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Jun 2020
10:29pm, 5 Jun 2020
12,679 posts
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Cerrertonia
Yep, TMS will be better for his absence.
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Jun 2020
10:53pm, 5 Jun 2020
30,198 posts
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SPR
I thought whether you liked him or not, everyone could unite in finding Agnew winding him up funny.
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Jun 2020
11:14pm, 5 Jun 2020
17,777 posts
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Chrisity
Without Boycs there wouldn't be a corridor of uncertainty. I quite like him, in a "better than Fred Trueman" way.
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Jun 2020
11:14pm, 5 Jun 2020
530 posts
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njosmith
When Boycott was commentating he would often make a good or interesting point and then make it again, and again, and again, and again...
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Jun 2020
6:10am, 6 Jun 2020
1,618 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
I liked the more technical analysis that he was able to give rather than the 'laddish' Swann/Tufnell. Swann/Tufnell are often good to listen to (although we don't hear quite so much of him now) place but I think the technical does too. Funnily enough, Vaughan ought to be able to provide this but he is just a waking soundbite for whatever the zeitgeist is. Lacks depth sadly. Hopefully Chef will bring something different...
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Jun 2020
8:08am, 6 Jun 2020
64,375 posts
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swittle
Boycott did more to put the image of the grumpy Yorkshireman out there than, say, Fiery Fred. His comical presentation of 'that' pub games tv show plumbed unpredicted depths. Pilloried for indiscretions that many later cricketers trumped time and again, Boycs became a self crafted pastiche. Was it really Aggers winding Boycs up, or vice versa?
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Jun 2020
8:13am, 6 Jun 2020
42,751 posts
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Derby Tup
Was it really Aggers winding Boycs up, or vice versa? is a great point  I think Boycott is more self aware than many people give him credit for and I agree to preferring his technical analysis to endless boys on tour stories
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Jun 2020
8:20am, 6 Jun 2020
21,233 posts
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TRO Saracen
Our batting collapses won’t be the same without his slaughtering of the players after...
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Jun 2020
8:21am, 6 Jun 2020
64,376 posts
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swittle
Commentary on what happened after the 'emperor's' thumb pointed towards the ground.
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Jun 2020
8:22am, 6 Jun 2020
42,753 posts
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Derby Tup
Dropped catches too TROers
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