Alex

De Jong's comeback lasted a long time.

Haven't seen the drunk with wild eyed thousand yard stare kicking about Forest Hall for a while. Constantly both pissed and pissing his pants by the looks of him. You'd know him if you saw him.

Aye, it's not exactly relevant to my take on things either

(You have to laugh or you'd cry). Good post btw.

He'll talk a good game.

GSTQ is the UK's. None of the component parts of the UK have individual ones. At least I read that somewhere. Hence Flower of Scotland being used at the Commonwealth Games now for the sweaties when it used to be Scotland the Brave. I.e. you could theoretically sing what you want. Northern Ireland use Danny Boy at Commonwealth Games and God Save the Queen at football matches I think.

Longer format is for the people who understand the game.

Good how they've spelt assassinate with a mackem accent. Basically, he's pissed off because we've got a recognisable identity as a city, club, culture etc. whereas their whole raison d'être revolves around us.

England doesn't have an official national anthem [/trivia]

I'm more than happy to discuss cricket with people who know something about it.

Don't you mean they aren't mutually exclusive?

The Krankies. Talk about a strange relationship.

Did they do a song called Hooverville? Did an inferior cover of Harvest for the World too iirc (hard to top the original to be fair). Used to quite like them.

Promoting who though? There's hardly anyone else. Steve Stone and that's about it. I've heard Pedro isn't remotely interested in the job so I doubt he'd have said 'aye' to 3 games on a hiding to nowt. Stone probably has less respect than Carver.

Well Shteve McClaren was telling everyone who'd listen he turned us down. Assuming that's true, Ashley tried to removed Carver but ended up with little choice other than to stick with him for the time being.

He'd be perfect, perhaps, if he showed any signs of being a competent PL manager.

http://www.toontastic.net/board/topic/35266-the-cricket-thread/page-42#entry1322072

Aye. At least one of those was blatantly behind the parody twitter account too (or at least feeding info to it).

Aye, I heard it last night. It's funny how whenever Downton, Strauss or any of the players have been pressed on the specifics of what the problem are, not one of them (ignoring older issues, pre-'rehabilitation', as it were) has been able to give a straight answer.

As CT says: It's going to be bloody.

Much like CT with politics / football / haute cuisine Anyway, I thought you said it was a bit shit, or words to that effect.

Played a few times but KCG said Nigel Clough so I was scouring my brains, to no avail, for another striker. Says a lot about why so few good English coaches come through btw.

Well you aren't arsed about cricket really, are you? So it's a given.