Lionator

Next game is v Derbyshire. Given the likely table after tomorrow, a win will be one foot promoted territory, so we have to get everyone back fit and firing. Rehan, Holland, Scriven and Hull all have to play.

Trevaskis was unlucky, looked like a pea roller. Rishi and Budinger awful though.

Thankfully there’s only 4 of them in the team!

Budinger just isn’t cut out for this sort of situation. Bad temperament. At least Derbyshire are also likely to lose. Glamorgan hopefully will draw at worst.

5 sessions would be a very long time to bat out for though not impossible. They’d only get two new balls too. These guys have shown the pitch is offering little for the bowlers still.

Can’t say I remember it for age reasons but sounds good! Wood has great technique, was surprised he’s 11.

Need these lads to hang around for a while this morning and take a lot of time out.

Maybe I’m missing something from the stream but this lad has got 4 wickets simply from bowling straight? What are we playing at? Rishi must be thinking he’s on a different pitch

Just seems to be silly mistakes. Hill’s was embarrassing, Handscomb edged one that did nothing.

Why are people dooming? So what if we lose this? We’re 40+ clear of 3rd and we will have everyone back for the run in. Yes it’s annoying but we weren’t going to smash every game. Selection was still terrible though.

At least Lancs are well on top v Derby and one of Glamorgan and Glos will likely lose although a draw would be ok.

Blockading all food into a place sounds like an attempt at that? Let alone the mass artillery strikes at those queueing for the limited food amounts let in. People will obviously disagree (and that’s fine) so I won’t argue too much. As for the second part, at this point it would be very likely his replacement would be similar, although it seems the other party pre 2023 were a lot more willing to engage.

Gonna need Rishi to dig in for a big one I think.

The argument is that the only way to stop them is for people to physically stop them and obviously unarmed, starving Palestinian civilians can’t do that and nobody else will so the slaughter will continue indefinitely. While I wouldn’t have said what Bob vylan said, the leadership behind the actions of the IDF is the worst of the worst and the sheer evil and idiocy of the Hamas actions of October 7th gave Netanyahu the excuse he needed to finally aim to exterminate the people that live in Gaza, as that’s what will keep him in power and out of prison.

Is the pitch doing very little again?

Sounds like there’s absolutely zero planning which is very on brand.

If we can squeeze out a win then the gap will be gigantic at this stage. Seems like Derbyshire have let it slip yesterday too. If Gloucs can get another quick 150, they might fancy their chances bowling last.

Only difference is that team wouldn’t be in a position where we’d need 300+ in the first place.

The bowling still needs a lot of work but the batting is probably one of the top 10 greatest batting line ups in test history. India bottled it at important stages of this game, we didn’t.

Trump is right at this point. Someone needs to stand up to BN even if he’s doing it for purely narcissistic purposes.

Probably their morning. Gonna want those maximum bowling points and a 150+ lead if possible. At least there’s something happening with the pitch.

One would suggest he has no chance of ending the Ukraine war before neither side is in acceptable position, so he’s contrived this whole situation to make him look like peacemaker supreme.

Just a bizarre couple of weeks, nothing seems real anymore. What was the point in all of that? Despite the rhetoric, the US was obviously never going to invade, and nobody actually knows how degraded the enriched uranium is. That’s two wars in two months where it’s just basically been two pointless missile trade offs before stopping. Time for diplomacy again maybe?

Yeah Richard Rae said in the first hour yesterday Rehan was playing solely as a batter as he had a finger issue.

Macron also doesn’t have to stand for election again so has little to lose. He did also say Iran can’t have nukes but what USA did was illegal. He tends to have better relations with countries like Iran. They’ve had many ding dongs over the years to be fair have Trump and Macron.