With England's only reflection on the misery of this present ODI series being the perennial "We just weren't good enough" from Monsieur Strauss I am seriously wondering whether we will even come close to winning a game!
I just hate that statement. It is the younger brother of "We have to take positives from this game and come back strongly and prove our character in the next game."
What does that actually mean? I just switch off now when our captain starts talking like this. It seems like the English are brilliant at this. Whenever I hear other captains they seem to have actually some kind of plan.
I yearn for the day when someone goes "we were cr*p and to be honest we have know idea what to do about it and are cr*pping ourselves about the next game!"