Jimmy_D

Looking forward to this now In the meantime: http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2245562,00.html cool ^^

If you lot would prefer seperate rumour threads, then so be it I'll leave the HCDAJFU thread up there for continuing discussion.

shame about that last wicket 35, but getting to stumps without losing a wicket mitigates that somewhat... Day 1 Highlights: http://www.skysports.com/cricket/ashes/video/0,26596,16311_6527347,00.html (Click on link to the right of the video) Definitely would have taken that score at the start of the day though

Woo! That's the big dangerman out... Hopefully we'll get them out for about 160 now...

We're not playing as well as we did in Adelaide. Australia are playing worse though.

Swann will get him soon after lunch I reckon.

OK, maybe I'm seeing a better performance than Adelaide here...

Haha.... Unreal.

Whee, Punter gone, glad I've stayed up now

Whee, fantastic start.

I'll be staying up... That was a good coin-toss to win, I can see us skittling them before tea if we get a couple of early wickets...

Is that the same Sun that said we were up for sale?

So to keep the rumours and news thread from getting too clogged, who do we want to see Saints linked with, who would be a good target for us, and who do we think might want to come here? We don't actually need to be linked with the players in this thread, this is just for our own idle speculation... And since I know someone will ask (they always do...) HCDAJFU stands for He Could Do A Job For Us.

Let's keep all this sort of stuff together in one thread shall we? http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?26935-January-Transfer-Window-News-and-Rumours

I see the January rumour mill has already started, so here's your very own thread for discussing this stuff. Please try and say how reliable you think your source is, even if you're 'not at liberty to disclose' to keep this place half sane...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/9275796.stm Team orders make a return, mainly due to the fact they never went away and it was an unenforcable rule. It's a shame, but it was always going to happen...

Considering the season Liverpool are having, I reckon we could see Torres going in to replace him if they give in and let Tevez go. Torres looks like he needs a new start and City could be the perfect team to give him that.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/9275796.stm Two new rules coming in to aid overtaking, could make for a very interesting season.

So as expected there are a fair few changes for Australia. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/9274782.stm Have to admit I'd never heard of Michael Beer, but he's been included, bit surprised to see him in ahead of Hauritz (or Warne!).

Does this mean your job is going to be affected Ponty?

I wonder if they've hired him because they think it'll give them a shot at poaching our youth prospects...

'Once we are there we will compete to win the title, that’s the point of being there.' That is something I'm glad to hear... Did wonder whether top half might be the limit of our ambition, but apparently not Whether we can actually push on and do that once the money for it is needed etc remains to be seen, but the ambition being there now is about all we could hope for atm

Good positive interview, I'm impressed I'd love to see us eventually lift the Premier League Trophy... I'm starting to believe it might one day be possible... re: his eyes moving left or right, that just means he's constructing or recalling sounds in his head, which isn't all that surprising considering English isn't his first language...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/dec/07/ashes-2010-australia-press-cricket There's a nice summary of Aussie press reaction

We don't need Bresnan to help us take 20 wickets for us to retain The Ashes now, we just need to stop Australia taking 20 more than once... now considering that they've only managed 16 in the last TWO tests... I'm starting to doubt they can touch us.