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Reply | Rail seating potentially expanding
at 06:12 5 Dec 2025
Making Y standing doesn't make much to me. I'd want to concentrate all the standing blocks in the same corner, rather than dot bits around. For my money, I'd expand standing through the whole of R Block |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 06:06 5 Dec 2025
Feels like a 400 odd pitch doesn't it? Such a lack of situational awareness, as per - stop us leaking boundaries, keep things tight, and put yourself in a good position to get stuck into them in the trickier second session. |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 07:06 4 Dec 2025
Fvcksake. That one's on me. |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 06:58 4 Dec 2025
Really good rebuild from Crawley and Root. Creepy really needed these after his pair, looking dominant. Approaching twilight soon though - Neser and Doggett bowling now, feels like they're saving Starc for the poor lighting. |
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Reply | Poku - Missing on Saturday?
at 09:50 25 Nov 2025
Dembele needs to do it consistently. I think he had better games just after he signed, stringing some fantastic performances together before getting injured and dropping off a cliff. Needs to maintain that level from last week. My concern on him stepping up a level is his lack of pace and physicality. Think he could get lost in the Prem. |
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Reply | The New Pub
at 17:09 24 Nov 2025
It's been going downhill since it's refurb in about 2014 when it got bought by Youngs. Before that it had an excellent range of really interesting beers that you'd rarely see on tap elsewhere - now it's often the same old Youngs line-up (although I haven't been in a long while). Lost it's character IMO. |
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Reply | The New Pub
at 11:35 24 Nov 2025
Sounds like a nice little tour. The Bush Tavern (to give it it's full name) is meant to do really good burgers. There was a weird little spot on Old Oak Road near the A40 called No Drama that was excellent - they've started at The Bush Tavern now, so want to get down and try the food. |
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Reply | When did the penny drop?
at 11:24 24 Nov 2025
It wasn't until my mid-twenties that I realised a 'pickle' was a pickled cucumber, and not another distinct type of vegetable. |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 11:52 22 Nov 2025
205 seemed like a competitive total, but I think that wicket really flattened out, as a lot of people predicted it would. Didn't seem to be much in it for the bowlers as it went on. Had we (Pope, Brook, Root in particular) batted for time and not got out to cheap wafty drives outside off-stump, we could have put up a proper total. I quite like Bazball, but there's a time and a place to just bed in for a bit - that they still can't see that is bonkers. |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 17:26 21 Nov 2025
What really got my goat was the tailenders getting out to some really cheap shots, instead of playing around Jamie Smith. He was in good touch, scoring at a decent rate. Carse in particular was an awful dismissal. |
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 10:41 21 Nov 2025
I tried matching it up with TMS at one point, but TMS was so far ahead it just wouldn't work.
On this bowling attack, they seem to have got it right with an attack made up of 5 seamers - it has allowed us to really maintain that pressure by having bowlers bowl short sharp high-speed spells, not giving the batters a break. [Post edited 21 Nov 10:42]
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Reply | Ashes thread
at 15:58 20 Nov 2025
Also quite tragic how he's pre-prepared his answers as well, looking at clips of Mastermind, and got a friendly journo to tee him up. Does he not have anything better to do? |
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Reply | England v Serbia last night £25 Adult, £12.50 Kids tickets
at 13:08 14 Nov 2025
Glad you and your boy had a good time of it. Lovely to see Eze score a blinder.
If you ever fancy chancing it, you can usually pick up cheap tickets in The Green Man. So many ESTC members buy tickets just for the caps with no interest in going, so you've got people basically giving them away beforehand. |
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 11:20 14 Nov 2025
Ye, pretty poor. I do love Archer, always tacking on a few quick runs at the end of an innings. Disappointed that Carse and Atkinson didn't do better - they're not bad with the bat, need them to stick on a few more and strengthen the tail |
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Reply | EV’s to lose congestion charge exemption
at 11:17 14 Nov 2025
I agree the point regarding Minis - cars across the board are getting larger. A 2025 Range Rover is 30% bigger than it's 1970s equivalent. The point though is to counter the increase in SUVs, now the most popular type of car in the UK, so no, the policy wouldn't also target Minis.
Is that the case that they don't take up more space than a saloon? What is inarguable though is the increased risk they pose to cyclists and pedestrians, even more so to children where the high blunt bonnet collides with their head and torso, |
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Reply | EV’s to lose congestion charge exemption
at 09:55 14 Nov 2025
EVs aside, I really do think we should be taxing SUVs more in London. Paris have imposed an inflated parking fee of 3x the normal amount for SUVs driven by non-residents. They're luxury items that take up more space on the road, more space to park, and are significantly more dangerous than traditional cars.
On ULEZ, despite all the noise it's been an unmitigated success. Unpopular with those outside of London and on the fringes, but the impact it's had on air quality in the city has been transformational. |
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Reply | Cricket 2025 County/International Thread
at 09:47 14 Nov 2025
So the scoreboard is nonsense apparently and Pope made a full century. It had Mark Wood at 31 of 24, when he's jogging round the perimeter awaiting this scan. I've seen a clip of Brook's dismissal for 2 and it's as ridiculous as you'd imagine - great talent but a truly unserious cricketer. |
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Reply | Worst places you have visited for an AWAY day fixture !!
at 15:20 30 Oct 2025
Vote here for Wigan and the DW. It was 10 odd years ago in the play-off season, but remember it being an absolute dive. No decent pubs and a solid 30 minute walk to the station - not helped by watching 180 minutes of football there that season and not seeing a single goal.
Stoke I don't mind, because there is one absolute corker of a pub I'm very fond of. |
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