ASHES

• Guest 664

  • Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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  23 August 2009     18:4627844
  #1      
  England win!
  
  Magnificent stuff from Strauss and co.
  
  The Ashes has to be one of the best, if not the best, forms of sport for me.
  
  You'll struggle to find a pub showing it though - as the crucial moment approached, for example, The Archer was still showing some stupid Premiership game to a sprinkling of semi-interested brainwashed fatties in replica shirts supping tasteless Euro-fizz. I bolted for home in time to see the denoument.
  
  And did those feet in ancient time...
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  23 August 2009     19:0827846
  #2      
  great stuff from the england cricket team.
  
  pubs will not show cricket often as it does not have the same appeal as premiership football.
  
  
  the big screen in regents park was covering it all day, crowds of people got there early to bag a spot.
• Guest 664

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  23 August 2009     19:1727853
  #3      
  How could anyone put an early season Chelsea game ahead of a sporting moment like that...Philistines!
  
  Nevertheless thanks for the tip Howard, was near Regent's Park yesterday for a concert and little did I know.
  
  I guess there is no option to show Sky on our Big Screen as that would have been a perfect opportunity to draw a crowd. Or perhaps not, down here.
  
  Test cricket should not be Sky's preserve, but that is another debate altogether.
• Guest 674

  • Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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  23 August 2009     19:1727854
  #4      
  posted result on another thread
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  23 August 2009     19:2827862
  #5      
  i agree that sky should not have test cricket andrew.
  
  i understood that when sports went over to subscription channels, some events would be sacrosanct.
  
  it sometimes seems that only the boat race is left for us.
• Guest 674

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  23 August 2009     19:2927864
  #6      
  AGREED HOWARD
• Guest 664

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  23 August 2009     20:0327870
  #7      
  Typically stupid decision by cricket's money-mad adminstrators.
  
  The extra cash has largely gone into inflated salaries for so-called Kolpak players, i.e. non-English. The end result is that home grown players are being squeezed out, just as they are in the Premiership. Kent are among the worst offenders with only three or four Kent boys in the team and as many as five South Africans.
  
  Transfixed by easy money, the chinless wonders made a short-sighted decision that cheats English talent and English viewers, to the long term detriment of our game.
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
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  23 August 2009     20:1027871
  #8      
  andrew,cricket before watching my beloved chelsea no chance.come on yer blues.
• Guest 658

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  23 August 2009     22:1327873
  #9      
  Brian you must accept not everyone wants to watch a lot of overpaid pillocks, a national team in its hour of glory must take precedence.
  beer the food of the gods
• Sue Nicholas

  • Location: river
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  23 August 2009     22:2527874
  #10      
  Well i managed to see bits of it on Sky News .My elder son and I watched the highlights later on .Well those were the days when cricket was our national game .I recall the Bedser twins and Don Bradman ,Lovely hazy days listening to the wireless .Now football takes over before the cricket has hardly finished .
  
  I was trying to tell my grandson how his grandad played cricket .He was a spin bowler .Its like talking another language.
  To complete my day I have just watched the last episode of Rivers and tonights was set in East Anglia .Wonderful stuff Wonderful day .
• Guest 674

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  24 August 2009     07:0627888
  #11      
  Its just not cricket lol
• Brian Dixon

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  24 August 2009     07:2227890
  #12      
  ok guzzler,at least they both won.
• Guest 674

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  24 August 2009     19:0127927
  #13      
  Now to the next big games
• Guest 674

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  24 August 2009     19:0127928
  #14      
  Now to the next big games