The Ashes 2017/2018

[Gary]

Day four at The Gabba and another collapse by England tail Australia set 170 to win the first test with a day and a session to go

[burleysway]

Yep, now looking like a 10 wicket defeat. I had a feeling the first test was going end this way.

We’re missing a certain someone?

Has anyone been watching on BT Sport, what’s the coverage been like?

[ChrisCwmbran]

We’re missing a certain someone?

Do you mean the yobbish thug who fights people in the street? If so lets hope we've seen the last of him for good!

[gamecock]

Has anyone been watching on BT Sport, what’s the coverage been like?

No, I haven't got BT Sport, and the loss from Sky of the Ashes, Big Bash, Champions League and USPGA golf (which the BBC covered badly) is why I'm binning Sky when I move house. The lack of any free-to-air highlights along with the England team's performance are just contributing further to the death of one of my favourite sports. By that I mean Test cricket not the 20/20 format.

[martmpf]

BT have done well in my opinion, watched quite a bit.

[gamecock]

They've got to be better than Channel 9 anyway!

[burleysway]

We’re missing a certain someone?

Do you mean the yobbish thug who fights people in the street? If so lets hope we've seen the last of him for good!

I don’t hope that. He’s one of the worlds best cricketers....

[burleysway]

BT have done well in my opinion, watched quite a bit.

Sky have still got the ODIs haven’t they?

[ChrisCwmbran]

We’re missing a certain someone?

Do you mean the yobbish thug who fights people in the street? If so lets hope we've seen the last of him for good!

I don’t hope that. He’s one of the worlds best cricketers....

People playing for national teams in any sport, along with celebrities in general are now, for all the wrong reasons in my opinion, the role models for the youth of today.

Accordingly society should require their behaviour to be whiter than white. Being a violent thug is not acceptable in any way and I think should be more than enough to end a career.

[martmpf]

Agreed, why should the ECB pay this sort of money to an idiot who has been warned before:

http://www.totalsportek.com/cricket/eng ... -salaries/

Somebody who picked up £1.7 million from the IPL this year.
It's just not cricket
Many pro footballers have been cast aside for similar reasons.

[reheat module]

I believe they should all have to pay their own air fare home, then be paraded around Lords in public, in disgrace.
Yet another team of English, over-ambitious under-achievers.
RM Opines.

[Jaymer15]

We’re missing a certain someone?

Do you mean the yobbish thug who fights people in the street? If so lets hope we've seen the last of him for good!

There could more to this than it first appears. Local news reported he stopped two others from getting a good kicking. I think had Stokes been playing we would still have been in the game with a chance

Has anyone been watching on BT Sport, what’s the coverage been like?

It's not been to bad Vaughan Ponting Swann Boycott are just a few who have been providing commentary.

[ChrisCwmbran]

We’re missing a certain someone?

Do you mean the yobbish thug who fights people in the street? If so lets hope we've seen the last of him for good!

There could more to this than it first appears. Local news reported he stopped two others from getting a good kicking. I think had Stokes been playing we would still have been in the game with a chance

Or he might have lost his temper and thumped another player or a fan.....

[burleysway]

Embarrassing defeat but expected. Next stop Adelaide, the city of churches. Being a day/night test that should favour our bowlers.

[burleysway]

Re Stokes

His England career may be in limbo, but according to the national press this morning that wont stop him playing in the Indian Premier League next year and pocketing a £2million pay cheque. Nice work if you can get it.

[jem60]

I'd rather be thought of as a decent law abiding bloke than a millionaire.

[ChrisCwmbran]

I gather the whole team are imposing a midnight curfew on themselves to avoid bad behaviour due to alcohol consumption.

The fact they feel the need to do that suggests they are all just weak minded yobs to me.

[burleysway]

I gather the whole team are imposing a midnight curfew on themselves to avoid bad behaviour due to alcohol consumption.

The fact they feel the need to do that suggests they are all just weak minded yobs to me.

Are you a genuine cricket fan?

With a comment like that, it suggests to me your not.

[Nighthawke]

OK so please provide a constructive, well presented justification for alleged world-class sportsmen needing to be drinking alcohol well after midnight and then having to play world class sport.

Then the logical-thinking ones who are condemning those representing their country might be able to reconsider their views.

[burleysway]

I gather the whole team are imposing a midnight curfew on themselves to avoid bad behaviour due to alcohol consumption.

The fact they feel the need to do that suggests they are all just weak minded yobs to me.

To suggest the whole England cricket team are yobs is ridiculous you imbecile. Moeen Ali doesn't even drink.