-deviation-to-measure...

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Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 07, 2023 3:06 pm
Around 250

Just don’t want to be giving easy runs and dropped catches in this innings

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What would score everybody be confident in England chasing down?

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dandeclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 07, 2023 2:51 pm
I would have thought that his average, is his average..... I was merely pointing out the absuridty of taking out scores to fit a narrative.

Ok I will leave his 267 in…he averages 28,not good enough for an international opening batsman,that’s my narrative

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Firthy wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 07, 2023 2:44 pm
I know a lot on here will disagree but England need a Geoff Boycott

Can you imagine Boycott being told to play bazball haha

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Ric_C wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 07, 2023 2:39 pm
Cook retired way too early tbh. Maybe should have taken a break and then given it another go

I agree we could have got a couple more years out of him

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How many does he average if you leave that in, and take out one of the zero's? Or what does he average if you add in another 267, of which he's capable? He averages 28 in total with the 267 and zeros….nowhere near what an international opening batsman should be averaging but if you want to take the...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 07, 2023 2:35 pm
Staggering number of players tried since Cook stood down.

One thing England had for years was world class openers,Boycott,Gooch,Atherton,Stewart,Trescothick,Strauss,Cook to name some players who came along….now we struggle with the likes of Crawley and Rory Burns before that

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Australia's opening paid average 48 and 45 respectively. Zak Crawley averages 28. I still can['t work out how he keeps being picked and i seem to remember asking the same when we were trounced in Australia at the end of 2021. Zak Crawley only averages about 24 if you take that one big score of 267 ...

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Not quite. Bell was given out, India appealed, it was upheld and he was given out. Cue Strauss and Flower knocking on India’s dressing room door and chelping away in the tea interval and Dhoni gave up the appeal. England’s relationship with the ‘spirit of the game’ has been as elastic as everyone e...

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From memory, Bell thought he had hit a four and walked off as it was the last ball before tea but it was stopped just inside the rope and thrown in, running Bell out. The opposition (I can't remember if it was India, but will take your word for it) decided during the interval to reprieve Bell. I th...

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