Gav

I got it completely wrong last season….. I felt after a managerial appointment shit show and another dysfunctional pre-season, I thought we’d finish below mid-table, but I was wrong and we had a comparatively good season! So what about this season….. Well the owners have realised JDT has something about him, so have immediately cut his budget to make things harder to get promoted….. 13th this season, if we are lucky. Venkys out!

You've nailed your colours to the mast during this series matt, you want traditional cricket played in the traditional way and nothing wrong with that. Having been a cricket fan for more years than I care to mention, I'd much rather watch us play wining cricket, as we have been doing more recently, than getting hammered in West Indies by 10wkts trying the same old traditional approach.

Thanks Ewood Ace, I thought Jim was making stuff up again…

Where have you been for the past 15 months? This side have won 11 tests out of 17 under Stokes as captain, including a historic 3-0 win in Pakistan, which has NEVER been achieved by any England side in the history of cricket. They’re undoubtedly the most entertaining England side ever and given time could prove to the best side ever. It’s a great time to be an English cricket fan.

Talking of swimming pools, it’s pelting down in London, can’t see any further play today.

I went last year to the Royal London cup game in Sedbergh, sadly it rained all day, but a great place to watch cricket when the weather stays fine.

This rain delay could work in our favour, we need to regroup, we lacked ideas with the ball for the most part today. Long way to go yet.

If you think about the snakes involved before Waggott, ticking along is probably the best we can hope for sadly and only promotion will grow the club under these owners.

Saw this on Twitter recently, great picture of the Brazil team leaving Boltons training ground 1966, you can see Pele in the window:

I bet you can’t name those 5 test series wins in Pakistan against Pakistan?

I was speaking recently to a former member of this parish, a well respected former member and he was telling me that despite still having some misgivings on pricing and fan engagement, Waggott is actually doing a really good keeping things ticking along without all the drama that has dominated over the past decade or more. He has a point and it certainly gave me food for thought, but I'm still convinced we could do better, but that is in the hands of the owners and they're not interested in doing better.

Touch of class by Australia at the start of play giving a guard of honour to Broad, great scenes watching him and Anderson walking down the steps, real moments to savour.

You’ve got to give Spence credit for his heart and bravery, but Crawford was just to good, on another level. Nobody to touch Crawford, he’s probably the best pound for pound boxer in the world, an absolute masterclass of boxing.

Crawford v Spence tonight from T-Mobile arena in Vegas, probably the biggest fight since Mayweather v pacquiao in 2015. This time both fighters in the prime, ring walk 4am on TNT (BT) box office. Looking forward to it.

Shout out to the crowd today, double the numbers some posters thought 👍 and that is in no small part to the efforts from the Trusts and he posters on here. I hope everyone enjoyed the day.

This England side breaking record after record, it’s been another phenomenal day for this team, they’re quickly heading towards the best English test side ever. You heard it hear first.

That’s a superb playlist with plenty of local links, pity they couldn’t get it right….

I know I've said this several times on this thread, but you should all be extremely proud of your efforts. Getting off your backsides and trying to make a difference is just tremendous in my book. What we'd give for a John Williams back at the club to give you some help. Enjoy the day.

England have dominated today, no doubt about that, against an Aussie side trying to survive at all costs. Looking forward to the weekend 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

They'll be queuing to get out, rather than queuing to get in, if it keeps up!

A balloon just popped and woke the crowd up! Boring boring Aussies.

Tramlines in Sheffield is where I saw him.

I was unsure where to put this really, but apparently this was taken 11yrs ago today (Nostalgia), our tent at a music festival. Have we made any progress whatsoever since this was taken? Excluding the odious bugger on the flag, I really don’t think we have.

Have you moved from Malta to Sheffield Philipl?

I would like to take this opportunity to apologise to the messageboard for my stupid comments and jinxing proceedings thereafter. Its not the first time this has happened, but I can assure you all, it will be the last. Apologies 😤