I played lacrosse in the days of wooden sticks and no 30-second clock. It was a far more aggressive game than today's watered-down plastic stick version.
Those were the days. I remember leaving the res and the game for a few years. Once I got out of Juvy and into High School, I went to try out for the school team. I showed up in a tshirt, a pair of cut off jean shorts, and sporting my hand made wooden stick.
I was rebuffed for my lack of safety equipment. I went out and acquired said regulatory equipment and couldn't handle the ball with gloves on, I could spin and maneuver with the pads on and quite frankly, it felt like f!cking with my clothes on. Those crappie aluminum sticks suck balls. You can not get the same velocity with those, you can't twist a shot with them. They are absolutely useless. And yet I still own one, lol. But I still have three hand made wooden ones that put it to shame.
Does cricket have goal posts?
Yes, they're called wickets and SJP is moving them around just as fast as he can.
I suppose if one can't move it, it becomes a "sticky wicket"?
I was going to give you a rep for the last to posts, but it won't let me. LW you made me laugh out loud, those were gems.
Quite so, TenPenny. the two mean pretty much the same thing (I have already mentioned that I stopped following cricket more than 20 years ago, so whatever I say by definition applies to that period), you are finally beginning to master the intricacies of English language.
To bad you haven't the same grasp of commonsense.
So ... do you think Edsel sales will be brisk?
There's a nother one that deserves honourable mention...lol...
I find some of your comments unfriendly and unnecessary. There's no need for that.
Of course there isn't, so long as it's being said to him. But him and his cabal are as free as birds to ignorant James. We've learned to deal with it.
If it's any consolation, I would have to believe you, an actual Brit, over SJP and his convoluted memory any day.
You really haven't got a clue. One day County Cricket matches have always existed. I know that limited overs came later. Don't talk to me as if I know nothing.
That's how he talks to everybody, and if you keep proving him wrong, he'll put you on ignore.
The FACTS here
Records | Test matches | Team records | List of series results | Cricinfo.com
DO NOT support your erroneous claim that MOST test matches used to be drawn 20 years ago or that MOST matches are drawn nowadays.
So please, stick to the FACTS, not your inaccurate memories of the situation as it was 20 or 30 years ago!
SJP splashes around the absurd like a 5 year old in a blow up wading pool.
Sorry if I offended you. But you started it, with the following comments of yours.
Anyway, let us call a truce, OK?
Good call, he's spanking the crap out of you.
I did not say that MOST matches ended in a draw, I said that a great many of them did. In fact, in one of my posts I gave the typical result in a test match, two wins, one loss and two draws. That is hardly most matches, is it?
BS, you said...
What are you talking about? A test match lasting 1 or 2 days? Indeed. A test match lasts for five days. After two or three days, they have a day of rest, so a test match, counting the day of rest, goes on for six days.
You said that as a matter of fact, no "if's" "ands" or "buts" about it.
And you certainly did not use the word "most".