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Listed below are comments made by brummieal between Sunday, 13th July 2008 and Sunday, 20th July 2008.

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England bowling lacks menace 8:45pm on 20 Jul 2008 The cloud over Michael Vaughan persists. The captain should be on the team sheet on merit, not simply because he's the captain. There are other players in the side more than capable of deciding who will bowl next and the field setting - the vast majority of which is decided pre match by intensive video analysis of the opposition. Difference is those other team mates are making a positive contribution with bat and/or ball. He needs to produce the goods with the bat next test or give way. He's out of form and needs to go away and work on it in the county circuit. Test level, particularly against SA, isn't the place to be crossing fingers and hoping it's going to improve next innings. Next innings isn't proving any better. A century against NZ in that first test of the summer doesn't merit an automatic place for the rest of the summer. NZ isn't the challenge that SA is.
Dose of long jump joy relieves Chambers headache 1:52pm on 13 Jul 2008 I have always in the past backed any sports man or woman who pulls on that national or British vest. I have the utmost respect for those who reach that standard and have made many sacrifices to get there. It takes hard work, determination, guts and personal sacrifices. Support Chambers if he is allowed to compete in China? No, no, no, no, no, no. The man is a cheat. He knew the rules; he broke them. He chose to break them - he pays the penalty. He knew what the sanction was and decided he would risk it. If he is running so well now, how come he couldn't do that without the drugs before? If does compete in China, I, for one, sincerely hope that he is disqualified on a false start in the very first heat, so that he goes home as soon as possible. There is no place in any sport for cheats; it debases the sport and the genuine efforts and sacrifices of those who don't cheat. Stamp it out.

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