So Booth and Lintott miss out.

Not being able to see into his mind, I have no idea how personally committed and engaged he has been. He did finish second in both the batting and bowling averages for the Bears in the Blast this year.
I, too, wish him well.

Moeen has announced his retirement from England. But it doesn't seem likely that he'll be playing for the Bears. In hias retirement interview, he says about the future:
"A bit of franchise cricket, because I still love playing. But coaching is something I want to do — I want to be one of the best. "

Looks like he's had an operation in this country and is receiving physio at Edgbaston:
https://edgbaston.com/news/hassan-ali-ill-be-cheering-with-bears-fans-on-quarter-final-night/

I see that Jacob is in the Melbourne Renegades squad for the Big Bash in December/January.

Graham Smith sums up this round of matches:
https://deepextracover.com/2024/09/week-12-vitality-county-championship-review/

Unexpected win for Worcestershire today - but the table looks a lot better than it did before this round of matches:
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/county-championship-division-one-2024-1410191/points-table-standings

Good news that, in the profile on the Club website, Olly says:
“I’m by no means thinking of retiring in the next year or two. Hopefully there are lots more wickets to come. I’m loving playing, loving running in at Edgbaston so want to do it for many more years.”

Will Rhodes seems sorry to go:
"After what has happened to me personally in the last month, with the news that I am leaving, to get a big score in front of the home crowd before I go is very pleasant.
"You never know, it could be my last innings here as a Warwickshire player if it rains when we play Essex, so it was lovely to score some runs.
"It will be emotional when we play Essex because it has been a great seven years here and a period of my career I will remember very fondly."

Dare I say it - the first win approaches! And OH-D is in with a chance of all ten. What a bowler!

I think the problem isn't that we have released players that we should have kept, it's that we somehow haven't managed to produce players (seam bowlers especially) that have made the grade. Chris Woakes was the last home grown seam bowler to establish himself and his debut was in 2006!
I think that OH-D is in lots of ways the exception that proves the rule - a bowler who has got better since he passed 30 and, as we all know, the finest batter to come out of Yorkshire, well ahead of Joe Root and Harry Brook.
By the way, I don't agree with labelling as "dross" players who are professional sportsmen doing their best to survive in a tough environment. Miles has, agreed, been a disappointment and Chris Benjamin still has a long way to go to justify the chances he has been given. It was rumoured that Benjamin might move to Kent, which could explain why he hasn't been selected to play against them.

The good news is that Worcestershire, Lancashire and Notts don't look like they have any chance of winning their games.

You may be right about his lack of opportunities; but I'm not sure that I would have described him as having a cracking season. His 3-34 today were his only first class wickets this season. He did pretty well in the Blast but across all competitions has scored 582 runs at an average of 23 and taken 20 wickets at just under 30 - OK but not tremendous. I think it's too early to say whether or not he will make it as anything other than a fringe player.

As others have said elsewhere, Will is going to be missed as a player and as an all round good guy..

The time for persuading him to stay was before he signed for Durham. My understanding was that he wanted to play T20 cricket and Warwickshire won't select him in the T20 side.
I suppose that he could, in theory, change his mind in that his Durham contract, though theoretically binding, would be difficult to enforce if he decided not to honour it. I think that Chris Wright signed with Sussex last year then changed his mind and stuck with Leicestershire. But that was all tangled up with his drug test problems.

It looks from this report as if his injury was quite serious and there was some dispute about who should meet the cost of his treatment:
https://cricket.one/cricket-news/not-pcb-english-county-to-support-pakistan-fast-bowlers-treatment-after-injury/66c77598ac94d32b0f01d99d
There's a bit of a contradiction, however, in that the report firstly says he has gone home to Pakistan and then says that he will be treated in England.

I agree that now is the time for members to speak up.
The means is there in the form of a special general meeting invoked by 250 or more members. But I'm not sure if the will is there amongst the membership.
I had forgotten how long had elapsed since I interviewed then-Chairman Norman Gascoigne about the changes in how the Club was to be run - see here:
https://deepextracover.com/2018/02/proposed-changes-at-warwickshire-signal-a-shift-in-how-county-clubs-are-run/
The key bit is:
“What powers will members still have? Let’s suppose, entirely hypothetically,” said Terry, “that the ECB proposed to scrap the County Championship and replace it with a 10 overs a side competition. The members would for sure be up in arms in opposition to this; but what if the word from Edgbaston was that the Club would support the proposals? What could the Members do now (under the existing Club rules) to change the Club’s line; and what will they be able to do if the governance changes go through?”

“There won’t really be any difference,” replied Norman. “In both situations, the higher of 250 members or 5% of the club membership would be needed in order for a Special General Meeting to be convened. At the meeting a proposal could be put forward for a vote of no confidence. Or a resolution could be raised for the Board to vote against the ECB proposals. If the resolution was passed, the Board would be bound by it.”

Preview here:
https://deepextracover.com/2024/08/vitality-county-championship-match-preview-warwickshire-v-kent/
We thought we had a long injury list but it looks like Kent have at least seven out through illness/injury.

Yes, my thoughts precisely. Well done to Olly. He's had such a troubled career. I hope he does well for England.

I know that groundsman Gary Barwell doesn't take criticism of his pitches too well; but Mark Robisnon is not too far off the mark when he says: “On this type of surface it just gets flatter and flatter and favours the team batting on the last day. It is hard to bowl somebody out on that type of surface."
On the other hand, Jack Leach - five wickets for 18 runs in 49 balls - might disagree.