SQUARING THE CYCLE

We love Peter Lalor's work around the AGB, but Pete, mate, come on:

Pessimists of the press to eat humble pie

TURNS out it wasn't the selectors who got things badly wrong.

AWKWARD moment, this.

English journalist Nick Hoult put it best when he twittered on day three of the Perth Test: "British press on verge of Private Eye-style apology to Aussies. When we wrote you are a bunch of spineless has-beens, what we meant was . . . "

The News Cycle dictates that each day of a see-sawing series must be treated with concomitant excitement/disappointment, but these Ashes, contested by a couple of average teams, could still go either way.

Comments

[Big Ramifications]

WTF? All the selectors' replacements turned out to be duds. Australia won in spite of their useless meddling.

[Hewy]

C'mon Big, selectors did an amazing job.

The win was all down to opening with 'The Future' and having the 'Excitement Machine' coming in at 6.

[Big Ramifications]

The word "machine" as a descriptor for a person always makes me laugh. Back in the day, when he was at his drinking, womanising, drug taking best, Charlie Sheen was known as The Masheen. Puyre win.

"If you ever had sex with a machine, that's what it's like with me. Coz I'm like a sex machine."

-from Beavis and Butthead's pickup lines