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Beffer posted:Will all this nonsense fire England up for Thursday or exhaust them. Ordinarily you would assume the latter, but Stokes and Bairstow are completely loving bonkers I don’t think test cricket and playing angry are a great combination, not conducive to concentration and focus for long periods
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Ratios and Tendency posted:I'm very calm actually, and this is victory wine. Congrats on being on the same side of the issue as Geoffrey Boycott I guess
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Geoffrey had a rant in the telegraph a few days ago to the effect that this is the ashes and the only thing that matters is winning.
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Whingeing Poms gonna Whinge lol at the whole "apologise, we're hurting here yknow" loving stump every last oval office Australia, even if the ball is dead.
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Jul 3, 2023 12:56
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Brilliant cricket, fantastic stumping, had to switch off after Stokesy starting smacking it around because I ain't watching that poo poo again. Switched back on to see the glorious, victorious Aussies. 5-0 still on.
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It's against the spirit of the game, cries the Lord's crowd, while frantically ignoring that the Laws of Cricket decided upon by Lord's literally define The Spirit Of The Game by including gems like "accept the umpire's decision", "create a positive atmosphere and encourage others to do likewise", and "show self-discipline even when things go against you" Although I think part of it is that the Poms can't understand how a wicketkeeper knows how to get people out  As a side-note, I listened to a podcast a while back where two Americans (one a baseball fan with very basic understanding of cricket, the other only a vague sports fan) discussed The Underarm Incident in great detail. They were both absolutely astonished that doing something unsporting but within the rules caused such a huge fuss.
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Jul 3, 2023 13:50
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Who the gently caress is Todd Murphy
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Mister Chief posted:Who the gently caress is Todd Murphy Decent off spin bowler or Harry Potter, your choice
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I didn't get a chance to see the stumping til this morning but from the way everyone was talking about it I thought Carey had the ball in the gloves and was chucking it up and down for like 5 seconds or something, not that he did the exact thing all keepers do at least once per match on the off chance it works. Absolute nothing of an incident, don't be a dumbass. Actually this is more ammo for Bairstow not having the keeping skills because any keeper worth his salt would be expecting that on every single delivery.
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tanglewood1420 posted:Mike Brearley (ex England captain of the 1970s and 80s for those too young) became a qualified psychoanalyst after retiring. He wrote a column saying it is certainly not a coincidence that the architects of this new approach in Stokes and McCullum are both sufferers of depression and have talked openly how therapy has helped them on the last couple of years. Thanks, this is very interesting. I like how even within his more psychoanalytic positions he still can't help but give cricket takes. tarbrush posted:I'm in this camp. Carey's a wicketkeeper, a certain amount of cuntery is expected. This came up during the last time someone got Mankadded but I think it's fair to be frustrated that a good and exciting moment got hijacked by someone getting out anticlimactically. The issue is that the frustration should be entirely directed at Baristow and every article like this should be headlined "Baristow is a loving Idiot" instead of putting the responsibility on the team that caught him asleep at the wheel.
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The Marnus clip from up thread is interesting because while it doesn't happen at the end of the over, as soon as he hears it go into Bairstow's gloves, he turns around and looks at him so he's ready for the throw back. In short, Bairstow is a loving idiot and the straw clutching in the media is embarrassing
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Okay, I withdraw all my criticisms of any Australians involved in this. The entire Tory oval office establishment has rowed in behind Bairstow and I will be damned if I agree with May and Sunak on anything.
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Just when you think this all couldn't get any funnier, we've got an international diplomatic incident brewing
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It's a very English thing to cry foul over something you yourself have been doing all the drat time so I'm not surprised they're going to try turning it into a cultural issue.
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The victim card is extremely easy to play around sports and they're all wannabe populist cunts who will suck any dog dick going if it gets them a few percentage points.
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Hyperriker posted:Just when you think this all couldn't get any funnier, we've got an international diplomatic incident brewing Australia has already hosed the UK over with the free trade agreement, cricket is a great distraction for the Tories, they get a week of cricket headlines vs the uk economic collapse
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tarbrush posted:Okay, I withdraw all my criticisms of any Australians involved in this. The entire Tory oval office establishment has rowed in behind Bairstow and I will be damned if I agree with May and Sunak on anything. Nothing brings people together like disdain for the Tories.
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tarbrush posted:Okay, I withdraw all my criticisms of any Australians involved in this. The entire Tory oval office establishment has rowed in behind Bairstow and I will be damned if I agree with May and Sunak on anything. Agreed we're all Aussies now.
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serious gaylord posted:Agreed we're all Aussies now. Reported
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I'd rather be an Aussie than a Tory.
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serious gaylord posted:I'd rather be an Aussie than a Tory. An awful choice but a fair one
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I withdraw my appeal As is the morally correct thing to do
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Skarsnik posted:I withdraw my appeal lol
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I honestly think had this been Warner or whoever getting stumped a lot of Australians would have a little whinge but the general consensus would be "stay in the crease fuckwit". I doubt loving albo would be having a cry to the newspaper Actually England has been very chatty this ashes. I think this really is a when prophecy fails situation going on. Obviously I want to win every ashes 5-0 but I really want to win this one 5-0 to see the rhetoric coming from England after the oval
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England are bad winners and even worse losers it's really not surprising.
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serious gaylord posted:I'd rather be an Aussie than a Tory.
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You can predict these sorts of tiresome op-eds from politicians and media hacks when a country is in free fall economically, culturally and socially, but some of the stuff taken from the players and coaching staff has been disappointing. If nothing else, it's just bad sports psychology since a team like Australia will thrive on it. The pandering to the lowest common denominator of loud idiots is annoying but expected elsewhere. The rest of us can just try to see the humour in it and/or drink ourselves into a stupor (at least the beer is better here  ).
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/03/was-it-in-the-spirit-of-the-game-a-nation-cries-whither-cricket?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Hedgehog Pie posted:(at least the beer is better here It’s warm though
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Lyon out https://twitter.com/espncricinfo/status/1675995333804044288?s=46&t=AwMtDeZF_tX5DmOd53fE0g
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Welcome Super Todd Mad Dog Murphy
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In the spirit of the game, I hope the series ends 5-0 and we win each of the remaining tests by an innings.
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Burn Down Canberra posted:I honestly think had this been Warner or whoever getting stumped a lot of Australians would have a little whinge but the general consensus would be "stay in the crease fuckwit". If Warner did it it would just be another item on the long list on why he should be dropped.
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Skarsnik posted:I withdraw my appeal Hahaha
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Thinking of this every time McCullum calls Ben Stokes an inspirational leader and good role model https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-45111213
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