The Ashes 2010/2011

[nicwing]

Horray and hazzah, and best of all was the site on that winging git Ponting's middle stump standing at a rakish angle. Replay that you miserable little man.

So we march on to Sydney and hopefully grind the once proud diggers into a totally humiliating 3-1 series defeat.

Barmy Barmy!!

[Juniortubed]

Not to sound smug but my prediction is looking pretty good

[Monkey Nuts]

Not to sound smug but my prediction is looking pretty good

You can sound smug IF we win the final test!!

Great performance in Melbourne, just hope we keep playing the same way in Sydney. We're a good side at the moment, but to become a great side we can't afford performances like the one at Perth, so we must crush the Aussies again while we have the chance.

[Puff Scotty]

Is "prediction" the same as "wishful thinking" or even "lucky guess".
I predict 2 - 2 'cos the Aussies will have the hump now & we'll get too smart & big for our own boots.....

[Puff Scotty]

Just catching up... but pretty unusual for RP to make such a berk of himself...

[Big_T_UK]

Yester year.....


And the current times.....

[nicwing]

Check this out:

[Juniortubed]

and who will bet against me now!

[Monkey Nuts]

and who will bet against me now!

I think you may have got it now!!

If anything 3-1 flatters the Aussies really. England were superior in every department, and as the commentators on Sky were saying the other night, if you were to pick a composite of the best XI from both sides you'd probably have Hussey and the rest from England.

Having grown up watching England getting many a spanking over the last 20 years it was a great moment for me watching England bring up the 600 last night!! Don't get to see it very often, so I'm really enjoying it right now. Looking forward to one final night of sleep deprivation tonight, and a celebratory cigar when we clinch the third innings victory of the series!!!

[nicwing]

I have got a mate who retired in the summer and who has been in Oz with tickets for every day of every match, his retirement present to himself.

I just sent him a text:

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here

Lucky B*stard!

[Monkey Nuts]

I've watched England abroad against the West Indies in Barbados (rain affected draw) and Antigua (crushing defeat) in 1998, and then went to South Africa where I did amazingly see an England win at Pretoria in 2000 but that had some of the shine taken off it later when it emerged Hanse Cronje took a few quid to force the result!!!

Always wanted to go to the Ashes in Australia - just a shame I am somewhat financially embarassed at the moment!

Your friend is a lucky man!! Despite the Barmy Army being slightly moronic at times the experience of watching cricket abroad and meeting local cricket fans is a great one.

[Juniortubed]

really wish I'd put my money where my mouth is on this one.......does anyone know what the odds were?

[peanutpete]

really wish I'd put my money where my mouth is on this one.......does anyone know what the odds were?

150 to 1

[nicwing]

You can still get 25-1 on Stevenage beating Newcastle in the FA Cup on Saturday!?

[Puff Scotty]

You can still get 25-1 on Stevenage beating Newcastle in the FA Cup on Saturday!?

That's not a bad bet....