[76th over: England 292-5 (Flintoff 44, G Jones 13) More good stuff from Flintoff, who rocks back before cracking Warne through the covers for another boundary.] England should change their name to Great Britain, if only to help Welshmen like me have easier lives, ... It's so tedious explaining to work colleagues how I can support 'England' in cricket and England's opposition in rugby and football. |
[According to Black Dragon mainsheet trimmer Chris Mason, yesterday was a matter of perseverance.] A slightly frustrating course for us as it was not suited to the boat, ... We only had the spinnaker up for about nine minutes in the whole race due to the strength of the winds. We enjoyed the race though, it was especially interesting at the bottom mark (at Cala di Volpe) when the wind was going from 6 knots to 20. |
A lot of times it seems like for some reason if we're not scoring on the power play we don't seem to have a lot of jump or things like that. If you want to be an elite team, you've got to beat the good teams and right now we're not doing that. |
Any back-to-back is tough, but especially against a team like Vancouver. Even though they've been losing, they've been scoring a lot of goals and just coming out on the short end of the stick. |
Down one goal, we felt like we had a chance. We kept the pressure on. That's a little something to build on. |
England should change their name to Great Britain, if only to help Welshmen like me have easier lives. It's so tedious explaining to work colleagues how I can support 'England' in cricket and England's opposition in rugby and football. |
Every game it seems like we're taking 10 penalties. It's like 'uncle.' We just can't do that anymore. We're playing losing hockey. |
He (Goodwin) missed a lot of wide-open shots. At one point he was 0-for-7. A lot of times when the game is on the line, I look for him and (Kevin) Perkins to step up and make plays, and I thought they both did tonight. |
I don't know if we think it's going to be an easy schedule when we are playing teams like Columbus and Chicago. These guys are playing good. They're playing better than us ? better than a lot of teams right now. |
I felt all right until that third goal went through two guys and hit my stick and went in. That was the only bad goal. I've got to get those. |
I felt we gave them the game with all the penalties. We knew they would be called. We had nothing. It's the playoffs now, and we need to get to the net and draw penalties. |
I just felt good and we really want to get home-ice advantage. I really want to be ready for the playoffs and this is where I kind of have to get in a groove and get going here. |
I knew coming over here, it was going to be tough. He (Woodley) does a good job with them defensively. They run their sets well. |
I mean in years past St. Louis always abused us. It's kind of unheard of to sweep, but they beat us up in years past. |
I think that's the first time in about four or five years I've let in five goals. I've got to do a better job to give the team a chance to win. Even though there were some good shots, those can be the kind of saves that help your team turn things around. |