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Two terrible teams on tonight's evidence. What a fantastic job Redknapp's done since he went there

Johnson was pretty bloody stupid to try to control the ball in the way he did, though, knowing there was a pretty good chance it would look like handball even if it wasn't.

Johnson was pretty bloody stupid to try to control the ball in the way he did, though, knowing there was a pretty good chance it would look like handball even if it wasn't.

Sounds like the sort of thing that happened for a while on my old Metro years ago. It had been doing it for ages, I left it thinking it would go away and a few months later, the head gasket blew

Another thing Giles Clarke has to answer for... if I remember rightly, he was chairman/CEO at Glamorgan before getting the ECB job. Not all that surprising that an at-the-time-unbuilt Sofia Gardens got the Ashes test ahead of the Rose Bowl and Old Trafford, really.

Something like that, but bear in mind that a few only want to play a half.

Good work.

Squad so far, off the top of my head: Andy Mintram Chris Knight Chris Summers Kev Thornton (yes, really :shock: ) Rob Healey Scott Griffin Jouls Ganley Ben Rankin Steve Grant Also, Rob reckons Damon and Luke (don't think I know him) will be there, as well as a few other RVT players who might only play a half. You'll notice one slight problem in that list. Summers is the only potential keeper...

Agreed, although we'd all be absolutely bricking it now...

Private Eye apparently uncovered it a year ago, before the contract was signed. The suggestion is that there was more than enough doubt in a lot of peoples' minds to back away from Stanford. I heard Bransgrove talking to Aggers on TMS yesterday during the lunch break in Antigua and his argument was along the lines of "I just thought there was something a bit iffy about him". A bit of a strange line to take by Bransgrove, who's opinions are normally very well thought out and considered. He did allude to a complete non-shock as far as the ECB chairman's role is concerned, in that it's a bit of an old boys' club. Whether any of us have any time for Lord Marland, according to Bransgrove there were 5 county chairmen who point blank refused to even meet with Marland to discuss his plans. They'd already nailed their colours to the mast and nothing was going to prevent them voting for Clarke. Whether Marland would be a better option, I don't know, but Clarke gambled on the future of English cricket by whoring it to a bit of an attention seeker, and has clearly lost.

The very simple reason for that policy is because anyone can register as many Hotmail email addresses as they like, which means there's no "incentive" to follow the simple and reasonable rules that are put in place to ensure everyone's enjoyment of the forum as they could quite happily just get themselves banned and then re-register again straight away. It would also get around the 3-post limit for unpaid users. Given that the paid subscriptions is the way we have chosen to ensure the forum is self-sufficient, it really wasn't a difficult decision to make. Also, the vast majority of people have access to a work, uni/college or ISP e-mail address, so it's really not that much of a restriction, to be honest.

Wishful thinking. The population of India will ensure it remains more important to them than Test cricket.

Bloody hell http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7895505.stm Unsurprisingly, the ECB have rather quickly "suspended negotiations" with Stanford in response... Giles Clarke sounded like he was physically shaking when interviewed on TMS!

You should be able to change it in your user control panel. However, you won't be able to change it to an address that is banned, e.g. Hotmail, Yahoo, GMail, etc. Another work e-mail should be fine.

What's the bet?

Different player - it was Michael McIndoe in the home game, Bradley Orr today. Scott Minto on Soccer Saturday reckoned it was a terrible effort, but Davis has still got to guess the right way...

Meh, you were in a meeting anyway

Christ. Oh well, at least with them calling it the third test, it means we didn't lose this one...

Everyone seems to be suggesting they move it to the Antigua Recreation Ground, but from what I saw of that, it's a right run-down mess. Surely there's a very simple solution, although it would involve both the WICB and ECB bending over for Allen Stanford again...

Right, we've made some changes to the database config, which will hopefully improve the speed in which it takes to retrieve all the post data every time you lot hit F5 Hopefully it'll solve the problems we've been having recently on matchdays. If it still doesn't fix it, there is at least one more avenue we can look at next week, but that will involve a slightly longer period of downtime. Obviously if we need to do that, we'll try to schedule it for the quieter periods.

In order to make some config changes to the database in an attempt to resolve the problems we've been having on matchdays, the forum will be down for a short period (should only be a few minutes) some time after 2pm. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Correct.

Must be Sack Your Manager Week...

Russia was £50...