Yeah its about time Warne did something this series, hes been useless so far. What Austrailia need is for Lee and McGrath to bowl as well as they can (Warnes a given) What England need to do is to CONCENTRATE and defend the good balls and punish teh bad ones - no airy fairy wafts from Messers Vaughan and Pieterson please. Also its about time Bell and Pieterson actually proved that they are worthy of a test place and get some good scores, we know they can, do they?

Yeah souness was useless with the Youth team, he never gave them a chance did he duff dunn McEveley Taylor Douglas Gallagher Danns (ish)

not long till the winter tour. Is it Pakistan first before Christmas and then India after Christmas or vica verca?

its going to be bloody close. England need 1) Harmison to remember that hes an excellent fast bowler 2) A bit more luck 3) Rain 4) Flintoff 5) Warne to sprain his wrist trying to a fancy trick with his zippo whilst lighting a fag 6) Rain 7) Batsmen to remember how to play forward defensives

great game though its pissing down in Brum at the moment

well they can make the time up in the next 3 days weather permitting, also the overcast is likely to mean that Colingwood and Hoggy could be swinging it right angles. Big girls blouses anyway

Bravo Langer brilliant start Collingwood looking quite dangerous. Weathers probably going to stop play at about 4pm, hopefully Hoggy will get some swing after the break. And I seem to have upset someone. Sorry

they've changed the Kings bowling end now Watch out the Wheeliebin will strike soon Also how mature is Hayden playing now

after lulling Langer into a false sense of security by letting him get 2 6's in two balls

King of Spain to get a fistfull of wickets

Come on Dawks have some more Cod Liver Oil and cool down. Your being very boring and boorish at the moment

Nice to see the Tail wagging for a bit Gutted that Harmy didnt get his 50 (Giles was never LBW put it makes up for that turned down caught behind)

this is fun isnt it

makes up for Collingwood yesterday - it pitched outside the line Mr Umpire sir

Come on the wheeliebin

The Aussies have to come out and attack - therefore gives our bowlers a chance (can we sub Pierterson now so he cant drop any more bloody catches) I think that as well as Harmy and Flintoff aiming for the batsman's throats that Vaughan will use a tactic that worked really well in South Africa, which is bowling wide of the off stump - this means the batsmen have to reach for the ball if they want to score and therefore increase the chances of them buggering it right up. Also it keeps the score down significantly. Looking at cloud cover this afternoon so we might well get some swing for Hoggard. Harmy's due a half century with the bat too.

Well I'll be watching it on sky what with me going flying on Sunday Also the crickets on so, if its alright with you Ive got a note from my mum excusing me from attending footer matches until Tuesday

any one seen this http://www.football365.com/opinion/story_162317.shtml

oh shush

Have faith in the King of Spain, Also Harmy's due a 50 this series And the wicket looks like it'll really really suit Harmy and Flintoff's pace, power and bounce That being said I quite expect the first 4 aussie batsman to hit a ton each declare on 560 for 6 and then bowl us out for 30 winning the ashes and Warne instanlty deified by the gratefull rock crushing public - and to be honest you cant begrudge him - unless your a certain bitter ex - times sports makerupper (journalist)

ID keep Sven, but id get rid of McLAren asap - get Psycho in as deputy, then watch as Beckham trys to get Sven to play him as a holding player

Bravo Northern Ireland absolutely brilliant, worked tirelessley worked together played the best football England - Shame on you all - shame on the manager - shame on Mclaren (useless useless useless) - shame on the players

its usually sloppy because the game has been rushed out to meet a deadline. I am very excited about a game called STALKER found at http://www.stalker-game.com/index_eng.html Which will be released when its good and ready and not before - a bit like Half Life 2 - so that they will have no excuse not to get it right

or if McGrath hits form - 25 What Id like to see is that IF we win the toss, we bat first and just see how big a total we can get, say we get to 450 for 5 - lets not declare lets go for 600, lets destroy the Aussie bowling, give their batsmenno chance and have lots of fun subbing all our fielders just to watch ponting explode

I agree Ste - especially about the patches - BF2 one of the best games since CoD was almost completly hamstrung when it was released. However the patches have brought a number of improvements (ie it works now) and new patches /downloads/mods bring a whole new aspect to the games that you just cant get with a console. That will change im sure, and I have a PS2 but rarely play it, the PC is much better. And its not 1fps improvement, its at least 10. Im sure some techies will tell us why the SLI is great (other than it lets two cards work in parallel) and from what ive heard the new 64 bit architecture will make gaming processes that much better. Also i havent seen HL2 on a console yet.