[azul]

KevinArnottsGoldenBoot, on 18 December 2017 - 04:39 PM, said:

Bairstow. Malan. Anderson. Maybe Vince..

Broad and Moeen very poor. Should have taken Stokes and a quick. Bye Bye Bayliss, and hopefully some of the selectors. And Strauss hopefully.

Agreed about Broad but until there is another option to Moeen............

God no, that would mean the drip would be back on Sky TV

This post has been edited by azul: 18 December 2017 - 07:59 PM

[Valley Blues]

Am I right in thinking that I heard the England skipper, during his post-test interview, say that although we are 3-0 down, we haven't been thrashed in any of the tests? Just after his side had been narrowly edged out by an innings and 41 runs?

[Westbars Spireite]

Valley Blues, on 18 December 2017 - 08:47 PM, said:

Am I right in thinking that I heard the England skipper, during his post-test interview, say that although we are 3-0 down, we haven't been thrashed in any of the tests? Just after his side had been narrowly edged out by an innings and 41 runs?

I wondered if his brain was so mashed he had no idea what had just happened.

[Mr Mercury]

Westbars Spireite, on 18 December 2017 - 09:57 PM, said:

I wondered if his brain was so mashed he had no idea what had just happened.

Cracking batsman, but England skipper in a down under ashes series..way, way out of his depth!

[mr. smith]

seems everyone has forgotten this thread but..
not a big cricket fan but England have been an embarrassment this series.
4-0 & not a close 4-0

[JonB]

Lost the big moments early on thrown in with some bad luck and it’s gone. Missed stokes and big players not performed. Typical of test cricket currently where the home team dominates really. We’ll probably regain them when they come back over here where our bowlers are better and their batters struggle with a ball doing something.

Not the disaster that it’s bekng made out to be and we don’t need all and sundry being thrown out of the team or wholesale management changes as some suggest.

[Mr Mercury]

mr. smith, on 08 January 2018 - 02:21 PM, said:

seems everyone has forgotten this thread but..
not a big cricket fan but England have been an embarrassment this series.
4-0 & not a close 4-0

I listened to Andersons interview this morning with incredulity..him saying it didn't feel like other Down Under Ashes series where we'd lost easily he felt this series was a lot closer! Trying to extend his career maybe?

[JonB]

Mr Mercury, on 08 January 2018 - 05:11 PM, said:

I listened to Andersons interview this morning with incredulity..him saying it didn't feel like other Down Under Ashes series where we'd lost easily he felt this series was a lot closer! Trying to extend his career maybe?

[azul]

Mr Mercury, on 08 January 2018 - 05:11 PM, said:

I listened to Andersons interview this morning with incredulity..him saying it didn't feel like other Down Under Ashes series where we'd lost easily he felt this series was a lot closer! Trying to extend his career maybe?

Winning the toss in favourable conditions, dicked by an innings twice, a 10 wicket defeat and a 100+ run defeat, otherwise it was a very very close contest between two mediocre teams. Given more time they'd have lost the Melbourne test.

[SpireiteFitzy]

If we didn't have Anderson in that series we'd have been absolutely hammered. When he retires we are going to be in a lot of bother. Like Boycott said, they are closer to winning over here than we are over there. They are short of an opener and a steady middle order batsman and then they'd be quite competitive. We are short an opener, a number 3 (unless Malan gets promoted which may be a good idea), a spinner and a quick.

We need to start blooding youngsters now to prepare for the departures of Cook, Broad, and Anderson, because when Aus lost their golden generation it took them a while to recover, and we will be a lot worse off without them 3.

[Elmer Fudd's Thick Lip]

Don't think either Vince or Stoneman are the answers at 2 and 3 myself.

Malan however came out of the series with a lot of credit.

I really don't understand the gushing praise the BT lot were heaping on Tom Curran either tbh. Yeah he's got the slower ball and change of pace, but he's not a quick by any stretch... A bog standard medium pacer much better suited to one day cricket.

As has been alluded to...when Cook, Broad and Jimmy pack it in, unless some young uns come through sharpish then we're gonna be in a whole host of trouble.

This post has been edited by Dave Wallers 'tache: 11 January 2018 - 12:53 AM