huge difference in retaining it and winning that series outright

we retained 'The Ashes' as a trophy in 2010 but won The Ashes series in 2011. HTH.

Posted By: Brandonio on December 22nd 2011 at 20:29:01

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Who would you vote for in SPOTY? (n/m) (Other Sports) - Huge Small, Dec 22, 19:35:24
- Team of the year norwich city fc (n/m) (Other Sports) - Dave ncfc davies, Dec 22, 20:13:08
- Phil 'The Power' Jupitus. (n/m) (Other Sports) - tudders, Dec 22, 19:57:37
  - i didn't realise he was in it (Other Sports) - Tombs, Dec 22, 19:59:21
- frank bruno (Other Sports) - Tombs, Dec 22, 19:55:12
- Either Cavendish or Donald if I was betting (n/m) (Other Sports) - Klobo04, Dec 22, 19:54:04
  - donald?! (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 19:55:29
    - Its ironic you calling Donald a bottler... (Other Sports) - Klobo04, Dec 22, 20:00:11
      - andy murray - the ultimate bottler (Other Sports) - Tombs, Dec 22, 20:03:18
        
        Just unfortunate to be playing in an era when (Other Sports) - yarmyyarmy, Dec 22, 20:25:48
        
        POTD (n/m) (Other Sports) - Yellalee, Dec 22, 20:47:13
        
        ha ha, fuck that makes me laugh every time (Other Sports) - Tombs, Dec 22, 20:44:57
        
        boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom (n/m) (Other Sports) - Brandonio, Dec 22, 20:53:32
        
        McBottle-Head. (n/m) (Other Sports) - tudders, Dec 22, 20:04:57
      - whooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh (n/m) (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 20:01:03
- Cook. (n/m) (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Dec 22, 19:52:06
- Darren Clarke (n/m) (Other Sports) - KentonCanary, Dec 22, 19:47:23
  - Yeah, I've changed my mind, I hope he wins It (Other Sports) - Huge Small, Dec 22, 20:04:11
- Grant 'HORSE' Holt for me too (Other Sports) - Huge Small, Dec 22, 19:46:47
- Of the 10? Cavendish or one of the golfers. (Other Sports) - Stringy Bob, Dec 22, 19:45:17
  - it's been a terrible year for british sport (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 19:46:14
    - ^^^ Doesn't really follow sport. (Other Sports) - Arizona Bay, Dec 22, 19:48:05
      - actually murray won queens so maybe he deserves it (n/m) (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 19:49:04
    - Apart from the Ashes (n/m) (Other Sports) - Yellalee, Dec 22, 19:47:29
      - non event these days (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 19:48:25
        
        Well non-event is clearly not true, but you are entitled to your trolli... sorry, opinion. (n/m) (Other Sports) - Yellalee, Dec 22, 19:49:47
        
        tbf we retained the ashes in december 2010 (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 19:51:45
        
        ^^^desperate trolling overdrive (n/m) (Other Sports) - Yellalee, Dec 22, 19:53:24
        
        2010 is the year before 2011 tbf (n/m) (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 19:54:13
        
        here you go (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 19:52:31
        
        Yep, that was the day we made it mathematically impossible to lose them. (Other Sports) - Yellalee, Dec 22, 19:56:24
        
        an event isn't won upon presentation (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 19:58:14
        
        Did we win the Ashes in 2010 then? (n/m) (Other Sports) - Yellalee, Dec 22, 19:58:48
        
        well done (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 20:01:28
        
        Eh? What year did we win the Ashes then? (n/m) (Other Sports) - Yellalee, Dec 22, 20:02:08
        
        the last ashes were retained in 2010 (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 20:02:43
        
        That's not what I asked though is it. You said we'd won nothing of note (Other Sports) - Yellalee, Dec 22, 20:04:17
        
        winning, retaining whatever (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 20:06:08
        
        Thinking what was 2011? (n/m) (Other Sports) - Yellalee, Dec 22, 20:07:14
        
        when we won/retained the ashes (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 20:07:56
        
        Winning is not the same as retaining (Other Sports) - Yellalee, Dec 22, 20:08:49
        
        so man u can't win the league this year? (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 20:09:32
        
        i wish you'd just said that we destroyed india in the test series (Other Sports) - StraightOuttaBacton, Dec 22, 20:12:36
        
        Keep to the subject. Is retaining the Ashes with a draw the same as winning outright? (n/m) (Other Sports) - Yellalee, Dec 22, 20:11:49
        
        this thread is starting to look like a gay off (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 20:16:02
        
        We (n/m) (Other Sports) - Yellalee, Dec 22, 20:16:16
        
        IFail. Well done for admitting you were wrong. Takes a big man to do that... (n/m) (Other Sports) - Yellalee, Dec 22, 20:17:28
        
        haha one of the funniest threads on here for awhile (Other Sports) - Brandonio, Dec 22, 20:21:54
        
        about what lol (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 20:24:00
        
        huge difference in retaining it and winning that series outright (Other Sports) - Brandonio, Dec 22, 20:29:01
        
        no we won the series in 2011 (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 20:29:59
        
        if only lee had said the ashes series and not the ashes (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 20:31:30
        
        Nice to see you've walked away from the thread as suggested, and taken it gracefully... (n/m) (Other Sports) - Yellalee, Dec 22, 20:31:23
        
        it developed from tag team to bullying (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 20:33:50
        
        unless you think oz could still win them from 2-1 down (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 20:25:47
        
        Muggy couldn't even be bothered to turn up for SPOTY btw. Grumpy sod (n/m) (Other Sports) - Huge Small, Dec 22, 20:28:36
        
        surely he should be training in miami (n/m) (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 20:30:30
        
        zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing! good thinking (n/m) (Other Sports) - Only1Doherty, Dec 22, 20:11:32
        
        tagteam? (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 20:15:29
        
        Well only if you're a moron, tbf (n/m) (Other Sports) - Yellalee, Dec 22, 20:12:27
        
        haha fair. this thread is funny (n/m) (Other Sports) - Only1Doherty, Dec 22, 20:12:58
        
        per (n/m) (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 20:03:03
- andy murray (n/m) (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 19:39:27
  - Oh do fuck off. Andy fucking Murray. Jesus Christ. Fuck me. What a cunt. (n/m) (Other Sports) - jafski, Dec 22, 19:42:03
    - What has he done to win it this year? (Other Sports) - Klobo04, Dec 22, 19:49:22
      - won some tournaments, reached every slam semi (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 19:54:56
        
        So we are going to give it to Andy 'Almost Made It' Murray (Other Sports) - Klobo04, Dec 22, 19:58:08
        
        it's only a ranking (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 20:00:50
      - Won* (n/m) (Other Sports) - Klobo04, Dec 22, 19:49:57
    - And I don' t really care about SPOTY. But that cunt can't win. (n/m) (Other Sports) - jafski, Dec 22, 19:42:58
      - Hairy Mega Monster Tilt ! (Other Sports) - Huge Small, Dec 22, 19:48:18
        
        i got 3 different replies in 3 minutes (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 19:53:44
        
        ROOOOOAAAAAAAR! (n/m) (Other Sports) - jafski, Dec 22, 19:50:12
      - agreed he has no chance this year (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 19:43:51
    - there are only about 10 on the list (n/m) (Other Sports) - SCC 28, Dec 22, 19:42:41
  - ^^^twitchy finger re-dial (n/m) (Other Sports) - Huge Small, Dec 22, 19:41:53
  - Barely a sport, absolutely no personality. (Other Sports) - Arizona Bay, Dec 22, 19:40:07
- Grant "Usain" Holt (n/m) (Other Sports) - Arizona Bay, Dec 22, 19:38:15
- Horse (n/m) (Other Sports) - Duck, Dec 22, 19:36:31

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