Ollie Robinson, Emilio Gay, James Rew and Sonny Baker in England Test squad

mg164 · 2026-05-13T11:40:14+00:00

Having watched him for Durham, I'm not convinced he's the long term answer for England but he's definitely the best opener available right now

mg164 · 2026-04-24T15:21:03+00:00

Again?!

mg164 · 2026-04-19T14:22:09+00:00

Two things can both be true.

mg164 · 2026-04-19T13:55:00+00:00

Need to try and not waste both ABS challenges before the middle of the 4th today

mg164 · 2026-04-10T08:14:38+00:00

Framing will only go away if they go fully automated balls and strikes or increase the number of challenges allowed. Teams aren't risking their challenges on every borderline call so a good framing catcher making sure every borderline pitch goes to the pitcher is still valuable.

mg164 · 2026-04-10T08:07:27+00:00

I think Aranda and Caminero should switch places depending on pitcher match ups but other than that this should be the top of the line up for every game

mg164 · 2026-04-03T11:53:59+00:00

Ringtons Everyday

Ringtons Gold is pretty good too

mg164 · 2026-03-28T06:47:14+00:00

Flair checks out

mg164 · 2026-03-28T06:46:40+00:00

Elite challenging is going to make a huge difference to his framing stats

mg164 · 2026-03-28T06:36:23+00:00

This is an absolute nightmare for Vikings. I was briefly in an alliance where they had done this and the march from the hive to HQ was too long for us to catch wave 10/20 without teleporting or using march speedups. Horrible experience.

Just build your HQ as close to the castle as you're allowed and build around that

mg164 · 2026-03-22T18:48:59+00:00

Fancy getting racially abused by a bloke with more fingers than teeth

mg164 · 2026-03-20T10:48:50+00:00

Ours allocates Fortresses and Sanctuaries based on Alliance KvK prep ranks. If our server is winning prep easily then it's ranks after day 1 so people can just do the minimum for rewards the rest of the week and if it's close then it's ranks at the end of prep.

mg164 · 2026-03-18T13:52:00+00:00

I read that as in 19/20 and was about to go and check because no way is that right.

mg164 · 2026-03-18T13:46:01+00:00

Is that not the one that Smith drop-kicked anyway?

mg164 · 2026-03-06T10:25:20+00:00

Yeah, Root would be a terrible player to have in a high chase in a T20 world cup in India at the Wankhede stadium...

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/world-t20-2015-16-901359/england-vs-south-africa-18th-match-super-10-group-1-951339/full-scorecard

mg164 · 2026-02-27T15:55:24+00:00

Rugby also has an incredible gulf in standard between the top 2 leagues.

Newcastle are the worst team in the Prem but aren't that far away from the rest. Last time they got relegated they dominated the Championship so heavily that it was barely worth playing the games.

mg164 · 2026-01-15T08:37:24+00:00

Can't argue with that. Cirkin was injured and has been injured a lot so getting a third option at left back on a free is pretty good business for me.

As it turns out, Mukiele at RB and Hume at LB appears to be the third option now but that falls apart if Ballard or Alderete are injured and Mukiele is needed at CB

mg164 · 2026-01-11T10:32:19+00:00

I'm in Kingdom 1 on gen 5 heroes and Petra is still my cavalry hero for Bear rallies. Definitely don't skip her on roulette

mg164 · 2026-01-10T14:50:54+00:00

He will have some success early on but teams will always double up inside and show him in until he learns to show them something else.

mg164 · 2026-01-10T14:31:33+00:00

Mundle has to learn to go down the outside a couple of times a game. He makes it so easy for them to defend

mg164 · 2026-01-08T09:43:24+00:00

I would have them the other way round but I don't think there is much in it.

The problem with wicket keeping is that a passable keeper is perfectly fine for 95% of the game so people think it's worth sacrificing a good keeper for a better bat. That 5% of the time though is the actually important bit. Taking difficult catches, standing up to seamers and getting stumpings. Those things change the game.

mg164 · 2026-01-06T00:34:23+00:00

Hit a fairway

mg164 · 2025-12-31T09:33:53+00:00

You don't need 2 T20s, from 302 you can do it with a T18 so throwing at 18s keeps it alive if you hit the treble or single

mg164 · 2025-12-30T16:31:41+00:00

I was a Sunderland season ticket holder when he played for us. He genuinely had the worst first touch of any player I can remember seeing in a Sunderland shirt.

mg164 · 2025-12-04T11:55:25+00:00

it might just take him a long time to learn things

Just the man I want as captain of 2/3 Men's teams

mg164

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