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Posted: **08:56 Fri 22 Nov 2013**

Nobody is the winner if Australia is the winner.

Posted: **09:34 Fri 22 Nov 2013**

Didn't see that coming!

When is the second test?

Posted: **12:54 Fri 22 Nov 2013**

How did it all go? I went off to bed at lunch.

Posted: **13:00 Fri 22 Nov 2013**

LGTrotter wrote:How did it all go? I went off to bed at lunch.

Then you need to listen to 5Live Sports Xtra from 1.40 this afternoon and relive it all blow-by-blow. I also went to bed at lunch. When I woke up, I saw the score.

Posted: **16:17 Fri 22 Nov 2013**

Are we there yet? Is it over?

Posted: **16:20 Fri 22 Nov 2013**

Glenn E. wrote:Are we there yet? Is it over?

I see. Have you signed up for our intensive education course yet? It's mostly painless.

Posted: **23:59 Fri 22 Nov 2013**

It's time to turn off your tv and wireless.

Posted: **00:00 Sat 23 Nov 2013**

DRT wrote:It's time to turn off your tv and wireless.

Yes, have some of this (strangely astringent) G70 with me as I celebrate no longer being 40.

Posted: **00:01 Sat 23 Nov 2013**

Watching RWC highlights more enjoyable!

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk

Posted: **00:02 Sat 23 Nov 2013**

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:It's time to turn off your tv and wireless.
Yes, have some of this (strangely astringent) G70 with me as I celebrate no longer being 40.

Happy bloody birthday.

Posted: **00:11 Sat 23 Nov 2013**

LGTrotter wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:It's time to turn off your tv and wireless.
Yes, have some of this (strangely astringent) G70 with me as I celebrate no longer being 40.
Happy bloody birthday.

Posted: **00:35 Sat 23 Nov 2013**

Interesting things happening down under.

Posted: **01:23 Sat 23 Nov 2013**

DRT wrote:I am Scottish. Cricket is as mysterious to me as is the reason why whales commit mass suicide.

DRT wrote:Interesting things happening down under.

Posted: **01:35 Sat 23 Nov 2013**

djewesbury wrote:
DRT wrote:It's time to turn off your tv and wireless.
Yes, have some of this (strangely astringent) G70 with me as I celebrate no longer being 40.

Welcome to the age at which I began to drink Port!

Oh wait, no longer 40? So then a year late am I. /sigh

Posted: **11:28 Sat 23 Nov 2013**

DRT wrote:Interesting things happening down under.

Does this mean that it Is worth turning the sports channel back on, or that you had a curry last night?

Posted: **22:15 Sat 23 Nov 2013**

I've just found that the highlights are on Pick TV

Posted: **22:29 Sat 23 Nov 2013**

AHB wrote:I've just found that the highlights are on Pick TV

Also discovered this last night. It's not the whole programme - no analysis with Banger..

Posted: **00:05 Sun 24 Nov 2013**

This will be interesting. Very interesting. Wasn't aware we were two down already; I admit I didn't check the score this morning (I was afraid to look).

Posted: **06:39 Sun 24 Nov 2013**

djewesbury wrote:This will be interesting. Very interesting. Wasn't aware we were two down already; I admit I didn't check the score this morning (I was afraid to look).

Wrong word. Embarrassing would have been better. Only hope is a rain dance - and a very long one!

Posted: **00:20 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

Is it too soon to ask who will replace Trott?

OK, it's too soon.

Posted: **00:23 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

LGTrotter wrote:Is it too soon to ask who will replace Trott

Much earlier, DRT wrote:Why is Tim Bresnan not playing. He is one of the best ones at chucking it that I have seen.

Posted: **00:24 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

LGTrotter wrote:Is it too soon to ask who will replace Trott?

OK, it's too soon.

Not at all considering the next Test starts in three days' time. Bring in Bairstow? They're not flying anyone out. Push Root up to 3 again? Disastrous idea. Bell? Terrible idea. Pietersen? Maybe.

Posted: **00:25 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

I must say that all the fuss being made about Australian's saying nasty things about English players is very amusing. Get over it.

Posted: **00:27 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

DRT wrote:I must say that all the fuss being made about Australian's saying nasty things about English players is very amusing. Get over it.

But now they're mocking the afflicted. Anyway they cried foul when we pointed out how rubbish they were for the last five years. Perhaps all's fair.

Posted: **00:31 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

djewesbury wrote:Perhaps all's fair.

Well said.

What we don't need in world class sport is a bunch of Jessies complaining that someone on the other team called them a nasty name. And we also don't need press with double standards, but there doesn't appear to be anything we can do about that one.

So, Team Engerlund, man up and get on with working out how to make the Aussies look like girls in the next test instead of looking like big girls yourselves.

Posted: **00:33 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:Is it too soon to ask who will replace Trott
Much earlier, DRT wrote:Why is Tim Bresnan not playing. He is one of the best ones at chucking it that I have seen.

Because he is a lumbering Ox who can't quite bat or bowl. Trott is a batsman, get another one.

Posted: **00:35 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

LGTrotter wrote:
DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:Is it too soon to ask who will replace Trott
Much earlier, DRT wrote:Why is Tim Bresnan not playing. He is one of the best ones at chucking it that I have seen.
Because he is a lumbering Ox who can't quite bat or bowl. Trott is a batsman, get another one.

I concede to your superior knowledge.

Who else is in the reserves?

Posted: **00:37 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

Hear hear. To everyone. And now I'm going to go to bed and fall asleep reading about the collapse of the Italian Air Force in World War II and the insignificant tonnages they dropped on irrelevant targets. Good night all. By the morning, JDAW will hopefully have solved the quiz.

Posted: **00:39 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

djewesbury wrote:And now I'm going to go to bed

I'm right behind you.

Posted: **00:39 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

Get your own room.

Posted: **00:41 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:
DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:Is it too soon to ask who will replace Trott
Much earlier, DRT wrote:Why is Tim Bresnan not playing. He is one of the best ones at chucking it that I have seen.
Because he is a lumbering Ox who can't quite bat or bowl. Trott is a batsman, get another one.
I concede to your superior knowledge.

Who else is in the reserves?

Opinions are not the same as knowledge. Being a Somerset man I guess I would put Compton up front with Carberry at number 3 with Kieswetter or Joss Butler to replace Prior as well.

Posted: **00:46 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

Who is Carberry anyway? Risen without trace as they say.

Posted: **00:51 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

LGTrotter wrote:Who is Carberry anyway? Risen without trace as they say.

Posted: **00:58 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

I wonder that you take such an interest in 'rounders', with its emotional instability and womanly attributes.

Carberry's main problem is that he is 34. Still he looked pretty comfortable against Mr Johnson and he was only one of 3.

Posted: **01:09 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

LGTrotter wrote:I wonder that you take such an interest in 'rounders', with its emotional instability and womanly attributes.

I only claimed to not understand it, not to being disinterested in it.

Posted: **01:19 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

DRT wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:I wonder that you take such an interest in 'rounders', with its emotional instability and womanly attributes.
I only claimed to not understand it, not to being disinterested in it.

They amount to the same thing, taken over time. So would you say it's made you more into exploring your feelings? Feminine side?

I'm not sure who else they have got out in Australia, I think there were a couple of batsmen and the performance squad is touring as well.

Posted: **07:51 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

LGTrotter wrote:So would you say it's made you more into exploring your feelings? Feminine side?

No. But this thread has caused me to take more interest in the series than might otherwise have been the case.

Posted: **09:23 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

Julian will be along shortly to point out the difference between being uninterested and being disinterested.

In the meantime, are you sure the whole performance squad are there? So that means all your little darlings are there too? I wouldn't have Compton, the Australians will break him. Kieswetter is potentially another 90s county star unable to excel in Tests (he's been variable in ODIs): perhaps a Ramprakash. Buttler is interesting but it's hardly the place for a debut. Shuffle them about and bring in Bairstow.

Posted: **09:42 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

djewesbury wrote:Julian will be along shortly to point out the difference between being uninterested and being disinterested.

There are people who claim to be disinterested, but who appear to be uninterested only when England are winning.

Posted: **11:42 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

djewesbury wrote: perhaps a Ramprakash.

Or one of his contemporaries such as Hutton or Boycott.

djewesbury wrote:Shuffle them about and bring in Bairstow.

Of course, what we need is another medium pacer to shake the Aussies up a bit. Who is not that much of a bat either. I am unconvinced by Compton but I think he scored more centuries on the winter tour than anybody else. He was dropped because the selectors wanted to 'look to the future' and have now replaced him with a 34 year old.

Posted: **12:42 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

I made the mistake of googling the difference between disinterested and uninterested and very rapidly became dispassionate.

Posted: **12:47 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

I don't care.

Posted: **12:47 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

(Ha ha)

Posted: **17:46 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

djewesbury wrote:Julian will be along shortly to point out the difference between being uninterested and being disinterested.

That's easy.

Here at Microsoft we have a concept called a "non-goal." When completing an assignment, a non-goal is something that isn't specifically assigned and shouldn't be deliberately worked on, but if it happens as a side-effect then that's a good thing. Something that specifically should not happen is called an anti-goal.

Uninterested is a non-goal. If it happens to be on TV, you'll watch, but you wouldn't turn on the TV to watch if the TV happened to be off.

Disinterested is an anti-goal. If it were on TV, you'd turn the TV off.

Posted: **17:51 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

I'd have reversed the analogy. The two words rely on fundamentally different uses of the word 'interest'.

Disinterested means I have no vested interest - as in, some way I benefit from something, that's to say, if I am disinterested I am neutral and impartial. A disinterested observer of a dispute is someone with no connection to either party.

Uninterested just means that I couldn't care less.

Posted: **19:25 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

Daniel and Glenn, please cease and desist. JDAW does not need this sort of encouragement.

Posted: **19:54 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

To get this thread back on track, I shall ask when the next Test starts?

Posted: **20:02 Tue 26 Nov 2013**

AHB wrote:To get this thread back on track, I shall ask when the next Test starts?

You mean you don't have the Cricinfo app..?
Not till Thursday week, disappointingly. I thought the first two tests were back-to-back.

Posted: **01:03 Tue 03 Dec 2013**

DRT wrote:Question 2: Why is Tim Bresnan not playing. He is one of the best ones at chucking it that I have seen.

Does this make me a visionary?

Posted: **01:05 Tue 03 Dec 2013**

DRT wrote:
DRT wrote:Question 2: Why is Tim Bresnan not playing. He is one of the best ones at chucking it that I have seen.
Does this make me a visionary?

What do you think?

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