the aussies to thrash poms 5-0 to retain ashes!! do you agree?

Answer 1

3-1 to aussies...........just coz england side lacks quality batsmen!!! u cant expect bell and collingwood 2 score runs every time as they fortunately did in the current series against pakistan....even cook mite perform under par...only pertiersen strauss and trescothick r reliable....while hoggard seems to hav lost his rhythm...sajid mehmood is pathetic 2 say the leeast..monty has had his share of luck...ponting n party r gonna smash him.......only harmisson and simon jones if fit can cause problems.....australia 3-1

Answer 2

Unlikely given the decline of australian cricket in the last few years. All the greats are close to retirement, or have retired already, and the younger players aren't showing much promise either. Aussies will be struggling to retain the ashes. The poms will be humgrier for victory, plus they already bought most of the tickets to the matches, so there'll plenty of supporters to back them up. Australia will have a very tough summer.

Answer 3

i'm rather finding forward to this Ashes series and rather have not thoroughly written the Aussies off. in spite of the undeniable fact that England could pass into the series as overwhelming favourites via cutting-edge style and the actuality that the series is being performed in England. I reckon Chris Rogers may be slightly a gloomy horse as he's often used with the circumstances over right here exceedingly plenty. sturdy to work out some friendly banter flying around between the two instruments of supporters too!

Answer 4

Well well, another racist Australian, who would of thought it. If it's not Darren Lehmann being racist to the Sri Lankans, or Dean Jones calling a South African a terrorist, then it's seemingly all Australian's using racist terms to describe the English.
We are English so therefore say 'the aussies to thrash the English'. Or maybe you refer to black men as n*****s, or Pakistani/ Asian people as Paki's. All of the terms are racist and the sooner you realise this you stupid racist the better.

5-0 no way, because of the injuries to the England squad it is unlikely that we will retain the Ashes, especially with the Aussies very hungry to regain them. But England will still put up a good fight, and I think it will end up 3-1 to the Aussies. England at full strength with Michael Vaughan, and Simon Jones back from injury, and a fully fit Freddie Flintoff would give your guys a much closer test series.

Don't you just love it when a racist defends his/her words/actions e.g. rac_fleming.
How naive are you- very it sounds like. It doesn't matter how a word or term came into meaning it is the racialist stereotype behind the word that makes it racist. Paki is a shortened term for a Pakistani and should be acceptable, but it is used in a way to put Asian people down, that by saying it in English society you’ll be rightly named a racist.
If you seriously expect me to believe that Australian’s say the word pom in an endearing way towards the English then you clearly need some help. Again, people from England are English so have the common decency and say ‘English’. You don’t here me or any other English people (unless they are racist) calling Aussies names, you are Australian’s and therefore Aussies.
You say that England is more racist than Australia, yet you are getting you’re views from having lived in London (this is hardly representative of all England). OK, I shouldn’t have said all Aussies are racist, this was wrong of me. But whether you accept it or not the word pom has racialist connotations.

Answer 5

Last time Glenn Mcgrath said that England won 2-0, I reckon it could go either way but neither side will win by such a big margin when they are the 1st and 2nd test nations in the world and England won last time.

My guess is 2-1 again, but as to which way around it could be either.

Answer 6

Oh my God! I can't believe the unbelieveable rants some people have come up with!
First of all to "coca_cola_kid_2006", "hartshorntracy" and "Richard R" if you don't like cricket, don't respond to cricket questions! Posting inane comments like "I care why?" is really annoying! Go and bug people in popular culture or something, and leave the real cricket fans to answer in here! You all get thumbs down.
As for "bugaboo", judging an upcoming series on an ugly incident 14 years ago is a bit weird! And no, none of the current players have 80's style facial hair....
"Wotan210" although the Australian team is certainly not the unstoppable machine they were around 1999 and 2000, they still have some of the finest players in the world, Ponting, Hayden, Gilchrist, Warne, McGrath, Lee etc, and in fact some of the emerging players are quite good, ie Cullen and Hussey, so to suggest they are in decline is a bit premature! They are still world champions in test match and ODI cricket.
Australian's are ultra-competitive, and so of course disappointed at losing last time, this competetiveness is one of the reasons we have been world champions in both forms of the game for over 10 years now!
Last but not least " xfell29". Oh my god. Please tell me you are taking the p*ss! Yet another racist Austr...blah, blah, blah... What a load of b*ll*cks! I have never expereinced so much racial tension and division since I moved from multi-cultural Australia to cultural-ghettoed London. England is far more racist than Australia. However, I think neither is particularly racist compared to some Asian countries I have expereince, where there is open hostility towards causcasians. As for the term POM being racist - it is an ancient anacronym for Prisoner of Mother England - a derogatory term given to English prisoners arriving in Australia from England, given to them, that's right, by their ENGLISH prison guards. It has long been used in Australia as a term of endearment - almost like calling your big brother names. You still love him though. And it has nothing whatsoever to do with race.
No as to the cricket. England have suffered an incredible run of bad luck injuries to some of their crucial stars, and Australia is always a tough place to tour. Especially on fast bowlers, where long spells on hard pitches cause a lot of strain, but even having said that, I think it will be more even. Australia will be at practically full strength, and with McGrath back at his best, and for the whole series, I think Australia's more experienced bowling will be the decisive factor. England's batsmen have been getting into the runs, so if they can keeps some form after a couple of months off, they should do okay.
Keep it real. There are racist people in every country on Earth, but to suggest all Australians are racist is insulting - go back into your shell.
My prediction 2-1 to Australia.

Answer 7

What a polava with the Indians eh? Ball tampering indeed! What, what!!

As for the aussies beating the english, you just remember that shameful incident in the 80's, when they cheated and bowled underarm softly to do something or other to win a game (I saw it before on most shameful moments of sport - had to be a Fox production). Naughty boys.

And who's the lairy with the handlebar moustache?? Doe's he still play?

He looked like he should have been singing with the village people! ha

Answer 8

Ey up, Glen Mcgrath must be in the building.
Not a chance of a 5-0 whitewash. I reckon it'll be tight. We (England) need another seamer and to tell Steve Harmison that you can't pitch it short on every single wicket, and you need to hope that your geriatric bowlers don't do a hip in. Your batsmen aren't any spring chickens either now I think about it...

Answer 9

Just a minor point but to retain the Ashes you have to have them in the first place.

Answer 10

I do not think that Australia can beat England 5-0. It may be
evenly contested series.