the stain

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Or you could read it that way

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I'd imagine Freddie would declare himself fit on his deathbed. Anyone who saw him practice the day before will have seen that he clearly wasn't ready. I honestly don't think too much needs changing, just a little tinkering. We collapsed badly because we had two short-on-confidence flair players at 3 and 4, so when wickets started tumbling they were always going to keep tumbling. I'll concede that the Bopara experiment has failed (at least in the short term). Rob Key is the man for no. 3, he's got the right attitude. Then a bit of grit with Collingwood, Prior and then Bell to put the roof on rather than to build the house. If Freddie's genuinely fit, then he's straight back in. If not then Harmison out, he was another of those disasterous nostalgia picks that England selectors seem so prone to. Sidebottom seems the obvious choice, although I'd still prefer Hoggard. Strauss Cook Key Collingwood Prior Bell Flintoff Broad Swann Anderson Onions

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Come off it mate, you can't deny me the right to be frustrated when a problem even I (an armchair fan) saw coming a mile off goes unremedied. It was a dreadful innings, but I haven't called it the death of cricket. Perhaps you didn't think it was a dreadful innings?

Quite so. I've had a good whinge, but only to re-re-reiterate points I've been making for weeks

Bolllocks :mad:

All too predictable, BOrn. In the face of utter carnage, you've got specific criticism for Cook.

And there it is, Collingwood gone too and all because the rot had set in. A child could see that two nervous, flimsy batsmen at 3 and 4 is a collapse waiting to happen.

Bopara and Bell adjacent in the order; a recipe for collapse, I warned a thousand times. Why don't the selectors listen to me? If Colly had come in at 4 we'd have had a chance. Gah!

Cook and Bell. Cook and Bell. Cook and Bell. Oh lordy...

Oh craps, we're going to get reighped here.

That ought to rile them a bit then

Anybody actually watching this who can give a verdict on that LBW call?

Well hopefully Prior will get a nice long, sit-down rest. I'm done in and they haven't even started.

And after all that, Prior plays. Harmy in for Flintoff. England win the toss and will bat.

Stuart Clark's in for the Aussies. Grim news And England have asked for the toss to be put back, presumably to give them a fighting chance of cobbling together an XI. It's anyone's guess who'll play now. I predict England to win at a canter with eleven players the Aussies have never even heard of, let alone seen play.

Alec Stewart's been hanging around the commentary box...

Why the ****ing hell do they keep on doing this? Playing football and rugby just before a match? Players keep getting injured. Surely there's a non-contact warm-up they could manage? That's pretty much handed the Test to the Aussies

Definitely out... http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/aug/07/andrew-flintoff-ruled-out-of-fourth-ashes-test