it relates to the bringing forward of a bonus payment (at his request) and his subsequent resignation beforethe payment was due. It's not the first time he's had such difficulties either. He settled for a small fraction of the claimed amount then. This time he wasn't so wise. Palace owners are nobodies' fools.
And really we're much better defending. You've brought back some very good memories of reading the book "The Year the Yankees lost the Pennant," on which the film was based. I must have been about ten, my family was vacationing in Vermont, everything was very pleasant and the book was, and probably still is, a lot of fun.
Asked for his £2m loyalty bonus to be paid early so he could buy a house for his son, then quit 2 days later. Loyalty ain't what it used to be. Never bought the house for his son either.
I really dislike the guy's attitude but it was an absolute masterclass performance. We'll need to bowl a lot better but I thought we were unlucky with the bat, several solid starts but no one managed to kick on which left us a little off the pace of a good run rate. Ah well, it's South Africa next. Easy...
Gayle is the most lethal hitter, but they bowled badly to him. Out of fear I think. Topley, in particular, bowled wide. They should have stuck to their plans, which Jordan did, to be fair. It's generally hard to hit yorkers spearing into your feet or balls into the midriff, which tuck batsmen up. But, ironically, it's probably better to give Gayle balls he can hit, as long as you mix up the pace and length in the hope that he misjudges one and gets caught. You've got to get him out. If he bats 20 overs, 182 can't be defended. Only McCullum is as consistently destructive, but, sadly, he's not at the WC.
Yeah, Jordan got it spot on, apart from a terrible misfield. If you keep letting Gayle straighten his back he'll smash it all around the park. Like you say, the yorkers kept him quiet for awhile but it wasn't great conditions for varying pace and bounce. Alli bowled well too until his final over when Gayle took him apart. Hopefully we'll have some dry conditions in our next games so we can get Stokes into it more.
Yeah, seamers all over the place again. Did our best to put the nerves in at the end but a very good run chase nevertheless. ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
What do people make of this? Sounds fairly sensible, I think. I'm not 100% convinced either way, but it'll be interesting to see if it makes any difference.
If you have seven subs on the bench, why can't you use all seven? In rugby it works very well. Why should a team be disavantaged when a player is fouled, injured and has to go off and they have already used all of their subs? That gives the advantage to the offender.
Rugby gets more injuries. I like it as it is with football, it's far more tactical. If managers could send 7 fresh players on it would benefit defensive sides far too much.
Aggree and disagree, yes Rugby gets far more injuries but the types of injuries are generally far less debilitating. Plenty of broken noses, a bit of blood and dislocated collarbones etc. but very few torn ligaments or leg breaks. In the old days one played on with a broken or blooded nose, it was a badge of honour. I recall when playing for the school, one of my colleagues dislocated his collar bone. Our games teacher did no more than grab hold of his arm, snapped it back into place and told him he would let the school down if he didn't finish the game. God did he scream. Afterwards the poor lad had to attempt to catch the ball one handed and when he did manage to catch it and got tackled, that almightly scream went up each time. Could you imagine a teacher doing that now? I used the term 'generally' earlier because occasionally in Rugby there are far more serious injuries, generally related to the back and can cripple people for life, but fortunately, these are few and far between. As for 7 fresh players benifiting defensive sides, I don't follow the logic, surely 3 fresh strikers must be of benifit to an offensive side.
I can't imagine a teacher doing it then, despite your admirably vivid description. I guess being a lawsuit-happy society has its upside. ...alright, now I've come up with something just as barbarous that happened to a couple of my friends who went to Catholic so-called schools: they were beaten into using their right hands to write. I can't imagine that, either. "So how was school today, Pete?" "Not bad. Sister Irwina nearly broke my left hand because I picked up a pen with it." "Oh, that's nice." I agree about continuing to play with a bloody nose, though. It wasn’t a lot of fun until somebody got hurt. The Pittsburgh Steelers' quarterback finished one game a couple of years ago with his nose so broken it lay conspicuously sideways on his face. Roethlisberger is far from the most admirable man in the world, but lack of toughness is not among his faults.
My Grandad was a leftie. Born in 1914, he had his left hand tied to his chair to stop him from using it to write.
Reports are saying Bentilab was injured on Friday night and is out for the season and CCV has pulled out of the US Olympic squad, also out for the season. Not good news.
