the last 5 or 6 balls were easy… it was chasing 70 odd with 6s and 4s that created the drams… spellbinding stuff.
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I was pointing stone wall with lime mortar, which thankfully takes ages to go off, so was watching iPad at same time… did not get as much done as intended…
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I think you’ll find that was simply the bad luck of the working class heroes.
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And they’ll get plenty unlike our lot for that, they fucked up and they will get rolled out for it.
Mentally weak, or just lost a match they should have won?
Just lost a match they should have won, could have been tougher, the Aussies have pedigree in winning so don’t throw that one in there for them, they fucked up and they know it.
So if we won a match that we should have lost, does that make us mentally strong?
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Bloody brilliant, amazing win and Baz humbled. All is good
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It makes Ben Stokes and a few others yes but not the team, why should it? They in the main fucked up.
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Why humbled? One man bailed us out the shit so let us not think this is anything other than papering over the cracks, it may carry us through but Smith wasn’t playing and he will be in the next, lets talk then.
You just don’t understand sport bazza and what it takes. Your false dichotomies and absolutism betray your ignorance.
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Anderson wasn’t playing either.
And what about Labuschagne, one could argue without his batting that Australia wouldn’t have had the score they had. Or maybe Warner’s catching…it’s a team sport Bazza
Bingo!!
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So they lose having bowled us out for 67, drop catches under pressure fluff the stumping of our number 11 but remain mentally strong.
We, as a team, win probably the greatest Ashes test match of all time that just about every observer had written us off, but yet remain mentally weak - apart from one or two stars
Dr Baz, are you sure you’re on top of this mental strength diagnosis business?
Do you not think you’re maybe watching a game of chance and your anger at losing makes you say angry things that protect you from feeling as helpless as the rest of us proper fans?
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We nearly fucked it up, Stokes and a few others bailed us out.
Burns averaged 8
Roy 8.5
Denly 31
Bairstow 20
Buttler 3
So you’re comparing Anderson to Smith now?
Please.
What about our batting averages then? Team sport? Or being carried?
You, quite obviously, have no idea baz.