Beefy's Corner.......For all off Topic threads

I've got tickets to one too! Which one are you going to?

Twenty20 is good due to the fact that Hampshire are pretty good at it.

 

Wicked. Best form of domestic cricket. Test is obviously the best form overall.

People only going to one game should feel bad about themselves, not hardcore enough.

 

I'm going to the Steelers-Vikings game. I think that's it anyway. It's the one that doesn't have Jacksonville

That is 100% absolute...sense. I have only been following it properly for a season

 

Love my cricket. Sunny days at the Ageas are great. Test is my favourite form but this was after watching the other two forms when I first got into it. Test cricket is so much more than fours and sixes, which is why some people find it boring i think.

Play a game on my phone called Kingdoms of Camelot, was explaining to some americans about test cricket, that took a while. They really didn't get that a game could last fort 5 days.

Anyone else play that game on here?

 

I still don't really know how you're meant to pronounce Ageas, calling it the Rose Bowl is much easier.

 

It's a-g-as.

 

Yeah I still call it the Rose Bowl. Only put Ageas as it would look a bit stupid to say how I love cricket but then not even get the name right of my home ground! Someone would have pulled me up on it!

 

Test cricket is awesome though. Went to England v SA last year at Lords. Tickets were cut price as it was the final day but play still went on until around 4.30/5pm.

 

As in, the letters A and G? So like... Ay-Jee-Ass?

 

That's it.

 

Wicked. But, it's still the Rose Bowl

 

Yeah, that's how I've always said it.

 

You know I told you a while back about Palermo sacking Gasperini, appointing Malesani and then sacking him after 3 draws to reappoint Gasperini?

Well they're now said to be getting rid of Gasperini after two games. A 0-0 away to Torino and a 2-1 loss to Siena at home.

They're said to be approaching Sannino, who they sacked in October 2012 to appoint Gasperini for the first time.

MADNESS.

 

They've had so many great players in recent times:

Toni, Barzagli, Liverani, Nocerino, Pastore, Amauri, Zaccardo, Barone, Grosso, etc.

What happened?

 

Basically, in 2011, the President/Owner Maurizio Zamparini started a massive process of changing near-on every member of club staff.

From directors and advisors, to coaches and physios.

He brought in a new Technical Director who appears to be clocking an increasingly negative rep.

Sannino was given just the Summer and pre-season of 2012, Gasperini was sacked in early 2013, Malesani sacked in February after 3 games.

Then Gasperini back, and now on his way out in March 2013 to be replaced by Sannino again.

The sheer size of the overturn in club staff has unsettled players who are becoming disillusioned with the management of the football club.

That, and the fact each manager wants his own due to the reported huge cliques in the dressing room. (understandable)

 

As we are talking about Seria A anyone seen Icardi for Sampdoria play?. He looks like a class player in the making to me.

 

News going round that Mourinho will end his contract at the end of the season.

 

And suddenly Guardiola joining Bayern doesn't look so bad for Chelsea.

 

Guardiola will be at Man Utd, a lot of talk that he only signed a 1 year deal at Bayern.

 

Looks like there may be more titles on the horizon for Chelsea then. I don't particularly like them, but the prospect of what Mourinho could do for them in the summer is pretty mouthwatering. They'll have Lukaku back, and they'll just need to find themselves a new Essien and they're pretty much set.