Alex

An injury is possible but, if iirc, there's only a couple of warm up matches between now and then for England. I know he had some poor form with the bat last year but he seemed to have got his magic back with that innings for Durham in the one day semi. There aren't many players on the planet who could've batted like that. It was devastating. And I think I would have made allowances for his poor form in any case for a few reasons. He's clearly a match winner on his day (with bat and ball). You look at players like Woakes and (to a lesser extent) Jordan and they're good performers. But they are never going to turn in those match-winning performances. I know consistency is a big issue but it seems daft playing it safe when England have so little chance of winning the tournament anyway. Collingwood is spot on in what he has said.

You didn't want a sensible discussion. Rather than recognise your own hypocrisy you used your working for the NHS as some sort of justification why your own standards didn't need to be applied to yourself. It reminded me of the time when you openly admitted to buying stuff cheaper abroad so as to not pay UK tax*. You also justified that by claiming you 'did your bit' (or words to that effect) whilst completely missing the irony that both your career and the NHS are only possible because people pay tax rather than evade it. *Not that it particularly bothers me, it's the sanctimonious way you judge everyone else which makes you so open to ridicule.

Not that I think they would anyway but is to late to include Ben Stokes in the World Cup squad? Seemed daft to exclude him on the basis of the Sri Lanka tour. It seemed he was almost set up to fail there anyway and he's certainly proven the selectors wrong since.

Funnier than it probably should be.

Glad you've taken my advice, J. Let this be a lesson to you.

Almost makes you wonder why they voted to remain part of the UK.

You could've spent the time you took typing that to volunteer.

Yeah, that really smarts. An actual sweaty rather than a plastic one (presumably you've temporarily swapped your ten gallon hat for a Tam o' Shanter) would probably laugh it off anarl.

If I was being sarcastic, which I wasn't, whichever post you were talking about would have been an example of sarcasm rather than the definition of it. Perhaps it's time to quit while you're behind.

Lacist tbh.

Puff's drink.

I wasn't being sarcastic. To be pedantic.

Only worse.

Not like you to be self righteous.

That's mint

One for Toonpack's wank bank.

Andre Rieu is CT all over like.

The people who gave the money wanted it to go to him. Why didn't you have a frugal wedding, skip the honeymoon and donate £10k to charity instead. Or is that different?

Brilliant that like.

Pusher