England are seeking their first win on Australian soil since 2010-11, with many believing Stokes’ side have the best chance of success since that tour.
Former England assistant Paul Farbrace left Stokes “disrespectful” and said his words were a message to stop the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise outside the noise
“All the people who are stoked are saying, Forget the noise, forget everything that’s going on,” Farbrace told BBC Sport.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s an English great or an Australian great, let them have their say, it doesn’t matter.
“Ben is disrespectful.
“He’s respectful of all the greats that came before. Don’t worry about what Ben said.”
Farbrace was part of the management for the 2017-18 tour when England played four warm-up matches against local sides and lost the test series 4-0.
He said the hierarchy reflected after that they would be better served in a build-up similar to the one scheduled this year.
He added: “Don’t be fooled into thinking this England team isn’t ready.
“I get the players’ thoughts before but we are behind our team.
“Let’s do something very un-English and support our team instead of giving them a kick before the series starts.”
Former captain David Gower, a team-mate of Botham and Gooch, was part of the victorious 1986-87 tour – their only other win in Australia since the 1970s.
“I hate to say it, in the middle of the right solution,” Grower told BBC Radio 5.
“I wouldn’t encourage you to play three full games. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.
“These days they don’t worry about it in the same way, saying to themselves anyway say ‘tomorrow a facility to try to put the on-switch on’.
“The whole thing is about peaking at that moment.
“It’s inevitable that it works for some and not for others. As long as seven or eight out of 11 are somewhere near a peak there’s a chance there’s a chance.”