' I have made it quite clear that before this match and tour I wanted to take this team forward '
Well there is only one direction you can go Joe, because you've took us to rock bottom.
Well we will see how brave or gutless the ECB are now.
After successive and humiliating series defeats ( beaten at home to the Kiwis and behind to India) then the embarrassment of the Ashes and this spineless performance in the Windies. All on Joe Roots watch. Yes he individually was brilliant in general last year, but his captaincy is not good enough. Perhaps being more honest, and not being afraid to criticize some woeful individual performances would give him more credibility.
How he can defend some of the dross served up is beyond me. There were hardly any greater and charasmatic characters than Botham and Keegan ( football), yet neither coped with the pressure at the highest level.
Joe do the honourable thing and step aside. Concentrate on what you are destined for, being England's most prolific Test Match run scorer.