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chris_h

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  1. You hate dogs? I no longer like the cut of your gib Gav.
  2. Here you are again telling people how it is when you have no idea.
  3. I don't know Gav but I like the cut of his gib. I just don't see him as a pirate. I take Walney Blue at face value and have found a few of his posts genuinely funny.
  4. Finished 3-0 v Brighton. Seems as though Mahoney and Raya had good games.
  5. The poor bugger did look miserable as Large Samuel's lone striker.
  6. You do know that you are bothering to reply to the bloke who was convinced that Diego Maradona was on his way to the Ewood hot seat don't you?
  7. Aussies by and large are great people but some of their tabloid journos are A grade knobs. They have gone a bit quiet.
  8. Wasn't Robbie Cotton going to be the next big thing? The 'next Steven Gerrard' according to someone.
  9. Here you go Chaddy - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restraining_order
  10. The conspiracy theory fruit loops are leaving this thread alone so this could be the place were normal folk can talk about the new Academy chief. Terrific achievement in getting the U21s to the cup final, all the best to Mr Kinder.
  11. The epithet 'convict' doesn't apply to the freely settled colony of South Australia
  12. I stand corrected then! I'm surprised Botham said that as 3-0 clearly flattered England in the Old Dart so to suggest a cleansweep in the Aussie's backyard would seem a bit fanciful. As for Gower's comments then they are inaccurate as well as a bit daft. Clearly, a young country like Australia can't match Europe for culture but if he were to sample the laneways of Melbourne he would see that the cafe culture and galleries there match anything in the UK outside of London.
  13. I haven't seen anything that Gower has said that might be disrespectful to the Aussies or inflammatory. Botham suggested after the Brisbane capitulation that England might respond aggressively in Adelaide. That went well didn't it? Nothing that either have said that might be deemed undignified although I stand to be corrected. Some non cricket writers in the UK penned some disrespectful nonsense after the last two Ashes series but they have someway to go to match some of the gutter stuff the Aussie hacks have been churning out since the Poms arrived Down Under. Test wise I read that Steve Finn has been rigorously going through his paces in the nets over the past couple of days. He has had a dip since doing really well in 2010/11 and Perth might be the place to rediscover his mojo. He isn't express but he is sharp and can send the ball down from 7' plus. On the WACA's bouncy track he might get the Aussies jumping about a bit.
  14. Add Botham, Gough and Flintoff and you have the basis of a Northern team that would be more than happy to face down Aussie posturing.
  15. I bought the 'Weekly Guardian' to read during lunch. $6 well spent.
  16. At least the penny seems to have dropped with Joe Root. On Saturday morning, before he gave his wicket away, Root was exasperating the locals by stonewalling the Aussie quicks. This prompted a shout of ' Have a go Ellen Degeneres!'
  17. There has been some Aussie baiting in the English tabloids but even the Sun has an excellent cricket writer in John Etheridge who manages to report on the game with balance and fairness. Here in Adelaide the only alternative to the local rag is 'The Australian'. To be fair, I haven't read their reports but the headlines didn't look much different to those in the more low rent local tabloid. Yes, some of the gloating in the English tabloids was a bit cringeworthy during the previous two Ashes series but at least you don't have too far to look for an alternative in the UK.
  18. Maybe the more metropolitan Sydney press is a little more circumspect and introspective than than the big country town media in Adelaide. Back in 2010/11 you'd have thought cricket wasn't played in Australia, now the xenophobic gloating is quite spiteful.
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