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Reply | T' 2024 County Championship
at 20:56 17 Sep 2024
A shame Notts filled their boots today. Lancs need someone to step up tomorrow. Maybe the day for some Flintoff heroics? |
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Reply | Update from Cameron Ogden.
at 18:42 13 Sep 2024
An excellent statement which should allay some of the fears that issues behind the scenes are not being addressed, or even identified. This medium term plan sounds exciting. |
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Reply | T' 2024 County Championship
at 08:00 12 Sep 2024
Last season Salt did play a few red ball games, as did Wood. I do agree that form has been awful this season and Mahmood playing sparingly has affected the seam bowling resources. It is a bit ironic that it was muted that he was signing with Warwickshire, we then won the biding war for him and he has missed most of the last two seasons. I know it is not his fault, but it is another example of resources being tied up in players who are not available to play.
The best ability is availability. I am not sure we have that much depth? How many of the fringe players would start for a division one team? Blatherwick would be lucky to start for a second division team! A Surrey second string would probably finish mid table.
There are some younger players who show promise and Hurst has been the one shining light, with him performing well in all formats. A BBL season will do wonders for him and he may get an England Lions call up. Bell needs to push on and some younger seamers need to come through to eventually replace Williams and Bailey who have dropped off this season. Boyden is a good prospect, who have suffered from injury and Aspinwall could develop into a decent first change bowler and number 8. Barnard is also a highly regarded slow left armer, which will probably see Morley move on. Stanley is also a quick white ball bowler, but again, always injured.
I expect that we will get relegated. Recruitment needs to be much better. Jones from Durham has been signed, but he is not really a big name. We need some impactful overseas signings to help our younger players. Is Mitchell available? |
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Reply | T' 2024 County Championship
at 21:19 11 Sep 2024
And Luke Wood. The third seamer in red ball cricket has been a weakness all season. With the IPL, world cup and then the snack cricket we have seen very little of our international players. It is almost not worth having them. |
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Reply | Paul Waugh
at 19:04 10 Sep 2024
A good idea would be for energy companies to introduce a lower priced tarriff which is below marked rates for less well off pensioners that they are automtically transfered to, no having to fill out forms etc. It will hit their profits but in reality the hit will be so small in relative terms.
I agree that well off people should not be receiving benefits at all. It is crazy that people in low paid jobs are paying tax to fund child benefit for households which could have an income of almost £120,000 a year.
The whole tax and benefits system is an absolute mess, but their is no will to reform it. There is no political capital in letting people keep more of their own money so they do not have to be in receipt of a range of benefits and it removes the electioneering of if you vote for X they will get rid of your benefits, or if you vote for Y they will give more money to 'scroungers'. [Post edited 10 Sep 19:07]
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Reply | T' 2024 County Championship
at 21:20 9 Sep 2024
Playing in a relegation battle in the county championship is a marked difference to a dead rubber in the Metro Bank cup. |
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Reply | T' 2024 County Championship
at 19:01 9 Sep 2024
At least Matty Hurst is standing up to be counted. Great season for him. Maybe Flintoff will select him for the England Lions squad, especially the white ball one.
The rest is just a massive disappointment. The established players outside of Jennings have under performed and it is too much to asks the kids to step up and score the volume of runs needed.
Sometimes one step backwards to go two steps forward is needed. The youngesters can have a season against lesser competition to develop and hopefully sign a couple of impactful overseas players. |
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Reply | T' 2024 County Championship
at 07:33 1 Sep 2024
There is a lot of young talent and Hurst has had a good season. There have been a catalogue of issues mostly stemming from the coach. Inconsistent team selections, poor performance from senior players and lack of impact from overseas players have all contributed to a poor season. Recent championship performances have been dire and lacked fight with the bat. |
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Reply | Sir Peter makes his debut
at 18:55 31 Aug 2024
The formation really suits Gordon and Beckwith being both defensively sound and good enough on the ball to contribute offensively. |
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Reply | Sir Peter makes his debut
at 17:22 31 Aug 2024
An all round excellent performance and to be honest we probably should have scored more. Henry and East totally dominated the midfield and unlike in previous games Woking gave us more space to play.
Defensively we looked sound with Ferguson looking very comfortable in the central role. |
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Reply | Yeovil away match thread
at 17:33 26 Aug 2024
We shipped a lot of goals last season, so tightening up defensively is a good thing. It should not be underestimated the impact physically on the players of the start to the season. They have played four games in just over a week and it appears that both Gilmour and Ebanks-Landell have sustained muscle injuries. The players are not robots and Jim has rotated to manage minutes with apart from Gordon, I do not think any other player has played the full ninety in all of those four games.
To travel to Yeovil and come away with a win after a game on Saturday is a really good achievement. I am not sure if the team stayed over last night, hopefully they did. [Post edited 26 Aug 18:04]
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Reply | Yeovil away match thread
at 14:19 26 Aug 2024
Still the same formation with Senior and Armstrong at wing back and Allarakhia and Burger as the wide forwards. |
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Reply | Update from Trust
at 14:17 26 Aug 2024
I suppose away games are a bit different as you cannot choose your seat in advance and it is pretty much the unwritten rule of sit where you like. Those who want to stand can then gravitate to the back and then vice versa. |
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Reply | Update from Trust
at 13:21 26 Aug 2024
The issue is the lack of communication. Supporters need to be made aware that there are no stickers on the seats and to sit in the seats they have bought. There was no information about this anywhere. I was one of those affected on the first game and thankfully the group did move, but their initial solution was for two groups of season ticket holders to move to the row in front, which were also season ticket holder seats. I would not have felt confident in any of the stewards dealing with it.
It is basics. It's the same on Saturday with the turnstiles. Only two were open for the Pearl Street and it was painfully slow getting in. For whatever reason people cannot/do not want to to get into the ground really early. |
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Reply | York away match thread
at 19:33 20 Aug 2024
I suppose with games Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday and Monday there will inevitably be changes for each game, alongside possibly what may appear at the time confusing substitution, with the aim of managing minutes and hopefully avoiding fatigue injuries.
It appears that East, Gilmour and Henry will rotate with whoever is on the bench coming on. Why Beckwith is interesting though as I do not really see Armstrong as a like for like replacement, but hopefully he has a good game. [Post edited 20 Aug 19:50]
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Reply | Scores
at 09:46 19 Aug 2024
A few issues from Saturday:
1. There were only two turnstyles open at the club shop end of the Pearl Street and the process of getting into the ground was really slow as many people had trouble scanning their ticket from their phone. I would have thought that one of the stewards/someone could have had a hand held scanner to assist those who were struggling which would have allieviated the problem. If crowds increase, especially with with first time/infrequent supporters this issue could get worse and/or put people off attending.
2. The chairs in the Pearl Street were filthy. Again, not very appealing to new supporters, or even existing ones. My seat was also broken.
3. There were no reserved stickers on season ticket holders seats. This caused a bit of an issue when a group of supporters were sat in a block of reserved seats and their solution was to move to the row in front, which were also seats of season ticket holders! Thankfully they did see sense and moved, but this issue could have been avoided.
To give George Delves credit I emailed him this morning about the stickers and broken seat and within five minutes he had replied and copied in two other people to my original email saying that the staidum staff will look at prior to Saturday.
A few small things that should not cost a lot of money can just help to improve the match day experience. |
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Reply | Kyron Gordon...
at 18:20 8 Aug 2024
It is really pleasing to see the contract extensions. It gives the players security and all three should be able to adapt to League 2, if we did get promoted this season. |
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Reply | Kyron Gordon...
at 14:21 7 Aug 2024
Really pleased for him. He has looked good in the right sided defender role in the back three. |
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