All Activity

I think McCullum and Rob Key need to go. Stokes, I'm not so sure on- I think he's certainly one I'd keep around, but I imagine he'd end here as a test player and just focus on short forms of the game from here. What annoys me is doing the same things over and over again, despite these ways failing time and again. And the complete lack of accountability. They've messed up, regularly, just own it. Arrogant was about right tbh, either that, or the most pig-headed nature you've ever known. What stings the most for me, is that I don't think Australia have even had to hit top gear to beat us comfortably.

Team mentality? Stokes digged in and show some character. Only can do the same?

When the hardcore loyal supporters, don't want to turn up, something has to change.

How many of the players would be better if the team’s mentality was changed? How many are just poor players ‘full stop’?

Nacy's nightmare just continues. What was they thinking when they appoint him?

I thought we would beat Oxford we didnt, I thought we would beat sheff utd we didnt etc.

Where is the foot work from Pope and Duckett in their dismissal? Nothing. Crawley, Root and Brook got good deliveries but could their footwork been better? Probably in Crawley and Brook. Stokes dig in and show strength and character to fight. My biggest questions are:- 1. Are their better batsmen knocking the door in county championship? Top 3 run scores last season were Sibley, Hameed and Lees, who had their chances at Test level and failed. So are players like McKinney, Haines, Bethall ready to step up and coming for those 3? 2. Is it time to bring in James Rew as the main keeper and bat 7? Only 21, but performances like last season, surely it only time with Jamie Smith moving up the order? 3. Did we pick the right bowlers? You look at Neser and Boland playing and you asking if Sam Cook or Matthew Fisher should have been taken to Australia? 4. Why didnt we asked for minimum of 2 warm up games before the first test? What changes would you like to?. Change Captain? Change McCullum? Change which players? Can I ask anyone on here, does anyone watch any county cricket? If so, anyone stood out?

Harry Berry nails it on Twitter

1. There plainly isn’t common ground across the whole of the fanbase - I sense it’s another Devil’s Ratio of 52:48 TBH - the Coalition is representing their constituency 2. No credible buyer will engage with fans - they’d approach the current owners, the more credible, the less we’d know of them

Simply not good enough. Lots of changes needed all over the place tbh.

For me I hope it's a complete flop and it's like that world club thing when they had to give tickets away.

...... and even then screw up because of the stupid Bazball mentality. England should have won the previous Ashes series and last summer's India series but threw them away through the silly first Test declaration in the former and mindless batting in the last Test in the latter. It worked for a while and was exciting to watch but now it doesn't. McCullum should resign after this series.

Amateurs seem to have taken over again. Totally inadequate preparation, (they knew best) and a basic failure to understand that there are 5 days in a Test match. Feel so sorry for the thousands of England supporters now stuck with a dead series. It seems to me we can now only play at home on our wickets.

Pathetic

Boggan, Joseph or Tyjon in the matchdag squad.

I agree. Crawley got a decent delivery but words fail me with Pope.

Stokes, McCullum and all the rest. Fuck off and don't come back.

Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness

Crawley and Pope …. The rabbits of England cricket. Hopeless

Didn’t we have an academy game abandoned this year due to a drone flying overhead? It would certainly be unprecedented for another first team game to be abandoned or delayed! Shame the gantry is on the other side now as a protest on the hill for a tv game would potentially get attention

Only way to deal with Chaddy is to ignore him.

I’ll drop you a message 🙂

I saw Celtic's chairman resigned today after receiving significant threats. You wonder how a fanbase like that would react to being owned by a distant, immovable object like Venky's.

☝️☝️☝️

The Coalition has nailed its colours to the mast but I do think it has wider spread than the previous action group or Trust did. Plenty of people will join in I think the Coalition could do a much better job at putting the message out about the history of Venkys. Plenty of people still quoting £200m investment / £20m a year investment / “who will buy us”? There is a very easy win that none of the £20m per year is actual investment - it’s dead operating losses - and this can be demonstrated very easily in graphs and charts. PowerBI is excellent at this sort of data analysis these days - how Venkys have decimated us financially to be a stagnant and useless operation. It’s not good management and people need to see that in a way they understand The next step is showing where else true investment has happened in the FL. We are not asking to be Man City (but it would be nice) however it’s very clear other clubs with less of a history to us have benefited from smart and interested owners who want to see a sporting success. As a protest movement, it is my opinion this is what is lacking. Just my two pennies worth mind. If I can lend a hand and people want that, feel free to message me