Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Charlie Shreck will be licking his lips.
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[Cricket] **** LV County Championship Sussex vs Notts 19-23 July ****
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Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
192/6 - Brown goes 1st ball. Start the car.
Uncle Buck
Ghost Writer
- Jul 7, 2003
- 28,071
Brown gone.
What's Goodwin doing these days? I'm sure he fancies hitting Charlie for another SIX...
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
And this was a 'relegation 6 pointer' to use football terminology. We're in deep shit now.
Uncle Buck
Ghost Writer
- Jul 7, 2003
- 28,071
Looks like the players are booking their tee off times on the Kingfisher Course tomorrow, now 7 down.
Joe Gatting's Dad
New member
When are we playing Hampshire?
pensionseagull
New member
- Aug 7, 2013
- 14
Hard to see anything other than Division 2 here we come
Lifelong Supporter
Well-known member
It is not just where we are going but how we are doing it !!! Magoffin continues to perform and Wrighty is having a good season but everybody else is poor. Yardy wants out. There needs to be new management, a freshen up.
Harry Gurney seemed to scare the living daylights out of our batsmen when all he was doing was hanging the ball at no more than nippy pace outside the off stump and saying "have a go if you're feeling lucky" - and they all bloody did, even those who didn't get out to him played and missed more times than I've had hot dinners. This team look shot.
Woeful batting by most. Did anyone go to the supporters forum at 10 am and hear what excuses were trotted out?
Blues Rock DJ
New member
why all the doom and gloom ? Notts are only 7 points clear of us ?
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 27,922
I think the lads knew the game was up and well, gave up. It's not good, lack of confidence and most are out of form with the bat and we struggle to get wickets now too. Missing Jordan and Hatchard means we are very light in that department. As I stated earlier, this year we will go down.
mona
The Glory Game
Did the same in the second innings earlier this season at Trent Bridge. Another dreadful batting performance! Relegation is very very likely now.
maltaseagull
Well-known member
To lose in 3 days by an Innings and 103 runs, at Horsham, means its Glamorgan and Northants for us in 2016........
Well deserved on recent performances.
Bit harsh: Brown's had a decent season and Machan averages well over 40. Robinson hasn't been too bad and Shahzad, until his injury, was high in the averages.
It looks like a season too far for Joyce, Wells and Nash have been poor, and Cachopa hasn't cracked on. And we were always going to be found out for not having a proper spinner.
Yes, we've been unlucky with injuries but there should have been some planning there: Anyon and Hatchett are long-term injuries and Mills is a walking ambulance case. We couldn't have known about Jordan, but there was a chance that he was on England call anyway. So,. really, only Shahzad is unexpected. We also knew that RHB was going and Prior was likely to go before the start of the season and made no effort to replace them. If Robbo was a football manager, he'd have been sacked for that lack of foresight
I went but missed the first 20 minutes and the last 10 (see below). In a nutshell, they didn't appear to see the need for a batting coach - they used Jayawardena as a kind of batting coach until he went, money's tight, the loan market has dried up, relegation would be sustainable financially, We've got the best groundsman in the country but the Hove micro climate makes preparing pitches a bit of a lottery, can't really explain why the Hove pitch is so capricious this year, Robbo won't give the players a bollocking for chasing the ball outside off stump for example to Harry Gurney's bowling because they know they shouldn't so whats the point in berating them for it, Robbo couldn't get to sleep until 2 ( or later he said 3) am after the last T20 defeat, so it hurts to be beaten and he doesn't like it, but hang on, aren't we doing well in T20 this season in comparison with last season, everyone's worried about our Championship form but if we get relegated so be it.
I left early....couldnt stand it - there seemed to be an air of resignation about our fate this year.