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Reply | John Robertson RIP
at 23:08 25 Dec 2025
Brian Clough: "We've got a little fat guy that will turn him inside out"
Gary Newbon: John Robertson
BC: Yes, a very talented, highly skilled, unbelievable outside left. He'll turn him inside out!"
RIP Robbo |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 08:56 24 Dec 2025
Not that it matters a great deal but Archer out for the rest of the series with a side strain...
I suppose we've done well to get three straight tests out of him.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cr [Post edited 24 Dec 8:57]
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Reply | Fox hunt match thread
at 16:26 20 Dec 2025
Mark Kennedy....sigh...
One of the few games where Sheron looked worth his transfer fee. |
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Reply | Fox hunt match thread
at 16:23 20 Dec 2025
I make it that it's the 5-0 vs Middlesbrough in 1998. |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 10:12 20 Dec 2025
I've just read that Pope averages 17.62 in 16 Ashes innings. The only person to have played as many innings with a lower average is Dennis Amiss. |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 12:44 19 Dec 2025
Yes Leach is no massive spinner of the ball and is never going to regularly spin teams out but I'm fairly sure he would have been able to tie an end down (unlike Jacks), put some pressure on their batsmen with a few maidens and try and let Stokes rest and rotate the pace bowlers properly like Cummins has been able to do with Lyon.
His economy rate in tests is a fag paper over 3 (3.08) and he has five five fors in 39 tests. As a comparison his strike rate in tests is not that much worse than Lyon's (61.4 Lyon, 66.2 Leach)
Would he really not have been the worst option at least to have in the squad? [Post edited 19 Dec 14:35]
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 00:05 19 Dec 2025
They also normally use UltraEdge and not Snicko which is the Lidl/Aldi offering compared to the former which is made by Hawkeye. Not sure whether it was the ICC or the host broadcaster who decided. |
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 11:42 18 Dec 2025
Not necessarily. Dieng had five loan moves before he established himself as first choice. |
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Reply | Players with great starts who then wobbled
at 14:19 17 Dec 2025
Jeremy Charles. Scored a brace on his full debut at home to Everton and five in his first seven appearances including another brace in a 6-0 shellacking of Stoke, who graciously that season took our lowest first division points record from us.
Then nada, zilch, nothing. Seemed to completely vanish once TV left and didn't play in the 84-85 season at all (injured?) before we sold him at the end of that season to Oxford. |
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Reply | Most despised Rs players
at 09:46 17 Dec 2025
Him being there at that time and available also meant that Houston pissed about for two months taking it in turns with him and Lee Charles up front with Dichateley because 'he wanted to see what he had', instead of going out and buying John Spencer in September as soon as we knew Gallen was out for the season.
That couple of months I'm convinced cost us if not automatic promotion (Barnsley made it with just 80 points) then certainly at very least play offs given Spencer scored 17 in the league from mid November on. [Post edited 17 Dec 10:37]
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 00:01 17 Dec 2025
Carse is bowling absolutely shite already. Three of the worst opening overs you'll ever see.
They must be absolutely thick as whale omelettes. Saw the ball fly to all parts after bowling short and wide in Brisbane so think "yeah, that'll be the thing to do again"...This is going to be a long day.... [Post edited 17 Dec 0:10]
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