Ashes 2013/14

[taylorsworkrate]

I wonder if the appointment of Ashley Giles to the shorter forms of the game was a continuance plan i.e. giving him some involvement and once the time was right, bring him in to replace Flower?

I think flower will walk away after this series , he has done a great job but too many of our team are past their best now.

It's going to be a real shame that, considering the excellent job Flowers done, that at the forefront of many minds is going to be this humiliating series. (If this is his last series)

[Proposition Joe]

Played, Carbs.

[OzVilla]

Yeah the time has come for some wholesale changes.

How many times have we found ourselves 3 down for not many recently. It's virtually every innings.

I'd say Flower will go at the end of the series and if Gooch isn't already on his way attheend of this series then you wonder what he'd have to do to get sacked - we've been appalling with the bat for ages now.

We show no bottle for a fight with Swann and Pietersen the worst offenders. Swann especially with his 'diary' and 'fair weather fans' comment tells us a lot about the attitude.

[adrenachrome]

Bloody hell. Ian Bell has hit two sixes already.

[Proposition Joe]

Bloody hell. Ian Bell has hit two sixes already.

It makes me nervous.  When an Aussie does that, you know it's clearing the rope.  But England are just not six hitters and you know it'll end badly...

[taylorsworkrate]

Bloody hell. Ian Bell has hit two sixes already.

It makes me nervous.  When an Aussie does that, you know it's clearing the rope.  But England are just not six hitters and you know it'll end badly...

It's probably the first time in the series one of our batsmen has actually come out and refused to be bullied (for want of a better word) by the Australian's.

It's completely different to the way that Root played. Root just batted himself into a bunker and a shot like that was inevitable

[taylorsworkrate]

Well done England. Always a good idea to just allow Watson to bowl maiden after maiden, putting more and more pressure on yourself.

I'm going to bed. These gutless wankers deserve no more of my time.

[OzVilla]

This is an absolute belter of a wicket too.

The batsmen and batting coaches should be embarrassed quite frankly.

[OzVilla]

I just hope some of the commentators on Sky call time on some of their 'mates' in the England set up here.

This is just embarrassing and someone needs to either lose their place or lose their job.

[adrenachrome]

The slaughter continues unabated.

[spangley1812]

Prior has 1 innings to keep his place, we are going to lose this series 4 or 5 nil

[willywombat]

Not much sign of you rubbing our classless, dirty Aussie noses in the dirt so far eh Eastie?

[eastie]

Not much sign of you rubbing our classless, dirty Aussie noses in the dirt so far eh Eastie?

Wombat you old rascal - may I congratulate you on your imminent regaining of the ashes - your boys have outplayed us in every department  and dominated .
Not too keen on your teams attitude but no doubting their quality - enjoy your good times for they won't last

[eastie]

Moment of the night for me was boycotts eruption telling people listening the ashes are gone go to bed and sleep after pieterson was out and his raucous ' get Him out the team ' jibe .

We needed men to stand up and be counted and sadly we got a load of rubbish from most .

[aj2k77]

Absolute rubbish of the lowest order from the ''batsmen''. Root proved he shouldn't have been a 3. He is too easy to get on top of and he gets the team into a mire, he needs to be down at 6 where the match pressure may not be so tough and the ball is older and bowlers more tired. Bell once again THE batsmen for England now. He puts the glory boys of Cook and Pietersen to shame.

KP, what can I say? He's averaging around 30 this year, which is shit, he needs a spell out of the side, he's not the KP of old. The lower order we're pathetic, completely bullied by pace, none showed any heart for the fight.

Prior, pack your gloves kid.

The only batter to show any aggression got his rewards, it's not rocket science. Carberry's dismissal was of his own making. 5 overs of maidens and he panicked when are we going to learn to keep the board ticking over.

Overall an appalling display, we will lose this test by a record margin and the ashes 4 or 5 -0. The writing was on the wall The New Zealand away series where a defeat would have been well deserved. The ashes in the summer could have been 2-2 and we didn't really perform after the second test. We haven't been proactive enough with the selection policy, the 5th test being a perfect example with Woakes and that Pie chucker of a spinner brought in for 1 game when they had no chance of making the ashes squad over here, what was the point in that?

Gooch and Flower your time is up and can someone get stuck into that selfish prick Pietersen please, I can't be bothered. Really pissed off.