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    Quote Originally Posted by Jetmaster View Post
    FFS - they gave the entire team MBE's because they won the Ashes in 2005.

    And people thought the Beatles were unworthy!
    Only reason they won in 2005 was they doctored the crap out of the ball. They had players chewing minties then weighting one side of the ball with their saliva. Makes it a piece of piss to get a ball to reverse swing. Once the poms couldn't get away with the tampering they went to shit soon after.
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    Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
    They Knighted Ian Botham who was pretty much Simon O’Donnell with better hair.
    That is fantastic. If I had a drink, I would have spit it out

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dunster View Post
    Only reason they won in 2005 was they doctored the crap out of the ball. They had players chewing minties then weighting one side of the ball with their saliva. Makes it a piece of piss to get a ball to reverse swing. Once the poms couldn't get away with the tampering they went to shit soon after.
    The actually just found a flaw in the great Aussie side and exploited it

    That we had a team of blokes who just kept hitting balls and trying to play through the line

    By bringing swing bowling into the equation they found a flaw in our techniques and prospered

    Fair play to them for tactically doing us over


    What though is a right laugh is the pitches that are presented for Ashes tests in England since

    They ain't classic English pitches with a lot of grass on them that allow movement off the pitch

    They dry abrasive things designed to rough the ball up to favour reverse swing

    The ridiculous thing is if you watch Test Cricket on Fox when they playing at home against the Windies Pakis Indians etc they produce English type wickets

    It only when the Ashes is on do they produce the reverse swing things

    They won't produce English wickets for us as we have better bowlers than them to exploit those conditions

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    Quote Originally Posted by WolfMan View Post
    That is fantastic. If I had a drink, I would have spit it out
    Almost dropped my sherry

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    Feel like days of old listening to Barmy Army

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    We're ****ing shit

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dunster View Post
    Only reason they won in 2005 was they doctored the crap out of the ball. They had players chewing minties then weighting one side of the ball with their saliva. Makes it a piece of piss to get a ball to reverse swing. Once the poms couldn't get away with the tampering they went to shit soon after.
    I love how naive Australians can be when it comes to cricket.
    Like the time Lillie went in with an Aluminum bat.
    Like the time Trevor Chappell bowled against New Zealand.
    Like the time Hadden knocked the bails off with his glove and claimed that Clarke bowled the batsman.
    Like the time Faf Du Plessis was fined for doing the same thing Smith admitted to doing.
    Like the time Smith was looking to Lehmann for DRS advice.

    Thats just from the top of my head. Yet you whine about a bit of spit.
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    I'M GULLIBLE!

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    can you believe you could get 1.4 on betfair not 20 minutes ago for an australian win? outrageous

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    Quote Originally Posted by Premy View Post
    I love how naive Australians can be when it comes to cricket.
    Like the time Lillie went in with an Aluminum bat.
    Like the time Trevor Chappell bowled against New Zealand.
    Like the time Hadden knocked the bails off with his glove and claimed that Clarke bowled the batsman.
    Like the time Faf Du Plessis was fined for doing the same thing Smith admitted to doing.
    Like the time Smith was looking to Lehmann for DRS advice.

    Thats just from the top of my head. Yet you whine about a bit of spit.
    Don't forget same thing applies in football

    Anyone dives wastes time play acts goes down etc and they just happen to not be Australian then the crowd give them what for

    If they a Skip doing it they see nothing.

    It is embarassing at Socceroos games when a rival goes down injured. Medical man comes out to a chorus of boos

    Then the player gets subbed off as he is legitimate injured and the same cunce clap him off

    ****ing hypocritical

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    Quote Originally Posted by Premy View Post
    I love how naive Australians can be when it comes to cricket.
    Like the time Lillie went in with an Aluminum bat.
    Like the time Trevor Chappell bowled against New Zealand.
    Like the time Hadden knocked the bails off with his glove and claimed that Clarke bowled the batsman.
    Like the time Faf Du Plessis was fined for doing the same thing Smith admitted to doing.
    Like the time Smith was looking to Lehmann for DRS advice.

    Thats just from the top of my head. Yet you whine about a bit of spit.
    That is pissiest lightweight set of excuses ive ever seen and they arent even cheating ones. You have to defend those other cunce better than this.

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    Thats it. Poms can eat a bag

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    What a downer of a series.
    Can’t tell if we reasonably good at cricket again, or England are just taking the piss. Cause they wanna put some Bets on a 3-2 ashes defeat now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bremsstrahlung View Post
    What a downer of a series.
    Can’t tell if we reasonably good at cricket again, or England are just taking the piss. Cause they wanna put some Bets on a 3-2 ashes defeat now.
    The English are piss weak

    We are as per usual pretty solid in home conditions

    We ain't good at this game again

    Smith is great but the rest of our batsmen would not make Aussie sides in the last 25 years

    Plus we have some good but not great bowlers

    Until we start winning games overseas we ain't any good

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    Smith is a star.

    We need to beat the Poms & Pakis at theirs before we start rating the team. To be super team we need to India at hot oven curry central

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    Smith has batted mostly on flat wickets and faced bowlers that are average at best. He's a very good batsmen sure but he's over rated just the same.
    Last edited by The Dunster; 19-12-2017 at 11:37 AM.

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    Not as over rated as flat track bully David Warner.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jetmaster View Post
    Not as over rated as flat track bully David Warner.
    agreed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dunster View Post
    Smith has batted mostly on flat wickets and faced bowlers that are average at best. He's a very good batsmen sure but he's over rated just the same.
    Disagree

    Bloke has been successful in England
    Bloke has been successful in India
    Bloke has been successful in West Indies
    Bloke has been successful in South Africa
    Bloke has been successful in New Zealand
    Bloke has been successful in Sri Lanka
    Bloke has been successful all over Australia

    Not much more really for him to do but keep it up

    Bloke has done shit that Ponting Chappell Clarke Waugh Border etc before him never done

    You don't average 60+ in test cricket unless you can seriously play

    You just have to bow down and accept he is that damn good

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    Quote Originally Posted by MFKS View Post
    Disagree

    Bloke has been successful in England
    Bloke has been successful in India
    Bloke has been successful in West Indies
    Bloke has been successful in South Africa
    Bloke has been successful in New Zealand
    Bloke has been successful in Sri Lanka
    Bloke has been successful all over Australia

    Not much more really for him to do but keep it up

    Bloke has done shit that Ponting Chappell Clarke Waugh Border etc before him never done

    You don't average 60+ in test cricket unless you can seriously play

    You just have to bow down and accept he is that damn good
    He's nowhere near the standard of Viv Richards or Gary Sobers - and has never faced the quality of bowlers either of the Chappell brothers did.
    I'd put Border ahead of Smith and Punter and Waugh right up there as well.

    Not saying Smith isn't good just saying he's got a long way to go before we should be calling him the best since Bradman.

    And then there is the difference in pitches these days and equipment - bats are wayyy better these days than even 20 years ago.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dunster View Post

    And then there is the difference in pitches these days and equipment - bats are wayyy better these days than even 20 years ago.
    Not a massive cricket fan, but can I ask if there's been significant improvement in the technology of balls as well? If so, does that adequately offset the improvement in pitches and bats?
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