 | Forum Reply | West Ham tickets- £32! at 17:38 18 Dec 2025
What's the relationship between tnt sports and discovery plus? The game is on discovery plus, but when you look it up it talks about tnt sports. Id like to get a ticket, but I think that's unlikely. But tnt is doable |
 | Forum Reply | Ashes thread at 11:26 18 Dec 2025
Excellent post and excellent knowledge! I think with most things, there's a balance to be struck. It's ok to look for the attributes that you want, like bowling at a certain pace for example, but in just picking this way they have discarded so many players. They picked Sam cook but he was bowling at 77mph .Hameed as you say should come in, and probably Sibley too. I don't see why leach wasn't in the squad. They've made it a closed shop and fundamentally the likes of Crawley and pope are not good enough and it's all come crashing down now. Definitely time to include some more county players, providing their techniques look the part |
 | Forum Reply | Ashes thread at 09:38 18 Dec 2025
Added to that we will play Bashir come what may, until the ashes, then we won't, but we don't have a reserve spinner. Don't get me wrong, I think will jack's can do a decent job for England in the moeen mould in the future, but it's crazy to just chuck him in in Adelaide as the only spinner. Cue Nathan Lyon with a few wickets second innings |
 | Forum Reply | Ashes thread at 09:04 18 Dec 2025
Sibley has improved since he last played apparently. I'm not sure about bethel either, but he needs to play some cricket early season for Warwickshire. Last summer he was basically on the sidelines watching |
 | Forum Reply | Ashes thread at 07:41 18 Dec 2025
Well that's that then. Will be time for a few players to move on. I would like Stokes to stay, but I'm not sure he will. Could be a very different team in the summer, possibly a good deal worse but who knows. |
 | Forum Reply | Ashes thread at 06:35 5 Dec 2025
A bit of a worrying position, especially as we know England have the potential to be bowled out in about 30 overs. We don't want the Aussies to have much of a lead |
 | Forum Reply | The Thatched House at 19:20 3 Dec 2025
That is part of it yes. The multiplier is less, which is what the government is claiming, and the discount is going as you say. But the revaluations are cranking up, so the upshot of it is that a lot of pubs are facing a 78 percent rise in business rates. Considering they made a big play of reforming business rates to help pubs and shops is massively bogus |
 | Forum Reply | The Thatched House at 14:33 3 Dec 2025
I'm not sure, if it's conspiracy or cock up, nearly always it's cock up every time. I can't believe Rachel reeves stood up at the budget and said proudly we are reducing business rates and said about a new golden age for hospitality, whilst in the knowledge that the business rates were likely to rise massively. Surely she didn't know that was the reality. It's either a whopper of a lie or incredible incompetence, but surely if she knew she wouldn't have said that, as she would have known she'd be found out pretty soon |
 | Forum Reply | The Thatched House at 06:40 3 Dec 2025
The landlord was featured a bit before the budget on a Facebook group called London pubs saying that costs have gone up by £ 22000 this year and if taxes go up he might have to close next year. Then in the event of the budget the business rates debacle has made it a lot more likely that thousands more pubs will close. They were supposed to be helping the high street and pubs, but are adding many thousands to pubs business rates instead |
 | Forum Reply | 20 team divisions at 18:33 2 Dec 2025
I take your point, and I remember bishops Stortford being in that division. But at the moment it's a bit ridiculous for Truro or Torquay to travel to Gateshead or vice versa. Some of the teams like Fleetwood or Newport only have 75 fans for their long trek away games, and regionalisation would make sense to me |
 | Forum Reply | Robin Smith gone at 18:26 2 Dec 2025
Very sad. Great player. And another one who I forget has aged that much( though 62 is no age.) |
 | Forum Reply | Eze bags a hat trick at 19:06 23 Nov 2025
Well I thought we did get a percentage of his transfer to Arsenal. Either way, very pleased to see him doing well and hopefully will be in the England starting eleven in the world cup |
 | Forum Reply | The Ashes - England to win ??? at 12:05 14 Nov 2025
Unfortunately much as as I would love us to win it , I really can't see it. I think starc and Hazelwood will rattle through our batting line up pretty easily. I do like what stokes and mccullum have done with the team in general though. Before they took over it was something like one win in seventeen tests and dull as dishwater cricket. The home series'against India and the previous ashes were absolutely brilliant to watch. But sadly, while they may be old, the Australian side is still damn good. And if we don't play a spinner that isn't going to work. Not too sure why leach isn't in the squad at least. Hopefully I'm wrong and we can pull off a shock win |
 | Forum Reply | Quentin Wilson. R.I.P. at 20:36 8 Nov 2025
Yes, I'd forgotten about him., r.i.p. From the days when top gear was a decent programme on its Thursday night slot. When top of the pops was still on a Thursday, unless my memory is getting muddled |
 | Forum Reply | tonight at 23:52 5 Nov 2025
I thought that was the right call, as kone has been out of form and frey just looks so far off being a championship striker |
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