What a result, Will it be mentioned tomorrow on the news. I doubt it and if it is there will be no praise for the English Team.
Can't wait to get on site and sling some s**t back at the very sore LOOSERS

Plenty of mileage in this one Just watch those sore losers licking their wounds

I been giving it to workmates already this morning

Currently front page on The Age http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...001836860.html

Just out of curiosity: why can't English fans celebrate a victory without becoming derogatory?

Congrats to England.

And SA?

who is being derogatory?

The shit excuses have already started:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...001505,00.html

Aussies have short memories. A certain Kepler Wessels, a Saffa, played test cricket for Australia in the '80s. He also scored a century on debut. Australia selects loads of other nationalities in many sports and call them their own - so this article is a bit rich.

Answer is for Australia to follow the Poms lead and select more South Africans seeing as we are the greatest cricket nation - ever.

Yes indeedee.

I noticed after Australia's first innings that the Australian press were complaining about the state of the wicket, and how the groundsman needed to be spoken to about overbaking it.

I am guessing that these pitch conditions applied to both teams evenly? It does seem odd how the Aussies are unable to accept that on the day the other team outplayed them, and they need to find a non-performance related excuse. It was the same with the rugby on Saturday night - all down to bad refereeing apparently.

I am glad that England have won the Ashes back - after their performance here in 2007, they needed to improve. But we should be gracious in victory - and demonstrate another trait that the Aussies seem to miss the point of...


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I agree, the Australians would be such gracious winners.

I love the fact that the Aussies were blaming the pitch. Surely they should be used to dry wickets?

You would have thought so, and you would have also thought that the conditions would have been the same for both teams.

I think if the Aussies weren't such sore losers, then they wouldn't get ribbed so mercilessly when they do lose. To be fair though, the coverage on Nine this morning was pretty good, and well balanced - it got plenty of air time and seemed to be in reasonably good spirits.


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And I really never thought i would say this but yeah congrats to England!!
As for ungracious defeat/victory - went in to a cafe the other week and was asked by a very agressive cocky Aussie how i was enjoying being thrashed by the Aussies at cricket. Strange given our reasonably strong scottish accents... (We did say well I didnt know Scotland were playing!)
I'm sure this great result will have wiped the smug smile off his face now though. Tempted to go back at the wekend to say hello but will try hard not to sink to that level...

Wow, does one win, one loss and two draws count as a thrashing?


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