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[HoutBok]

I also wish the other strong side wasn't England. But you can't have everything!!!

It's just so nice to watch Australia play when the result is not a foregone conclusion.
My Pom ancestry tends to come thru' in those situations and I support any team against the obviously stronger one (up the underdog and all that).

It's going to be great to just sit on the fence for this one and enjoy the game - Australia had it so good for so long it was getting boring.

[Gingermick]

After you achieve everyhing there is to achieve there is little incentive to keep pushing yourself. England had thrashing Austalia as a goal. We used to have beating WI but achieved that comfortably a while back. And to win in India was done as well, now no goals, apart from the glory of being an absolute champion (There are 2 who come to mind who revel in that). But being like that gets people offside quicker than pregnant bird gets to the choccy biccies.

I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go

[jow104]

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I'm arranging 5 days of solid rain for next Thursday, just in case.

[boban]

It's just so nice to watch Australia play when the result is not a foregone conclusion.
Australia had it so good for so long it was getting boring.

How true that is. I lost interest in the first test but I had many 3 hour sleeps during the others.

I still hope we smash them in the fifth test.

Now off topic somewhat. Let me attempt put my bias to one side and state that the umpiring has been absolutely abismal. Two decisions (although there are many more) in the last test stand out. Flintoff on 8 (out LBW) goes on to make a century and then Katich on 59? (not out LBW). Had the correct decisions been made, then the result in my opinion would have been reversed.

England have played well and deserve to be praised. I just think they would like to have won without help from the umpires. Where's Darryl???

[Gingermick]

I admire your spirit of competition

[Gumby]

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I'm arranging 5 days of solid rain for next Thursday, just in case.

It won't save you.......nothing will.

The flashing broad blade of M Hayden will ensure that we march towards a glorious victory......................


NOT :mad:

[boban]

Oh how I hope you have egg on your face WRT Hayden Gumby. He is due as are most of them. Reminds me of my current debtors situation. All due no-one paying.

[Gumby]

Oh how I hope you have egg on your face WRT Hayden Gumby.

Poached, with toast please. You deliver

[jow104]

I'm banking on the 5th test ending in a draw.

Tail end of hurricane Katrina due in over the weekend.

[Gumby]

Tail end of hurricane Katrina due in over the weekend.

Then we'll get the best bowler in the world to come downwind, thanks.

[Gingermick]

Then we'll get the best bowler in the world to come downwind, thanks.

You want Murali to bowl now?

[Gumby]

You want Murali to bowl now?

No, please note that I said 'bowler'. He doesn't qualify.

[bitingmidge]

If I may interrupt this thread to

a) announce that I'm back

and

b) smugly hint that I may have actually been having a good time for the last month and a bit:

May I just say that the fourth test will be a memorable one for me on two counts

1) "We" lost! :eek: (Surely that has no consequence, it's just a game played out in a grand sporting tradition after all, stiff upper lip wot??)

2) On the penultimate day I happened to be in Mongolia in the company of two Poms and a Swiss bloke (who was being taught the finer points of the game by our good selves). Now it may have escaped some of you, but let me say that communications, let alone cricket updates are a little scarce out in the sticks (or lack of sticks as the case may be) in Mongolia, but with the assistance of an extremely friendly nomad Yak herder who had a Mobile phone and could get reception from a nearby mountain top a mere 15 minutes away flat-chat on a horse, and one of the Pommie bloke's father who sent text updates to the Yak herder every hour or so.........

I still haven't worked out how the nomad charged his phone, or why he actually had one in an area where even in an emergency, coverage is uncertain to say the least, but it worked for us!

The Poms are still somewhere in Asia, and tonight it's my turn to text the messages, once they find a suitable victim with a phone who is keen to learn the game's finer points. The Swiss bloke still doesn't understand..... ..... .....


Cheers,

P

[Grunt]

So which would you rather hang around with Yak Hearders or Poms?
Which smell less?

[Gumby]

If I may interrupt this thread to

a) announce that I'm back

Welcome Back

an extremely friendly nomad Yak herder

Can he bat ?