Alex

Consider getting a rescue. There’s loads out there need homes.

I’m more worried about the next one and the impact it’ll have on the 25 players we have playing in it

I think Stokes is the only captain we’ve had in that period who would use him properly. Look at how Leach looks better with right fields set. I don’t think Root in particular trusted him (I never rated Root as a captain and the senior bowlers set their own fields). There’s also the way you need to bowl more stock balls in tests and white ball cricket being more about variation. At Yorkshire he became a white ball specialist. Didn’t they stop picking him in county championship games? With what’s come out since you wonder if prejudice played a part. In any case, it’s difficult to say Rashid could’ve had a better career if he’d been able to concentrate on the longer format. He’s had an absolutely stellar career

When Longstaff got a new deal I think just about everyone thought that Howe is allowed the odd error of judgement. Maybe coupled with the odd bit of blind faith / hope that he’d seen something and Longstaff would get back to something like the highly rated youngster. But Longstaff really looks at home in the side these past few games. He looks fitter / more mobile too.

Yeah, they breed them tough in Robin’s part of the world.

I thought your lot bowled superbly and if Afridi hadn’t picked up that injury then who knows? As the pressure was starting to build. Then there was that 14 runs off 4 balls or something and that just killed the game. Rashid bowled a lovely spell too. Proper master of his craft

Condolences, TGQ

Man Utd look better when he doesn’t play and he’s almost certainly a disruptive influence. As much as I would like Man Utd to be in turmoil the manager appears to have made the right call by not picking Ronaldo regularly and it seems he’s got the backing of the hierarchy in making that call. Going to that sycophantic cunt Morgan to whinge about it is petulant even by this arsehole’s standards

The lass (Commodore’s daughter ) I went sailing with last year lives in Tewkesbury. She (somewhat hilariously) claims not to be posh

He did, as it happens I used to refer to him, Leazes and UglyMackems as the three amigos. I think that HTL and LM were brothers. Related I mean, I’d be surprised if they were black

I can’t believe what they paid for him. I reckon, given the circumstances, Sunderland would have taken a lot less.

Sportswashed 👆

Lots of Muslims celebrate Xmas too. Albeit not in the belief Jesus was the son of god. Although that applies to most people in this country. Oh, aye - a 21 year old MBS was solely responsible for 9/11 as well

Cool as a cucumber. Nearly everyone plays worse generally under that sort of pressure. He gets even better. You knew we’d win if he was there at the end

You can fucking swear on here you know

That Roker Mackem btw. He was in our match thread talking about the match whilst simultaneously claiming he hasn’t watched us play for years and saying he can’t understand why any Sunderland fan would. In the unlikely event he’s telling the truth, how is being in our match day thread, glued to any updates and desperately wanting us to lose somehow more appropriate behaviour for the ‘true fan’? He’s fucking tapped.

Are they bothered about China building nuclear power stations in the UK? You know, the country partaking in ethnic cleansing in its own country? Nah, funny that. They come out with stuff like “No one seems that bothered about the ownership”. Completely oblivious to the fact that if it bothers them more than anyone else it almost certainly isn’t about the human rights.

Probably angry his daughter isn’t getting poked by one of the Sunderland players

Who writes Ben Stokes’ scripts? They’re too far-fetched.

😂😂😂

Yeah that’s the one. It was the one with the Neptune Club that was the precursor to Phoenix Nights. There were loads of subtle little bits in it too. In ‘Leonard’ he went into a cafe regularly and chatted to the waitress. She’d won some local beauty contest and she kept asking Leonard for the photo back of her winning it that she’d loaned him. He kept saying he couldn’t find it. Later on he’s being interviewed in his bedroom and it’s on display on his bedside table the fella who walked around dressed as a cowboy who just shouted John Wayne every now and again as well

Aye, agreed re: massive arenas. I actually thought he was hilarious when he first broke onto the scene. His stand up and stuff like That Peter Kay Thing. It’s been done to death though.

Aye, I assumed it was a made up name.

I saw him at the city hall ages ago. He was canny but I bet he’s still doing the sane material. He’s announced a monthly residency at the O2 as well

He lived to be 175 though