McGrath names his England bunnies

[James219]

Yeah, fair enough, but the whole idea of using that whole "if it wasn't for him" theme as an excuse is just way beyond stupidity....it exists in a seperate world it's that ridiculous
Are these individuals too good to be playing for their nations? Should their achievements not count on the scoresheet?
Anyway, McGrath's renowned for this sort of pre-Ashes- or any series for that matter, although the bunny notion is more heavily associated with Warne- anticipation, and you can't really call it arrogance, either; it may seem so at first, but seriously, it's not.

 

[A_Whitey]

I personally can't see McGrath affecting England too much after the first day of a Test, he's nowhere near as potent. As long as England avoid another Lord's Day 1 off him he won't be particulary potent. We'll see, but I think Cook and Strauss will deal with him, I think Tresco could have problems though.

 

[James219]

I do agree with you in that he's not as effective as he once was, as suggested by various signs, and the English top order is fairly strong with regards to composure, but, despite his age, the guy's a genius- he can't be written off just yet, and he'll be dying to regain that enigmatic urn in his final dig.

 

[genghis_khan]

I do agree with you in that he's not as effective as he once was, as suggested by various signs, and the English top order is fairly strong with regards to composure, but, despite his age, the guy's a genius- he can't be written off just yet, and he'll be dying to regain that enigmatic urn in his final dig.

Summed up there nicely as always. The fact that this is going to be the last hurrah for many of the Australians really does tip it in our favour. I know for a fact McGrath took the 2005 series loss pretty hard...

 

[.::Stevo::.]

Hey! Other people are saying 'if it wasn't for Flintoff' so i'm entitled to say 'if it wasn't for Warne'!

If it wasn't for Warney then MacGill would of done alot of damage aswell. I'm still baffled why MacGill didnt play in that series.......

Feel sorry for the bloke though, if he was any other nationality he would be in the starting 11.....

 

[kodos]

Definitely, MacGill should have played a minimum 2 tests in 2005. I suppose Aus wont make the same mistake this time round by using MacGill at Adelaide, Sydney and possibly Melbourne or Perth.

 

[andrew_nixon]

Can I just point out that there is an Ashes debate thread in the Cricket Chat forum.

 

[Darrend1234]

I think he is gonna take Cook Lightly, he needs to remember that Cook scored a double century vs Australia last season, and he should know a few of Strauss' weeknesses as they played at middlesex together.

 

[RoboRocks]

McGrath is a cocky git, I wouldn't be surprised if he gets smacked round Brisbane.

For the people who said the ashes was the wrong result, It wasn't England's pace attack was underestimated and Australia were undone by Hoggard and Flintoff.
Matthew Hayden is an example, he thought he could smack the England bowlers round the park saying in his interviews that they are not in the same league as him and played foolishly and got out until the final innings.

Micheal Vaughan also out captianed Ricky Ponting too.
Making the right bowling changes and the right field settings.

For me the one who stood up for Austraila through out the whole series was Warne because he wood always get wickets and key ones. I know Ponting and McGrath made a infulence.
For me if Warne was replaced with a little lesser spinner then England would of won.

I know I may have some criticism from this post but this is my opinion.

 

[Darrend1234]

i completely agree robo, england owned the aussies in the ashes, the aussies ran scared of freddie, simon jones, harmy and hoggy.

Hayden was to cocky and he paid the price, like i think mcgrath will this winter.

 

[rickyp]

i completely agree robo, england owned the aussies in the ashes, the aussies ran scared of freddie, simon jones, harmy and hoggy.

Hayden was to cocky and he paid the price, like i think mcgrath will this winter.

you won 2 -1... thats not owned, considering that you won by 2 wickets and 2 runs in those 2 games and we smashed you in our one

 

[sohum]

I think when you've got a record like McGrath does, being the only current fast bowler with more than 400 wickets, you can afford to be slightly. And if the England batsmen take him as lightly and arrogantly as some of the fans on the forum, they will pay the price of their wicket. He may be old and he may be out of form, but playing that many years in the game, he definitely has more than a few tricks up his sleeve.

 

[barmyarmy]

I don't think any of the England fans are expecting us to go and crush Aus (unlike the Aus fans who seem to believe the opposite). We just get a bit annoyed that despite winning the Ashes last time we're still getting shown no respect by the Aussie fans or players.

 

[andrew_nixon]

I'm finding two things hilarious in all this.

1. Australian fans are behaving the same way they did before last years Ashes series.
2. England fans are living under the dillusion that we thrashed the Australians last year. It was two close wins, one of which was a match we almost lost after enforcing the follow on. We drew two games we should have won, and got hammered in the other.

We were lucky.

 

[BigCrickNan]

I think when you've got a record like McGrath does, being the only current fast bowler with more than 400 wickets, you can afford to be slightly. And if the England batsmen take him as lightly and arrogantly as some of the fans on the forum, they will pay the price of their wicket. He may be old and he may be out of form, but playing that many years in the game, he definitely has more than a few tricks up his sleeve.

I doubt that would happen. Its just us England fans don't like McGrath , as he probably would of won it for australia last year if he was fully fit.