The Ashes
Mar 3rd 2005, 12:13 pm
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The Ashes
Had $10 with a guy at work today that the Poms would win the test series.......
Mar 3rd 2005, 12:17 pm
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Re: The Ashes
Originally Posted by Innyjim
Had $10 with a guy at work today that the Poms would win the test series.......
Mar 3rd 2005, 1:00 pm
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Re: The Ashes
Originally Posted by Innyjim
Had $10 with a guy at work today that the Poms would win the test series.......
Result 4 - 1 to Australia.
Mar 3rd 2005, 1:50 pm
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Re: The Ashes
Originally Posted by thepoacher
The Pommies will narrowly win the first Test which will enrage the Ozzies into destroying them in the next four.
Result 4 - 1 to Australia.
Result 4 - 1 to Australia.
Are you seeing what the Aussies are doing to the Kiwis at the moment in the one dayers, and the Kiwis are suppose to be the 2nd best team in the world at the moment.
There is no way the Aussie will lose the first test, they know that that will be the most important one to set up the whole series.
Mar 3rd 2005, 1:53 pm
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Re: The Ashes
Ponting, Hayden, Langer, Martyn, Gilchrist, Clarke, McGrath, Warne, Gillespie, Lee, Kasprowicz. Does anyone (least of all England) have any chance of beating this lot over a full test series?
England (like in the rugby) got a bit carried away with a good run against second rate opposition (not in the case of the RWC!) and thought they were world beaters.
I wonder if the likes of Lehman, Symonds, Watson, McGill et al who can't get a regular green baggy would get a cap for anyone else? I've got an idea now, why don't we send Australia A to defend the Ashes - which they would.
I'm just stirring a bit you understand (I anticipate replies that England won the last one day game - swallows and summers, just like the last soccer match).
I loved the sign at the Davis Cup match between Australia and GB - "The Poms used to come down under over 200 years ago to be flogged - nothing's changed".
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England (like in the rugby) got a bit carried away with a good run against second rate opposition (not in the case of the RWC!) and thought they were world beaters.
I wonder if the likes of Lehman, Symonds, Watson, McGill et al who can't get a regular green baggy would get a cap for anyone else? I've got an idea now, why don't we send Australia A to defend the Ashes - which they would.
I'm just stirring a bit you understand (I anticipate replies that England won the last one day game - swallows and summers, just like the last soccer match).
I loved the sign at the Davis Cup match between Australia and GB - "The Poms used to come down under over 200 years ago to be flogged - nothing's changed".
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Mar 3rd 2005, 4:38 pm
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Re: The Ashes
Originally Posted by Innyjim
Had $10 with a guy at work today that the Poms would win the test series.......
Mar 3rd 2005, 4:54 pm
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Re: The Ashes
Originally Posted by wombat42
You might as well have just set fire to your 10 buck note.
Mar 3rd 2005, 5:12 pm
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Re: The Ashes
Originally Posted by fraser
Wouldn't it just melt!
Mar 3rd 2005, 7:02 pm
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Re: The Ashes
The best odds are not on England winning but on a drawn series. I think you can get about $6 at the TAB. Aus to win is about $1.50 and England $2.50
Mar 3rd 2005, 7:15 pm
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England has lost the last 8 Ashes series. The current English team is no better then any of the previous losing teams so of course they have no hope of winning or even drawing in my opinion. The Aussie team are professionals the poms are second rate amuatures. l would'nt want to be the English Captain because after most Ashes humilations the Poms use him as the scapegoat and sack him, then replace him with someone thats even more incompetant.
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Mar 3rd 2005, 7:17 pm
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Re: The Ashes
Originally Posted by wombat42
England has lost the last 8 Ashes series. The current English team is no better then any of the previous losing teams so of course they have no hope of winning or even drawing in my opinion. The Aussie team are professionals the poms are second rate amuatures.
Mar 3rd 2005, 7:21 pm
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Re: The Ashes
Originally Posted by fraser
Yes I expect you to win, but your wrong about the quality of this English team
Mar 3rd 2005, 7:26 pm
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Perhaps to make the Ashes series slightly more even we should send the under 18 Aussie side to play against England. But then the humilation would be even worse if England was defeated by a bunch of Aussie high School kids.
Mar 3rd 2005, 7:26 pm
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Re: The Ashes
Originally Posted by wombat42
Well let them prove me wrong in the coming Ashes series.
Let the battle commence
Mar 3rd 2005, 7:29 pm
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Re: The Ashes
Originally Posted by fraser
Let the battle commence