1st Ashes Test England v Australia June 16-20 1930hrs @ Edgbaston

[Linda Lovelace]

That's hilarious. Surely you'd laugh though. I can't see how it could get under your skin or unsettle you.

Definitely.

How could a stadium full of people reminding you of probably the most traumatic and then publicly embarrassing moment in your life (that you brought on yourself, but still) possibly be unsettling?

 

[Plugger35]

Looking at the weather radar there, most of the rain seems to be clearing north, the first session may still be interrupted but it should be OK after that.

There should be enough play today to get a result, two sessions is plenty of time for Australia to get 174 runs or for England ta take another 7 wickets.

 

[Browney2006]

"Men's mental health is important"

Chant we saw you cry on telly

Yeah see he cried because he was caught cheating

 

[Juddy88]

Not familiar with the first one and we do have the latter, but it’s still in the box, been too busy to set it up!

What will I be able to do when I have?

Chromecast is a device that plugs in to your HDMI input, and let's you stream directly to your TV from your phone (in this case, you'll use the 9 now app) I think they're around $49 now, maybe a bit more.

As for the smart TV - https://help.9now.com.au/hc/en-us/articles/360000867735-How-do-I-find-the-9Now-app-on-my-Android-TV-#:~:text=You can find the 9Now,searching the Google Play Store.&text=On your remote, press the,the Play Store to install.

 

[ABAB]

Yeah see he cried because he was caught cheating

Did Vaughn or whoever it was cried when he got caught with mint gate?

 

[FredLeDeux]

Did Vaughn or whoever it was cried when he got caught with mint gate?

Or Atherton with dirt in his pockets.

 

[Rich the babe Evans]

Yeah see he cried because he was caught cheating

I did, would be a pretty emotional experience in your through, even being in the wrong.

Wouldn't expect the scum to have any empathy for him, led a genocide against against my people.

 

[StillAtLarge]

Marnus and Smith have let us down ******* big time in this match.

It'll make a win all the more sweeter

 

[largebus]

Did Vaughn or whoever it was cried when he got caught with mint gate?

It was Trescothick, who started having nervous breakdowns when he went on tour sadly. So in a way it was much worse.

 

[kickazz]

I don’t get the hate for Broad he’s a fantastic bowler who gives it everything all the time.

Also talked a guy out of jumping off a bridge to his death in Sydney too.

A great competitor with a slightly punchable face who didn't walk that one time he got a massive edge to slips. I'm a fan.

 

[Aussie_boy]

I don’t get the hate for Broad he’s a fantastic bowler who gives it everything all the time.

Very good at winding people up which is a trait I somewhat admire.

 

[greyhound punter]

Agreed, I had an overwhelming need to correct people if they were ‘wrong’ and point out various whataboutisms etc etc and it took until fairly recently to realise how pathetic it can be.

Ironically because he was a cricketer I simply loathed for a long time, it was David Warner who started to change my perception about how we interact regarding sport: the guy might not be everyone’s cup of tea and that’s ok, no one is going to like everyone.

But to a few people he is their dad, their be all and end all and that’s what he will be regardless of what he does with a stick in his hand - and might I add he’s done that better than 90 per cent of his peers over the last dozen years. He’s just a person and he’s got a wife and kids that love him and if he stuffs up then so what: it makes him a human being.

Ollie Robinson as a virtual kid said some really horrible things related to race. I did the same thing when I was in my late teens. Then I fathered two amazing Aboriginal sons a few years later.

They’re just blokes chucking a ball at each other and while I love watching it, and shake my head at some of the carry on that occurs while they do it, I’ve finally after 40 years worked out that it really doesn’t matter and isn’t worth tying myself in knots over.

Really hope they get on tonight for long enough for a great finish.

Warner is definitely a polarising cricketer. On the last tour to England l, I can't remember what match, but he was on the boundary and he must have been copping abuse about the sandpaper incident, and he held out his pockets to the crowd to show they were empty. Everyone pissed themselves.

All the hate and vitrol around the sandpaper incident, and here is the main character, taking the piss to the crowd about it.

Or when Gayle checked Warner's pockets during the t20 world cup in 2021. It was great theatre.

Ever since then it is impossible not to respect Warner. Whatever you think of him, or say, he just doesn't care.

 

[kickazz]

"Men's mental health is important"

Chant we saw you cry on telly

A few of those numbskulls need to be shown Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" speech

 

[kickazz]

Looking at the weather radar there, most of the rain seems to be clearing north, the first session may still be interrupted but it should be OK after that.

There should be enough play today to get a result, two sessions is plenty of time for Australia to get 174 runs or for England ta take another 7 wickets.

Draw odds are out to $14 now, seems we should get a result

 

[Coasters7]

That's hilarious. Surely you'd laugh though. I can't see how it could get under your skin or unsettle you.

If anything it’d make me more intent on winning to shut them up. Have never wanted to beat these guys more than when their crowd is loud

 

[Plugger35]

Well play doesn't look like it will be starting anytime soon with it still raining there and covers on the ground, the whole first session could be a write off.

 

[Gough]

A few of those numbskulls need to be shown Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" speech

I found quite a lot of what the English called banter among mates to be pretty cruel and would have been called out as bit OTT here.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Well play doesn't look like it will be starting anytime soon with it still raining there and covers on the ground, the whole first session could be a write off.

Try and the draw to be honest

 

[Around the Wicket]

Did Vaughn or whoever it was cried when he got caught with mint gate?

No because England didn't massively over react and ban him for 12 months lol

 

[Mr Meow]

Looks like we're onto the drizzle phase of rain and even that may be gone in 90 minutes (if the radar is to be believed): 12:10pm local time. Get the players to have their lunch an hour early and hopefully get out there around 1pm/1:30pm.

The main negative is that the earlier projection for sunny intervals once the rain stopped, has turned into overcast. It's gonna be hoopin' around early today.

 

[danstar]

We arent winning, needs torain as long as possible and we just bat out the last 20 or so overs for a draw

 

[PhatBoy]

Warner is definitely a polarising cricketer. On the last tour to England l, I can't remember what match, but he was on the boundary and he must have been copping abuse about the sandpaper incident, and he held out his pockets to the crowd to show they were empty. Everyone pissed themselves.

All the hate and vitrol around the sandpaper incident, and here is the main character, taking the piss to the crowd about it.

Or when Gayle checked Warner's pockets during the t20 world cup in 2021. It was great theatre.

Ever since then it is impossible not to respect Warner. Whatever you think of him, or say, he just doesn't care.

The bottom line is that in life we all stuff up to a greater or lesser degree.

Some of those stuff ups can be undone, some can’t - think Gary Ablett Sr for an obvious example that gets brought up on this forum a lot. But life is about learning from mistakes and once a mistake is made you can’t go back in time and unmake it, all you can do is learn from it, take steps to be better, not repeat them, and make the most of whatever opportunity you have left: for some people that opportunity might be as simple as changing your character on a cricket field like Warner seems to have done, for someone else it might be becoming a model inmate for 30 years and mentoring a kid that is due for parole in 5 and helping turn his life into something good.

 

[A Pom]

A great competitor with a slightly punchable face who didn't walk that one time he got a massive edge to slips. I'm a fan.

Didn't even do that, was a thin edge through to Haddin who deflected it to first slip (hence why the umpire was confused and gave it not out).

 

[sthmelb_dimmies]

Draw odds are out to $14 now, seems we should get a result

Draw @ $14 is a pretty compelling $100

 

[ABAB]

No because England didn't massively over react and ban him for 12 months lol

Agree, Turnbull catering for the masses didn't help. The ones who follow cricket know this wasn't new and the other countries gave their cheating cricketers light sanction.