***Official*** 1st Test at The Gabba

[GIMH]

I thought it would be busier than this? Are all you convicts still in bed?

 

[vic_orthdox]

Yeah.

 

[superkingdave]

Lunch Score predictions?

I'm going pessimistic and saying Aus win the toss and are 98-1

 

[GIMH]

Yeah.

LOL. So have you all booked hols or what? I wish I bloody had. Should be a bloody national holiday. More important than VE Day and such like these next six weeks.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Clark ahead of Johnson? Giles ahead of Monty?

What a shame.

But I'm still ****ing excited!

 

[GIMH]

As far as I can tell there's no news on our team yet? But everyone seems to think it'll be

Strauss
Cook
Bell
Colly
KP
Fred
Geraint
Giles
Hoggard
Harmison
Jimmy A

 

[vic_orthdox]

LOL. So have you all booked hols or what? I wish I bloody had. Should be a bloody national holiday. More important than VE Day and such like these next six weeks.

Yeah, uni students have about 5 months off at the moment, school breaks up for three months soon. It's all pretty chillaxed around these parts at the moment.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

I have an exam tomorrow. Good luck.

 

[GIMH]

Fair play. My missus told me not to drink too much coffee, in case it made me sick. I thought now there's an idea, make myself sick, then I need not work tomorrow and can stay up all night. But I need that money

 

[Woodster]

I'd take that. I'd take anything for 0 at lunch. Unless we lose the toss, of course!

Yes, agreed, anything for 0. Big test first up for Cookie. Having Lee steaming in first day of an Ashes series or the metronomic Mcgrath. Get after em boys! (this is all on the proviso we bat first)

Lunchtime Prediction : England 78-1

 

[Laurrz]

i think Australia will struggle majorly at the end of the first day...but will eventually win the tests after good day 2 and 3

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Lunchtime Prediction: Australia 2-94

 

[PY]

I'll go England 80/3.

 

[GIMH]

Right, my telly's in a different room, I'm off. Come on you Poms!!!

 

[superkingdave]

10.00am England have named their XI and as expected, Ashley Giles has been preferred to Monty Panesar.

grrr...it's not that i didn't have doubts about Monty, it's just that there was always an inevitabiliity about it with Fletcher

 

[albo97056]

Fletcher is an idiot, how can 90% of england want panesar and one stubborn zimbabwean want giles.

I want his head on a plate!

 

[SpaceMonkey]

I cannot believe they picked GIles over Monty. Totally unexpected for me.

Why play Monty in the final warmup if they were gonna pick Giles?

We need spinners who can bowl Australia out, i cant see Giles doing that.

 

[Matteh]

Giles is definitely in.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

England to bat and be 5/94 at lunch, IMO.

Less than an hour, kids.

 

[Goughy]

Wickets in 1st Test for Giles

Under or Over on 2.5

Ill take under