With the emergence of Archie Vaughan, Somerset now have three spinners (though I suppose Vaughan is more of a batsman). I wonder if one of them could be persuaded to move?

Yes our fans do like a moan, that’s for sure! Most comments levelled at the management/coaching are fair I think but in the championship I think we’ve just been one strike bowler away from being towards the top in my opinion. It’s the lack of being able to take 20 wickets that’s cost us, turn a couple of our 7 draws into wins and it makes a huge difference. Rushworth being injured certainly harmed us a lot and yes, this goes back to the management relying on an ageing seam attack.

Also worth mentioning that Alex Davies passed 1000 championship runs for the season and is only the second player to do so in Division 1. He's had a lot of stick since joining us but has definitely been a lot more consistent this season.

I’ve generally been one of the few to defend Robinson over the last couple of years but unfortunately I think time has run out. As others have said, to concentrate so much on this competition and not even make it to finals day just isn’t good enough. On paper our side is good but once again we just choked. Don’t think the captaincy is the issue though as others have suggested, we haven’t lost many under Davies’ watch.

Have to say that I think we were a bit screwed by the scheduling this year, with such a long break since the last game and going into this one cold - it was the same for Gloucestershire but I feel like the underdog is always favoured in this scenario.

That was a truly awful batting performance. I don’t think Gloucestershire earnt any of their wickets, we just gave them away time and time again.

I like Danny Briggs a lot but he’s got to just get a single first ball of that 19th over

Time for Benjamin to make a contribution for once

Now Bethell as well, such a stupid shot

Very surprised we chose to field first given that we don’t usually chase well…

Why did Gleeson not open the bowling?

We did win the one day cup quarter final earlier this season! But that was the first one for a while.

Looks like it’s on us to represent the north group, all three qualified teams are from the south group…

I’d like to go with Benjamin, Foulkes/Garton and Miles to miss out, but that only gives us two seam bowlers, so I suspect one of Garton or Foulkes will be included. Maybe Yates misses out?

Tayls79 wrote:

I think we need 70-80 overs. We've struggled to bowl teams out this year and the rumour was Rushworth was a bit out of condition yesterday. How many overs is it last day? As Paul says, if they want to win (and Worcs are well placed so we could with one) I think it's a ten over smash around tomorrow AM?

96 overs on the final day. Minus 2 for the change of innings of course (unless this happens over lunch)

I feel like this could be a good pitch for Rushworth and OHD.

Don’t think we’re going to win this, unless there’s another miracle. Those last 5 or so overs really cost us.

Well that was a pretty terrible finish.

ExiledBrummie wrote:

Exiled Bear wrote:

Well that was a stupid end to the innings. Why not just knock it around and get to 200 at least?

It's a 48 over game isn't so 200 was never realistic.

Oh fair enough, still think we could have eked a few more runs out though and in a low scoring game that could be important, going pretty well so far though!

Well that was a stupid end to the innings. Why not just knock it around and get to 200 at least?

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