Simply Red - A New Flame

George Harrison - I've Got My Mind Set On You

Andrew Gold - Thank You For Being A Friend

Decent day for England in the end. 350ish will be a very decent score on this pitch.

Everything But the Girl - These Early Days

RIP John Savident, who played Fred Elliott in Corrie for many years.

RIP Paul. Its striking to note how many of the players on those photos are no longer with us, and it doesn't seem that long ago either 😞 

Everything But the Girl - Care Less

Chairmen of the Board - Give Me Just a Little More Time

The Style Council - One Nation Under a Groove

The Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'

The Jam - When You're Young

Charles and Eddy - Would I Lie To You?

I'm happy enough with the short term approach from Eustace, and it will be interesting to see how he develops things once we've assured safety (which we will).

An earlier poster said he reminds them of Mark Hughes - I hope they are right. One of Sparky's first home games - it might even have been his very first one - was a miserable, turgid, 4-0 defeat to Boro where Tugay got sent off and the players looked like they had never kicked a ball in anger before . One can only imagine what would have been posted on here about that period but things worked out rather well in the end. 

Walrus Gumboot - Perils Of a Small Town Life

58 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

We're not beating Newcastle away. 

We're not playing them away.

John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band - Working Class Hero

The Isley Brothers - Twist and Shout

18 hours ago, onlyonejackwalker said:

We were terrible in the West Indies. We have also been terrible for much of my cricket watching life. We are much improved in many ways.

We have won 14 of the last 20 tests. 6 of which were nail biters. One of which was the first test in India. The recent record could easily look a lot different. 

I love the positive mental attitude and aggression. But for example look at Duckett running himself out going for a crazy single when we need 500+!!! The height of stupidity.

Root has 77 runs from 6 innings. It's costing us badly. I don't care how good you are you need to get 'in' before going for your shots. On that subject pre-meditated shots rely on more luck than skill.

Evening Gav and thanks. 

 

Yeah this sums it up for me really. I agree with Gav that I prefer this team to that one that lost in WI, but they got themselves into a fabulous position where they didn't need to take risks in this last test. Lots of mistakes were made but we simply needed to bat long, partly to score enough runs, but also to give the bowlers a rest. It took a special sort of idiocy to lose that heavily from that position. And don't get me started on that crazy declaration at Edgbaston last year that, in my opinion, cost us the Ashes. Our best batter was still at the crease and we had less than 400 on the board FFS!

So, in summary we need to retain a bit of pragmatism at times, hand-in-hand with the aggressive stuff.

Best wishes to Mogga. He's had some tough times away from football, I do hope the treatment has come early enough for him.

Gene Clark - So You Say You Lost Your Baby

Oh dear…

Van Morrison - And It Stoned Me

Barbara Dickson - Another Suitcase In Another Hall

450, although feels like a lot of runs, is probably a par score. You can still get 5/1 for the draw in this match and that looks like good value to me.