bearded_red

I remember my first beer. Hahahahahahah

Genuinely buzzing for this week’s gaslighting on here about how much better the football is. What a complete steaming pile of shit. Bored to tears again. Leeds are better than us, they beat us, that’s fine. But Jesus ******* Christ, that football is pathetic.

Serious player to get as your first test wicket, well in Bash.

A bowling attack of a 41 year old seamer with 183 tests, and 3 spinners aged 24, 20 and 19 with 3 tests between them. Extraordinary really.

Can’t say the thought of that has troubled me to be honest.

If you wish to call West Ham ‘European Champions’ then good luck to you, I however won’t be joining in.

This is absolutely spot on in my opinion, he was an absolutely perfect signing for the way we played under Pearson, not so much under Manning. He’s still a decent player and still more than worth his place in the team, but we do now seem to rather expose his weaknesses and don’t necessarily get the best out of his strengths.

‘European champions’. Well it’s a take I’ll give you that.

KL Rahul and, much more importantly, Jadeja out of the next test.

That must be for England in India or something, the overall record is much higher than that. This will be the tenth highest if England win, although the game at Centurion in fourth doesn’t really count as it was the game with the forfeited innings.

Remarkable test match at The Gabba.

This is genuinly incredible from Pope, has to be right up there with any innings from any England batsman overseas.

He’s having another completely normal one.

Hahahahaha

Need a few more exclamation marks I reckon.

The bloke never manages to go a full game without making a mistake or saying something ridiculous. How many seasons has he had that job now? He’s been utterly dreadful from the very start and has shown literally no signs of improvement.

Fair play I’ve read some things on this forum, but crediting Pring’s recent form to ‘Liam’ improving him when his best spell of form was still last season under a different manager is right up there.

I thought we played really well, certainly in my opinion the best performance under Manning, but come on, best performance ‘in years’ when we failed to have a shot on target?!

We’ve found a genius tactic to be fair of managing to have them out caught at cow corner.

Australia haven’t played Somerset since 2013 and have been on 3 Ashes tours since then so once again you’re chatting absolute bollocks. Australia last summer 0 games against counties. South Africa the summer before 0 games against counties. New Zealand and India the summer before that 0 games against counties. Do you seriously never get bored of being wrong about literally everything?

Had Andrew Strauss as a ringer for a game against India as well.

I’m not saying it’s right, as it isn’t, but warm up games have largely died off for all countries. It’s not unique to this tour, it’s happens pretty much all the time now. This England team didn’t even arrive in the country until earlier this week as they decided they’d rather train (play golf) in UAE. Used to love watching Somerset play games before the test series against the touring team, unless I’m forgetting one they haven’t had one since Pakistan in 2016 as like I said, warm up games don’t really exist anymore.

Don’t want to be too harsh on Hartley, but Simon Kerrigan only went for 53 off his first 8 overs in test cricket and he was literally never allowed to bowl another ball.