MCC baddies.

[Adam Went]

Eoin Morgan seems like a pretty good player, I have to admit. Ireland could have done with him earlier in the tournament....

Cheers,
Adam.

[Monty]

Ground working the same old tired Aussie excuses early Adam? Very wise.

We are use to it....it gets rolled out everytime we beat you. Which is fairly often recently.

Monty

[Phil Carter]

Hello Neil,

90 years ago, they mentioned that Patsy Hendren was Irish too... hahahaha

[Steven Russell]

And Jardine was Scottish... ish.

[Monty]

Well, that was easy.

A compromising victory. Fully deserved. T20 World Cup will sit nice next to that lil urn of ours.

Cue Wentmiester with his list of excuses.

Monty

[Phil Carter]

Well, that was easy.

A compromising victory. Fully deserved. T20 World Cup will sit nice next to that lil urn of ours.

Cue Wentmiester with his list of excuses.

Monty

Thats another double for me to smile about!

Looked pretty convincing to me.

[Adam Went]

What a fantastic win by the Australian women's team in the final! Well done girls.

.....Well the thing is, it doesn't matter what form of the game you're playing, if your team finds itself 3/8, it's going to take a miracle to post a decent score. We actually did reasonably well to make it to 147 after that atrocious start. But, you guys got an innings from Kevin Traitorsen and Craig Bedwetter (the South African and the German, respectively - how many times do you plan on changing wickies by the way? jeez.....Geraint Jones will probably get recalled next....LOL) and so that was that.

I believe we just felt we'd give you a glimmer of hope before inflicting a comprehensive thrashing in the Ashes series, like the last time you were here. Enjoy it while it lasts, gents.

Cheers,
Adam.

[Phil Carter]

Adam,

I am old enough to remember the 1970/71 tour down under...

Have a look at those stats for that touring team.. agreed, it doesn't happen often, but still nice to look back on the occasional bout of glory in an Ashes Series down under.

best wishes

Phil

[Monty]

Gracious in defeat as ever Adam. Once an Aussie whinger. This from a nation who fielded only one aborigini in their entire test playing life span.

Same predictable tired excuses. And the last time we were there we sent our second team.

Looking forward to retaining the Ashes against an average Australian side void of any extreme talent.

Still, comforting to know that your womens team is going great guns, huh? Maybe they should have played us instead of the sorry excuses you put out against us yesterday.

Treat this as good grounding, youre gonna have to get use to it Im afraid.

KPs coming....and he wears the England badge.

Monty

[Steven Russell]

What a fantastic win by the Australian women's team in the final! Well done girls.

.....Well the thing is, it doesn't matter what form of the game you're playing, if your team finds itself 3/8, it's going to take a miracle to post a decent score. We actually did reasonably well to make it to 147 after that atrocious start. But, you guys got an innings from Kevin Traitorsen and Craig Bedwetter (the South African and the German, respectively - how many times do you plan on changing wickies by the way? jeez.....Geraint Jones will probably get recalled next....LOL) and so that was that.

I believe we just felt we'd give you a glimmer of hope before inflicting a comprehensive thrashing in the Ashes series, like the last time you were here. Enjoy it while it lasts, gents.

Cheers,
Adam.

Sour grapes anyone?

Best wishes,

Steve.

[Adam Went]

Phil:

Ah yes, back in the days of Bill Lawry and co....

Monty:

Also, I should add to my list of excuses that The UN had an extra day of preparation for the final than the Aussies did. Hardly fair.

Australian side void of talent? Well, we do have this one bloke called Ponting, not sure if you've heard of him?

By the way, serious question for a moment.....whatever happened to Matthew Hoggard?

Steven:

Sour grapes anyone?

Oh very much so.

Cheers,
Adam.

[Monty]

You mean Ickle Wicky Ponting Adam? The first Aussie to lose the Ashes for nigh on a generation....then lost em again?

I do hope he plays again. Shame he hasnt his stooges to bail him out like he did last time we ventured over.

Hoggie is at my county now, as Skipper.

Monty

[Adam Went]

Monty:

Yes, "Ickle Wicky Ponting", who has about twice the batting average and three times the amount of Test centuries of the very best England batsman.

Don't say too much about the "stooges". Warney might threaten to come out of retirement again, which would be more than enough to make you UN supporters quickly change the colour of your underwear.

I trust you have forwarded your 50 quid to the McGrath Foundation in advance? Might as well get it over and done with....

Cheers,
Adam.

[Monty]

....who has about twice the batting average and three times the amount of Test centuries of the very best England batsman.

At least he will have that as comfort. Nothing else, just that.

Warney lost it by 2005. Even Hoggard was crashing him around. Love to see him back, waddling around outta puff going all pink and dropping dollys.

Ive already spent the £50 on beer mate. Saving it to celebrate....thats how confident I am.

Monty

[Steven Russell]

Adam

Come on, Adam. We beat you hollow - fair and square. A gentleman would admit as much. What a pity there doesn't seem to be a smiley face crying and wearing a broad-brimmed hat with corks dangling off. You had an excellent run but face it: Australia's days of supremacy as the best side in the world are well and truly over.

Sorry to have to break this to you but Ponting, Warne, Gilchrist, and Mc.Grath (fantastic players all) are now history and as such exert about as much influence as Lord Hawke or Arthur Shrewsbury.

And oh yeah... I take it that you consider Dirk Nannes and Kepler Wessels to be proper Australians.

Best wishes,

Steve.