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4 hours ago, Silvio Dante said:

Anyone hear the Simon Mann/Vaughan exchange?

Bracey had just taken his first test catch, which Mann praised him for - exchange went something like this:

MV: Unlike you to praise someone from that side of the city. For those that don’t know, James Bracey is a big Bristol Rovers fan. Allegedly, he’s a real anorak about lower league football

SM: Well he’d have to be supporting them

Yes it started with Vaughan asking him if he enjoyed being on comms when a Rovers fan took his first test catch.

Mann said - you can’t have it all your own way.

Vaughan now amused asked him if it’s a double edge sword when Bracey does anything good .

Mann: ..............’silence’................Robinson bowls to Conway 

Then as you say he soon jumped on the Bracey’s apparent knowledge of the lower leagues.

I think Simon preferred commentating on Trescothic

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1 hour ago, ralphindevon said:

Yes it started with Vaughan asking him if he enjoyed being on comms when a Rovers fan took his first test catch.

Mann said - you can’t have it all your own way.

Vaughan now amused asked him if it’s a double edge sword when Bracey does anything good .

Mann: ..............’silence’................Robinson bowls to Conway 

Then as you say he soon jumped on the Bracey’s apparent knowledge of the lower leagues.

I think Simon preferred commentating on Trescothic

That was it - was driving at the time so had to do it from rough memory. The payoff line was however class

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I'm not really sure how to feel about this, some suggestions online Robinson will be dropped for the 2nd test, you get the standard response of 'its ridiculous, he's apologised'. But in reality has there been any form of punishment for his actions? The public apology, did it really cost him anything? Publicly it'll probably blow over very quickly with few people caring. The ECB have also put themselves in a corner with how they treated Kohler-Cadmore and Clarke (fine and 4 game suspension), if Robinson didn't face any punishment (from England) does it send a message that there's no repercussion if you're in the main England team rather than just with the lions when its discovered? 

Thinking logically how much test cricket was Robinson likely to play this summer? Woakes is back for the India series as likely is Stokes, I imagine England will want to see Olly Stone before the ashes and you'd hope they'd like to see Craig Overton as well. The India is a 5 test series, so give Robinson a 4 game ban like the other 2 got, misses Edgbaston and Stone replaces him, misses the first 3 India tests and returns for tests 4 & 5, he'd likely play as many tests as originally he might have this summer anyway and the ECB shows they've acted.

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10 hours ago, Lrrr said:

I'm not really sure how to feel about this, some suggestions online Robinson will be dropped for the 2nd test, you get the standard response of 'its ridiculous, he's apologised'. But in reality has there been any form of punishment for his actions? The public apology, did it really cost him anything? Publicly it'll probably blow over very quickly with few people caring. The ECB have also put themselves in a corner with how they treated Kohler-Cadmore and Clarke (fine and 4 game suspension), if Robinson didn't face any punishment (from England) does it send a message that there's no repercussion if you're in the main England team rather than just with the lions when its discovered? 

Thinking logically how much test cricket was Robinson likely to play this summer? Woakes is back for the India series as likely is Stokes, I imagine England will want to see Olly Stone before the ashes and you'd hope they'd like to see Craig Overton as well. The India is a 5 test series, so give Robinson a 4 game ban like the other 2 got, misses Edgbaston and Stone replaces him, misses the first 3 India tests and returns for tests 4 & 5, he'd likely play as many tests as originally he might have this summer anyway and the ECB shows they've acted.

You’ve almost answered your own question there. They can easily be seen as doing the ‘right thing’ and making a statement because he’s unlikely to play anyway. 
 

If it was say Root in a similar situation, no way would they consider banning him for a game

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1 minute ago, B1ackbird said:

Good god, they came half way round the world to teach us how to play in our own HQ...

A long old summer if that's the standard of batting we'll see.

The constant poor starts from our top order is getting tedious. The amount of times we are 20-2 or 30 odd for 3 just isn’t good enough. Then the we get the batsman who just play really poor shots on top of that. We are a very average test side at the moment 

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13 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

The constant poor starts from our top order is getting tedious. The amount of times we are 20-2 or 30 odd for 3 just isn’t good enough. Then the we get the batsman who just play really poor shots on top of that. We are a very average test side at the moment 

It's not getting tedious, it's been consistently awful for at least the last 5 years now, probably longer.

Whoever it was who asked why we need to worry about how well our bowlers bat, well this is why.

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2 hours ago, Northern Red said:

It's not getting tedious, it's been consistently awful for at least the last 5 years now, probably longer.

Whoever it was who asked why we need to worry about how well our bowlers bat, well this is why.

Yeah, feels like it’s been forever. Since Trott, Bell and KP retired I’d say.

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