SMF - Just Installed!
Quote from: pablo on March 02, 2015, 10:21:35 AMSurely it 's time after this world cup to go for relative youth and stick with it come hell or high water. It's barely possible to do worse than we have in the last Ashes and this tournament. That means ditching - for all their past achievements - Bell,Anderson,Broad,Finn, Morgan,Bopara and possibly Cook too. Forget entirely about Pieterson and probably Trott as well. All of them, for different reasons - age, attitude, consistency,confidence- are past their sell by date. Bring in Root as captain and Lyth,Lees,Vince,Moeen,Buttler,Rashid, Ballence ( for tests), Taylor,Jordan,Topley,Overton,Wood,Roy. There are risks in exposing the young too soon but it would certainly show who is resilient enough to cope with international sport at the top.i'd go with that, players will either sink or swim but as you say it can't be any worse than what is happening at the moment.Certainly not the worst post I've seen on here, Worth a try, can't be worse than what we have now!!
Surely it 's time after this world cup to go for relative youth and stick with it come hell or high water. It's barely possible to do worse than we have in the last Ashes and this tournament. That means ditching - for all their past achievements - Bell,Anderson,Broad,Finn, Morgan,Bopara and possibly Cook too. Forget entirely about Pieterson and probably Trott as well. All of them, for different reasons - age, attitude, consistency,confidence- are past their sell by date. Bring in Root as captain and Lyth,Lees,Vince,Moeen,Buttler,Rashid, Ballence ( for tests), Taylor,Jordan,Topley,Overton,Wood,Roy. There are risks in exposing the young too soon but it would certainly show who is resilient enough to cope with international sport at the top.
After watching todays shambles I am sure they don't have a clue what their best team is and after listening to Moores he sounded like a dead man walking.We dont know what goes on in the dressing room but clearly something is not right.Roll on the Ashes!
Reminds me of 1999
...Reminds me of 1999 ...
Quote from: Andy on March 09, 2015, 01:32:42 PM...Reminds me of 1999 ...Tonight we're gonna party like we've just been knocked out of the World Cup...
Quote from: firehazard on March 09, 2015, 02:31:41 PMQuote from: Andy on March 09, 2015, 01:32:42 PM...Reminds me of 1999 ...Tonight we're gonna party like we've just been knocked out of the World Cup...I notice that one of Prince/Glyph's early singles included "Soft and Wet". Oh the irony/humanity.
Presumably one or two of the current squad will retire from white ball cricket - Anderson springs to mind. Given the build up, the clearance of the fixture list it strikes me the coach and captain are culpable. I read that Downton has already confirmed that Moores is to stay in post. Maybe fair enough for test matches but not for ODIs where big changes are needed.My 13 year old son's theory is that Downton decides Flower has to be replaced by Moores, which means Pietersen has to go. In his view we've sacrificed a maverick world class bat to accommodate a mediocre coach.....
