The 'Couldn't think where to put this' thread part 2 or 'does my comment merit a NEW THREAD?'

baracks_a_hammer

Not really

Picking gaps , singles and twos and running well between the wickets is a skill in itself.

IronHerb

I’d rather watch Buttler over Williamson though they are both top players.

Kuchinghammer

I think Buttler did both. Singles when England was becalmed, fours when needed - especially the last! He was mom for me: Stokes struck me as a slogger who had a fair amount of luck. First time I've seen either of them play, mind.

baracks_a_hammer

IronHerb said:

I’d rather watch Buttler over Williamson though they are both top players.

But others would disagree. I would watch Root or say a Laxman over Buttler (if I had to choose), even though the latter is an incredible talent

The ICC ranking a boundary and three dot balls over fours singles is bizarre in my view.

thornburyiron

Lukerz youre forgetting that if the umpire had said it was 5 not six he would have sent Stokes to the non strikers end and Rashid would have been on strike for the last two balls.
Let’s just accept we benefitted from an umpire mistake cancelling out the same umpire mistake when he gave Roy out against Australia.

IronHerb

Where in the rule did it state that? In the case of a short run the batsmen do not change ends.

baracks_a_hammer

I’m sure I read somewhere that even if 5 were awarded Stokes would still have been on strike for the next ball, so I think IH is right

thornburyiron

I read somewhere this afternoon but can’t now find it that in these circumstances it’s not treated as a short run but a single plus 4 overthrows. The writer, who used to be an umpire said the batsman should change ends because technically they only ran a single but agreed it happens so rarely the umpire wasn’t checking whether they crossed or not when the ball was picked up. He intimated that it’s the same as when the batsmen run but the hitter was caught out and if they hadn’t crossed then the new batsman takes strike even if the non striker has reached more than halfway. This is something the umpires do check.
Anyway who cares, we won and it’s too late to do anything about it now.

IronHerb

Oh, and Sir Geoffs second goal In the World Cup Final definitely crossed the line :biggrin:

ASLEFshrugged

Taufel is an Aussie so he'd be unhappy with England winning anything.

alderz

Nolan talking about Ravel:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49013846

Nobby said:

We played a game at Oxford in pre-season and me an Nobes were on the back of the bus with him saying how wonderful it was.

"He gets off the bus after we've bigged him up and we've said 'we'll see you tomorrow in training' - and we don't see him for a week.

"No-one can get in touch with him. You're trying to ring him and we are all trying to ring him.

baracks_a_hammer

So we all thought that the whole Arnie chapter is well and truly behind us now right?

Well not quite

I think I’ve just stumbled across something from Ex where he says we only signed Haksabanovic because we promised an agent we would do so if he managed to get Arnie to sign for us in 2017.

And when Sead pitched up for training, Slav had no idea who he was!

And Sead is on our payroll until 2022 I think.

MrsGrey

Sounds a bit unlikely, isn't Arnie's agent his brother?

Even if it's true, Haksabanvic was signed for the Academy (was 17? 18? I think). I don't think it's normal practice for the 1st team manager to have oversight of Academy signings?

He signed a 5yr contract as a 17/18 yr old. Can't imagine he's on much of a wage. Was reported in the press as being a signing 'for the future' and was listed in the Development Squad part of the website, not the 1st team.

Doesn't seem like much of a story, does it?

ASLEFshrugged

Sturridge banned for six weeks and fined £75k after being found guilty of breaching FA betting rules.

I think we now know who kidnapped his dog...

Ace of Clubs

Bazshuayi

Am I bovvered

Ace of Clubs

I was searching Amazon for a cooling fan and came across this Question ask by someone.

Does the fan need electricity to run or does it use perpetual motion?
These are some of the answers.

I've had a degree of success powering the device by positive thought

No, it does not run on perpetual motion (that's silly). Star Agent Zig Tharg flies in from the Oogle Constellation the first of every month, sticks his cosmic wand into the back of it and recharges it.

I use several hamsters on a wheel, by attaching a belt to the motor to power this.

I don't want to be a know it all here but I'm fairly certain that you can power this with about 20 - 30 cats
tie them in a neat bundle behind the fan and tickle their chins as quickly as you can.
the collective purring should cause the fan to wiggle a bit.
adjust accordingly.
Ask a silly question.

Moojor

veet for men still has the best reviews on Amazon.

Ace of Clubs

Moojor, I agree, but you could not put it on here.

Expat_Hammer

I think that City deserved to lose after wearing that kit

MrsGrey

MrsGrey

Expat_Hammer said:

I think that City deserved to lose after wearing that kit

It was like an anti-master class in penalties.

Hamstew

MrsGrey

Good question!!
Let's have a separate thread so that it doesn't get lost :biggrin:

baracks_a_hammer

I have seen the following two headlines on the BBC sport website today

1. “Paul Pogba brings everybody at Man Utd together”
2. “Is Bale the most successful ‘failure’ ever?”

:doh:

You have to question what types of numpty are being paid by the licence payer to write such tripe

grey_til_I_dye

The first one is a quotation from Mata.

OutcastLondoner

All the people going on today about how Bale's stats show he was better for Madrid than Zidane :doh:

Yeah, let's ignore that his goals came as a forward while Zidane's were as a midfielder...or that his CL wins came with Zidane as manager.

Ace of Clubs

MrsGrey

They asked Trump to do it, but he turned it down.

grey_til_I_dye

I actually know a lot about painting. A lot. I'm a really great painter. Really great. Lots of people have told me that.