There was no plan and as such no execution with the fresh cherry... I think they were trying to bowl Markus get them out balls...

it it was blatantly obvious goat should have been thrown the ball 5 overs into the new ball...

hard to believe 10 overs of poor cricket and captaincy may cost us the game...

im still backing us in at this stage... 

That is probably the reason why they are in the game with the possibility of breaking a record. The pitch rather than deteriorate has gotten better. The first innings of both teams probably don't count as much as if they had gotten decent scores which would have seen the last innings of the game on the 5th rather than 4th day

I'm more critical of not bringing the goat back earlier and not calming the quicks down with the new ball.
He should have walked up and talked to the bowler after 1 bad over.

At least Chappell is more wrong than I am, he thought we would win in a canter, I never thought that.

No it wasn’t.... awful decision,.. It was conceding...
we can still win this but the quicks gotta bowl tight but for wickets and let goat do the job...

Pitch flattened out, we didn't make enough 2nd innings.

The pitch seems to be getting better all the time the last few days.

That was a poor session of bowling with the new ball.

Bring back Smithy.

Who would you rather face last over before lunch... cummo or labs???...
Sack Pay!!!! Err Paine!!!...

No it was a good time to try to buy a wicket.

We need something special or a fair bit of luck from here.

Aussies have lost the impossible. Who loses when when you dismiss at team for under 70 in the first innings 

Too loose to try now...
but here he is...

This is better, I hope the horse hasn't bolted.

You are right Paine is an average captian, an average keeper and an average bat.

Not a bad player but not exceptional, but captaincy is important.

Is labs any good?

Finally... 4 overs too late...

Seriously Paine... goat... slow it down... 
hes a poor captain...

Agree with slow it down... still have no idea what u mean by get them out balls...

craig McDermotts first wicket was a full toss..,

Just gotta slow things down a bit... really important goat dont bowl too straight though...
as much as we miss smudge batting, we’re missing him at slip more...

One wicket will change the momentum. 

Yes, I think we need to bowl tight now and see if the Poms will make a mistake.

The pitch isn't offering much.

Aussies need 2 wickets before the balance gets below 100...

Fielding now is atrocious.
You can argue that England are lucky that every nick and misfield is going for 4, but the bowling is a shambles.

Now the crowd are into it. 
England with tails up.

This is where you need to slow it down and make them force the shots.

Need "get the out" balls not "throw it up and hope the make a mistake" balls.....

Too* 
short*

A few runs always gonna come with a new rock... but we haven’t given ourselves best chance with it...
I be throwing it to the goat right now...

Length with new ball disappointing... generally to full, then the shirt one to short..,

We need a wicket here,,,

The goats a bigger chance with a harder ball... they all are...

Good thing they don't listen to Warney ..😁

I'm with Warney here give the Goat and Pato a few overs with the old ball.

Both sides had an off game with ball in hand... I think the occasion got the better of them both which is something they will need address moving toward finals...

I agree with Canberra about Manly, they are a scrappy disjointed team who can make the opposition scrappy and disjointed...

Our game against Parra had precision and intensity. I don't think that is because the refs put the whistle away.

It is becasue we had a big 10 fast play the balls and teams who knew how to pass the ball.

Refs somehow lost control of Canberra / Manly...

But I am struggling to  remember any great attack from Manly, there was one good pass from DCE and the winger dropped the ball in a good tackle..

Otherwise they scored off an intercept and a simple pass from the dummy half....