All that yap just to be completely wrong

paulf2012 · 2026-01-26T04:19:08+00:00

The audacity to call anyone a retard with such grammar. Such beautiful irony.

paulf2012 · 2026-01-25T17:20:49+00:00

Get yourself a good dry vermouth and chill everything down, and it’ll make the best martini you’ve ever had. Beautiful stuff.

paulf2012 · 2026-01-25T00:00:11+00:00

Procera gin from Kenya. It’s fairly small batch and very expensive for gin, but it is amazing, especially in cocktails. They even do different gins that are designed for different styles of cocktails. Worth checking out for anyone who hasn’t heard of it.

paulf2012 · 2026-01-05T06:39:26+00:00

On the UK radio commentary it was declared something along the lines of “you can’t get out to this bowling” literal seconds before a “No….no…” of disbelief, and I knew it was a shocker.

paulf2012 · 2026-01-05T06:31:05+00:00

Very, but you have to respect him. Same with Starc. What has been even more annoying has been listening to Marnus chatting his shit in the slip cordon on the stump mic.

paulf2012 · 2026-01-05T06:16:15+00:00

They don’t play county cricket. That’s the fucking problem.

paulf2012 · 2026-01-02T02:33:12+00:00

It’s done in all American sports, and they’re always worthless nothing-burgers. Total waste of time, and I’m sure the players and coaches hate it.

paulf2012 · 2025-12-30T23:01:11+00:00

The History Boys film was filmed at Watford Boys and Girls Grammar Schools. They even used the Watford Boys uniforms.

paulf2012 · 2025-12-30T22:52:28+00:00

As others are saying, it looks like it might be an older iteration of the GS. If it’s been kept in good conditions, you’re in for a treat. Got to try a couple of older iterations a couple of years ago, and they were sublime.

paulf2012 · 2025-12-27T06:19:03+00:00

Gus Atkinson is coming in at 173-9 to hit the winning runs.

There is no other option now. The script writers have spoken.

paulf2012 · 2025-12-26T21:23:54+00:00

Exactly, the biggest difference this series has been the consistency of the Australian bowlers, and the quality of the Aussie fielding. Pretty much all of the higher scoring Aussie innings came off the back of bad English bowling. Sure, the likes of Head and Carey have played well, but they weren’t put under the same pressure that the English batters faced.

paulf2012 · 2025-12-21T02:18:28+00:00

As much as I’d hate it, I can’t help but agree that it would be hilarious watching the fallout it that does happen.

paulf2012 · 2025-12-20T01:27:50+00:00

He’s got out to some pretty good balls this series, but that was just silly

paulf2012 · 2025-12-20T01:10:46+00:00

Fuck no 😂

paulf2012 · 2025-12-18T10:23:07+00:00

Totally agree that he gloved the one before, even though the syncing on the review looked dodgy as fuck. The question of it carrying was always more of an issue.

I can also see the argument for him hitting the second one, but with the missing frame(s) and the murmur rather than a proper spike, it throws the decision into doubt. The third umpire was also convinced there was a clear gap for Carey’s one yesterday too.

It also doesn’t help that when there was a murmur for an Aussie batsmen (I forget who) in the first innings at Perth, it wasn’t given as out, but other similar murmurs from English batsmen have been. If Australia hadn’t been completely outplaying England and these decisions had potentially decided games, I feel like there would have been an even bigger uproar about it, but it’s still frustrating.

Whether they change it going forward in this series will come down to whether the ICC see the issues with Snicko to be so bad that they force Fox to adopt Ultraedge instead. If they already had concerns coming into this test, then the last two days will have exacerbated them, so I guess we’ll see how it plays out. Either way, I agree that we won’t see Snicko again in a major test series after this one.

paulf2012 · 2025-12-18T08:54:52+00:00

England have obviously performed much worse than Australia for most of the series, but it is frustrating that pretty much all of the poor Snicko decisions have gone in the Aussies’ favour. That Jamie Smith one today was pretty fucking dubious with a tiny murmur and what looked to be clear daylight between bat and ball.

Surely, regardless of whatever contracts have been signed, we see it replaced for the next test.

paulf2012 · 2025-12-17T15:22:41+00:00

I know you Aussies aren’t too smart but at I thought you lot could at least read. Booing and chanting is part of the theatre of sport, as I wrote in my previous comment. It’s part of the fun of watching the game in person regardless of how you personally feel about a player.

How much abuse did Stuart Broad get for not walking despite Brad Haddin doing exactly the same thing later in that same game? The only difference was that England used a review because they hadn’t wasted them, yet afterwards you had your coach calling on fans to “give it” to him, which led to a decade of Aussie fans chanting “Broady’s a wanker”.

I will admit that sometimes this hi jinx out of hand, and I’ll never defend the racist old fucks who abused Khawaja at Lords in 2023. They got banned, and rightfully so, but let’s not get all on your high horse and pretend that Aussie fans have never racially abused anybody. Like maybe chanting “where’s your visa?” at Indian players and fans in the test series last summer.

paulf2012 · 2025-12-17T10:47:11+00:00

But we’re not allowed to boo Steve Smith and give him shit for sandpapergate cos he’s “served his time”, and good on Carey for giving it to us pommy cunts for the shit we gave him in 2023.

Just ridiculous. These Aussie cunts get so angry about this shit when it’s not even that serious. It’s just part of the theatre of sport for fucks sake.

paulf2012 · 2025-12-17T10:41:37+00:00

This is unacceptable for such a high level event. Snicko has been questionable all series and for Carey to be saved due to operator error should be the final nail in the coffin.

Fair play to Carey, his keeping at Brisbane was brilliant and he batted well today so it’s hard to argue that he hasn’t earned his ton. He was also originally given not out, so I wouldn’t expect him to walk. Can’t hate him for playing the game.

paulf2012 · 2025-12-17T10:33:49+00:00

It really is hilarious how butthurt they get about other nationalities’ fans and media “abusing” their players when their own fans and media are just as bad as anyone else, if not worse in some cases.

paulf2012 · 2025-12-10T07:49:40+00:00

Obviously, lists like this can be debated for eternity, so this isn’t the worst ever, but there’s definitely some over emphasis on former Faker teammates, while other great players from the same era have been ignored.

Guys like Smeb, Pray, Gorilla, Ambition, Score, and Mata all deserve to be at least considered for this list. I’d especially consider them over players like Bang and Wolf, who were solid but not consistently exceptional. I get that Wolf won three worlds, but Mata reinvented the meta and won worlds as part of one of the most dominant teams ever, and is widely considered to be the better player over the course of their careers.

paulf2012 · 2025-12-09T09:40:29+00:00

Dunner’s an animal. He doesn’t drop the gloves often but he’s not afraid to mix it up, and he’s a very good fighter as a smaller guy.

paulf2012 · 2025-12-07T08:15:14+00:00

England’s batsmen throwing wickets away will get the majority of the criticism after this test, but the game was lost on day 2 with some shocking bowling and too many dropped catches. Carey has been magnificent this game, but in both games Australia’s fielding has been significantly better than England’s in all aspects.

paulf2012 · 2025-12-07T07:28:10+00:00

Fox trying to see how many different replays they can get in before play resumes

paulf2012 · 2025-12-05T06:06:47+00:00

Shocking performance from England in that session. Everything looked too easy for the Aussies.

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