Test match

[Disoriented]

Terrible start. WTF is someone like Roy playing test cricket?

[Top of the JES]

England continue to embarrass themselves, need an hour of Sam Curran playing some shots and Broad trying to stick around to have any hope are all.

Makes matters worse when the best Innings from an English batsman in the game was by a number 11 night watchman.

[Max B Gold]

England continue to embarrass themselves, need an hour of Sam Curran playing some shots and Broad trying to stick around to have any hope are all.

Makes matters worse when the best Innings from an English batsman in the game was by a number 11 night watchman.

Lovely jubbly.

[Disoriented]

Still think we will win this.

[Top of the JES]

Still think we will win this.

You are probably right. Ireland will have scoreboard pressure in their second innings 180+ won't be easy.

[Disoriented]

Still think we will win this.

You are probably right. Ireland will have scoreboard pressure in their second innings 180+ won't be easy.

Absolutely. The conditions are still very bowler friendly.

[Stamford O]

Looking forward to this.hopefully be a close finish

[Omygawd]

Terrible start. WTF is someone like Roy playing test cricket?

Because he can score runs.

[Disoriented]

Terrible start. WTF is someone like Roy playing test cricket?

Because he can score runs.

Really? Look again at his first-class record. He will soon be found out.
We need solidity at the top, not a bull in a China shop.

[EastDerehamO]

To show my ignorance – and I used to follow Test cricket very closely before live coverage vanished to Sky – I wasn’t even aware that Ireland had been awarded Test status until this match started, and discover on investigation that Afghanistan have too. But a Four Day Test seems a strange one, albeit given how it’s started I don’t think it’s likely to prove an obstacle in getting a result.

[BiggsyMalone]

Terrible start. WTF is someone like Roy playing test cricket?

Because he can score runs.

Really? Look again at his first-class record. He will soon be found out.
We need solidity at the top, not a bull in a China shop.

Who would you suggest provides that "solidity" then? That player isn't out there.

Roy won't improve against the red ball unless he plays more red ball cricket with good bowlers and good coaches.

[F*ck The Poor & Fat]

38 all out. Paging Max

[Disoriented]

38 all out. Paging Max

Max will be in a darkened room somewhere.

[Max B Gold]

38 all out. Paging Max

Who is? Is it a good or a bad thing?

[tuffers#1]

List of sporting prominence in Ireland ( most played )

1 Gaelic Football
2 Football
3 Golf
4 Hurling
5 Rugby
6 volleyball
7 Boxing
8 Equestrian ( show jumping 3 day eventing)
9 Handball
10 Cricket


Its a game the Irish see as "Foreign"
Therefore almost a Sin to play .

Why are ye English so excited about the equivalent
Of Mancheater City beating Blyth Spartans in a pre season friendly.

[Real Al]

Aren't all sports foreign, unless you're the country that invented them?

[F*ck The Poor & Fat]

List of sporting prominence in Ireland ( most played )

1 Gaelic Football
2 Football
3 Golf
4 Hurling
5 Rugby
6 volleyball
7 Boxing
8 Equestrian ( show jumping 3 day eventing)
9 Handball
10 Cricket


Its a game the Irish see as "Foreign"
Therefore almost a Sin to play .

Why are ye English so excited about the equivalent
Of Mancheater City beating Blyth Spartans in a pre season friendly.

Not excited at all about the result. Only that it’s a kick up the arse to those knocking England day 1. That is nice.

[tuffers#1]

Aren't all sports foreign, unless you're the country that invented them?

Rule 42
Was a rule that specifically urged the non playing of Foreign games
Its meaning was simple
No English Games.

All to do with the saving of Irish culture & language .
Gatherings of groups of men mostly playing sport gaa football or hurling were illegal.

The " Foreign" means only & specifically English games.
Cricket
Rugby
Football.

Playing of any or all these games would have got you a life time ban from G.A.A
Up until probably the early 70s .

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_42?wprov=sfla1

[tuffers#1]

List of sporting prominence in Ireland ( most played )

1 Gaelic Football
2 Football
3 Golf
4 Hurling
5 Rugby
6 volleyball
7 Boxing
8 Equestrian ( show jumping 3 day eventing)
9 Handball
10 Cricket


Its a game the Irish see as "Foreign"
Therefore almost a Sin to play .

Why are ye English so excited about the equivalent
Of Mancheater City beating Blyth Spartans in a pre season friendly.

Not excited at all about the result. Only that it’s a kick up the arse to those knocking England day 1. That is nice.

Thats fair enough.

I didnt knock england,as im not in the slightest bit interested in such a stupid game
Even when an irish 11 are playing it

[F*ck The Poor & Fat]

List of sporting prominence in Ireland ( most played )

1 Gaelic Football
2 Football
3 Golf
4 Hurling
5 Rugby
6 volleyball
7 Boxing
8 Equestrian ( show jumping 3 day eventing)
9 Handball
10 Cricket


Its a game the Irish see as "Foreign"
Therefore almost a Sin to play .

Why are ye English so excited about the equivalent
Of Mancheater City beating Blyth Spartans in a pre season friendly.

Not excited at all about the result. Only that it’s a kick up the arse to those knocking England day 1. That is nice.

Thats fair enough.

I didnt knock england,as im not in the slightest bit interested in such a stupid game
Even when an irish 11 are playing it

It was a nothing game, though I did offer my well dones to Ireland on a great first day performance.

[tuffers#1]

Not excited at all about the result. Only that it’s a kick up the arse to those knocking England day 1. That is nice.

Thats fair enough.

I didnt knock england,as im not in the slightest bit interested in such a stupid game
Even when an irish 11 are playing it

It was a nothing game, though I did offer my well dones to Ireland on a great first day performance.

Should have told them they were just sh*t gaa players & to work harder at Irelands.proper sports.

Still they may mostly be protestant school educated & therefore trapped in the "Foreign game " Ethos.

[Lucky7]

Still they may mostly be protestant school educated & therefore trapped in the "Foreign game " Ethos

Are you related to Abu Hamza al-Masri at all?

[Max B Gold]

Very disappointed in the Ireland performance today. Laying down to their historical colonial oppressors is not usually their style.

Never mind plenty of scope for England to crumble tomorrow.

[Flying Hippo]

Still they may mostly be protestant school educated & therefore trapped in the "Foreign game " Ethos.

As you know, there are no "protestant schools" in Northern Ireland. There are state schools open to all. The apartheid in education there is the sole preserve of the Roman Catholic church. For what it's worth, eight of the 11 in the test match are indeed Ulster protestants, with five of them, remarkably, from small villages along the Co. Donegal/Londonderry border. One is a Dublin protestant, one is English and the other, a fine player, is a southern catholic - and there are plenty of other good players from his background who'll be playing test cricket in the years ahead. So what? Who cares? They're all representing Ireland.

Considerable intellectual tautology is also required when condoning the GAA's approach to anything at all. Great games they are but, despite the commendable efforts of some in their organisation, it is clear that the GAA still has considerable work to do before the majority of people in Northern Ireland are persuaded that many GAA clubs in NI are not the hateful dens of bigotry many believe them to be (as is Celtic FC in Scotland, with additional institutional child-abuse, of course). What the protestant Graham family in Fermanagh and the catholic Heffrons in Co Antrim endured from their experience with GAA are tragedies, particularly for the Heffrons. It is surely time to leave this religious/nationalist obscenity behind.

[Max B Gold]

Still they may mostly be protestant school educated & therefore trapped in the "Foreign game " Ethos.

As you know, there are no "protestant schools" in Northern Ireland. There are state schools open to all. The apartheid in education there is the sole preserve of the Roman Catholic church. For what it's worth, eight of the 11 in the test match are indeed Ulster protestants, with five of them, remarkably, from small villages along the Co. Donegal/Londonderry border. One is a Dublin protestant, one is English and the other, a fine player, is a southern catholic - and there are plenty of other good players from his background who'll be playing test cricket in the years ahead. So what? Who cares? They're all representing Ireland.

Considerable intellectual tautology is also required when condoning the GAA's approach to anything at all. Great games they are but, despite the commendable efforts of some in their organisation, it is clear that the GAA still has considerable work to do before the majority of people in Northern Ireland are persuaded that many GAA clubs in NI are not the hateful dens of bigotry many believe them to be (as is Celtic FC in Scotland, with additional institutional child-abuse, of course). What the protestant Graham family in Fermanagh and the catholic Heffrons in Co Antrim endured from their experience with GAA are tragedies, particularly for the Heffrons. It is surely time to leave this religious/nationalist obscenity behind.

Bollox. He's spotted an Ireland connection.