O/T....Muddied Oafs and Flannelled Fools

[Bob_Huntley]

England.......Nowhere in the World Cup and now complete humiliation at Adelaide. How can a country of close to fifty million people come up with such losers?

Bob

[Ed Tilley]

Kick a man when he's down why don't you.

This time last year we were rugby world champs, Ashes holders, Liverpool were European champions and we had high hopes for the 2006 world cup.

Time flies!

P.S. Technically, we are still rugby world champs and Ashes holders. The chances of that being the case in 12 months are about as high as my receiving invites to play at Cypress Point, Pine Valley, and Augusta in the next year.

[Ed Tilley]

Kick a man when he's down why don't you.

This time last year we were rugby world champs, Ashes holders, Liverpool were European champions and we had high hopes for the 2006 world cup.

Time flies!

P.S. Technically, we are still rugby world champs and Ashes holders. The chances of that being the case in 12 months are about as high as my receiving invites to play at Cypress Point, Pine Valley, and Augusta in the next year.

Ed, would this qualify as whinging?

Sorry, couldn't resist!

Mark

Mark,

On a scale of 1 to 10 of whinging this is about a minus 100 compared to the whinging I've been doing around the office today. Don't even get me started.

Ed

P.S. In times like this I tend to fall back on the fact that my Mother is Welsh.

Cymru am Byth!

[JohnV]

Ed,

So you're scoring it, are you? Any chance whinging makes it in as a demonstration sport 2012?

Mark

Ah, finally a chance for gold!

At least we hold the Ryder Cup along with the rest of the Euros.

[JohnV]

But the Aussies can't get the President's Cup along with the REST OF THE WORLD!

[Philip Gawith]

Bob as you well know, England has had many dismal moments in its modern cricketing history, but today truly has to rank as one of the most abject.

 They had gone as far as you could possibly imagine towards erasing/reversing their pathetic performance in Brisbane, and then this. It really is difficult to know where to start.

 Even the Aussies can barely rejoice since in about two hours of play, they have managed to take all competitive tension out of the series. From genuinely thinking the series might be competitive, we are now faced with a barrage of Aussie boasting and thinking about whether 5-0 can be resisted.

My sympathies to Ed who is clearly taking this more personally than a South African expat! But it was enough to get my day off to a bad start.