Fletcher, Duncan b Consistantly bad results after 7 years

The analysis into England’s Cricket at the world cup now begins. A news conference is to be held today which may signal Duncan Fletcher being sacked or receive a vote of confidence and Michael Vaughan could also be dropped or relieved of the captiancy.
To be honest something needs to be done, doesn’t it? Only winning Kenya, Canada, Ireland and Bangladesh (no disrepect to these teams but̷ is not good enough and we are quite rightly dumped out of the World Cup. (see this blog by Martin Gough from the BBC)
I feel I should make a supportive point here though, if we had won the Sri Lanka match (lost by 1 run) or the South Africa match then things would be very different but that’s the fickle nature and the fine line between success and failure.
It may be a drastic measure but in a way, I agree with David Lloyd’s comments that change needs to be radical - of course that may not be the case, we may leave it and improve or change drastically and stay the same (we can’t get much worse!)
It was not just the defeat to South Africa it was the manner of it (here is the link to the scorecard if you can bear it). From Nelson (111) for three to 121 for 8. Typical old style England collapse and even after we managed to limp over 150 it was the turn of the bowlers.
Fair enough, they did not have much to bowl at, fair enough it was almost over without a ball being bowled but this was the match presented as a “quarter-final” with the winners going through to the quarter finals and South Africa came out all guns blazing instead of nurdling their way to their measly target. However, England (again) had no answer as SA reached 157-1 off 19.2 overs and won it very easily indeed. The result looked bad but the performance rubbed it in even more…we didn’t deserve a place in the quarter finals.
On a more postive note is the Ireland team, despite yesterday’s result against Sri Lanka, they had surprised a lot of people with their passion, commitment and skill at the World Cup 07 and I would like to say they were a credit to the world cup - minnows doing something they weren’t tipped to do and pouring their heart and soul into evey game.
As for my tip on who is going to win? It doesn’t matter- England are out so I couldn’t care less. As for are we going to win our last match - I hope so, but it doesn’t really matter does it, except for some pride and to leave the tournament on a high.
Like my previous post stated this world cup will always be remembered for this and I just hope that justice can be done so that family/friends of Bob Woolmer can know the truth.