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Step forward Agent Garner! The work he undertook on his assignment under the guise of ‘more attractive football’ was simply stunning. He took a squad that was in the mix for promotion into a rag bag assemblage of no- hopers in super quick time. Not only that he destroyed team spirit, brought in players that are flipping hopeless and created a squad bereft of strikers and any quality in key areas of the pitch, so laying the foundations of misery for many seasons to come. A worthy winner of the ‘Colin Daniel’ Lifetime Achievement Award.

2 Million locked out away at Shepton Mallet (or wherever it is was in the Conference) AND now ladies and gents they now post a video on youpube with a different score to actuality from the game against BOTTOM OF THE LEAGUE Wigan Town (Whatever) Do PLEASE leave suitable comments ?

If they had a Trojan Horse they'd claim they got 40,000 inside it.

So our Nigel fights off wild dogs while their hero w@nks off domestic ones? ?

No question - Ben Garner! Apart from the stunning run of "form", by most accounts he rebuilt their squad with utter dross. Tisdale could not recover from it, and here's hoping that Jailbird Joey does not either.

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Clearly a joke that Burns has taken the wrong way, however imagine the meltdown if it was the other way round, Twitter would be demanding he never plays again.

If you didn't know who the top picture was, it looks like lawyer and defendant.....

I don’t know what you mean, Root is a spin bowler who bats part time

Normal service resumed by the attention seeking tit then.

Part time bowler taking 5-8 tells you all you need to know about this wicket. On the morning of day 2 . Not good

And it's the reason why the Fanta goes off, not because it's out of date but because they can't afford to power the fridge at the same time...

Ugh....whinging maggots They’ve got the shit, tinpot club their deluded, apathetic support deserve. Punching above their weight right now.

My local conference side's stadium as a reference. Injustice accepted.

I'd argue that they're punching well above their weight/level. The facilities are conference standard at best, and even then that's doing some of the conference sides an injustice. The average attendance (we know despite them bleating on about how good it is) is shocking for a club that claims they are "so well supported", and is in fairness inline with a 4th division club (or league 2 in new money). They measure their success on how bad we are doing. Hop around from one ground to another, then moan when the council won't give them a new ground for free. Their biggest recent success is when Dean Windass scored in the playoff final to stop us getting to the Prem. I'm only in my mid 30's, but as I'm getting older the number of sags I know of and see around on social media are just getting needier and more pathetic. In comparison I do know a few that I can have a good laugh with, and are realistic (a rare commodity). They're punching well above their weight, and always have done. We've had relatively little success in comparison to some clubs of a similar size, but they've had even less.

**** me. Looks like I’ll be going down twice this year!

I much prefer running in the summer over the winter even if I do sweat a lot more! The cold/wind always makes my chest feel a bit tighter and my times are almost always a bit slower because of it.

Oh I like the summer. Going out last year for long sunset runs for two hours at 7pm were delightful. But that was just bimbling around, largely exploring Gordano Valley and footpaths through fields. Having to do targeted runs at pace in the summer seems tiring already!

Surely odds on to get the bullet by the end of the season car crash waiting to happen.

I caught a bit of this. Something to do with different coating on the pink ball and the amount of time it stays quite shiny, making it skid on quite a lot when the shiny part rather than the seam hits the ground.

To make the pink ball they have to apply extra lacquer to it, this means when the ball lands on one of its sides it skids more/quicker/longer than the red ball which has worn away, could explain some of the straight non turning LBW's if the batters are also being rushed into shots and the get made fools of the ones which grip and turn and are a bit slower.

Having seen their defending on Tuesday:

The pitch was undeniably way way below whats acceptable, but that was pathetic from England. Poor team selection - 3 seam bowlers + Stokes and only one recognised spinner, Archer batting at eight. How many England batsmen got out with straight on deliveries ? Bad batting and they capitulated. Bairstow should not be in at number 3, and i suspect he may not be playing Test Match cricket for too much longer - keep him for T20/One day. England should know now what pitches will be prepared for the rest of the series - the BCCI should be ashamed - "Anything to win India" - its not like they need any advantage really is it?

Some of them (Bairstow) do. But if Joe Root is getting 5 wickets on the second morning of a Test, the pitch isn't good enough.

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Henry Moeran The Cricket Social The good news for Jofra is that it's probably missing leg and off. The bad news? It's hitting middle.

All Surrey now aren't we..... @TomF??

Was just clipping.

I think he got a bit fortunate there.

Umpire looked gutted to reverse that decision

That is moronic from Bairstow. Edit: saved! Edit: not!

Couldn’t agree more

I have enjoyed watching England take wickets this morning, but it is a farce really. Is this even a game of skill on this pitch? There needs to be a minimum standard when preparing pitches. I get the fact all home teams produce pitches to suit themselves - thats fine - but bowling on a beach handball pitch just makes Test cricket look stupid

I'm going to be bold and start with 1

Maybe one of the quicks should try bowling spin?

Lovely Jack

You aren't allowed to talk facts it's all about the gas logic, there are 100m fans locked out of twitter who can't like that tweet from Barton so it's not fair to compare the 2.

They have electricity there?

While they will inevitably eat themselves with jealousy while trying to compare themselves to us, we just don't bother anymore and just take the mick. I genuinely think, the comparison has held us back a bit and while we all enjoy them losing, it doesn't really matter to us as we know we are eons ahead in every way.

Fair comments.

England (Stokes) picked up for applying saliva to the ball, did Stevie Wonder umpire the 1st test with Nadeem licking his fingers before every ball?

Did the sags have to block his face out for legal reasons??