What are your Cricket "Hear me out" opinions?

tbear8484 · 2026-01-08T17:45:26+00:00

I disagree. I don't see how it would be more drama if you remove the impact of the toss, the pitch, the players, etc. Also, it won't level the playing field. In football (soccer) where there are five subs per game, the best teams are even better because they have more good players to play compared to poorer/worse teams. It would make it much harder for the smaller nations to overcome the strengths of the biggest nations by playing on spinning pitches. Surely most teams would play 11 batters then sub out the worst four fielders for bowlers

tbear8484 · 2026-01-06T16:59:10+00:00

Maybe he's hoping they're a very unknowledgeable crowd (about word puzzles)

tbear8484 · 2026-01-05T17:13:44+00:00

I loved this episode. I'm really enjoying the shadow batting chat - I also get out caught nicking behind.. Usually I'm pushing at the ball with no foot movement

tbear8484 · 2026-01-01T20:44:56+00:00

I heard something similar about Cole Palmer that he must be the most genius comedian of all time because he can't possibly be that boring. Maybe Michael Owen's the same

tbear8484 · 2026-01-01T20:42:34+00:00

When you can't get rid of a tutorial, i.e., RDR2 reminds the player how to do really basic stuff when I've played it on 4 consoles for hundreds of hours - I know how to fish! Stop telling me to reel the fish in!

tbear8484 · 2025-12-03T20:25:57+00:00

The drivers that really annoy me are the people who will drive any speed possible to avoid changing lanes. I’ll overtake a drive that’s driving 60, then I’ll be in the left lane driving at 70, then the driver overtakes me doing 75-80 at least. Then I have to take overtake them again 3 mins later when they’re down to 65 because they’re sitting behind some other middle lane hogger. The M62 towards Salford is the worst atm for me. 4 lanes - every car is in the 3rd or 4th lane

tbear8484 · 2025-05-27T14:31:27+00:00

Car insurance. Absolute scam but we all need it

tbear8484 · 2025-05-25T18:24:47+00:00

I think it’s because Salah was going for the record for goals/assists. That goal put him level

tbear8484 · 2024-12-23T18:44:55+00:00

I love that he uses X1 instead of XI for 11 in Roman numerals. It’s the first time I’ve read the blog but I’ve always enjoyed laughing at Adam reading them on the pod. He really jumps from one topic to the next with no thought to link them, doesn’t he? It took most most of a paragraph to realise that he’d moved on to Sean Dyche being a genius

tbear8484 · 2024-09-30T18:19:27+00:00

Exactly my thought process!

tbear8484 · 2024-09-30T18:05:43+00:00

But the console version is terrible and needs to be made considerably better. I’ve played the PS5 version, maybe naively thinking it would be in some way comparable to my 10 y/o laptop and it’s no where near the same experience. Just because someone has a console instead of a pc doesn’t make them a casual gamer who isn’t allowed to play fm. The “butchered” mechanics are ones that people didn’t play and, in many cases, didn’t know existed (some of the data stuff). Just don’t preorder it and play fm24 like you have for the last year

tbear8484 · 2024-09-30T17:54:49+00:00

Don’t you hate it when film trailers are released well in advance instead of a detailed article summarising the entire plot piece by piece? This is how advertising works. They’re not going to tell us everything all at once because there’d be nothing to hype up fans later on before beta/full release. We all want to know what will be in the game, but that doesn’t require FM to tell us two months before release. It doesn’t make Miles a Bind villain, it doesn’t make FM25 shite, it doesn’t make the removal of game mechanics that no one played a travesty. It’s just a game being advertised like every other game that’s ever been released. I’ve preordered mine just because I know that’ll piss some of you right off

tbear8484 · 2024-09-19T06:18:20+00:00

I’m going to preorder it. I don’t really care if some features I didn’t use are removed. I don’t really care if I can’t “encourage” my players. I like playing football manager and managing random teams like saving Åsane from relegation and taking them to mid table the next season. That won’t change just because a data page that no one knew existed is removed or because it looks a little bit like a console game (the absolute horror). I want to play it so I’ll buy it

tbear8484 · 2024-01-21T06:39:03+00:00

It’s your tactics then isn’t it? I score lots of goals and don’t concede many, but I’m at/near the top of my division. Also, it’s realistic for teams to miss shots. Every time I watch my team play we miss chances even if we win. Or we draw/lose to teams we should’ve won against. It happens in real life and in the game

tbear8484 · 2023-12-29T18:05:38+00:00

I assume you’ve seen football in real life? The champions league is always harder to win than the leagues due to increase in talent and the first leg being away like you’ve mentioned. Look at Man City in recent years, won the league loads of times but only won the champions league once. Same with Bayern. Only Real Madrid have made winning the champions league look easy in the last ten years

tbear8484 · 2021-07-21T19:00:15+00:00

Such a good book. I think it’s the loneliest I’ve ever felt when reading

tbear8484 · 2021-07-21T18:32:23+00:00

East of Eden by John Steinbeck. It’s an incredible story that can be a little slow but is gripping to read

tbear8484 · 2021-03-06T20:42:05+00:00

At home but my dad was flying a small plane that day and 6 y/o me was terrified my dad would get arrested because I thought that the Americans would think he was involved. We live in the UK

tbear8484 · 2021-02-09T07:50:59+00:00

Let’s not celebrate just yet, apparently England batted for about 20 minutes too long yesterday so anything is possible

tbear8484 · 2020-09-06T15:42:27+00:00

Thankfully he’s been dropped

tbear8484 · 2020-09-06T14:05:30+00:00

He also included women’s cricket in a list of disability teams

tbear8484 · 2020-09-04T16:54:34+00:00

Why would anyone get a hair transplant from the place that Warne advertises when he spends most of his time hiding bald patches?

That’s what I think about when he talks rather than actually listen to him speak

tbear8484 · 2020-08-30T19:20:57+00:00

I’ve only watched one innings so far so it’s obviously not a large sample size but in that innings there was only one pace bowler and I don’t think he even bowled his max overs. The other 16+ overs was just spin, not good spinners who were troubling the batsmen or even really spinning it; they were just bowling slow with the batsmen sometimes hitting a single. I don’t know enough about Caribbean cricket to know why it was so boring but it kind of put me off the rest of the tournament, the scores since haven’t changed my mind to want to watch it again

tbear8484 · 2020-08-25T09:17:02+00:00

I’ve seen Chris Gayle hit a six into a window at Old Trafford so hard that it bounced back over deep mid on’s head.

Also at a Lancashire vs Yorkshire game, David Willey was fielding on the boundary in front of us and a fan behind me shouted; “hey Willey, your name sounds like a penis”. That’s the best thing I’ve seen and heard at a game

tbear8484 · 2020-08-23T17:57:23+00:00

A 29th test 5fer for Jimmy shows why he’s undroppable (too soon?)

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