In 1889: Charlie Chaplin was born, as was Adolf Hitler. The Eiffel Tower was opened, Jack the Ripper was at large, Nintendo was formed and the pizza margarita was invented. Blackburn Rovers finished 4th and reached the semi final of FA Cup. What a year that was…..

Fantastic Joe Root, an all time great English batsman and now part of 10,000 runs club along with Cooke. Who said test match cricket was dead, hard conditions, Foakes excellent too, good win for England. Brilliant watching, I’ll be at the next test, can’t wait.

Both players would walk into any club in the Championship, losing them at this stage, with an already depleted squad, is madness. A bit like the managerial appointment, it’s poundshop football club, cost cutting, dumbing down, orchestrated decline that fills agents pockets only. Venkys out.

Far to many in that management team SG, our billionaire owners can’t stretch to that.

Stokes out playing……a one day shot…..spot on Jim, awful shot and probably lost us the test.

277 to win England, it’s the hope that kills you.

Superb Stuart Broad, 3 wickets, 3 balls, England back in this now.

Certainly a better chance than Ainsworth in my opinion, he would be an ambitious appointment ben.

Ask yourselves, do you believe Gareth Ainsworth will get this club promoted to the Premiership? Or any other manager we're being linked with for that matter? The ambition has to be promotion, otherwise sacking Mowbray was pointless.

I’m a bloody jinx……

Go on Parky 🏏

Ended up on Castle Hill last night for the lighting of the beacon, similar scenes across UK.

He's on holiday with his family and also on a technology ban I read earlier Armchair. Glen was talking up Farke I believe, but it seems Farke has bigger fish to fry in Germany right now so my guess is, its back to the drawing board.

Training would be held in MacDonald's, no thanks.

Just on the subject of blockers....... Great quote from Fred Trueman about probably the greatest blocker of them all -: "If Geoffrey had been half as good as he thought he was, the fans would have been queuing to get in, rather than queuing to get out" Looking forward to a trip back to Lancashire later today, Cherry Tree CC the venue and an hour or two with Henry Blowfeld, should be a great evening.

Proper run clubs like Villa don’t close for bank holidays, they got the Critchley deal done in 24hrs, just how it should be.

Spent more money on transfers last season than we did, Blackpool that is. Billionaire owners eh……cheap bastards.

English batting techniques aren't going to change overnight, but let’s not forget, the best test team in the world NZ suffered today too. Both Australia and India are formidable test sides, the shorter game hasn’t impacted on them, it’s a lazy argument to blame the white ball and hopefully ‘Baz’ will prove that over the next few years.

It’s personal Waco I’m afraid, the cuts run deep.

And once he is, you’ll still keep that hard earned cash in your pocket would be my bet rigger. Hopeless mediocrity incoming, I just get a feeling…..

He's probably worried about them being on strike… But you're right o2g, he needs to pad up, England showing we still can't bat, Baz has plenty of work to do.

Brilliant scenes from London today celebrating Queens Platinum Jubilee, historic. Makes you proud to be British 🇬🇧🇬🇧

They can only make a like for like change and Parkinson is the next in line I guess. But I agree it must be strange for him ‘bombing’ down 50mph M6.

Good to hear from you pal, yes all well, hope you and yours are too.

Good start by Crawley and Lees here, small steps, that’s all we need at this stage.