Enjoy Aussies :lol:

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Anything else worthy of discussion.

You lose :)

can you go away day release?

Look at the pretty pictures boys :lol:

I won't post any thing else regarding the Ashes, but I just thought you might like to see these pics of London :)

i dont think we care but there is already an ashes thread where you can post all the happy snaps.lol

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just like star wars.

The cricket team are the gungans :)

Good one you Poms, your team deserved to win the urn !

Enjoy it while you can...18 months from now your team will have to come here and back up there home performance against a new look Aussie team.

It's only a once in a 2 decade miracle. Phew. :)

How popular were the English Cricket team when they were losing for 16 years straight? Talk about fair weather supporters:-)

sorry to "rain" on the parade.lol

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see ya in 18 months. prepare for 40deg hot sunny weather. :cheers:

And crowds 3-5 times bigger than those in England.

40 degree weather? Is there a test in Alice Springs next time? Anyway We should have a test in Tassie to make us feel more at home weather-wise it's only fair.

I'm sure the English players won't start quaking at the knees when they see the big crowd at the MCG either and your other grounds are not huge. Half the fans will be English anyway.

40 degree weather? Is there a test in Alice Springs next time? Anyway We should have a test in Tassie to make us feel more at home weather-wise it's only fair.

I'm sure the English players won't start quaking at the knees when they see the big crowd at the MCG either and your other grounds are not huge. Half the fans will be English anyway.

you mean like at the rugby world cup final? :okay: a home win for england ;)

also, jesus, 40 degress celcius!? the UN should be airlifting you basic supplies. you can't live in that! poor sods.

It doesn't often get that high during tests but it's not unheard of.

Man you aussies are sore losers.

When are we giving our own guys a coming home parade?

I have the rotten tomatoes all ready....

Cheers,

Adam

sorry to "rain" on the parade.lol

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see ya in 18 months. prepare for 40deg hot sunny weather. :cheers:

I don't think the English players have any more problems than the Australians in 40 degree heat. I don't know which city you are referring to anyway, Melbourne is just as likely to be windy and 16 degrees as being 40 degrees. Past England players have talked about how cold Melbourne can be even in summer, in fact there are cold days in summer are more common there than in the south of England. In January this year there was a day in Melbourne where the temperature reached only 12 degrees in the middle of summer.

I think it's good for cricket to have the England win this time, frankly it was getting boring with Australia winning all the bloody time. Plus I think it's good for London/England to have something to take their mind off the bombings.

Well done England, enjoy the celebrations! Let's hope the Ashes get more interesting now rather than us winnning it easily all the time! :lol:

I don't think the English players have any more problems than the Australians in 40 degree heat. I don't know which city you are referring to anyway, Melbourne is just as likely to be windy and 16 degrees as being 40 degrees. Past England players have talked about how cold Melbourne can be even in summer, in fact there are cold days in summer are more common there than in the south of England. In January this year there was a day in Melbourne where the temperature reached only 12 degrees in the middle of summer.


Hahah....well if you think that good luck to you.... Melbourne's average max in January is 26. While the weather is variable, there are on average 4 days over 35 degrees in January, and 1 over 40 degrees.....

The coldest day this January was 19.5 degrees FYI, I think you are referring to the very unseasonably cold February 2005 and the one in a CENTURY storm we had then. The coldest max temp (during the weather "bomb") was 15.5 (about average for a winters day =P) The day before was 36degrees and the days after 19.5....

You don't think English players would struggle more? and Englands highest ever temp is 38.5? :hahaha: :nuts: Melbourne averages 10 days per YEAR above 35 degrees as well as more than 1 above 40....

Yeah but these guys are professional athletes, they play away in places like Bangalore, Kingston, Durban, blah blah blah, I think they are used to the heat. It isn't as much of a factor as it used to be when the teams only met once every three or four years.

lol cul. 40 degrees my ass.

Maybe if its a hot darwin day.

lol cul. 40 degrees my ass.

Maybe if its a hot darwin day.


Hmm did you read my posts? Melbourne averages 1.3 40+ degree days per summer, usually in January....Darwin is way too far north for those extremes...infact i think its highest on record is only 40.4.

I'm sure cricketers in Melb have had to endure 40+ degrees before and will certainly have to again...

40 degree weather? Is there a test in Alice Springs next time? Anyway We should have a test in Tassie to make us feel more at home weather-wise it's only fair.

I'm sure the English players won't start quaking at the knees when they see the big crowd at the MCG either and your other grounds are not huge. Half the fans will be English anyway.

I'd rather watch rain outside my window should the Ashes ever be played in Hobart. :)

Anyways time to make the pitch spin all the way next time they visit;) England have done good in using their homecourt advantage to the full. I just hope Warney still is playing by then. Giles too :cheers:

Hahah....well if you think that good luck to you.... Melbourne's average max in January is 26. While the weather is variable, there are on average 4 days over 35 degrees in January, and 1 over 40 degrees.....

The coldest day this January was 19.5 degrees FYI, I think you are referring to the very unseasonably cold February 2005 and the one in a CENTURY storm we had then. The coldest max temp (during the weather "bomb") was 15.5 (about average for a winters day =P) The day before was 36degrees and the days after 19.5....

You don't think English players would struggle more? and Englands highest ever temp is 38.5? :hahaha: :nuts: Melbourne averages 10 days per YEAR above 35 degrees as well as more than 1 above 40....

What you have just said has proved my point. Melbourne has very unpredictable weather. Think about it. If the average is 26 degrees, 40 degrees is 14 degrees above average. 16 degrees is only 10 degrees below average. I know the weather in Melbourne is very dependant on the wind direction. If it comes in off the interior from the north i know it has got above 40 before. However, as in February this year, if it's from the south it can get surprisingly cool. And it was 13.5 degrees on February 2nd 2005 at Melbourne Airport. That kind of temperature is unheard of in August in London, which is the English equivalent, in fact the maximum temperature in London is rarely below 20 degrees at that time of year. As we know Melbourne gets some very hot weather, I think the record is 45 or something like that, if the average is only 26, there must be some cool days to bring that average down. I was watching some of the Australia v Pakistan test at the MCG earlier this year and the temperature was only in the teens, the players had sweaters on, the crowd jackets etc. So why would England worry about the weather in Australia? They would be unlucky to get one of those days above 35 and it comes down to fitness really and the England team are clearly fitter than the Australian team.

What you have just said has proved my point. Melbourne has very unpredictable weather. Think about it. If the average is 26 degrees, 40 degrees is 14 degrees above average. 16 degrees is only 10 degrees below average. I know the weather in Melbourne is very dependant on the wind direction. If it comes in off the interior from the north i know it has got above 40 before. However, as in February this year, if it's from the south it can get surprisingly cool. And it was 13.5 degrees on February 2nd 2005 at Melbourne Airport. That kind of temperature is unheard of in August in London, which is the English equivalent, in fact the maximum temperature in London is rarely below 20 degrees at that time of year. As we know Melbourne gets some very hot weather, I think the record is 45 or something like that, if the average is only 26, there must be some cool days to bring that average down. I was watching some of the Australia v Pakistan test at the MCG earlier this year and the temperature was only in the teens, the players had sweaters on, the crowd jackets etc. So why would England worry about the weather in Australia? They would be unlucky to get one of those days above 35 and it comes down to fitness really and the England team are clearly fitter than the Australian team.


Again, the lowest minimum in Feb this year was 15.5 on the second, it came close to being the record coldest feb day. It was a once in a century event, it is by no means even remotely likely to happen again. During the entire 3 months of last summer (an unusually cold summer) there were 7 days under 20....most 19.something....I dont have any records handy for london but ive been there in summer and in the couple of weeks i was there in july there were about 5 days were it was overcast and sub 20.....
Again, Its far more likely to have a 30+day in Melbourne in summer than a -20 day....
No amount of fitness can prepare you for an extremely hot climate (Melbourne summer) Last year the Australian Olympic team were all over Europe training pre the games....why did they do this? To adjust to the heat before the Athens games.....

OMG! Is this nerd central. We’re talking about cricket FFS. Is this how you guys talk about sport with your mates!
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pfffftt Melbourne. Let the poms boil in the Gabba, then make every Queenslanders in the oval think this was a match against New South Wales, lol.

OMG! Is this nerd central. We’re talking about cricket FFS. Is this how you guys talk about sport with your mates!
Who is who in this pic??
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Hey man, did you get permission from your family before you posted their picture on the internet?

Again, the lowest minimum in Feb this year was 15.5 on the second, it came close to being the record coldest feb day. It was a once in a century event, it is by no means even remotely likely to happen again. During the entire 3 months of last summer (an unusually cold summer) there were 7 days under 20....most 19.something....I dont have any records handy for london but ive been there in summer and in the couple of weeks i was there in july there were about 5 days were it was overcast and sub 20.....
Again, Its far more likely to have a 30+day in Melbourne in summer than a -20 day....
No amount of fitness can prepare you for an extremely hot climate (Melbourne summer) Last year the Australian Olympic team were all over Europe training pre the games....why did they do this? To adjust to the heat before the Athens games.....

I don't know where you are getting this 15.5 temperature from. Some sources have quoted the high on that day as being 12, but most agree on 13.5 degrees, it was reported on the weather here at the time and I have checked a number of websites. Looking at the graph for February of this year there was 1 day where the high was 17, and 3 where it was 18. This does not seem like the sweltering heat people on here have been talking about. In fact even in Manchester that would be chilly. There were also several days in January this year where the temperature was below 20 in Melbourne. To be fair, in the last Ashes series in Australia there was indeed a very hot day in Melbourne while the test was going on at the MCG. I've just looked at some past charts for the summer months in Melbourne and your statement that 15.5 degrees was a once in a century temperature seems pretty wrong. This seems to have occurred several times in December 2002, which I gather is also a summer month there

This is quite an absurd argument. The weather will not be the deciding factor in any ashes series. The fact is though, we can and do get 40 degree days in all the cities where the ashes will be played.

Yeah it's not Melbourne's temperatures I'd be worried about. It's Brissy, Sydney and Perth. They're the ones that'll be most draining.

I don't know where you are getting this 15.5 temperature from. Some sources have quoted the high on that day as being 12, but most agree on 13.5 degrees, it was reported on the weather here at the time and I have checked a number of websites. Looking at the graph for February of this year there was 1 day where the high was 17, and 3 where it was 18. This does not seem like the sweltering heat people on here have been talking about. In fact even in Manchester that would be chilly. There were also several days in January this year where the temperature was below 20 in Melbourne. To be fair, in the last Ashes series in Australia there was indeed a very hot day in Melbourne while the test was going on at the MCG. I've just looked at some past charts for the summer months in Melbourne and your statement that 15.5 degrees was a once in a century temperature seems pretty wrong. This seems to have occurred several times in December 2002, which I gather is also a summer month there

There...http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/200502/html/IDCJDW3050.200502.shtml
Will that shut u up?

If a test is going to be rained out it will be the MCG test.
Look at the last 5-6 years as an example, the ACB has lost a shitload of $ from low MCG attendances coz of rain.

If a test is going to be rained out it will be the MCG test.
Look at the last 5-6 years as an example, the ACB has lost a shitload of $ from low MCG attendances coz of rain.

You are joking right? It barely rains in Melbourne at all during summer.....I feel like an encyclopedia of weather but man people have no idea about what Melbourne's climate is like.... Sydney has twice the January rainfall of Melbourne over 4 more rain days....If anything would be rained out it would be more likely in Sydney or Brisbane....

Also less than 5% of Cricket Australia's revenue is derived from selling tickets, and i bet the lion's share of that comes from the MCG due to its huge capacity.