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Maybe he's having an identity crisis. As Australians we define ourselves by winnging cricket, rugby league, that game where they kick an oblong ball around an oval and to a lesser extent rugby. But particularly cricket. If we lose the ashes there will be a national identity crises.
Maybe Gumby was crossing his fingers and anything else he could cross in hope of victory and hasn't yet been able to disentangle himself?
Yeah there seems to have been plenty of that since you started losing:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Gingermick
UHH.
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Bunch of overrated, overpaid, big headed, loudmouthed, under performing, know-it-all, gutless wonders !!
(And I'm not even going to begin to tell you what i think of our guys !) :D :D
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Hi Gumby ,
You have had me worried for over a week, glad to see you're fighting fit and ready for the final test.
We've got the umpires on our side ;) and the best players, and this could go on for the next 20 years :rolleyes:
This is dreadful. This is awful. I just can't stand to see a pommy cricker lover HAPPY :mad:
And it doesn't matter what happens in the last test, Jow won't let us forget this for the next decade or five. :(
... and he forgot to mention that the commentators are his side too :mad:
Richard
Over on the Web Fishing Club forum, one of the members joked that the poms were going to win that last test - we haven't forgiven him yet.
Cheers
Richard
You've also got big Matty on your side as I see things. :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by jow104
(BTW, I tried sending you a PM but your storage box is full)
Gumby perhaps it is just as well ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
Actually I have tried to empty the private message box or getting it to take messages again.
Can anyone give me some idiot instructions what to do?????????????????????
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PS Gumby I'll take a chance post the message on this thread :D :D :D
I'll send you a PM to tell you how to do it...................
ummm...........
No. there's a problem with that plan but i can't think what it is.....
In the PM section, on the top RHS of the box, you can tick all the messages. Tick then all, or just the messages you want to delete. Scroll down to the bottom and it says 'move to folder'. Just drop down that box and select delete, then press go. result = all gone. (Just like our top order :( )
You do this for the inbox, and sent items as well.
Gumby,
I've been doing that for over a week, but they all keep comming back.
Perhaps an administrator will look into the matter for me.
[email protected] is the only way at the moment to pm me.
I was wondering when you were going to start to gloat.Quote:
You have had me worried for over a week, glad to see you're fighting fit and ready for the final test.
We've got the umpires on our side and the best players, and this could go on for the next 20 years
Grunt,
Please forgive me, but for two years I have had to take a lot of bouncers ;)
I did warn you all in OZ. that things were on the change here.
Even our local barber is talking about cricket now.
Anyway lets all enjoy the 5th test.
I sincerely hope you don't ! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by jow104
I actually think that having another strong team in international cricket is the best thing for cricket. I just wish it wasn't England. :D
I don't know who this UHH bloke is but I like him :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Unhappyhammer
HH.
I also wish the other strong side wasn't England. But you can't have everything!!!
It's just so nice to watch Australia play when the result is not a foregone conclusion.
My Pom ancestry tends to come thru' in those situations and I support any team against the obviously stronger one (up the underdog and all that).
It's going to be great to just sit on the fence for this one and enjoy the game - Australia had it so good for so long it was getting boring.
After you achieve everyhing there is to achieve there is little incentive to keep pushing yourself. England had thrashing Austalia as a goal. We used to have beating WI but achieved that comfortably a while back. And to win in India was done as well, now no goals, apart from the glory of being an absolute champion (There are 2 who come to mind who revel in that). But being like that gets people offside quicker than pregnant bird gets to the choccy biccies.
I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go
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I'm arranging 5 days of solid rain for next Thursday, just in case. :D
How true that is. I lost interest in the first test but I had many 3 hour sleeps during the others.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoutBok
I still hope we smash them in the fifth test.
Now off topic somewhat. Let me attempt put my bias to one side and state that the umpiring has been absolutely abismal. Two decisions (although there are many more) in the last test stand out. Flintoff on 8 (out LBW) goes on to make a century and then Katich on 59? (not out LBW). Had the correct decisions been made, then the result in my opinion would have been reversed.
England have played well and deserve to be praised. I just think they would like to have won without help from the umpires. Where's Darryl???
I admire your spirit of competition :D
It won't save you.......nothing will. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by jow104
The flashing broad blade of M Hayden will ensure that we march towards a glorious victory......................
NOT :mad:
Oh how I hope you have egg on your face WRT Hayden Gumby. He is due as are most of them. Reminds me of my current debtors situation. All due no-one paying.
Poached, with toast please. You deliver :DQuote:
Originally Posted by boban
I'm banking on the 5th test ending in a draw.
Tail end of hurricane Katrina due in over the weekend.
Then we'll get the best bowler in the world to come downwind, thanks. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by jow104
You want Murali to bowl now?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
No, please note that I said 'bowler'. He doesn't qualify.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gingermick
If I may interrupt this thread to
a) announce that I'm back
and
b) smugly hint that I may have actually been having a good time for the last month and a bit:
May I just say that the fourth test will be a memorable one for me on two counts:-
1) "We" lost! :eek: (Surely that has no consequence, it's just a game played out in a grand sporting tradition after all, stiff upper lip wot??)
2) On the penultimate day I happened to be in Mongolia in the company of two Poms and a Swiss bloke (who was being taught the finer points of the game by our good selves). Now it may have escaped some of you, but let me say that communications, let alone cricket updates are a little scarce out in the sticks (or lack of sticks as the case may be) in Mongolia, but with the assistance of an extremely friendly nomad Yak herder who had a Mobile phone and could get reception from a nearby mountain top a mere 15 minutes away flat-chat on a horse, and one of the Pommie bloke's father who sent text updates to the Yak herder every hour or so.........
I still haven't worked out how the nomad charged his phone, or why he actually had one in an area where even in an emergency, coverage is uncertain to say the least, but it worked for us!
The Poms are still somewhere in Asia, and tonight it's my turn to text the messages, once they find a suitable victim with a phone who is keen to learn the game's finer points. The Swiss bloke still doesn't understand..... ..... .....
Cheers,
P
So which would you rather hang around with Yak Hearders or Poms?
Which smell less?
Welcome Back ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by bitingmidge(the returned)
Can he bat ? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by bitingmidge(the returned)
Go Warnie! :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:
(Bloody Yak Herders with mobiles. Do'nt they know they're supposed to be primitive?) :D
BuggaQuote:
Originally Posted by bitingmidge
So why didn't you stay?Quote:
b) smugly hint that I may have actually been having a good time for the last month and a bit:
Yeah, yeah, we're pleased to have you back too. Al's been unbearable while you were away - sulking and prowling. :DQuote:
Cheers,
P
Welcome home mate.
Cheers
Richard
Going to miss todays play. Off to a tool show not to buy but to demand my money back on the c.i. tablesaw. Engineer called Wednesday, reset the machine fault, next day Thurs. machine lasted one hour and blade then moved 2mm sideways in the throat plate again.
Best wishes and fortune to you all.
Would you mind leaving the TV turned on. We don't want a batting collapse :D (and I bet Hayden's out under 30) :mad:
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Originally Posted by Gumby
It's uncanny the TV switching did the same thing again yesterday, so ???
Gumby.
Hayden I'll give him 15.
He might just get it. Harmison got 20.
How much did you have on it Gumby? (Oh ye of little faith)
Well, he's on 32 not out. Thanks Matty, you took so damn long that we are now in danger of not having enough time. We should be about 150, not 112.
I can't believe they took the bad light option - we have to win, not draw ! :(
it Is Raining
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