One thing I have always admired about you guys is that you just get the fk on with it. Deal with it. Make the most of it etc. You like this 'tough guy' image your country has. You play up to it all the time.
Well you currently sound like a pack of 5 year olds whos mum made them go to be early.
stumpy on here making obvious reference to the fact. Then persuader brought it up in a more subtle fashion. And you wanted to change the whole format of the game because you couldn't beat us in the first test!!!
Add to that the constant moaning about our selection on this board over the years, and the non stop moaning I have had over the pasts few days from friends and it all boils down to on big reply.
my format was thought of well before the first test thank you, in which you should of won had your skipper had the knackers to try and win it. and as for the rest, i think you'll find you have totally read persuaders post wrongly. stumpy is big enough and ugly enough to defend himself. oh and by the way, you aint won anything YET, have the brains to at least wait til it's certain.
stumpy on here making obvious reference to the fact. Then persuader brought it up in a more subtle fashion. And you wanted to change the whole format of the game because you couldn't beat us in the first test!!!
Add to that the constant moaning about our selection on this board over the years, and the non stop moaning I have had over the pasts few days from friends and it all boils down to on big reply.
**** you all!!!
You see Goochy someone started posting about importing players back into the Australian side in this thread.
. So before you started moaning about "not knowing" what we were on about I copied, (not wrote, Alex ) the position with England over the whole history of Ashes. It was pisstaking to see what responses were received.
I think Persuader has it right on the arrogant angle but you better include Alex in that missive descriptor. England outplayed Australia in the Second Test that is an undisputed fact but I would rather have the records of some of the Aussie players you called gob****e than either yours or Alex's
-- Edited by stumpy on Tuesday 7th of December 2010 10:41:48 PM
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Here is a list of cricketers born outside UK and Ireland who have represented England at Test level. (Those born in Scotland, Wales and Ireland are not included in this list, for example Wales-born reverse-swing quickie Simon Jones).
Sixteen were born in India, 11 in West Indies, 10 in South Africa and nine in Australia.
AUSTRALIA: Billy Murdoch, John Ferris, Sammy Woods, Albert Trott, Gubby Allen, Adam Hollioake, Ben Hollioake, Jason Gallian, Tim Ambrose.
SOUTH AFRICA: Basil DOliviera, Tony Greig, Ian Greig, Allan Lamb, Chris Smith, Robin Smith, Andrew Strauss, Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior, Ian Trott.
WEST INDIES: Lord Harris, Pelham Warner, Roland Butcher, Norman Cowans, Wilf Slack, Gladstone Small, Phillip DeFreitas, Devon Malcolm, Chris Lewis, Neil Williams, Joseph Benjamin.
NEW ZEALAND: Andy Caddick.
INDIA: K.S. Ranjitsinhji (Ranji), Edward Wynyard, Richard Young, Neville Tufnell, Douglas Jardine, K.S. Duleepsinhji (Duleep), Nawab of Pataudi, Sr., Errol Holmes, Norman Mitchell-Innes, George Emmett, Colin Cowdrey, John Jameson, Bob Woolmer, Robin Jackman, Nasser Hussain, Minal Patel.
PAKISTAN: Usman Afzaal, Owais Shah.
ZIMBABWE (formerly Rhodesia): Graeme Hick, Paul Parker.
KENYA: Derek Pringle.
ZAMBIA: Phil Edmonds, Neil Radford.
GERMANY: Donald Carr, Paul Terry.
ITALY: Ted Dexter.
PERU: Freddie Brown.
HONG KONG: Dermot Reeve.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Geraint Jones.
DENMARK: Amjad Khan.
Murdoch, Ferris, Woods and Albert Trott had earlier played for Australia. Nawab of Pataudi Sr. Later played for India .
Incredibly, seven overseas-born cricketers from five countries represented England in the first Test against New Zealand at Christchurch in January 1992. They were Hick (born in Zimbabwe), Lamb and Robin Smith (South Africa), Pringle (Kenya), Lewis and DeFreitas (West Indies) and debutant Reeve (Hong Kong). Only four were home grown Englishmen skipper Graham Gooch, Alec Stewart, R.C. (Jack) Russell and Phil Tufnell.
Faaarking hell stumpy. Has the England Crciketr team actually had any Poms in it of late.
-- Edited by fathertime on Wednesday 8th of December 2010 06:41:09 AM
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And anyway Goochy...enjoy yr moment in the sun.......England or should i say the Foreign Legion will win the series. As was said before the series started.
I for one dont give a rats.... i /we have been blessed to live in an era where we totally dominated world cricket...better than the windies...better than the invincables...and way faarking better than any era produced by those smelly little cricketers coming out of that smelly little sh'it hole called England.
I have enjoyed the last 25 odd years of international cricket. Meanwhile England has been an embarrassment to the phrase 'World Class Cricket'.
FEBU (faark everyone but us)
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Just curious here FT & stumpy, are you suggesting that no one on that list should have been allowed to represent England ?? Hard to think of anyone more English than Colin Cowdrey.
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No...they are obviously allowed to represent England. But you would think these peple would rather represent THEIR country of birth. That would be the greatest honour that they could acheive IMO.
Sheepy.....i dont really care who represents England. We usually have em covered. Give em time and they will implode and we WILL be back.
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