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Richard Branson is leading the campaign to have the MCC leave the real Ashes Urn behind in Australia currently being debated in the tea break by Mark Nicholas, Ian Healy and Tony Greig.



Personally I dont give a toss beacuse Australia will always keep on winning them regardless

Richard Branson's partly responsible for the success of 'The Sex Pistols'
Smart bloke eh!
However the Urn's kinda delicate...
So shipping it across to the other side of the Planet every coupla years can't do it much good!
But being realistic, there'd be no need for it to go to the U.K. for quite some time eh!

I say keep it safe and sound here for the next 100 years regardless of who wins it...

The urn orignated in Australia for starters and had we received it back in 1989 it would have had 16 lovingly cared years in Australia's care before returning to Lords in 2005.

It has been moved few times by all accounts in the past 16 years for special exhibitions and seems to have survived. I'm sure a few of those stuffy, pasty coloured MCC board members along with the booze soaked players would have touched or played with it (the urn that is! ) after the excitement of the Poms winning it back in 2005!

Leave em at Lords or the bloody thing will be destroyed. Who cares? It's the cricket that counts. BTW, Snaggs, how is Richard Branson partly responsible for the Sex Pistols' success?? Malcolm Maclaren yeah, but weren't the Sex Pistols originally on A&M (*cue Leaping Lindner to thread)?

regards,

REB

Rik E Boy wrote:Leave em at Lords or the bloody thing will be destroyed. Who cares?

regards,

REB

Agree 100%

Rik E Boy wrote:BTW, Snaggs, how is Richard Branson partly responsible for the Sex Pistols' success?? Malcolm Maclaren yeah, but weren't the Sex Pistols originally on A&M (*cue Leaping Lindner to thread)?

regards,

REB

Just a small fledgling record company back in the late 70's known as 'VIRGIN' signed 'em on when nobody would have them!
("Who?... E.M.I.")
Albums:- 'Never mind the Bollocks' & 'Flogging a Dead Horse' both released under that label!
A young Richard Branson is also spotted in 'The Great Rock n' Roll Swindle' that movie which has the barge going down the River Thames for that infamous 'God save the Queen' film clip!
Anyway, let's get back to Cricket, yeah?

Snaggletooth Tiger wrote:

Rik E Boy wrote:BTW, Snaggs, how is Richard Branson partly responsible for the Sex Pistols' success?? Malcolm Maclaren yeah, but weren't the Sex Pistols originally on A&M (*cue Leaping Lindner to thread)?

regards,

REB

Just a small fledgling record company back in the late 70's known as 'VIRGIN' signed 'em on when nobody would have them!
("Who?... E.M.I.")
Albums:- 'Never mind the Bollocks' & 'Flogging a Dead Horse' both released under that label!
A young Richard Branson is also spotted aboard the boat going down the River Thames in that infamous
'God save the Queen' film clip!
Anyway, let's get back to Cricket, yeah?

EMI signed the Pistols originally then dumped then after about six months, and after "Anarchy in the UK" had made the lower reaches of the charts. Sid Vicious (John Ritchie) then replaced the sacked Glen Matlock and A&M then took on with that infamous contract signing in front of Buckingham Palace. After that they went back to the A&M offices - trashed them and they were effectively out of contract by the end of the day.
Branson did sign them up when no one else would touch them (and it was something of a departure for him having acts such as Mike Oldfield and Steve Hillage on his label.). He also went onto sign a lot of other great English acts from that era Magazine, XTC, The Members etc

of friggin in the riggin - remember friggin in the riggin, friggin in the riggin, friggin in the riggin there was "f" all else to do! man i loved the sex pistols in the day.. i remember when romper stomper came out took me back to my mid-late teens skins v rockers and all that! and russell crowe.. well what more can a girl say? - sorry do not mean to highjak this thread but talk of the pistols got me excited.... and i dont really care where the ashes urn is kept just would be happy if a decision is reached and the preciousness of this trophy be preserved whereever it lays.. i do not believe it should be flown across the world...

All polls should have a Who Cares? to enable the poster to vote accordingly.

A lot of major trophies are never removed from the grounds. Wimbledon trophies are kept there and even the green jackets from Augusta are not allowed to leave the premises.