Comments on: Andy Flower motivates England’s openers and wicketkeepers

By: Monster Cable

Monster Cable — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:52:07 +0000

Nope, just you, Sire.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:58:00 +0000

We thought everyone would identify with that, ceci. We thought it was a universal truth, like the relief you feel when you’re massively ill because you don’t have to go out of the house and speak to people.

By: ceci

ceci — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:20:56 +0000

What worries me about all this is the King’s mental fragility – “they’re just as likely as anyone else .. to look upon a rain shower as being an invitation to covertly weep.” Must have been v lachrymose of late O King

By: e normous

e normous — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:18:08 +0000

(you want oat, you eat grits)

By: SixSixEight

SixSixEight — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:20:44 +0000

Perhaps having hair, a floppy hat and a mixture of grain based cereals – weetabix for training – oats for match days, do you think that might work?

By: Ged

Ged — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:01:48 +0000

I cannot agree with the weetabix slant on this story.

True brits are oat eaters for breakfast. You want grit, you eat oats.

Perhaps its all this wimpy wheat, rice and corn stuff that has made our boys so flakey for the past few years.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:56:06 +0000

Jack Russell was about those two exact things.
He was STRONG.

By: e normous

e normous — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:40:33 +0000

I disagree. England shouldn’t be strong. England should be about ragged floppy hats and eating weetabix.

By: Bert

Bert — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:19:22 +0000

I completely agree with Alex. What England needs (has always needed) is a strong man in charge, someone who can do what Smith did to Dale Steyn. Mike Atherton once said that England’s constant losses never bothered him, as he could always cope by considering what a great life he had as England captain. WHAT A TOSSER! Who the fuck did he think he was? For whose benefit did he think he was in the fucking job?

Anyway, all that has changed forever with the appointment of the Wing Commander. He is mentally tough. No more going back to the bad old days of having mentally limp public schoolboys as captain, as can be seen from the choice of Alistair Cook as captain for thi… oh fuck!

(PS. Mike Atherton, Lancastrian, great bloke, obviously)

By: alex

alex — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:40:18 +0000

Good on Flower I say. England are WEAK. Mentally WEAK. You only have to look at Denly’s pathetic face to see how weak he is.
Flower needs to motivate them by telling them they are all shit, and letting them get on with it.
Eoin Morgan is strong. If Flower told him he was shit, he would tell him to fuck off, and then go and score a quickfire 62. Look in his eyes. He’ll fuck you up if you you try it on.