BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 06:00 PM

Agog.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 05:42 PM

Wow! What a place to be a songwriter!

I was just looking at the map of NSW. Couldn't find Dundog, but but there a place called Boggabella, which is almost a song in itself.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 05:14 PM

he he :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 05:07 PM

Yes, Alan - no kidology.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 04:54 PM

Theres a place called Dungog...?

I was looking for a rhyme for dog. I ended up using Van Gogh, and rhyming it with dog.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 04:44 PM

Yes, and his great timing.

Also, apparently, Doug Walters, of Dungog, N.S.W., used to play cards right up to his turn to bat, when he's say: "Hold your hand, I'll be back in a minute."

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 04:40 PM

hey d'you remember when David gower chartered a light aircaft and flew over the cricket ground waving at everybody.

the BBC was very sniffy, but I thought, Go David!

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 04:33 PM

...sticky wicket, chaps.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 02:07 PM

"the wags should all go and sleep with the aussies"

Hmmm not a good idea GSS, who knows what they might catch and worst of all what they may bring back to good old blighty.

Well I suppose I don't care if it's the ashes!

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 01:56 PM

the wags should all go and sleep with the aussies, the the english might be able to bowl a few maidens over

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: alanabit
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 01:36 PM

Ah! A case of over attention to corkers, short legs and middle stumps then Arthur?

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 12:12 PM

I think the wags are to blame as mentioned earlier. Just plain and simply shagged out.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: alanabit
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 11:43 AM

I am not sure Arthur. Now that England have revived their tradition of the batting collapse, it could be a very short game!

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 10:29 AM

Why was Monty dropped - becuase he kept dropping them. In some ways Monty is a bit of a passenger compared to Graeme Swann.

I bet the next match is one hell of a humdinger.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: alanabit
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 06:39 AM

Cheer me up and tell me the jokes please! There must be plenty, because the situation is not altogether unfamiliar!

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 06:37 AM

what happened to monty panesar?why was he dropped, we might need two spinners in the next test

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: bubblyrat
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 05:29 AM

It's obvious,innit ?? Now that the WAGs have flown out there, the players are all shagged out .What with that and Swan Lager, they're doomed .

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arnie
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 05:16 AM

That's the great thing about Test cricket - one game you can be heroic victors, the next a bunch of losers who've forgotten how to wield a bat. Still, at least we didn't lose by an innings like the Aussies did at Adelaide. I think this now makes for a more interesting Test than if we had won and so retained the Ashes. Just got to ensure that we win at Melbourne now where Swann may have a bit more of an effect. Ponting said today that he expects to be playing despite a fractured finger. I suspect that England may juggle the batting order a little but will keep the same team - Tremlett is a real find.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 05:03 AM

We have coverage here on Ch 9 in Australia. I used to like the ABC coverage on radio, and almost as good on ABC TV - the guys knew when to just shut up.

Now we have a bunch of past players, a bunch of non stop loud mouth has beens always saying "He's Out! He's Out! The ref got that wrong!"

I now regularly just switch it off, cause as Popeye used to say "I stands all I can, then I can't stands no more!"

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 03:06 AM

Oh and what a drubbing. Those Aussies played out of their skin. They must hate us a lot.

Who will be Captain, now that Ponting has bust his finger? Apart from winning the third test, he has had a dire time :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 03:03 AM

Hmmm It looks like it could be over Al.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hollywood/news-interviews/Hurley-dumps-Warne-over-sex-text-scandal/articleshow/

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: GUEST,Alan whittle
Date: 19 Dec 10 - 02:55 AM

I love Shane Warne. he's my favourite cricketer ever.

I love his dirty phone calls. I love the silence that descends on the ground as he takes his three foot run up. I love the look on the hapless batman's face that says so eloquently - where the f--k did that come from?

I haven't heard about his new girlfriend - but already I admire her taste

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 05:42 PM

Come on one-dayers, come on, come on...!

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 05:34 PM

Get lost Aussies, get lost get lost

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 03:44 PM

true, but no chance.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: alanabit
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 02:32 PM

With five wickets down, less than a hundred on the board and around three hundred more needed, you should get pretty good odds!

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 02:07 PM

now is a good time to have a small wager on England winning

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 01:28 PM

About time you wrote a song about Shane Warne Al.

Especially with his latest date.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 12:40 PM

Well I always like the test matches, and I thought it was a big pity when that bugger Murdoch got control of them instead of the BBC. Actually Channel 4 was a bit of disaster as you got adverts instead of the between overs badinage. I think also its better if its not too one sided.

Really the drawn matches are usually the best.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 07:39 AM

As I've said on Mudcat before, one-day cricket is one of the best in the wide world of sports, but test-cricket, despite the ever-increasing media Ashes-hype, is one of the worst.

All sports have their weaknesses, but, in test cricket, there is a glaring one: if a batsman has an air-swing he is okay/if he is good enough to at least get an edge, he may well be out.

However, with limited-over cricket (how the World Cup is decided, of course), a bowler who beats the bat at least gets the reward of a Dot-Ball.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 05:54 AM

Oh dear. Too complacent surely.

Subject: RE: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 04:53 AM

I shall wear black

Subject: BS: Ashes Cricket - Normality Returns
From: alanabit
Date: 18 Dec 10 - 04:26 AM

Oh no! England re-assert their mastery of the batting collapse! Business as usual!