Mike Hussey to retire

Your telling me Aussies don't like to gloat when winning?

How did we get from someone not showing another team respect......to an Aussie gloating...

Glenn Mcgrath............ say no more ! 5-0 to the aussies every time you ask him, funnily enough when England won 3-1 superbly in Australia in 2010-11 Mcgrath wasn't around for his opinion, or did i miss that !

Love watching some of the AussieV Sri Lanka tests with the Aussie commentators, can't wait to shove it down there throats too !!

Ian Healy?? talk about being one eyed.. If Australia win i will be the first to congratulate them..

I think England SHOULD win but the Aussies have done ok recently - they did better than England against SA and have battered Sri-Lanka. Will NOT be easy this time, anyone contemplating a walkover will i reckon be dissapointed (hazsa?)

The problems i see for Australia is, i see them collapasing more than i do with England over a 5 match series.. I can see where England will get numerous 100 partnerships.. We have the better spinner.. and the latter will be vital ingrident..

And a great fast bowler , who will when playing the aussies have over 300 test wickets.

I'm not sure you could have misconstrued my comment any more than that drbantam.

I'm not predicting a walkover- I try to avoid predicting anything. I don't want our players to be complacent either.

We're a side with designs on the number 1 spot. This is an opportunity for our bowlers to face an inexperienced batting line up in home conditions. We should be out for blood, looking to squash them, grind them into the dust like so many Australian teams did to us.

Argh!!! the ashes...bring it on.

I've got several real good close "English" mates and we will have a ball with all the banter going on...over an ale..

My god those behind the scenes have got thin skins......can't even write the term po-----........it has to be England or English...shish!! .