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well at leat you've got something to talk about at work tomorrow and for the next 5 days

Thank fuck I'm going to Ghent for the 6-day.. :)

The only talking I do at work is swearing at clients or computers anyway. Sometimes I thank people for bringing in cake or getting my lunch but mostly it's the swearing.

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cricket jinx-my last post was my 1,111 post in my current incarnation

What are you, a Highlander or something?

Or did you mean current incarceration? ;)

Thank fuck I'm going to Ghent for the 6-day.. :)

The only talking I do at work is swearing at clients or computers anyway. Sometimes I thank people for bringing in cake or getting my lunch but mostly it's the swearing. Now i can have pleasant conversations with clients and cake bringers about cricket and how fun the lfgss cricket thread is

thanks to you fuckers

how'sthat?

burnt raisins
(currant incinerations)

drinking highland malt whisky

Shocker from Strauss. Off to bed now. Great track. Tame attack. Ton for one of Cook and Trott

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cricket jinx-my last post was my 1,111 post in my current incarnation

Phew!

Can't deal with watching it any more. Expecting a coronary after every ball. We've batted pathetically do far against some truly powderpuff bowling

Siddle!

HAT TRICK!

Victorian FTW!

Textbook English opening. Boycott is very quiet.

i guess England need to take a few quick wickets then :-)

good thinking rod munch
cheers

Crap start for england... excuses?
first day nerves no doubt

Not so much excuses but reasons:
Strauss so keen to dominate these days he often forgets to play himself in.
Lots of batsmen got starts but didn't progress enough.
Too many silly or lazy shots.

The first test of a series can often be a funny one, when batsmen forget they are not in a limited overs game and need to occupy the crease.

I've always felt England have had problems with Siddle, when it's his day he produces.

Pitch was probably good for a relatively easy 350, Strauss going early and the Siddle spell cost us 100 runs.

Bowlers need to perform above their best tonight to put any pressure back on Aus.

Textbook English opening. Boycott is very quiet.

Not at all. He still managed to get in a diatribe about uncovered pitches before the 10th over was even bowled...

Disappointing to wake up to that. Bit of an old school England batting performance.

Put it down to early nerves, weight of expectation etc. I think there'll be plenty of Aussie collapses to come too.

^ and we need an Aussie collapse so MrSmyth can post "What's that Skippy?", which is when I know the Ashes have really started.

I went to bed a missed a hat trick. Typical.

Not a bad start eh? Should give the lads a bit of confidence after the battering they've had in the home media lately.

+1 Gav ( but when we start to loose, this thread will go on ignore)

Bollinger out, Siddle in.

Fail.

Balki pundit fail.

+1 Gav ( but when we start to loose, this thread will be deleted

ftfy ;)

Balki pundit fail.

yep, he changed his tune quickly, too