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by SoulCircus
Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:13 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Other games 16th & 17th March
Replies: 168
Views: 5814

Re: Other games 16th & 17th March

Dulwich are very well supported at that level. 3,500 when I went there with Horsham earlier this season.
by SoulCircus
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: ✍ Welcome Vladimír Coufal
Replies: 1483
Views: 120711

Re: ✍ Welcome Vladimír Coufal

Really wish he'd broken his duck tonight, think there will be a huge amount of goodwill when it happens. An unsung hero in this team. Maybe in the final...
by SoulCircus
Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:59 am
Forum: Music, Film & TV
Topic: Books you are reading
Replies: 3561
Views: 85235

Re: Books you are reading

Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan. Really magnificent novel, best I've read in a long time. Told in two halves, riotous and hilarious in the first, then much more contemplative and moving in the second. A life-affirming tale of male friendship.
by SoulCircus
Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:56 am
Forum: The Sports Bar
Topic: England Cricket 2024
Replies: 396
Views: 7385

Re: England Cricket 2024

Focusing on the positives: Crawley finally looks to have settled into the opener role. Hartley and Bashir have been great, shown a lot of pluck and courage, excellent signs for the future. Badly missed Brook, that middle order will look a whole lot more secure on his return. 700 for Jimmy. We'll nev...
by SoulCircus
Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:46 am
Forum: The Sports Bar
Topic: England Cricket 2024
Replies: 396
Views: 7385

Re: England Cricket 2024

Bend it like Repka wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:15 amGuess what, you can't totally reinvent a game that has been played for over a century, some things are boring and traditional because they work
Or in England's case, as per 1 win in 17 before the Stokes and McCullum era, they don't.
by SoulCircus
Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:27 am
Forum: The Sports Bar
Topic: England Cricket 2024
Replies: 396
Views: 7385

Re: England Cricket 2024

Stokes is an unstoppable force. Not bowled for nearly a year and then serves up a worldie like that with his first ball.
by SoulCircus
Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:41 am
Forum: The Sports Bar
Topic: England Cricket 2024
Replies: 396
Views: 7385

Re: England Cricket 2024

Bairstow and Stokes averaging 22 and 21 for the series shows you the middle order is where our problems have been.
by SoulCircus
Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: West Ham United v Brentford : match thread
Replies: 1309
Views: 42197

Re: West Ham United v Brentford : match thread

"What a deeply unpleasant fanbase West Ham have. It’s funny, most times when you meet a WHU fan they’re half alright but when you go to the ground you actually see the pond life that follows them." - LostBee This really made me laugh for some reason. Sounds like from other comments their a...
by SoulCircus
Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:41 am
Forum: Music, Film & TV
Topic: Books you are reading
Replies: 3561
Views: 85235

Re: Books you are reading

Re American Crime fiction - No one has mentioned Ed Mcbain yet? His 87th precinct stories are a cracking read - and what's more the books are a bit like a TV series - they have a villain that pops up now and then in various books (the deaf man), the detectives lives change dramatically during the s...
by SoulCircus
Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:48 am
Forum: Music, Film & TV
Topic: Books you are reading
Replies: 3561
Views: 85235

Re: Books you are reading

Can anyone recommend any good crime fiction? Either US/American or in translation? It's a genre i've neglected over the years but am delving into it a little. I've read one Ian Rankin and didnt like that at all. I'm something of a connoisseur of American crime fiction, Elmore Leonard has already be...
by SoulCircus
Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:49 pm
Forum: The Sports Bar
Topic: England Cricket 2024
Replies: 396
Views: 7385

Re: England Cricket 2024

Of course the dressing room will deny they listened to any outside noise, but Root, Foakes and Robinson all played steady sensible cricket, rather than trying to blast us out of trouble. A proper dose of good old fashioned test cricket has meant we now have a real chance of levelling the series. Vi...
by SoulCircus
Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:09 am
Forum: The Sports Bar
Topic: England Cricket 2024
Replies: 396
Views: 7385

Re: England Cricket 2024

I'm not surprised, getting a shooter on the first morning makes this Test a lottery really. No idea what a good score is.
by SoulCircus
Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:39 am
Forum: The Sports Bar
Topic: England Cricket 2024
Replies: 396
Views: 7385

Re: England Cricket 2024

Puff Daddy wrote: Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:36 am Spectacular batting from.Duckett, but problem is, he's gonna hit out once too often and get out
Not really a problem, he's already done his job and kickstarted the innings.
by SoulCircus
Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:21 am
Forum: The Sports Bar
Topic: England Cricket 2024
Replies: 396
Views: 7385

Re: England Cricket 2024

Yet another 50+ opening partnership for Crawley and Duckett. Fast becoming the most reliable opening pair in Test cricket.
by SoulCircus
Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:21 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Six or More
Replies: 71
Views: 3632

Re: Six or More

polar wrote: Wed Feb 14, 2024 7:56 pm A Gary Neville tackle?
That's the one. My reaction to it was completely disproportionate after watching Van Nistelrooy and Giggs waltz through our defence for 90 minutes.
by SoulCircus
Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Six or More
Replies: 71
Views: 3632

Re: Six or More

Pop Robson wrote: Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:10 pm Record FA Cup defeats
Away 0-6 v Manchester United, Fourth round, 26 January 2003
I remember this one solely for a stonewall penalty we should have got at 6-0 down for a foul on Joe Cole. It was on TV and I got very irate about it. Absolutely no idea why that sticks in the mind but there we go.
by SoulCircus
Sun Feb 04, 2024 1:33 pm
Forum: The Sports Bar
Topic: England Cricket 2024
Replies: 396
Views: 7385

Re: England Cricket 2024

Amazing how Bazball is affecting everyone's mentality. Gill said it was 70-30 in India's favour! A 400 run chase in the hardest conditions in the world, which has barely been done before, there's no way an away team should get anywhere near. And yet...
by SoulCircus
Sun Jan 28, 2024 12:20 pm
Forum: The Sports Bar
Topic: England Cricket 2024
Replies: 396
Views: 7385

Re: England Cricket 2024

14 wins out of 19 in the Bazball era...
by SoulCircus
Sun Jan 28, 2024 12:04 pm
Forum: The Sports Bar
Topic: England Cricket 2024
Replies: 396
Views: 7385

Re: England Cricket 2024

Really pleased for Hartley after his problems in the first innings. Stokes is a brilliant captain of spinners, they are thriving under his tenure.
by SoulCircus
Sat Jan 27, 2024 11:29 am
Forum: The Sports Bar
Topic: England Cricket 2024
Replies: 396
Views: 7385

Re: England Cricket 2024

Easily Pope's best innings for England. Reminds me of Cook's 176 in 2012, in a losing cause then, but set the tone for the rest of the series.