England squad delayed after KP texts

Zat wrote:And from Wikipedia, a definition of 'Social Media'

Social media technologies take on many different forms including magazines, Internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, microblogging, wikis, social networks, podcasts, photographs or pictures, video, rating and social bookmarking.

Interesting that the FBer with the most posts on this Internet forum is one of the loudest to decry social media

FB = cheaping social media?

Well I guess you can only say fair play to KP for coming out and admitting he has been a complete twat. I didn't think he had it in him to admit to his mistakes these past few months.

Time will tell how long this truce lasts. Hopefully everything will be rosy up until the end of next year's Ashes. The he can f*ck off if he wants to.

If calling twats who beg for "likes" and post look-at-me duckfaces on FaceBook, and spew apologies after farking up on Twitter dickheads is "decrying social media", then guilty as charged. I am forever listening to the whinging of my idiot youngest sprog about what people have said about her on FaecesBook, most of which she deserves after posting something dumb. Yes, it shits me to tears.

Social media is social media skulls. You're an addict to the social media that is Flaming Bails in just as big a way as Warney is to twitter, or our know-nothing Olympic swimmettes are to Facebook.

Meh, that's like saying cricket is baseball, because they both have bats, balls and fielders.

You're saying I don't have the right to decry Twitter and FaceBook because I like posting on Bails? Frankly, I don't think I've ever used the words "social media" in here. I have specifically bagged the attention whores of FaceBook and Twitter.

That's bullshit, and you know it.

Er, no, I don't know it. Wow, you have sure been fiesty since returning. What's up your bum??

So you're saying Internet forums aren't social media?

Moved to Egypt skulls? How's life in denial?

skully wrote:Meh, that's like saying cricket is baseball, because they both have bats, balls and fielders.

You're saying I don't have the right to decry Twitter and FaceBook because I like posting on Bails? Frankly, I don't think I've ever used the words "social media" in here. I have specifically bagged the attention whores of FaceBook and Twitter.

You clearly missed my edit of the post (see above) before your "bullshit" effort, which I was in the process of adding to as you fired off half-cocked.

Feel free to find any reference I have made in here that bags "social media" in general (um, yes, I realise forums are social media, so to make a sweeping statement against the genre would be, well, silly). I have specifically hammered FaceBook (yes, I devoted a thread to it) and Twitter, no surprise given the large number of celebrity attention whore twats who daily make gooses of themselves, or feel the need to tell the world they just squeezed a pimple. I will continue to do so.

Reading back, I'm not sure that you haven't mixed me up with Dello. He is the only person who mentioned "social media".

So via video KP has now unequivocally committed to all three forms of the game pronouncing his love of playing for England.

So has this temper tantrum all been about his attention whoring streak?

Yes.

So they were going to drop KP for Lord's with the leaked text messages being the final straw, KP got wind of this, and hastily did a U-turn by releasing his youtube video, and then the selectors did a U-Turn of their own by adding Pietersen to the squad again?

What a soap opera.

So is there some sort of consensus that KP is not liked within the England side? Or is it all his own thinking?

Apparently he had a deep and meaningful conversation with "a team mate" and a lot of issues were put to bed. Clean slate etc.....

Furry muff. He's too good a player to allow some petty shit-fights to keep him out of the England side.

this is hilarious stuff. england going into pakistani terrirtory

JGK wrote:

Zat wrote:And from Wikipedia, a definition of 'Social Media'

Social media technologies take on many different forms including magazines, Internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, microblogging, wikis, social networks, podcasts, photographs or pictures, video, rating and social bookmarking.

Interesting that the FBer with the most posts on this Internet forum is one of the loudest to decry social media

FB = cheaping social media?

Surely the Flaming Bails is antisocial media?

Henry wrote:So they were going to drop KP for Lord's with the leaked text messages being the final straw, KP got wind of this, and hastily did a U-turn by releasing his youtube video, and then the selectors did a U-Turn of their own by adding Pietersen to the squad again?

What a soap opera.

Or he's playing the ECB at their own game. They keep leaking details of their private correspondence with him to the media in an attempt to use public opinion as a weapon against him, so he's upped the ante and very publicly declared he's England through and through (ahem), willing and able to play any time, any place, daring the ECB to drop him now - how can they justify NOT picking their best player when he has spelled out his commitment to the cause?

Ball's back in the ECB's court.

Well the squad's being announced in five hours, and KP is expected to be in it. He'll be ridiculed forever though if he retires after Lord's having released that Youtube performance stating his 100% commitment to England.

Dello wrote:

Henry wrote:So they were going to drop KP for Lord's with the leaked text messages being the final straw, KP got wind of this, and hastily did a U-turn by releasing his youtube video, and then the selectors did a U-Turn of their own by adding Pietersen to the squad again?

What a soap opera.

Or he's playing the ECB at their own game. They keep leaking details of their private correspondence with him to the media in an attempt to use public opinion as a weapon against him, so he's upped the ante and very publicly declared he's England through and through (ahem), willing and able to play any time, any place, daring the ECB to drop him now - how can they justify NOT picking their best player when he has spelled out his commitment to the cause?

Ball's back in the ECB's court.

There was never much danger of KP being left out. Surely it was all about keeping his name up in lights while the Olympics were on.

Anderson endorses team spirit as being above the one man show.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-2187180/James-Anderson-We-didnt-need-stand-The-selectors-whats-best-team.html

Henry wrote:Well I guess you can only say fair play to KP for coming out and admitting he has been a complete twat. I didn't think he had it in him to admit to his mistakes these past few months.

Time will tell how long this truce lasts. Hopefully everything will be rosy up until the end of next year's Ashes. The he can f*ck off if he wants to.

This is it. It must have been difficult to swallow his pride, but he did it with aplomb.

Can't say I'm displeased. He's a top batsman.

Is he any good at mixing a drink?

Well he's certainly a good stirrer.

Pietersen dropped over text messages

Bairstow recalled.