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Showing that he's better as a sub and not a starter

We need bigger, more physical, forwards, and not big like Gallagher who has all then physicality of a big girl's blouse Luton had big lump up front called Morris last season - perfect for what we need

Great drama, shame about the result....... now come on England

Brighton to receive British record £111m for Moises Caicedo That's third division Brighton, as in Hove Albion Caicedo joined Brighton from Ecuadorian side Independiente del Valle for £4m in February 2021 Over to you and your scouting team Gregg

I remember Coddington as a classic lower league English centre-half - uncompromising, tough as nails, hard in the tackle and would put his head in areas where many players would think twice about putting a foot. There's no way you'd call him skilful and he'd look at Rovers' present centre-halves playing the ball around at the back and wonder what the hell was going on but he was of his era and he was a good player for Rovers and I enjoyed watching him. RIP.

Never heard of him For lovers of One Foot in the Grave, this lovely lady was a star. RIP Mrs Warboys https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66456002

Yes

Dyche has "no plan". If there's one thing that cannot be levelled at Dyche is not having a plan. Dyche will keep Everton up, and Wolves will stay up too. O'Neill know what he's doing. I've a horrible feeling Luton will be OK too, though would love to see them go down Sheff Utd will struggle and there's often one unexpectedly gets in trouble and falls through the trap door - last season it was Leicester. Any one or three of Bournemouth, Brentford or Fulham would be good.

Good old Tone, he loves cup competitions

That’s pretty impressive seeing as they’re complete opposites

England out of jail there

It's like watching Luton v Rovers last season - one team, fast, big, strong, physical and organised, the other skilful but easily knocked off the ball and prone to mistakes

Penalties look to be England's best hope

England have their work cut out here - Nigeria are competitive and strong and athletic and have a bit of a nasty streak too. One mistake and they're out

Hope this is the start of a good cup run. Unlike his predecessor Tomasson appeared to take both cups seriously last season - the match at Leicester last season was one of my best Rovers away nights in years. Cup runs excite the fans and give the club a real feelgood factor and more of the same would be welcome. We most certainly don't want to go out to the likes of Walsall Rovers 3 Walsall 1

1-0 Ipswich. Not such an enormous step-up from League 1 after all

He's fine on a flat wicket with the ball coming at him fast - the convict bowlers suited him because they gave him "less time to think", as he admitted. Swing through the line and a good eye and a heavy bat does the rest, but not so effective on a seamer under cloudy skies. Let's see how he goes in India - where dodgy techniques tend to get found out.

Armstrong off the mark last night and now he’s back at his right level I’m sure he’ll bag 20 plus goals for them this season. Ward-Prowse will leave surely, too good for the Championship

I'm just pointing out that most modern batsmen would not have the technique to cope with those pitches. So if you're questioning picking Underwood in an all-time XI you'd also have to question selecting any batsmen from the last 30 - 40 years. In my opinion

If you're going down that road, you wouldn't pick any batsman from the modern era in an all-time XI because very few of them would have the skill to survive on uncovered pitches. Crawley's method of plonking his left foot down the pitch and swinging a 3lb bat through the line wouldn't survive one over from Trueman. Like in football, picking an all-time XI is an academic exercise and doesn't stand up to scrutiny

Bob Willis?? and no Botham? Two people gone with Pietersen but he wouldn't get in my 3rd XI We've all got our favourites

The theory is one of Boycott or Cook could bat all day, tire out the bowlers and dashing middle order batsmen would pile on the runs. Boycott could raise his rate of scoring when he wanted; it's just that like Cook he set his stall out to bat all day long - which I like Stewart was an adequate wicketkeeper but I remember him making mistakes which I don't remember Knott ever doing. By most consensus he and Godfrey Evans are England's best-ever wicketkeepers You'd have to have one of your all rounders opening the bowling - which isn't right. I've got 2 specialist fast bowlers - and 2 of the meanest, "nastiest" bowlers I ever saw - with 2 all-rounders as change bowlers. You can't have Flintoff at No 9, he'd have no one to bat with - Underwood and Anderson are rabbits I think you're team's unbalanced and I much prefer mine but it's all personal preference

Good shout, though I did get Flintoff in

From about 1961 when I started taking an interest in cricket Boycott; Cook; Gooch; Dexter, Gower; Botham; Flintoff; Knott; Underwood; Snow; Trueman They're my personal favourites which includes IMO the best Test openers; the best 2 all-rounders, the best wicketkeeper; the best spin bowler; and the best fast bowlers. They're all proper Test players and the team includes some dashing batsmen that the instant cricket Bazballers would enjoy too Honourable mentions for the likes of Cowdrey, Graveney, Barrington, D'Oliveira, Barber, Milburn, Root, and if you went back to the 1950s you'd have to consider Laker, May, Compton and Hutton but as I say, they're my favourites of the ones of my era that I've enjoyed watching

It was a rhetorical question. Now the Ashes are over frustration is the over riding emotion. England missed an outstanding opportunity to give them a 4-0 spanking. That would have been delicious and so satisfying after the maulings we’ve suffered over the years. I read this morning we scored at 4.6 an over during the series and they scored at 3.2. Yet the series finished 2-2, showing there’s more than one way to skin a cat The Hundred starts today, giving Bazball addicts the chance to continue their fix. I won’t be watching