Mikkyk wrote:

To further the above I tried to pause the live stream at the point the ball got to Foakes and it definitely looks like it hit the floor.

I wish we could have had a close up because I have never seen a keeper who felt the need to immediately claim that the ball had not hit the floor, as Foakes did. I thought that was most strange!! It’s the cynic in me.

“Slips sort of half went up” the batsman, as ever, told the truth. The fielders ran forward immediately to celebrate with the bowler, knowing that it was a straight forward catch to the keeper, and that it would be taken comfortably………………….

The game was won. Bowl a decent length and they wouldn’t have got near it, every time we dropped short we got carted over the boundary. Even Gleeson in his brilliant spell dropped short on one occasion and got the same treatment, the Garton over was awful, just awful, as bad as the decision to throw him the ball. Simon Doull commented that all we needed to do was bowl fast and full! Lots of chatter on here re: Davies, the defence always leap to his batting. Quite rightly, given his highlights and given his ridiculous dismissals, together with his lack the discipline, there is obviously room for debate and disagreement. That said his captaincy and leadership is woeful and will never change.

Good shout

You can tell that it’s a must win game seeing the caution shown by Davies….

Great day at Edgbaston, congratulations to all those that attended. A day to remember!
Huge thank you to the batters that stepped up to the plate today, you are to be applauded. Brilliant!

We are going to accept soon that WCCC needs some leadership. Davies has been, and will continue to be a disaster and the appointment of Westwood was a desperately weak decision showing little research, less inspiration and no ambition. Much like the previously mentioned captain.

I really like him, I bet the natives of Headingley won’t be “chuffed”….
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Sorry to sound rude but if there is a “power struggle” between Davies and Westwood we are in bigger trouble than we might of thought. Two of the most uninspiring individuals that have ever been in charge of Warwickshire CCC, in my opinion, of course. Briggs will be missed in white ball cricket, as well. A far better cricketing brain than the captain.

Great recovery from another poor start. Much needed victory, more of the same (ish) tomorrow please.
Thank goodness we have Ed Barnard in this squad, not sure where we would be without him, a fine county cricketer. Nothing else to say really………………..
Except replace the captain, strangely, I think he would agree with me. Might help his career as well.

Of course sir. Sorry!

Well said! It’s a forum ……isn’t it?

Davies has to be removed from the captaincy, the very thought the man is captaining Barnard, Hain, Latham and M. Ali, begs belief. We do make the most awful decisions as a county. He is the most uninspiring county captain imaginable, and it’s showing.

Robinson/Davies…………Westwood/Davies!
It’s painful to watch.

Robinson: highly regarded? By who? When? Times change, people change, tactics change, methods change. We have had some fine young cricketers in recent years, fortunately some are still with the club. Young people, (and some not so young) in all types of employment, but especially the sporting world, need to be inspired. Watch any of the Robinson, or Alex Davies, interviews over the last couple of years, have any been inspirational? Would they excite a young cricketer, or as I say, the not so young? Why is Will Rhodes going to play for Durham, why does Sam Hain spend more time at the crease talking to umpires and opposition fielders? Im sure someone will tell me it’s because Will wants to be near his grand parents or that Sam is a naturally friendly chap but we need some sense of urgency, a desire to achieve, sporting hunger. We were beaten before we ever took to the pitch this week v Essex. The second time that we have humiliated ourselves against them in one season.

Robinson: highly regarded? By who? When? Times change, people change, tactics change, methods change. We have had some fine young cricketers in recent years, fortunately some are still with the club. Young people, (and some not so young) in all types of employment, but especially the sporting world, need to be inspired. Watch any of the Robinson, or Alex Davies, interviews over the last couple of years, have any been inspirational? Would they excite a young cricketer, or as I say, the not so young? Why is Will Rhodes going to play for Durham, why does Sam Hain spend more time at the crease talking to umpires and opposition fielders? Im sure someone will tell me it’s because Will wants to be near his grand parents or that Sam is a naturally friendly chap but we need some sense of urgency, a desire to achieve, sporting hunger. We were beaten before we ever took to the pitch this week v Essex. The second time that we have humiliated ourselves against them in one season.

Bald_Reynard wrote:

ajones1328 wrote:

Well this has been pathetic

Season can't end soon enough. Definitely need an upheaval in the management with few changes to the playing squad.

Completely agree with you AJ, Robinson has to go to start with - if Larsen has got the balls to sack the man who was on the panel appointing him (!), if not the Management Committee have to act. Once we get a new Head Coach (Trotty - if he can leave Afghanistan ?!), he needs to look at all support Coaches, with Frost first. Then the playing squad (a major overhaul, depending on contracts), then the Captain, then the recruitment policy (Overseas and home based) ....... ! A long and difficult process, but it has to start now.

Completely agree. The evidence is there for all to see, players are not motivated or committed to, or by, the current leadership and coaching personnel. It’s not gossip, it’s not speculation it’s hard evidence of weekly performances and a seasons capitulation.

He had, very obviously, got a hamstring injury. Are you seriously suggesting that the captain should not check on his condition? If only to satisfy himself of his ongoing availability? And does every topic, or comment , now have to be approved for its subject, content and authenticity?

Rushworth, hamstring! Is Davies on the pitch? Certainly not in evidence when the injury became evident or when Rushworth was speaking to the umpire or when he was leaving the field? Barnard takes a wicket when the captain is left with no option but to ask him to finish the Rushworth over!
My word we are in a mess.

Tayls79 wrote:

I'd honestly give speculating about relationships in the squad a miss. We'll never know the true situation. We don't know whether it is disharmonious, toxic or anything else. In any other working environment it would be and should be here, confidential. All we do here by speculating on it is gossip.

I thought that is what sports forums are for? In addition there seems to be sufficient evidence to suggest that it’s way beyond gossip. It’s not gossip that’s doing for Hain, Yates, etc