sheffield_blue
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I've got 4 tickets £10 below the purchase price for sale on stubhub and viagogo, been on sale since last Friday evening, looks like another year of being lumbered with tickets.
Andy wrote:
Right, I hate the fact we're called Birmingham Bears, always have done, but it's not the reason we keep losing Blast 1/4 finals for goodness sake.
People seem to be inferring that Alex Davies should no longer be at the club...clearly those people don't follow us in the county championship...I'd still back him in the role as captain and let him grow. I admit I've not always been a fan either.
Ultimately we have too many mercenaries in our Blast side, and it's crept up year on year, Garton, Gleeson, Moeen, the overseas players, Foulkes bowled ok last night but he ain't a player. Our Blast XI differs far too much from our XI in other formats. It would appear to affect team chemistry and harmony.
More specifically on players, Sam Hain doesn't look right, hasn't looked right all season, even when he's done well. He's body language looks off, somethings up.
I think Mousley will end up batting 7 or 8 despite the decent contributions he has made this campaign. Just looks increasingly like a bits and pieces cricketer. The Hundred does him no good at all.
Lintott, great lad but low key he's had a bit of a poor campaign, he's gone for quite a few.
Felt sorry for Benjamin last night, he tried, he really did, but he just ain't got the quality overall. Looks a very good club player clinging on at pro level.
Garton, loads of natural ability, but mentally that guy is weak, just doesn't have the stomach for it. With a bowling action like that when it goes wrong it really does wrong.
I'd do away with Moeen, Garton and Gleeson, they all offer something but probably quite enough and if you ain't on a full contract I don't think you should be here at all.
A word on D. Briggs, he did so much of the heavy lifting this campaign. Credit where its due.
It's in the mind no though, right from Garton slinging them 6 waist high no ball wides down you thought "here we go..." and playing out the first over of the chase as a maiden you felt the nerves ramp up in the crowd, a lot of sideways glances.
Fair play to Gloucs, they've not had it easy on or off the pitch for a few seasons, but the bulk of their squad has been together a good while now and because of that they have excellent team spirit and perfect role definition. Every single one of their players did something good last night and made a difference.
Robbo, I'm not one for a sacking, but it's hard to see how he survives this let's be honest.
FWIW, great crowd last night.
Excellent post.
paulbear wrote:
It has been 11 years with this silly name and it took bloody ages to get the club to put 'Warwickshire County Cricket Club' on the front of the building after myself and no doubt others kept on at the club to do something as 'Edgbaston' on the front, did not say who played there. Imagine if Manchester United didn't have their name on the front of their stadium and it just said 'Old Trafford', would the fans put up with that, no they would not and now we have our name on the front of our stadium, time to stop this city nonsense and maybe call ourselves Warwickshire Bears for the T20. We appear to be going backwards and good recruitment is massively important, the side from 2008-2017 was built on getting players from other counties who hadn't realised their full potential and became better once we got hold of them, Ambrose, Clarke, Rankin, Chopra, Botha and even Patel was an off-key choice with poor figures until he played more and then became the best county spinner around. What has gone so wrong that we are recruiting very ordinary players.
Chasing 139 should not have been difficult, the Davies, Hain, Mousley and Bethel dismissals were all at a time when we had the game under control, and although the run rate was creeping up it was still manageable, keep the wickets in hand and you have players quite capable of stepping up in later overs even if the rate got up to 7 or 8.
My only comment on this is, why put the tickets on sale, when presumably the attendees this year will be en route home!!
Would 12/24 hours have made much difference given the game will be at least 365 days away.
LeicesterExile wrote:
Do others agree with me that Davies should continue as captain and Moeen, if available, should replace Benjamin?
100% agree, but think 100% it won't happen.
So is it the case that the top team goes straight to the semi final, and 2nd and 3rd play a quarter final? If this is the case we need to win and hope Leicester fail to win, and there is a winner of the Middlesex/Sussex game.
The link isn't working, but you can copy and paste into your browser. I've signed but as I am not a member it will not recognise me as being a bears fan which is a shame.
Dear me, far better wasting a couple of tickets, kindly being offered by someone AT FACE VALUE.
From the club's website 'The game will not be televised by Sky Sports, but will be streamed online at edgbaston.com.'
There is a quarter final slot for Wednesday, that could be a possibility I would have thought.
I expect so, no need to change anything in my opinion. Other than the standout batting, I thought the bowlers were excellent, albeit helped by the fact that Northants had to have a thrash, I also thought we looked very sharp in the field, so yes more of the same.
Looking forward to my first trip tonight.
I can think of better words than abject, but I would probably get a banned!!
That would be the way to travel if I lived in Birmingham, a snip at £20, however I think they are cutting it a bit fine leaving at 1.45. Strange that they think the trip back will take longer than going, the M1 and M25 clockwise on a Friday is no place to be.
I haven't actually seen the incident, however from reports I've read I have mixed feelings, a great gesture from Yorks at the time, however the ramifications mean Yorkshire could lose a home tie in the quarters and deprive us a place in the top four. I am very sure in the heat of the battle the consequences didn't feature in the fielders actions and of course we will never know if the match would have ended differently.
...so it's down to us beating Northants and the pears losing at Leicester. I wouldn't put too much money on us qualifying.
GerryShedd wrote:
Graham Thorpe says that he thinks The Hundred will help England's Test match batsmen??!!
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jun/14/graham-thorpe-the-hundred-can-help-england-struggling-test-batsmen
Either he is delusional or he thinks we are all stupid - or maybe he's just remembering who pays his wages.
I think it's the later.
Fantastic exhibition of batting.
Unchanged from last night, notts won the toss and put us in.
Andy wrote:
I believe there is a live stream.
Just had a look at the match preview, there is no mention of a live stream, I'll check the Yorkshire website later.