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Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust?

England's quest to retain the Ashes, won so gloriously last summer as predicted by First and Third, begins this week. How will they fare?

WIN: England 5 - 0 Australia		0%

WIN: England 4 - 0 Australia		0%

WIN: England 4 - 1 Australia		0%

WIN: England 3 - 0 Australia		0%

WIN: England 3 - 1 Australia		4%

WIN: England 2 - 0 Australia		0%

WIN: England 3 - 2 Australia		4%

WIN: England 2 - 1 Australia		19%

WIN: England 1 - 0 Australia		0%

DRAW: England 2 - 2 Australia		19%

DRAW: England 1 - 1 Australia		7%

DRAW: England 0 - 0 Australia		4%

LOSE: England 0 - 1 Australia		0%

LOSE: England 1 - 2 Australia		11%

LOSE: England 2 - 3 Australia		0%

LOSE: England 0 - 2 Australia		4%

LOSE: England 1 - 3 Australia		11%

LOSE: England 0 - 3 Australia		0%

LOSE: England 1 - 4 Australia		4%

LOSE: England 0 - 4 Australia		7%

LOSE: England 0 - 5 Australia		7%

Total: 27 members' votes

by RTT - Sun 19th Nov 2006, 10:42pm

Surely it reflects a much more positive attitude if we call the "DRAW" options "RETAIN"?

by jpd - Thu 23rd Nov 2006, 6:34am

RTT said: Surely it reflects a much more positive attitude if we call the "DRAW" options "RETAIN"?

Given the action so far, "DRAW" still sounds pretty positive to me ;-)

by BJ - Fri 24th Nov 2006, 8:16am

jpd said: Given the action so far, "DRAW" still sounds pretty positive to me ;-)

As does "LOSE: England 0 - 4 Australia" right now.

by dw229 - Fri 24th Nov 2006, 8:22am

You know, I really love the English spirit of optimism. We've only played 8% of the series, and already we're getting this - can we stop being so defeatist?

by rjn - Fri 24th Nov 2006, 10:17am

dw229 said: You know, I really love the English spirit of optimism. We've only played 8% of the series, and already we're getting this - can we stop being so defeatist?

Shut-up, you're Belgian

by BJ - Fri 24th Nov 2006, 10:43am

dw229 said: ...We've only played 8% of the series...

In the continued spirit of defeatism, I should point out that we've played at least 8%...

by Simon - Tue 5th Dec 2006, 5:54pm

The opening overs of the final day in Adelaide failed to support pessimists who believed England were about to collapse to Shane Warne. With half an hour gone...

Got to love newspapers having early deadlines. That was in this morning's FT.

30% of us are now wrong on this btw.

by Optimist - Thu 28th Dec 2006, 2:35pm

When can we start being pessimistic?

by Tactician - Fri 5th Jan 2007, 12:38am

You can't blame Monty for getting run out. We needed quick runs this morning after all if we were to force a win.

Anyone still feeling pessimistic, could I point out that Australia need 46 to win, and England have bowled them out for a lower score than that no fewer than three times in Test matches, most recently here. Come on boys!

by gf - Fri 5th Jan 2007, 10:28am

Tactician said: ... England have bowled [Australia] out for a lower score than [46] no fewer than three times in Test matches, most recently here.

But of course back then the England XI contained at least one Trinity man... "The Black Prince of Cricketers"