just read mccallum is new red ball coach, appointed by 'cricket chief' rob key who appointed captain stokes

now, i get that i must be asleep and never see a paper, but fucking hell, ive missed all this happening

If this ends up a 2 dayer do fans get money back?

26 minutes ago, L/H White said:

If this ends up a 2 dayer do fans get money back?

Yes. Having done it myself, I don’t envy whoever at Cricket Australia has to press the big red button 😂 

12 hours ago, L/H White said:

I've stayed up for most sessions. 

Me too 😉

12 hours ago, Sweep said:

They must be well "lulled" by now 🙂

Well the rest of us are 

Why's stokes not taking the ball from the start? 

He's clearly our best bowler 

Vaughan did touch on it and he reckons there's an element of him feeling sorry for the team and he has to be seen to be giving them a chance 

12 hours ago, jmjhb said:

Yet Test Cricket is dying on its arse. Equivalent to boxing to how it far it's fallen.

Sure, it gives English people a chance to get pissed in the sun for a few weeks (and let's face it, that's all it's good for), but viewership is at an all-time low and coverage just getting worse. 

It'll just be 4 teams playing it in a few years.

surely that's down to the away series being on TNT? 

terrible time, terrible pundits, terrible graphics 

hopefully they lose it along with CL football

Got too love the Aussies.😅

Loads of Bolton fans here. 
We were at the traffic crossing yesterday and an Aussie/British family stood next to us. The young lad, about 9, kept staring at my son’s Bolton badges. The father apologised and explained that the lad’s grandfather used to play for us and loved all things BWFC. Who? I asked. Garry Jones he said! Well he couldn’t have met a bigger fan than me and I spent 20 minutes talking to them about his career and how I met him at the Reebok in a box just two weeks before he died. I’m not sure who got more out of the conversation. I suspect it was me. Garry’s son moved here years ago  and the lad was born here.

Again, stokes gets the ball and a wicket 

Lose this, p45s for everyone tomorrow 

Come on England 

Arse on sofa for this 

Cricinfo ‘what an excellent power play for England.’

Sums it up very well 😬😂 I will be stealing that 

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Captivating this.

Crawley gone now.

Could still go either way! 

Never in doubt 

Very entertaining!

First test win in Oz for 15 years!

Winning over there has to start somewhere.

Win again in Sydney then bring on 2029! 

In fact save it for 2033 - Think I might go to that one! 😂

To our Bolton fans over there @BobyBrno and all the Barmy Army enjoy your night! 

WOW....what a day....what an occasion!!

Boby, I couldn't believe you saw me taking the pic so far away 🤣

Roll on Sydney!!!

 

3 hours ago, farnworth white said:

WOW....what a day....what an occasion!!

Boby, I couldn't believe you saw me taking the pic so far away 🤣

Roll on Sydney!!!

 

😊 I was just taking in the moment and I spotted you. 👍

Out celebrating with the middle aged nonces and pissheads.😉 

The Aussies look equally despondent that we have won a match here in their home and it wasn’t a whitewash. Wonderful. 

On to Sydney. 👍

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Yeah, I was the same just taking it all in and I saw the flag and I knew whose it was. That 30 minutes or so after the game had finished was an amazing experience in itself. It was such a relief to get those final runs. Even when Stokes was out and we only needed 10 runs, 4 wickets left but not knowing if Atkinson was fit to bat, it was still nerve wracking. 
 

Your pic is Flinder Street station, we were probably in the Young and Jackson pub on the other corner at that time, we’re in there every day, a great boozer for the cricket banter.

Fly to Sydney Wednesday where we start it all again 

10 hours ago, BobyBrno said:

The Aussies look equally despondent that we have won a match here in their home and it wasn’t a whitewash. Wonderful. 

On to Sydney.

The defeatists will be out putting flags out today.

Let me know if anyone spots any round Little Hulton way.

MCG groundsman today 

 

10 hours ago, bolty58 said:

The defeatists will be out putting flags out today.

Let me know if anyone spots any round Little Hulton way.

Not me. 

Delighted they've won. 

Shame they left it to late tho. 

 

 

 

On 26/12/2025 at 10:22, BobyBrno said:

94,199 here today. Another record attendance for a Test Match 

Test match cricket is dead though apparently 🤦‍♂️

2 hours ago, gonzo said:

Test match cricket is dead though apparently 🤦‍♂️

Struggling elsewhere though sadly.

 

14 hours ago, L/H White said:

Not me. 

Delighted they've won. 

Shame they left it to late tho. 

It is and history will end up showing that a 3-2 series loss was a close thing when England were woeful in the first three.

The Aussies know how to set the series up from a playing surface perspective. They always leave Melbourne and Sydney until last for a reason. They are expecting to be two or three up by the time these venues come around.

My local Aussie mates have been very low key in the circumstances. Normally the gloating would be almost unbearable but they have been very reflective and critical of their own team. "Australia shit but England shitter" is the current mantra.

I suspect that this uncharacteristically reasonable analysis is likely to be connected to having to put up with me for a good few years 

Ready.

C’mon England, let’s make this two on the trot.

https://www.mcgrathfoundation.com.au/

The Pink Test 

Come on England!!

 

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