You're right that we've been carried by Joyce and Magoffin - this may be a season too far for Joyce, which is why we're near the bottom. And we do have too many mediocre players: I'd exempt Hobden from that list though, he's in his first full season and has had to do a lot of bowling, he'll have...
That's not quite true. Crane hasn't been part of the Sussex set-up since he was 13. I've no idea why he moved; his parents could have been living in Hampshire for all I know. Either way, I'm sure that Robbo had no say in whether a 13-year-old was being kept on.
Poysden was part of the Sussex...