posted Jan 8, 2009

I agree Honest, Moores has gone. The next coach must be subordinate to Strauss. In effect he must be the assistant to the captain off the field. I'd have preferred Pietersen to remain as captain but with the rumoured split dressing room it couldn't have been possible.

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posted Jan 8, 2009

As an Australian I'm astonished that Pietersen has been sacked. Or that the ECB effectively endorsed a players mutiny against him. Appalling stuff.

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posted Jan 8, 2009

Sorry very wrong. In Pietersen England finally had a captain who was full of self confidence. This went through the whole team. Strauss is in the same vein as the previous captains and the results were bad. England will win the Ashes if Australia are weak as they are now not because of a good English team.

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posted Jan 8, 2009

I read in one of the papers this morning that Pieterson had lost the majority of the players so his self confidence clearly diddnt go throught the players.

Although Kp is a good player i have really lost alot of respect for him. He started issuing ultimatums from south africa thinking he was mr invincible and although the ECB have not handled this situation well they done the right thing in taking his resignation. He has also costa descent bloke in Peter Moores his job and lets face it the only reason he wanted to go back to india is so that he could negotiate himself a deal to play in the ipl.

On Strauss i have to say i think he is probably the best man their for the job and apart from Michael Vaughan who deoesnt really merit a place in the side their is no one else in that side who you feel could do the job.

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posted Jan 8, 2009

Strauss should never have lost the captaincy to Flintoff.

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posted Jan 9, 2009

BEEFY BOTHAM should be made coach as he wants to win and has the motvation to get the team to play and win

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posted Jan 9, 2009

England can't help themselves, can they? As Australia reel from two sucessive series defeats and a tough couple of months ahead before the important business of the Ashes, we decide to implode.

One or the other maybe but both at the same time, incredible.

I agree with you though, Strauss is probably level headed enough to deal with the pressure, I wonder how much his averages will suffer?

Perhaps another Brearley ?

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posted Jan 9, 2009

ODI captain - Freddy drank it, Colly blew it, KP threw it - who else are you going to try next. Much as I would love to see a single England captain in all forms of the game I just don;t think Strauss's numbers add up in the ODI form, let alone 20-20. we really are in a complete mess ! Maybe we have to think of KP like Peter Mandelsohn - let's find some other poor shmuck (Prior?)to lead the side until KP has served some time in the wilderness then bring him back...

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posted Jan 9, 2009

i think it was a mistake to let go of kp because he was the best player in the team and the only player who stayed in the side

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posted Jan 9, 2009

What annoys me the most is everyone worrying what the rest of the cricketing world, especially the Aussies, think about the current England situation.
Firstly, Australians never need an excuse when it comes to pom bashing so whats coming out of Australia at the moment is just noise (if i was them, i'd be more concerned with my own team)
Secondly, i don't think we need to learn any lessons from the Indians, anyone remember the Harbaijan apology incident and the Indian cricking board threat to cancel the series with Australia? How about Pakistan's ruthless, and frankly baseless accusations towards Daryl Hair?
The single most important issue the Pieterson V Moores afair is: Pieterson did not have the total support of the players. If he did, I'm a sure Moores would have resigned and Pieterson would have remained as skipper. He didn't, so he went.

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