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Listed below are comments made by mikenotmick between Wednesday, 23rd July 2008 and Sunday, 15th February 2009.

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Blood, guts and old-fashioned Six Nations thunder 2:34pm on 15 Feb 2009 Dear Rupert, strange name for a welshman - not complaining - just suggesting Borthwick needs more as a skipper. Read the rest "Wales won and deserved to" and "they closed out the game with ease".

When you are not the best side you don't get the breaks, in a professional game you need to try everything to get some.

Oviously the complaining against the England old guard worked!
Blood, guts and old-fashioned Six Nations thunder 2:11pm on 15 Feb 2009 Wales won and deserved to. As an England fan I want to see some progress and got some, so that's unfortunately the limit of my ambition at present, as long as it keeps going.

Borthwick needs to be a skipper - he seems to be too much a (fairly)competant field soldier, but not more - can you imagine Dellaglio or Johnson not being in the ref's ear - Byrne should have gone 10 mins and towards the end, can't remembr who killed it near the Welsh line - but the justification for Goode going was proximity - Borthwick should have reminded the myopic Kaplan of consistency!

And I am sorry the offside was nonsense - Wales seem to have achieved the level of competance of getting away with it that the All Blacks do, against everyone.

BUT and amongst all that Wales were better and won, actually without too much difficulty and they closed out the game with ease.

Shame for England they have to go away against Ireland next - could be too much of a knock back.
BBC ready for Twenty20 bonanza 1:05pm on 23 Jul 2008 Funny how this seems to be very black and white with a lot of people.

I would normally class myself as a purist and love test cricket and always will. But I seriously dislike 40 or 50 over cricket as it's largely very boring and close games are few and far between.

20 - 20 on the other hand is exciting generally and even if it's not close you will see at least one exciting innings and then well ... it doesn't drag on for ever, does it?

So, test cricket needs to survive - but you will only get good players coming into cricket at all if it's lucrative and exciting and 20 - 20 achieves just that.

It's here to stay chaps, find a way of embracing it for the good of the game as a whole.

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