Lionator

I am assuming that Rudkin gives these people scoops to keep them onside? The only mention of him is that he's overseen key good and bad events.

What other stadiums were built around that era? I’m thinking it may have looked something like Villa Park/Anfield?

Chelsea will concede more goals than us this season imo (but will obviously score a hell of a lot more).

I wonder if this was part of the problem with Rodgers? And it could be where a lot of the delusions came from within the squad? Being a good psychological manager is good until it needs freshening up after a couple of years and Brendan proved that he couldn’t do that and/or the board threw him under the bus with regard to new players.

They’ll have to put their foot down soon if so

I found Hampshire’s side a lot more intimidating on paper but of course Somerset will be a tough nut at home. We play better away and we have quality and match winners all through the line up

Shakey deserves more than a one minute applause tribute. Look what Everton just did for Kevin Campbell, he was that important for us.

Leif Davis is going to be torn apart week after week at this level. Cannot defend.

One thing Somerset have going for them is that there’s not much other sport around them.

They must be sick of us

Scriven can bat too if needed

That’s that. The early wickets were too much

Ok I take that back 🤣🤣

We’re going to need Pete to go big I think (140+)

Hate these, traditionally small county that got a sniff of the big stuff through ECB investment in their rubbish bowl stadium.

He’s an international standard bowler so no surprise

Turner was always going to be too good for us. Shame but it is what it is.

Must be going for a pinch hitter role

They’re going to do well to get 300 here. Great comeback.

It depends. If you go hard at the start you risk losing wickets, we’re likely to be chasing at 6 an over which isn’t that much. Therefore it’s important to keep up with the rate but not at the expense of wickets. As we saw on Sunday Glamorgan were behind the rate and losing wickets meaning they didn’t have anything to fall back on at the end.

Er we got relegated and the only thing that changed was the club doubling down on their methods.

He always get out playing stupid shots. When he gets his head down and plays with aggression but contained, he does well. His hundreds have come at 90-105SR. It’s why he can’t pull it off in other forms. His big hitting isn’t good enough for t20 and he’s not calm enough for CC.

Budinger is averaging 51 in this competition this season

Everyone expressed their frustration on Twitter but Jarvis just batted them all back. I am starting to wonder whether we’re the crash test dummy for the ECB to put all county cricket behind a paywall

What’s the pitch like? I think 300 sounds like par but I can’t back us to chase that.