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Listed below are comments made by Carcharias between Friday, 26th September 2008 and Tuesday, 7th October 2008.

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India's Dad's Army must prove the doubters wrong 2:39pm on 07 Oct 2008 Fiona and Oliver,

I accept that some of the youngsters played well in the Presidents XI practice match but that's exactly what it says on the tin..... it was a 'Practice Match'. How many times have we seen Yuvraj fail especially in Tests?
I think he is a wonderful batsman when on song but this hasn't been the case since his amazing exploits at the twenty20 world cup.
The reality is that if there was real quality waiting in the wings the Tendulkar,Dravid, Ganguly and Laxman would have been replaced a while ago as their form in recent years has been relatively poor.
Those that have come in on the odd occasion have not only been poor but never really looked like they belong at the highest level.
Don't get me wrong i am an Indian and would love to see India thump the world's number one side..... and being at home and given Australia's lack of spin options i think this may well happen. The frustration i feel stems from the fact that the BCCI are the richest cricket board in the world with the power(rightly or wrongly) to influence the ICC yet havn't managed to produce a new superstar with either the bat and the ball for a number of years now. That's the reality of the situation and that's why the old guard is still a mainstay of the test side.
India's Dad's Army must prove the doubters wrong 1:15pm on 07 Oct 2008 Oliver Brett does not have a clue..... It's all very well suggesting that the 'fab four' Indian batsman should be dropped as youngsters aren't getting a chance but he has neglected to mention that there are no real promising young world class batsman in India at the moment. Certainly none that can expect to walk into the team at the expense of the old guard. Ponting hasn't been setting the world alight lately.... should he be dropped too?
Tendulkar,Dravid,Laxman and Ganguly are not the players they were.... but at home and playing the best team in the world i would have them in for one last crack.
Time for Everton to deliver 3:13pm on 26 Sep 2008 Where is all the money going?
Am i the only Everton fan wondering why we have so little to spend? Granted we don't have the ability to match the big four which can't be doubted but how is it that Sunderland, Portsmouth,Middlesbrough etc are able to spend more on players than Everton can?
We have sky money coming in, finished fourth and fifth in recent seasons, had a decent run in the UEFA cup last season....
Do we really have that much debt? Even after selling Rooney because we sure as hell didn't spend his transfer money on any players.
Kenwright is a joke..... just a fan with a few million in the bank and no where near enough to push us forward.
How a club can finish fifth and qualify for the UEFA cup and make no signings until the 11th hour of the Tranfer Window is ridiculous. This is an absolute farce and Moyes is not free of blame. He has made some extremely poor signings in the past and in fact the vast majority of the poor signings have been the ones he's spent most money on.
He is extremely over rated as a manager who has relied on fortunate 1-0 wins for the past few years. His football teams play with no real flare whatsoever and would be labelled boring by supporters of any other club(with justification). We've gone backwards yet again and are just about to go out od=f the UEFA cup at the first hurdle.
The defence is an absolute shambles... Lescott and Yobo have been exceptionally poor and Phil Neville and Tony Hibbert are a complete waste of space.
Just frustrated by how you can turn a brilliant season(fifth place finish) into an utter disgrace overnight. Only at Everton can you see such stupidity in abundance!!

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