Normal service is resumed
So after the euphoria of 2005, normal service has been resumed and the Aussies have regained 'their' trophy.I have to say that unlike others on the site I was always skeptical about our chances. Instead with McGrath, Warne and much of the Aussie top-order coming to the end of their careers
I had hoped that by the time of the next series, our young team would be in a position to regain the Ashes on home soil and then go out and retain them in 2010. However, with the likes of Hussey, Stuart Clark (neither of whom are spring chickens but you'd expect to be around for a while) and Michael Clark in the team already, and Mitchell Johnson, Shaun Tait and numerous young Australian batsmen to come in, then I think that the Aussies are looking in good shape for the future.
My hope therefore is that England will start planning now, today, for 2009. If that means radical surgery to the team so be it. Is Flintoff the right captain? Is either Jones or Read the answer as wicketkeeper? Does Stephen Harmison have the desire to play cricket for England? These and other questions need answering now. Some may argue that it's not the time for a knee-jerk reaction, but although we've competed at times during the series, when it has come to the crunch moments we've been seriously lacking in class and fight. Now is the moment to start planning for the future.
A friend sent me this great photo of the aftermath of Adelaide, it kinda sums it all up really.
posted by cov @ 9:20 am
3 Comments:
here's my plan...
Fletcher out, he has favourites and there are few things less professional.
Less matches a season, I don't care if it means less money for whoever the boys are knackered.
A decision on a Wicketkeeper (Read) is made and stuck with unless his head falls off.
A reshuffle in management, to account for some awful desicisions.
and we pool together and send Geoffry Boycott somewhere far far away from radio mikes and TV camera's so he can tell his boring anecdotes to sheep.
Agree with much of that but i have to say i have a soft spot for Boycott. He's a bit like Simon Cowell, annoying but usually right...
oh yeah, no dispute as to whether he's right, it's just that he's painfully dull. everything begins "When I...." yawn
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