I wouldn't agree they where OTT comments at all. A team that looses 19 wickets in one day on a wicket the other team scored well over 500 then declared deserves all the criticism it gets. If it served to give them a kick up the backside so much the better for all concerned.
We now have a 'proper' test match on our hands that could even last five days for a change. I would much sooner watch this than the last pathetic display.
And apart from a regular check up on the current F1 race I won't be watching The Baggies v Stoke.