*Official* Fourth Test at Chester-le-Street

[dermo]

demo needs an av change imo, when im pissed it looks like he's talking to himself when maximus posts straight after

someone find me a steve smith avatar plz

 

[uvelocity]

 

[Daemon]

someone find me a steve smith avatar plz

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[dermo]

how do i make it so its just smitteh **** im a photoshop n00b

 

[uvelocity]

ill do it later. ch0pped some trees down and didnt get em all to the tip, still cleaning up

 

[dermo]

ill do it later. ch0pped some trees down and didnt get em all to the tip, still cleaning up

i have an interim smitteh avatar in the mean time

 

[ajdude]

pressing question is though; did ajdude make it to work on time?

yeah. i never actually went to sleep, i smoked some crack like spikey suggested

 

[dermo]

yeah. i never actually went to sleep, i smoked some crack like spikey suggested

 

[Spikey]

ill do it later. ch0pped some trees down and didnt get em all to the tip, still cleaning up

add the eyes to every single picture of steve smith. ask skidmark00 for more smith pictures.

 

[uvelocity]

add the eyes to every single picture of steve smith. ask skidmark00 for more smith pictures.

skidmark00, release said smitteh pictures tout de suite

 

[uvelocity]

and the wi groundsman might do him too

 

[Swingpanzee]

Good comment on Guardian:

as I said the other day, England seem to be paying for their stubborn unwillingness to change anything about their set-up. Australia, by way of contrast have moved an opener down to 6 (OK the replacement opener did nothing special - but the other guy seems to be batting in a better spot) they have tweaked their bowling line-up (some injury related I know) and as a result have improved through the series. Anderson looked knackered at OT, what's wrong with giving the bloke a rest and letting Onions have crack on his home pitch? Well played Chris Rogers, you've got to ride your luck on days like this, he did that with a smile on his face and got his reward, genuinely pleased for the bloke.

 

[andyc]

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Can someone get just that celebration?

 

[burr]

Have to say, I'm not really digging the press on Rogers' ton being all scratchy, ugly, etc. He was only beaten regularly in the middle because Broad was getting such big movement and was in the middle of a great spell. Other than that, he was rock-solid in defence, smart about what he left and was harsh on anything loose, as evidenced by the fact he hit half his runs in boundaries. He gave one sharp chance and was only really scratchy on 96. It's was an immense, characterful knock.

Yeah, it was such a memorable knock and the articles I've read at least haven't really captured any of the drama, skill or emotion.

 

[Furball]

England's bowling attack has become way too samey. I don't know why the selectors chose Bresnan over Onions for this test.

Because Bresnan is better than Onions. Why is this hard to understand?

 

[benchmark00]

 

[benchmark00]

 

[Daemon]

Can someone get just that celebration?

 

[benchmark00]

Someone gif his twitches that he does between every ball.

 

[Furball]

Good comment on Guardian:

No it ****ing isn't. Australia's selection policy has just been to throw a huge pile of **** at a wall and seeing which **** sticks.

So far this series they've:

Called up Steve Smith from outside the initial squad
Dropped the incumbent spinner for a 19 year old.
Moved Watson back up to open
Batted Hughes at 6.
Dropped Cowan after one (admittedly poor) Test where he was ill
Dropped Starc
Batted Hughes at 4
Moved Hughes up to open in a tour game
Dropped him after he made 80 odd in the first Test and 80 odd in the tour game
Dropped Agar and brought back Lyon
Moved Clarke to 4.
Batted Warner at 6
Moved Warner to open
Moved Watson down to 6
Moved Clarke back down to 5 then back up to 4
Dropped Starc again.

How the **** is that a model to admire or follow?