...or is it that the Aussies are just so **** hot. That score of 110 on a docile batting strip like Adelaide ranks up their with some of the early Croat scores in the late nineties. In fact, Bilic and boys could possibly make the English X1
I think it's a combination of Australia playing very well with a very good side, poor selection (you can't still be experimenting with your line-up a few weeks before a world cup) bad luck with injuries - having Simon Jones, Kevin Pietersen, Michael Vaughan and Marcus Trescothick would make a difference to the team, and the wrong captain. Sorry, but Freddy isn't your man. Bowlers have never made great captains historically and all-rounders ie Kapil Dev, Botham all got asked to move along fairly quickly.
For the nadir of English one-day XIs I think we should go back to the traingular series or 1994 / 95that the Australian cricket board insisited on making 4 teams to make it competitive and to pull in the crowds. Hence Australia, Australia "A" (the two finalists, Zimbabwe and an England squad that included the likes of keeper Steve Rhodes, Shaun Udal, Joey Benjamin and Martin McCague (anyone remember these two pace bowlers) John Crawley and Craig "I am my own rhyming slang" White.
I'm that bloody close to giving up, I tell you! I was up at 4 this morning to watch the start of play. Great, we win the toss, now let's get stuck into them. By 6 o'clock I'd turned over to Sky News. I don't think I can go on like this. We were every shade of hopeless. It might not be the worst England side ever, and sure we've got good players injured, but it was the most humiliating defeat I've ever watched half of.
U r an eager beaver!!!!. Why would u be up at 4 to watch the English team? Normally it's because you just got home from out on the piss, or u r trying to pull u tweeds on and escape, before the grogan from that nite wakes up.
scottoz99 wrote:U r an eager beaver!!!!. Why would u be up at 4 to watch the English team? Normally it's because you just got home from out on the piss, or u r trying to pull u tweeds on and escape, before the grogan from that nite wakes up.
I've heard of a bogan, but not a grogan. Or is "grogan" what bogans like you call those even lower than yourselves?
Very good!!! Actually a Grogan is an acronym of the words GReat british bOGAN. Therefore clearly there are many, many Grogans. There are the male ones that u know so well (from the cricket fields, and from the other side of your bed), and there are the female ones which normally open their legs rather easily for a piece of aussie meat. As this covers most pommie chicks, the obvious conclusion is that pommie chicks are grogans.
scottoz99 wrote:Actually a Grogan is an acronym of the words GReat british bOGAN. Therefore clearly there are many, many Grogans. There are the male ones that u know so well (from the cricket fields, and from the other side of your bed), and there are the female ones which normally open their legs rather easily for a piece of aussie meat. As this covers most pommie chicks, the obvious conclusion is that pommie chicks are grogans.
OK, well it's not actually an acronym, but you're only an Aussie and I wouldn't expect you to know the difference, so I'll let you off that. Well done for knowing the word though. As for opening one's legs easily for a piece of Aussie meat, I can assure you that that applies to many of us. The one and only time I tried a kangaroo burger (or whatever it was called) at my local Bar Oz, I had to open my legs shortly after on reaching the toilet (that's what civilised countries call the dunny). Didn't seem to look much different after it came out either. As for pommie chicks loving Antipodean males, well that myth must be what inspires every young Aussie male to come to London and work in a bar for six months: still, they do work that no English person would ever want, and we're happy to massively overcharge them for rent, so let's keep the myth alive!
