Ashes 2013/14

[PGW]

At 23/5 i will say goodnight....can't watch any more of this debacle........''Goodnight''

[PaulWinch again]

Problem is we haven't once shown that we've learnt anything from our troubles.

[PaulWinch again]

If you sit in and defend on this pitch you will get out and we're going nowhere as we have done all series.

[PaulWinch again]

I genuinely believe this has got to be the worst tour in the history of English cricket.

[OzVilla]

There was a debacle to India in the early 90's where hey famously dropped the inform David Gower for being too old and recalled the out of form and recently returned from the SA rebel tour Mike Gatting who was the same age as Gower.

It didn't get any better if memory serves.

This must be a contender though. As shambling tours goes this one's a hard one to beat.

[Bald Eagle]

Hopefully a couple of the new lads will score some runs. That is all we can hope after this catastrophic start. If we follow on we will be all out tonight and that will fuck tomorrow's  McGraths charity day up. Hopefully that does not happen.

[The Left Side]

86/6 now oh dear

[Bald Eagle]

Stokes is the only shining light. If someone could only stop with him, we might make a fist of it.

[Bald Eagle]

155 All out. Shambles. Cook, Bell and Peterson need to take a long hard look at themselves. All that experience counted for fuck-all on this tour. Time to rebuild.

[OzVilla]

One stat that has amazed me is that prior to this Test Match, if you added up Australia's first 5 wickets in 1st innings in comparison to England's 1st 5 wickets the difference would only be 6 runs in Australia's favour.

[Villan For Life]

I genuinely believe this has got to be the worst tour in the history of English cricket.

I think the 5-0 in 2006/07 was worse but this one runs it close.

[eastie]

I genuinely believe this has got to be the worst tour in the history of English cricket.

I think the 5-0 in 2006/07 was worse but this one runs it close.

This is worse for me - we have been hammered by a good but not great side - in 2006 we were beaten by an extremely good side with top top players in their team .

[OzVilla]

I genuinely believe this has got to be the worst tour in the history of English cricket.

I think the 5-0 in 2006/07 was worse but this one runs it close.

For just the shambolic way we've gone about the tour, Trotts illness, Swann comments about being fair weathered fans and then running away himself when the going got tough, Swann AGAIN with his dumb newspaper columns about players, Giles Clarke complaining about the media thus cementing our tag as 'whinging poms',  the utterly dreadful nature of the defeats, the lack of practically any high points (one hundred all series),  the fact that Australia  (a good team) are not in the same league oa their 06/07 counterparts, the repetitive nature of every Test Match which makes you wonder what they say to each other in the team meetings (I feel like I've watched the same Test Match 5 times now), the fact we pick 3 tall bowlers out of form and not the leading wicket taker in the country, oh and then don't play the bowlers at the places you've picked them to play at, move a young batsmen just starting out 3 times in the series and not the one player who should be batting 3 until you decide to drop the player you've continually messed about, turning your attacking opening batsmen into someone who makes Chris Tavere look like Adam Gilchrist, throwing in a young lad playing Grade Cricket because you don't fancy the bloke you've actually picked as your 2 nd spinner,  giving pretty much every Aussie batsmen several lives whenever they've scored a hundred (Haddin 3 in Adelaide, Watson 2 in Perth, Warner 3 in Perth, Rodgers 2 in Melbourne), taking wickets off no balls, allowing Nathan Lyon to take 5 wickets without turning a single ball and generally putting in performances so poor that your Aussie friends are so embarrassed for you the now try to avoid the subject.

It's been a fucking shambles.

[UK Redsox]

[Chris Jameson]

Good job they had the 82 page dietary plans otherwise it could have been a disastrous series.