MrDuck

I'd have left out Vince in favour of Willey to be honest. You can still bring in replacements for injury during the tournament, and frankly I'd fancy Curran or Ali to do more with the bat than Vince anyway.

Glad to see Archer makes the squad, he's a joy to watch and a lovely bloke. Sure it's a little cynical, but any other team would have done the same, and our previous 7-year law was well out of step with the ICC.

If England are at their best, they win this World Cup. Nobody else has so many potential match-winners in their squad.

Lovely old map of the Mediterranean here:

3pm kick off on a Monday?

Actually that means midnight here in Australia, which is not too bad.

This England ODI side is just ridiculous. Chasing down 359 with more than 5 overs to spare is insane.

21 minutes ago, Ponky said:

 Never seen the Jed miss a peno before

 

Nobody has

I slept in and missed the game, woke up in time for the penalty shoot out. As soon as Steer saved the first and then I saw Jedinak was taking our second I thought that's it, we're through. Shocking miss by Adomah, but at least he had the balls to take one.

From what I see here we were pretty poor overall, but that was probably all part of master-plan to lull Leeds or Derby into a false sense of security for the final

1821 map ranking nations on how civilised they are: enlightened, civilised, half-civilised, barbarous, savages.

Steer was brilliant. Taylor and Adomah were poor. Tammy looked rusty, and we were pretty rubbish overall until Hourihane came on. Baggies time-wasting from the start was infuriating.

Still, a draw next week sees us through, so I'm happy with that.

Suspect Archer's little cameo in yesterdays aborted ODI has just cemented his spot in the WC and Ashes squads. He's still learning, but he's a real special talent and we'd be mad to leave him out.

Another night showing just how inferior the Premier League sides are compared to the rest of Europe.

On 02/05/2019 at 07:38, Zatman said:

Tonight again just shows how good the Premier League really is. Throw all the money in the world like City and Liverpool did but no real quality

18 hours ago, Stevo985 said:

Kinda makes a mockery of those who say Pep is just a chequebook manager. 

United have spent close to what city have in recent times and they’re dog shit. 

You can’t just throw money at it. You have to actually have a plan and still sign the right players. 

Yep. No plan whatsoever for years now other than spend spend spend and hope for the best. Even in the last year or two of Fergie's reign they were buying badly. I feel a little sorry for OGS, as he's inherited a squad that's simply not that good. They need to invest in youth with a plan for the long term rather than chasing the quick fix year after year.

I play for a futsal team of Liverpool fans, wearing Liverpool shirts. I'm so wearing a black armband when the bin-dippers lose the title

Pff, I could've done that

Just give us Asgardians of the Galaxy dammit

Leeds fans are just losing the plot cos they've watched their team bottle it in the race for automatic promotion and are now realising that there are better teams than them in the mix for the play offs.

10 minutes ago, mikeyp102 said:

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But that’s what didn’t make sense as some of the sons of Thanos had been killed pre snap as well and they were brought back in the battle. Therefore if they are bringing some back, the others should be as well.