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YOU just would not want to be an English batsman at the WACA on Friday.
Punters may have read tweets from fans and ex-players saying this is a true, even paced deck and it was - while England bowled on it.
We said the same in Brisbane and Adelaide after England's first day bowling efforts but when Mitchell Johnson emerged on day two those tracks suddenly sprouted claws.
This deck has more new ball bounce than Adelaide and looks roughly similar to Brisbane.
Former Test firebrand Jeff Thomson expects it to be quicker and bouncier on Saturday.
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Near the end of a blistering hot day, England's exhausted fieldsman looked up at a scoreboard trivia question asking what was Johnson's bowling average in Perth Ashes Tests just before the ground announcer revealed "9.11 per wicket.''
Johnson must be frothing at the mouth.
England beware.
FANCY FEET
STEVE SMITH's first Test century on Australian soil was a major moment for a nation who needs him to excel for all sort of reasons.
His homemade technique has its soft spots but Smith's footwork to slow bowlers is something to behold.
To see him move three metres out of his ground and smack Graeme Swann for six - to get off the mark, if you don't mind - confirmed him as a player of rare adventure and skill.
With so much cricket now played on the turning decks of the Indian subcontinent, Australia needs to unearth more players of his ilk against the turning ball.
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WACA MAGIC
Perth will not host a Test next season and we are missing it already.
Sadly India will play just four Tests and the WACA, mainly because of its small capacity, has missed out.
The facilities here are vastly inferiors to other Australian grounds but you just have to love the rampaging, blood and thunder tone of WACA cricket.
SETTLED AT LAST
AUSTRALIA has played the same side for three Tests in a row for the first time since the 2006-07 Ashes series when it beat England 5-0.
Half of Australia's top order - Chris Rogers, Shane Watson and George Bailey - are averaging under 25 but winning takes the pressure off everyone.
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BROAD SWORD
STUART Broad continues to be heckled as an Ashes anti-hero but it is time for Australians to concede he is an exceptional player.
Australian batsmen say privately Broad just feels all over them when he is bowling and that is how it was yesterday in a world class, post-lunch spell in which he supremely tested e Smith, Brad Haddin and George Bailey who he claimed to an airy pull shot.
Broad's returns for the series at that point were 13 wickets at 23 and no other English bowler in the Test had a series average of less than 54 per wicket.
NO SLIP UPS
At their team meetings before the game England's bowlers were told - and retold - that batsmen don't get bounced out at the WACA, they get caught in slips.
The bowlers were ordered to pitch the ball up and they duly did.
The problem was, with the ball not swinging, they were driving fodder and duly conceded 17 boundaries in the 24 overs before lunch.
Only one of the first six wickets fell to an edge.
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SILLY BILLY
ECCENTRIC umpire Billy Bowden made his first Ashes appearance of the series and that splash of controversy that seems to shadow him arrived as well.
Bowden twice failed to call "over" at the correct time, - cutting a Stuart Broad over to five legal deliveries after failing to have an extra one for a wide then making Ben Stokes bowl a seventh delivery in the 45th over.
YOU'RE HIRED
WACA curator Matthew Page should pick up a fulltime job on the strength of his excellent debut Test strip.
Page was a six year deputy to former curator Cam Sutherland who two months ago left after a dispute with WACA management.
He has yet to be appointed on a fulltime basis but the job should be his after a producing a strip which has been warmly praised by both camps and should provide a gripping contest between bat and ball.
TOSSED OUT
When England's Alastair Cook lost the toss a collective groan drifted from English supporters on the terrances - but history offered them salvation.
The side winning the toss at the WACA has won 14 and lost 19 Tests confirming what Darren Lehmann said before play that it does not really matter whether you bat or bowl first at the WACA, it is generally a sprited contest between bat and ball for most of the match.
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