OK, forumers who will be in Sydney next week...

Have a fev time boys.

Three days in Melbourne cured me of the desire to watch live cricket for a while. Plus I got back to Rocky (closest big town to where I live) just in time for the place to be totally cut-off from the outside world for the next ten days.

Good luck qmy. That's some nasty sh!t that Mother Nature is chucking at North Qld.

Stayed with some rellies for the new year and did too much drinking and not enough checking weather updates as roads, trains and then the airport closed. Ten days with thia bunch is gonna drive me crazy. So it's either a hotel or a chopper and a qunt of a drive home.

Probably all well p!ssed by now.

Have a good time, gents.

taipan wrote:Probably all well p!ssed by now.

The pieman tells me he's the first to arrive, no sign of the assassin or any of his other targets.

A most pleasurable day at the SCG today. Spoiled only by the pissweak efforts of some of the Aussie batsmen. Several beers at the Great Southern Hotel afterwards, accompanied by a most enjoyable $9.90 rump steak.

We met up with Hass in the Messenger stand, but not afterwards. The rain drove him in a different direction...

lardy, skully and myself are at Chez skully at the moment and a very nice bottle of Rutherglen Durif is about to meet its doom.

Had a good time today swapping texts with Skully from the other side of the ground to where the forum 5 were sitting.

The consensus seems to have been:

- Phews - WTF was that pile of crap of a shot?
- Watto - softy McSofty dismissal again
- Clarke - he is the new Ponting both with the bat and in his decisions at the toss
- Uzzi - unlucky but looks the goods.

From lardy: Uzzi Uzzi Uzzi Oi Oi Oi.

You can't rob a bank with charm and personality.

Just thought I'd pop in to say I enjoyed our brief catch-up. It's good to put a face to the name.

Being fools, me and my friends decided to wait around in the vain hope there would be some more play on day one. By the time we left the ground it was absolutely pelting down - we took refuge in the Olympic Hotel while we waited for my friend's wife to very generously pick us up and take us to safety... needless to say, her idea of safety didn't include a detour past the Great Southern Hotel!