Our usual inability to do anything other than "play our natural game"... and get slaughtered in the process. I was, alas, watching it and that pitch was a minefield for the first hour, so good toss to win, and correct call. They needed to just not hit anything that wasn't going to bowl them for the first hour. Even so, on that pitch, with those weather conditions, there was always going to be an early massacre.
It may come across as sour grapes but this tour has been too much about the pitches, what's been done to them to make them play as they have, and then making the correct decision at the toss. Getting that piece of luck at the start and then knowing what to do with it shouldn't be that important in serious sport. I mean, there's a green stripe down the centre of your pitch.
Each test has been over after the first day. So you'll enjoy getting the Ashes back, no doubt, but after the glee wears off perhaps there'll be a realisation that it hasn't made for interesting cricket matches and is just another nail in the coffin of the long form of the game.
This test could be over tomorrow. The previous one was 2.5 days. Not really a sustainable business model is it, considering the small ground capacity English grounds have?
If I was Australian cricket I'd be immediately reassessing our attitude to pitch preparation - there are never any conversations over here about how a pitch should be prepared - they just are what they are.
Anyway, rant over, well played and enjoy the urn.