Aussies on Andrew Flintoff - Ashes 2009

[mysparerib]

Ponting, you churlish little git, get the lemon out yer arsehole

[alpacinoravidutt]

Shane Watson is Andrew Flintoff's left ball

[MrMilan555]

nothing better than ashes...........anybody who thinks anything is better grow up kid

[kaushrah]

I think Flintoff didnt live up to his potential.....he did rise up to da big occasions evry now and thn.....but a player of his capacity cud hv got a lot more hundreds and a lot more five-fors....I admired him for his absolute passion for the game.....and tat he gave his 100% evn if he was half fit

[FlapJack2206]

lol everyone gives him respectful and flattering comments except for the whiny miserable sod Ponting... why your chirping now mate not getting any runs???

[therealist91]

@FlapJack2206 what ponting said was spot on you hater.. flintoff was a shadow of his great self in 07 due to lack of fitness..

[NPA1001]

Where's our old mate Mitch on here? Altogether now he bowls to the left......

[macca261]

england and australia. we will follow each other into battle, but give us a ball in any sport and it is on!

long live australia, long live england.

[vanhalen2005]

bye bye ashes again aussies!

[G00n3r4Life]

Brett Lee an australian actually said sportsmanship is what crickets all about, when all the australians do is sledge. Non stop sledging.

[WestLondonWarrior]

@G00n3r4Life I love a bit of sledging. Most of it is banter anyway. It's part of the game.

Mark Waugh: Mate, what are you doing out here, there's no way you're good enough to play for England"

Jimmy Ormond: "Maybe not, but at least i'm the best player in my family"

Great line.

[dave790]

yeah on fellas, aussies and the english are dead competitive but it's a great competitiveness steeped with history and tradition. we're cousins really!

[hotchoclateguy]

I am Indian and I love watching Ashes. My fav. cricket series is Ashes and Ind vs Pak.

I like intensity, emotions and pressure cricket. Though Indian team ain't that good under pressure. LOL

[Benfleet1984]

@wogbasha Yep and those days are well and truly over, see the recent 20 20 world cup as evidence of this. Australia's domination over the English has come to an end in all sports apart from maybe Rugby League which no one really cares about.

[Critic224]

Well I am an indian and think that it is a great rivalry in ashes ...

not like out india pakistan bad blood rivalry ...

good for cricket

[Royalencrypter]

I am english and I love the competitive nature between our countries during the ashes series. Ponting is always booed by the English, but its only playful banter. we respect him as a player and as a person, very gratious in victory, and even more so in defeat. He is a true Gent of the game, and very honest. Long live the Ashes and the rivalry that comes with it!

[DJBassey]

He's cute... Is he gay ?

[Tehui1974]

The Australian cricket team receives a lot of slack, but I tell you what, the players really pay Flintoff the ultimate compliment in this footage

[jesterbloke456]

flintoff should be australian!!

He plays like a aussie

[ooooooohmy]

and pls tell me who all these england players are who have been better then him over the years? im dying to know

[ooooooohmy]

"freddie is an average cricketer"??? jeez, i cannot believe some of these comments, he is far from average and u clearly know nothing at all about cricket of football. he is a truly great bowler and the most powerful and dynamic batsman ever seen, as his split in half bat demonstrated. his all round game, his presence and his effect on his team mates made him far from average, and yet again who do i go with? you or every leading cricketer of the past 50 yrs who have watched him play?? hm

[ooooooohmy]

"beckham was never world class"??? what a moronic statement, the typical remark of one who knows absolutely nothing about football. i guess you must be right and footballing nobodys like fergusson, capello, ancelotti and every england manager of the past 15 years are all wrong. u missed yr calling, instead of a no mark-know it all internet bigshot you should be an international or prem league/la liga/serie a winning manager. if u are football wiser than fergusson et al u must be worth millions.

[LondonCanary]

Sure Freddie never was one of the greats of the game, there have been plenty of better England players than him over the years, However Freddie Flintoff is a peoples champ. We Brits hail personality and someone we can relate to more than anything else. Freddie is just a top bloke.

[mcdelive]

Freddie is like Beckham in football. An ordinary cricketer who had few great moments that media could make a hype out of... Atleast Beckham is more consistent. but Freddie is so overrated

[kirankerai]

beckam was never world class

[eliotfrazier]

good old freddie so sad to see his test days gone If you like me love flintoff then please watch my tribute to the man himself :L

[scottchappy]

The Aussies seem like a great bunch of people.Can t wait for next Ashes.

[mcdelive]

Flitoff is way too overrated

[haynesmachine]

yep all pom players are lol

[3Smash]

cant  wait for cricket season

[langdon04]

It seems everyone has forgotten the 06/07 series..

[SumFallGrace]

Yeah. Funny that.

[MadDogOfist]

Cutting promos like this doesn't help win matches. You don't want to go into a series thinking about how much you respect your opponents - you should think about making them respect you. These sort of distractions are what blunted the Aussie edge. Still; as a pom, it's good to see the big man getting the praise he deserves. He should have got it after the series though. Surely it can wait?

[refereeingpesty]

Ricky pointing .fuck the WIG off.

What's with the WIG?

[chetansingh2006]

sweet revenge for  douglas jardine

[guymayou]

australians whinge more than any other nation

[chetansingh2006]

sweet revenge for douglas jardine

[haynesmachine]

except the poms, they're the best whingers by far... them and those french scumbags lol

[Krapvag]

convicts have been whinging all bloody summer.

Thank god you're off next week (minus an urn)

[haynesmachine]

yeh, the pommy wheather will do that do a person... I dare say they're excited to be leaving that shithole too LOL

[biffandrews]

excuse me mate

you sound really upset that you have lost the ashes.

you got ODI

but at the end of the day what would you rather go home with that or the ashes

its the ashes

[haynesmachine]

couldn't care less really... we actually get sick of winning sometimes believe it or not, something england will never understand.

[Krapvag]

sick of winning? Well you're going to be in for a treat these next 5 years then!

[haynesmachine]

oh no... it won't last 5 years, we're not england.

[Krapvag]

"we're not england" - That's true. For starters, England are the current ashes holders

[haynesmachine]

wow... you won a test series twice in 22 years.

[biffandrews]

that haynesmachine is a arse

stupid damm convict

[biffandrews]

HAHA SOO JEALOUS

its impossible to get sick of winning.

you just weird

when ponting leaves and retires your team will be crap cause micheal clarke he rubbish

all you will have is brett lee

[haynesmachine]

yeh right mate, it'll be a cold day in hell when Aussie's get jealous of the poms LMAO... we leave the jealousy to you lot.

btw, Michael Clark is a better cricketer than england has EVER had and he's still so young LMAO again.

[biffandrews]

Hes not have you seen him play ODIS 81 balls 38 runs CRAP

Also if you watch him as soon as he decides hes gonna have ago and hit the ball he gets out i've seen him do this at least 4 times in these ODI Also in one of the ODIS he got 50runs with only one boundary now if that dont scream out crap player nothing will.

[biffandrews]

Name another sport you are good at apart from cricket

let me tell you our

1 football world cup winners

2rugby world cup winners  6 nations winners

3 of course cricket ashes winners

4 tennis andy murray 2 seed were good at all the sports that count all your good at is cricket so yeah we have crap sportsmen your right

[haynesmachine]

hahaha you dopey fuck, you just proved that you know nothing.

1. total cricket domination, ashes (a bit more than 3 lol), world cups & every record there is.

2. we dominated world rugby for years and have won two world cups... you have only won one.

3. we dominate rugby league and your a joke.

4. tennis LMAO you havn't produced a world no.1 since 1935 & since then we have had 4.

5. swimming (can poms even swim?)

so yes you are shit at sport & we have one third your population too LOL

[davenavarroforpm]

4 number ones since 1935? We've had waaay more. You don't win 20 odd Davis Cups with a handful on number ones.

[davenavarroforpm]

Haha buddy, I'm Australian! But we've had Laver, Rosewall, Wilding, Brookes, Newcombe, Hewitt, Patterson, Crawford, and Rafter at number one.

[haynesmachine]

haha funny fail on my part sorry bro

[davenavarroforpm]

It's all good, probably should have told you I was an Aussie!

[Benfleet1984]

@haynesmachine Such an ignorant comment. Typical Australian.

[biffandrews]

again he has an amazing way of yorking himself with spin bowlers twice ive seen him do this with swann bowling

You can come up with all these lil ''SMART'' ideas on how england won and why you dont care but where im from thats text book JEALOUSY

[haynesmachine]

o.k... he must really suck if he's the future Australian Captain.

If we were jealous we would create a big singing group and make up songs about your heritage etc... we would call it an army lol

overall your a nation of shit sportsman so enjoy your time in the sun, it doesnt come around often.

[Benfleet1984]

@haynesmachine Really? We own your arses in most sports these days. We have the ashes, we stuffed you in the world 20 20 the other day, we finshed higher than you in the Olympics, have beaten you in the past 3 Rugby world cups and are far superior in the football department... Not to mention that we have a Heavy weight world champ in David Haye. What have your sportsman done of late? Before you bang on about Rugby League, NO ONE other than your selves care about it.

[haynesmachine]

@Benfleet1984 'these days' haha you mean finally your doing o.k at a couple of things.. we like to dominate sports for long periods of time, remaining undefeated for years etc. but you guys will win one match in 10 years and always think its a turning point hahahaha always funny... you only have 3 times our population so here here to the pommys, at least all your gay singing is slightly less painfull when you actually win something...

[biffandrews]

at least we get behind the players

STUPID CONVICT

[milohills]

quit the convict shit you misrable thatcher humping POM

[LondonCanary]

Grow up kid, calling you Aussies "convicts" is just banter, stop crying.

You call us poms, we call you convicts

You mock our culture, we say you have no culture

you mock our queen, we say shes your queen.

It's all part of the Aussie English banter, which cricket wouldn't be the same without.

[maurice2002]

@LondonCanary no you grow up son.  Your nations character is summed up as mentally soft. A player like Trescothick always on the verge of mental breakdown sums it up. Look at Peter Sellers, Winston Churchill, its scary how your most well known and reverred individuals were crack pots.

[nuntana2]

@maurice2002 You're clearly a bit simple putting Sellers and Churchill together in such as way, but just be careful with your remarks; just because you're sat behind a computer wherever, doesn't make you invisible.

[MattA96]

@LondonCanary yep you're absolutely right, it's all good fun. At the end of the day the two countries have stood shoulder to shoulder when it really matters, and two world wars and a bunch of conflicts since matter a hell of a lot more than any game of cricket.

[scudsyboy]

@LondonCanary your a TOSSER!!

[flamingfrancis]

@LondonCanary - you are English? - show some reverence for Her Majesty. The reference "she's you queen" should read "She's............

She has earned a capital S.

An uneducated monarchist Aussie.

[nomoreliblabcon]

@haynesmachine Yeah, WE do it with class, over a Pimms and lemonade with ice and a slice.

[dartmoordog]

All the banter and shit aside. The Ashes rivalry between two great countries is what it is all about. Where would we be without it, unless you are an Aussie or Pom cricket fan, you would not understand. Good on em all I say, and may it long continue.....I am a Pom by the way, and at the moment, a very proud Pom. Thanks Australia, thanks for the memories.

[RMGLUCK]

0.34 - best sports photograph ever.

[rockbabe95]

Damn Shanw Watson rocks =)

[badmanmcgee]

you cant knock good sportsmanship by both sides

[tkw251070]

Agree mate. It's a sport. While it's an Ashes battle it's not the end of the world. Great to see the Aussies talk about Freddie with respect. Equally, Punter, great to see him get the record. As a Pom I was ashamed he was booed onto the field. Ordinary behaviour. Punter is one of the greatest players to pick up a bat. The boos were disrespectful.

[JBrads91]

tht were jst banter mate, freddie had to put up with it at melbourne, he got a cheer at the presentation after the game, the english know a top player when they see one!!

[tkw251070]

Nah mate, singing songs about the players is banter, cheering their fielding mistakes is banter, making witty comments to a player in the deep is banter. Booing a player coming onto the field is cheap. Sorry, with respect, I disagree with you there. You are from Yorkshire, you going to Headers?

[JBrads91]

well i aint got naa tickets, i live about a 20 minute walk from carnegie, but there will be some on sale for the 4th n 5th day, might get up early n pay on the gate,haha

[normandeplume]

"Every time I see him I think, 'Jeez, I wish I played with Andrew Flintoff"

Shane Warne

[HitMeQuick]

Well what you all failed to say is that you're all shit scared of him. Brett's so scared he just wants to be held by Andrew.

[liveforevermaybe]

all bad sportmanship in the world began with australian teams, they just don't know how to lose gracefully, that means teams and supporters. England are true sportsman in victory and loss.

[jonnybottle]

not surprising how much practice we get at losing ;0)

[britgirlcats]

The Aussies don't even know how to WIN gracefully!

[iceborn999]

How so ??

[martyshire]

I'd like to know how so as well?

[111Thelimit]

I disagree! In the true spirt of the game they have won with an underarm bowl.

[britgirlcats]

You are right and I retract my earlier comment. Class move by Ponting today, shaking Freddy's hand. Good lad.

[rockbabe95]

Very professional aye

[2107gc09]

dude, australia would have done the same thing

[HenryV1975]

underarm delivery to the Kiwi's ring any bells?

[djb66v2]

I think you've missed the point. The Oz players here have gone out of their collective and individual ways to point out that Freddie/England play in the right spirit of the game (i.e. good sportsmanship). So far it's been a great series, played in the right way. Don't lose sight of that please.

[flygweilo]

Please stop embarrassing Australia.

[NepalmyPride]

Don't worry about Freddie.