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Devil-Dick Willie

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  1. Who has big reputations? I'm genuinely confused. Root is the Andy Murray of crickets big 4. He's famously bad at converting 50s to 100s. But, he is your one genuinely world class player remaining. Stokes is wonderful, and a great character to have. These 2 guys aside, you can make an for Broad and Anderson, but they're both well past their admittedly brilliant best, and Archer ain't playing. That leaves you with a bunch of decent but not great fast bowlers. And a list of batsman as long as my arm who don't even average 40. Butler sucks in tests. Bairstow had 1 great batting year in tests, and has blown ever since. The rest, Pope, Burns, Hameed, Malan ect... I'd not take them in South Africas side, and they need all the help they can get! TLDR. You have 2 old ppl. 2 great players and 7 shades of shite playing, no matter who you pick. For the record, I'd have brought Foakes along
  2. @Spike He's mediocre. He's not Warne or Murali, and he's not Ashwin or Ajmal... And he's not Yasir Shah or Jadeja. He's bang fucking average. He bowls an offie and an arm ball. ANYONE on earth can bowl 30 overs. His biggest problems aren't just that 32 bowling average and his enormous noggin. It's what I mentioned. You want a spinner who is dangerous with the old ball, or on old wickets. This is key because it provides variation with the team. The quicks bowl the hard ball and then you have a spinner to take wickets with the softer older ball. Even more important second innings. Lyon doesn't achieve this. He wants a firm ball so he can bounce it up and hit gloves, it's how he gets the lions share (lol) of his wickets. His bowling average in the second innings is not significantly better than first, even his specific 4th innings bowling average is above 30. He has 400 wickets because he's bowled for over a decade.
  3. That's gotta be humiliating for Butler. @Spike Don't know how much cricket you watch but "Gazza" is the most mediocre legend in history. Poor away from home on wickets that don't bounce like trampolines, gets worse as the pitch and ball get softer unlike every other spinner on the planet, and routinely struggles to bowl teams out on day 5 pitches. It's basically like having a 5th seamer. England always seem to make him look like he's a god tho. He's the Brad Haddin of spinners. However, Butler, Pope, and both openers need dropping, and England just don't have the troops to replace them. Easy 5-0
  4. Because you went to the one before christmas silly.
  5. I was doing sets of 20-25 pull ups pre covid. Now just 10 again.
  6. It's funny, because historically he either scored lots of runs when it's easy (on easy home tracks or against shit attacks) or no runs at all. First 2 tests he's been forced to grind out runs, and actually played very good test cricket... then let himself down in the 90s. Australias day by far. England have a bits and pieces team, and Australia do too... but with Smith and Loosebuschange. And it makes all the difference. Fielders not taking or creating chances, if I were the bowlers i'd fucking go ape in the dressing room
  7. Finn isn't actually a demon in keyfabe It's supposed to be an artistic expression that's a big confidence boost. I think in NJPW he was a demon though, and could only use the paint a certain number of times because of it. Demon or no, if he has matches like this all painted up, I'll watch em every time.
  8. @The Artful Dodger Go to the gym 3x weekly. Bench press, Squat, overhead press and pull ups. Maybe some curls and triceps extensions at the end of your workout. If you can't do pull ups, do band assisted pull ups or use a pull up machine. Watch you tube videos for form, and start at a comfortable weight, that you can do for 5 sets of 5 with a 3-4 minute break between sets. This is step 1. Good luck! Get on the exercise bike for 20-30 min after your session if you have time or for longer periods on off days.
  9. I think they should win the tag titles first. Have a run, split them up, then maybe a gimmick change.
  10. Jon Jones bashing his girl
  11. No way. Matt can barely move. Jeffs body is ruined.
  12. Hard to blame the bowling team to be fair. Warner was out on 4, and 50 odd twice. No ball, dropped cold, and not run out when he fell over. Had he gone cheap, and we knock 50-70 runs of the total, Australia getting 300-350 is very acceptable. It was the batsmen. They were rubbish. Warner is usually useless at test cricket, scores when it's easy and fails when not, but his gritty 92 was everything Englands innings wasn't. He's out of form, and gave up chances, but never let it get in his head and plugged away. England mentally collapsed.
  13. They probably caught it at a hotel restaurant
  14. Both teams bat before we judge. It's not amateur hour up in here. The heavens opened and they lost their chance too bowl under lights and clouds. They've got to hope they can rick roll the aussies tomorrow or that it rains through.
  15. England suck. They need to absolutely roll australia with the cloud cover this session to get a result here imo
  16. Weird bump TBH. Cody takes all the table and fire, Andrade cops none of it because Cody protects him so much.
  17. It sickens me he has 2 Champions league medals. Quality player for 3 seasons ever.
  18. Played 9 minutes of game 1. Missed the next 2 for no reason. Is missing his next because "he's not used to 4 hour flights" @Dr. Gonzo @LFCMadLad @LFCMike @Rick He continues to be a horrible professional and a complete waste of humanity,
  19. Hangman retains.
  20. Yes it is.
  21. I have ascended to a higher plane.
  22. Called it months ago. Here's what I hate about the Cody thing the most. He's pretending it's 'ironic' its not. It's because he HAS to be a babyface while his reality show is on air, so to cover it up, he's taking an angle.
  23. And in NJPW too. Honestly Gunner, assume any good wrestling thing in the last 10 years came out of New Japan. Barring Jungle boy and MJF
  24. I was just saying If AEW are going to borrow NJPW talent, it's in NJPWs interest to make it great talent to attract new fans. Not just the old boys.
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