Fred - the Icy Pole

he certainly seemed to lose the taste for himself during the 6/7 Ashes tour here as he was continually humbled, but 3 wickets and another 2 "wickets" has seen Fred back to doing what he likes to do - giving himself a damn good lick...
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'I never thought I would see anything to rival the evil hubris of the Bung chainsaw - but fred's crucifix pose takes the cake...what a complete tossbag..at least he remembered to give the umps a hug

Let's hope we see 3 more tests of it. If it's got the aussies sooking, can't be a bad thing

And you stare at me
In your jesus christ pose
Arms held out
Like youve been carrying a load
And you swear to me
You dont want to be my slave
But youre staring at me
Like I need to be saved
In your jesus christ pose

Aye, Lever. Thenk the Lawwd he wasn't bawwn an Auuussie. We dewwnt warnt thet sort of Messayennic mellorkey dispawwting itself in the Green and Gewwld, Maude.

And a bit of this:

Horrie in "I am truly a bitter old c*nt" shocker.

horrie in standard observant mode

Unfortunately, I think he can get away with this as long as Blighty does well.

horace wrote:he certainly seemed to lose the taste for himself during the 6/7 Ashes tour here as he was continually humbled, but 3 wickets and another 2 "wickets" has seen Fred back to doing what he likes to do - giving himself a damn good lick...
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'I never thought I would see anything to rival the evil hubris of the Bung chainsaw - but fred's crucifix pose takes the cake...what a complete tossbag..at least he remembered to give the umps a hug

We call that a 5fer in these parts.

Basil wrote:
We call that a 5fer in these parts.

horace wrote:he certainly seemed to lose the taste for himself during the 6/7 Ashes tour here as he was continually humbled, but 3 wickets and another 2 "wickets" has seen Fred back to doing what he likes to do - giving himself a damn good lick...
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'I never thought I would see anything to rival the evil hubris of the Bung chainsaw - but fred's crucifix pose takes the cake...what a complete tossbag..at least he remembered to give the umps a hug

Personally, I think it's awesome, and totally appropriate. Great cricketer who reserves his greatness (unfortunately) for home Ashes battles.

And can the man whip up the crowd. Farkin legend.

It was always gonna be Fred that stopped any miracle, and he didn't disappoint the Lords crowd and adoring masses watching on Teev.

Doesn't Afridi adopt the same Messianic pose on taking a wicket? I'm sure he did in that T20 mallarkey recently. Wonder who's copying who?

Jontyh wrote:Doesn't Afridi adopt the same Messianic pose on taking a wicket? I'm sure he did in that T20 mallarkey recently. Wonder who's copying who?

Dunno - has Fred dragged his spikes across a pitch to rough it up when everyone else was distracted yet?

Jontyh wrote:Doesn't Afridi adopt the same Messianic pose on taking a wicket? I'm sure he did in that T20 mallarkey recently. Wonder who's copying who?

Wasn't Jesus a few centuries ahead of Mohammed ... I guess there's your answer, jont!

Anyway - anything Pom-esque that get's up Horrie's nostrils and singes the hairs there will do me nicely.
Fred's a legend - so savour it horace you myopic old Roman ... you have another 15 days ahead of you to endure TGP's prowess over your lot !

Aye. As long as he doesn't start pirouetting on a length. Those time-wasting tactics in Cardiff were toe curling enough, even though they were clearly down to Flower. No way a Pom could stoop to that kind of caper.

Absoolutely, they could only have been thought up by a colonial...

Come to think of it, haven't all of our embarrassing moments, in all walks of life, been down to the colonials?

Definitely. We'd have won in 1066 if we hadn't been using Australian arrows which were bent; that fire in 1666 was started in a curry house whose previous owner brought the plague over from India. Even that iceberg was manufactured in Canada in 1912..

Even that iceberg was manufactured in Canada in 1912..

The ship that hit it was Irish.

I think you'll find it was made in Belfast, Trev.

Wouldn't matter anyway in 1912.

Not to those who went down.

Can't be all bad. Leonardo di Caprio drowned too.