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Thebumble
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That wasn’t my point. You stated you’ve seen me post what you say which is nonsense! I can’t disagree with you regarding weaknesses but I haven’t said it on here before. Just don’t tell fibs
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KP Retires
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Nice little dig a mental illness there.
I thought you had, maybe I am thinking of someone else.
The Voice Of Reason
Heaven Branch
Don't come that card lad
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Thebumble
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Must be, it wasn’t me. I fully agree with your comment about biggest weakness is an opener and a number 3, but that has nothing to do with the initial debate about KP so it’s irrelevant.
I'm not, Trott had anxiety, I have it myself, its absolutely horrendous.
Don't go there. Stick to the cricket.
Well I was just saying as good a player as he was we miss Strauss and Trott more in the lineup
Never mind, people will agree to disagree.
The Voice Of Reason
Heaven Branch
Don't bring it up nothing to do with my opinion on him as a cricketer
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Heaven Branch
No
Saying he had no bottle was no reflection on that
Don't be so insulting to suggest it was
Explain how he had no bottle then? I think that was one of his great strengths
Voice of fair play
Striker
Surprised nobody has mentioned when he first broke into the team for the one day side, that first one day series in South Africa when he scored 3 hundreds back to back or something like that despite getting loads of stick from the home side, by the end of that series he had turned the home crowd around where amazingly they now had respect for what he did on the field.
You knew then he was different and had something about him
It was them performances that made it impossible to leave him out of the upcoming Ashes.
To perform under that pressure in his first series showed he was certainly a big game player!
You knew then he was different and had something about him
It was them performances that made it impossible to leave him out of the upcoming Ashes.
To perform under that pressure in his first series showed he was certainly a big game player!
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Problem is, by the way he has behaved, a lot of his great innings have now been forgotten. Social media isn't anything, but the amount of negative replies he gets is unreal.
Now people say on here that it is irrelevant to the cricket, and I guess it is, but it just shows you the level to which he has pissed a lot of the public off. Always this misconception that he was kicked out and the public was desperate for him to come back, not true in my opinion. It was his failure to grasp this why he never returned. Should have learnt from his mistakes, realises his flaws and he might have got back in and regained some trust from a percentage of the public who don't like him. In the end he became even worse
It is a shame as he played some truely great knocks.
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Voice of fair play
Striker
Yes mate, totally agree, the very fact such player with such talent has now retired and hardly anything is said says everything about the man.
While non of us can know exactly what went on behind closed doors, the suspicion is he was a utter and total tosser!
Whilst this has turned into a disaster of a thread, how do you mean he had no bottle? It was due to mental illness, and to suggest otherwise is quite poor
CollingwoodFTM
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Probably the most naturally talented batsman I’ve seen play for England. He could dismantle a bowling arrack in a couple of hours.
I doubt he’d ever be described as a team player mind.
I doubt he’d ever be described as a team player mind.
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Heaven Branch
He was anything but “meh” mind.
To suggest he wouldn’t even be close to an all time England XI is nonsense as well. He might not make everyone’s but he’d certainly merit a discussion. People really are allowing their dislike of him to cloud their judgement.
Bairstow and stokes bat 6 and 7 how on earth have they replaced KP? How many middle order players have been tried and failed since he was put out to grass? I once remember you saying you wouldn’t leave out Gary Ballance for KP which says it all really.
I don’t think it was. As far as I’m aware it was more stress and pressure than anxiety or depression that forced his hand. I have huge sympathy for Trescothick but from what I read about Trott it was totally different. The pressure got to him, he was brought back and again wasn’t up to it.
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Fair play
talking nonsense about trott again, have a word with yahself
I liked Trott as a player but it seems the amateur psychiatrists are getting their knickers in a twist again. Wasn’t it situation based anxiety? We obviously have our own interpretation of that.
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