OT - The Ashes

[roger_ramjet]

Root says for much of the game we outplayed the Aussies!!!
*******s!! For much of the game 2 ordinary sides! Then, when it mattered, England cowered in the corner!! Steve Smith showed how ordinary England's bowling was then the wimps came into bat! As usual, when you really need him, Cooke goes awol!! A few decent spells of FAST bowling and we brown stain our pants, then our slow medium 'couldn't frighten a mouse' bowlers (they ought to switch to crown green bowls!!) were made to look like pussies!!
The truth Rootie is .... for much of the match we were poor (so were they) but when the Aussies begwn to remotely look like a test team we crept into our little burrows!
Unless the batsmen grow a pair and the bowlers are given England conditions it could be 5-0!!

Mostly agree but we lost the Ashes outside a Bristol nightclub a couple of months ago.

[AdiSalisbury]

Cowering to pace again. You'd think they'd work on this kind of thing. Still, I'm sure Anderson's medium pace half volleys will see us through !

[eddy779h34]

What gets me.
Bt sports now have the live coveage offa Sky which is bad enough ,Why can't we have this on main stream tv like the footie

This pay per veiw sports in this country is getting out of hand .You get a title fight boxing match on Sky and they put it on box office the robbing ********
I pay £80 for Sky and they have the cheek to put premium events on box office, can see a lot of footie going on this box office con eventually
Has anyone taken bt sports just to watch the ashes cricket

[AdiSalisbury]

Not even a highlights show on now

[ManxRam]

Has anyone tried Mobdro app for smart TV?
Someone told me her hubby had 100% success streaming first test.

[Andy_Faber]

What gets me.
Bt sports now have the live coveage offa Sky which is bad enough ,Why can't we have this on main stream tv like the footie

This pay per veiw sports in this country is getting out of hand .You get a title fight boxing match on Sky and they put it on box office the robbing ********
I pay £80 for Sky and they have the cheek to put premium events on box office, can see a lot of footie going on this box office con eventually
Has anyone taken bt sports just to watch the ashes cricket

I already had one and the coverage has been pretty good

[Andy_Faber]

Has anyone tried Mobdro app for smart TV?
Someone told me her hubby had 100% success streaming first test.

I have a number of friends who use various hacking methods to watch pay TV for free. Despite having a 'stick' to do so I don't approve of theft so it stays in a drawer

[MadAmster]

Mobdro works a treat on phone and tablet. PC version in the making. As Andy says it is "theft". I have the app on my phone and tablet but only use it half a dozen times a year as I have legal means of watching most sport I want to watch. Most of the time that I do use it, it is because I am not at home when the game is on so my conscience is reasonably clear. 45 minutes football uses about 450Mb of data so be careful with your data limit should you use it.

Question, Andy...... if you don't approve of said stick, why did you buy/acquire it in the first place?

[Andy_Faber]

Mobdro works a treat on phone and tablet. PC version in the making. As Andy says it is "theft". I have the app on my phone and tablet but only use it half a dozen times a year as I have legal means of watching most sport I want to watch. Most of the time that I do use it, it is because I am not at home when the game is on so my conscience is reasonably clear. 45 minutes football uses about 450Mb of data so be careful with your data limit should you use it.

Question, Andy...... if you don't approve of said stick, why did you buy/acquire it in the first place?

Ha, fair cop! My daughter's boyfriend 'upgraded' earlier in the year and gave me his old one! Like you, I will watch by 'illegal' means if it is a logistical thing (mainly watching abroad when I have a UK subscription - I use Filmon a lot) and my conscience is fairly clear. To me, if something is worth watching its worth paying the going rate for.

[MadAmster]

I have a RamsTV subscription but that does not include Sky/BT etc televised games. I still get to see those games though

The current government and the owner of Sky believe in market forces. Just maybe. If people stopped their subscriptions to Sky and all bought "sticks" or watched Mobdro or similar, income would fall and force subscription charges to drop too.