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Timmy - - my dictionary has some strange collective terms such as a murmuration of starlings, etc. What about an "expense" of lawyers?

Is Jim accusing me of being racist? It is clear that he obviously doesn't know me! Not sure what "adject" means! I wish Jim would read my postings objectively and point out to me ANY of my postings where I have expressed any dislike of the English. I freely admit to having a somewhat jaundiced view of the English media and that goes back to the days when Northern Ireland's John Watson was "placed" in Grand Prix. Lo & behold he became "Britain's John Watson" when he won. It continues to this day. If Jim would have a look on the Cricket Europe forum he will find a posting about a Daily Mail article about Eoin Morgan so, as Jim says, there are others who share my view. Does that mean that we are wrong because we express an alternative opinion to Jim? But to take an objective view of what is happening in English cricket I simply ask, how with a 17 County sides, a Minor Counties organisation and 10,000s of players in 1000s of clubs up & down the country, their selectors have to look at a country where cricket is played by a relatively small number of people and in restricted areas, e.g. the North West, the greater Belfast area and the greater Dublin area, to find players? Particularly when the English Board pumps so much finance into the English game at all levels. Perhaps there should be a "quid pro quo" with some of their largesse being distributed to Irish clubs. No green-tinted glasses in Buckna -just realism.
Jeff - Another pet hate is aul' dolls who do their shopping in petrol stations and stand for 15 minutes filling 3 or 4 bags when all I want to do is pay for fuel!

Andy. Graeme McDowell is in fact British, and the media you speak of are not english, they are british. You are more full of the anti-english hype than they are of the pro english hype. People are sick of listening to it. Go back to Darkest Buckna

Jim I reckon even Andy's bound to have a soft spot somewhere deep down for the English, after-all as I've said before, there would be no cricket if it weren't for 'Dear Old Mother England', that's where the game originated isn't that so ?...... and I hasten to add..... I'm very good at it !

Seriously though you have to agree with Andy, that's a bloody disgrace about what some mindless morons did to the Limavady cricket pitch, heard about it on the 6.00pm TV local news last-nite.

Sometimes you wonder just what makes people 'tick' ! Why can't they go and pick up a bat & ball and learn to play the game and try to make something off themselves ? Instead of wasting their obviously sad boring lives ???

Anyway better go, I've tea to drink !

Jeff Andy K has nothing wlse to do other than slag off the English. Probably because it makes him more popular on these and other forums which i'm sure he subscribes to. He has no adject thinking on his views, blaming the english as a whole on the reason he dislikes us. Maybe he should take a look around the NCU clubs and realise that the best cricketers in some of them are in fact English! But with green tinted specs and clearly a bigoted person, maybe he should be allowed to rant and rave as much as he likes and others will see him, as you have, for what he is.

just to add that something else that I have no time for is the type of scroat who has caused the damage at Limavady.

well spotted Jeff! There are many things that I like & enjoy - a good game of cricket, the company of few friends particularly round a good pint of Guiness or two, Paul Brady songs to name a few. The things that I don't like are too many to enumerate but first on my list, by a long way, is the English media who never fail to surprise me with their partisanship. First item on Radio 4 news this morning - England qualify. And if the England XI, as it looks at this point in time (5:00 p.m. Thursday), beat the Aussies it will be "bring on the world". Their rugby side ground out a win on Saturday - it was as if this was the dawning of a new era then back to reality -v- the Maori. Just counting the days until they start describing Northern Ireland's G. McDowell as British - fuuny how they catch on the cottails of others success!

Re: Ireland Lawyers Cricket

We have now managed to track down a number of northern based cricketing lawyers (not sure what the collective noun would be!).

We are hoping to play a game against our southern counterparts on Sunday 4th July. We had hoped to stage the game at either the Lawn, Uprichard Park or Shaw's Bridge (given that these are the home grounds of some members of the squad). Unfortunately none of these grounds are available. Woodvale is also out of action given the extensive works being carried out this season.

We would be most grateful is anyone out there were able to facilitate the staging of this game. It is likely to start at around 1.00pm and would probably last 40 overs per side.

The following is a list of northern based cricketers of which I am aware or have managed to make contact with. I am sure there are a number of others who would be keen to be involved, I would be grateful for a list of further names:

1. T. Browne (Sol. Woodvale)
2. M. Foster (Bar Lisburn)
3. M. McCracken (Bar)
4. A. Kirkpatrick (Sol. Ballymena)
5. N. Cahill (Sol. Cliftonville)
6. J. Black (Sol. Instonians)
7. P. McCall (Sol. Bangor)
8. S. Beckett (Sol. Bangor)
9. M. McCord (Sol. Bangor)
10. N. Matthews (Bar Waringstown)
11. J. Cunningham (Sol. Bangor)
12. D. Russell (Bar Cooke Collegians)
13. R. Shaw (Sol. Holywood)
14. C. O'Rawe (Bar CSNI)
15. C. Webster (Sol. Saintfield)
16. S. Burnside (Cooke Collegians)
17. R. Coghlin (Bar Bangor)
18. D. McDowell (Bar)

I am sure that there will be some interest from within and outside the profession and I hope that someone out there can accommodate us.

If anyone wishes to contact me via email please do so, the address is browne_timothy@hotmail.com

Thanks

COME ON ENNNGGGEEERRLAANNDD! I FOR ONE HOPE THEY GO THRU THEN DUMP THE ARGIES AS WELL . If they play with high tempo of premier an fa cup style game they will get too semi final an then who knows 1966 team will lose out on fortune of after dinner speaking . ps andy k do you like anything apart from slagging everyone ?pps Downpatrick v North Down tonight at 6pm 20/20 might be worth a visit for few beers

Capello won't need Morgan 'cos he's Irish. Unlike the Germans, the english players are all English. Podolsky, Klose, Mr Sheen all polish, Cacau Brazilian, Marin from former Yugoslavia and thats the ones i know of!

That's right Jim - learned that result on the way home from Stormont - apparently they took Slovenia apart 1-0 and now face the Germans in the next round. And of course they beat the Germans back in 1966 - but then we never hear about that do we so that's alright then! Thankfully I'm committed to cricket over the next few days so I'll miss Gary Linekar & Co. going on about what they will regard as the greatest resurrection since Lazarus. And does anyone else think that Mick McCarthy has the most annoying "voice" on T.V. On today's game itself, there is no doubt that Stormont is devoid of atmosphere at the best of times but with a crowd of 100 (if that) the atmosphere was nil. Some good performances on both sides with batsmen getting in but not "taking it on". Don't think I'll be rushing up on Friday.
P.S. - heard a whisper at the match today that Capello was indeed ringing Eoin Morgan to see if he could play football.

Andy just to let you know England won't be meeting France at the airport and they won't be getting a new coach at the airport either. Instead they are still in it, anooying to you at it may seem, they are still in it to win it!!

Ah good man Park-ranger, thanks for giving up some of those numerous tea-breaks of yours and double rolling the Lurgan Pk. cricket pitch last week, it certainly had the desired effect !

Although with the great dry spell of weather we've all been enjoying, I'd say every batting track in the country is a good one at present.
I see already, there seems to be plenty of runs being scored all round by all teams at every level.

Ireland going well at present !

Now if that century had of been in the green of Ireland, they would have given the Aussies a right old thumping in Clontarf last week.

On the other hand, take his century away from England, would they have one?

Seems he made the dieffence in both results

Good luck today to the Ireland cricket team against the West-Indies A team down at Stormont.

Maybe Andy can give us a resume of how it went and the days craic when he gets home to-night..... if he's able ??

And what about Eoin Morgan's unbeaten ton against ODI world champs, Australia yesterday..... Brilliant !
He takes England to a higher level again and makes them exciting to watch, wonder can he play scoccer ?????