Lionator

Isn’t Holland basically our player anyway?

He could do the much easier thing and just sack Rudkin?

The amount of people that are still content with incompetency at the DOF level is staggering. We will continue to decline while you guys are like “we’re just putting the feelers out” as we fail to sign a 29 year old Wrexham reject in two years.

Interesting that all of this is coming out right now

Steve Cooper v Nigel Adkins One a quality proven manager, but which one?

I think they do care, they care about making it as difficult and bad as possible.

Apparently the draw is at 3 past Leeds?

Strong Leeds team as well. Will Farke make it to October?

It does feel like both sides haven’t grasped that the harder you push the other side, the more they dig in. Putin ain’t walking away and clearly judging by Kursk, Zelenskyy isn’t either. I think the only chance of an end is a genuine stalemate where both sides run each other into the ground.

It’s all counties to be fair. Spare a thought for Worcestershire. Home QF, but because New Road is hosting England lions they have to play at Edgbaston against…Warwickshire. Scandal.

Nice little day for Josh Hull taking 3-30 including Angelo Matthews and Dinesh Chandimal.

I looked at Cricinfo after Rahane got out then checked back 2 minutes later and boy I was not expecting that

106 from 18 with 7 wickets left, not too far off the run rate either 🥶

Would it be wise to say that strategically Russian have already lost in that department? The most land they’re going to get are those 4 oblasts. Sad for Ukraine but way below what Putin thought he was going to get. Therefore the PR has already been done.

The cynic’s are saying it’s a PR win but not much else. Yes look how terrible it is for Russia that 20km of their border villages have been invaded, but unless Ukraine can really dig in, it’s going to have very little impact on the long term war outcome, other than to make Putin double down. In fact if it goes really wrong, it could hasten their defeat. If God forbid NATO ever goes to war with a Russia or China, trench warfare would be the least of our worries.

about to find out if Rahane was worth it

They picked players who aren’t playing in the hundred.

They’d have to move it to somewhere like Edgbaston right? I can’t imagine they’d be able to prep an out ground that quickly.

I’ve been to one game and the actual in ground production is decent and a step up from county cricket. However the format is crap, and all the other issues surrounding it means that it will lose fans eventually rather than gain them

I didn’t realise the quarter is on Friday and semi on Sunday. What an absolute disgrace two days notice for each.

So do Ukraine withdraw back to the border to save their men or dig in and try and slug it out over the winter?

Poor attitude is a red herring. Football is brutal in Türkiye, especially for black players.

It takes us weeks to complete transfers. This’ll still be ongoing by Friday if it doesn’t fall through.

That Newcastle advert is pure vibes from the music used, the throwback element and everything. I felt nostalgia just watching it. Like others have said, the shirt is nothing special but everything else is remarkable.

I just remember the 2000’s (which incidentally was the era that produced England’s greatest ever test team from 2009-2013). You had your 9 team championship, the t20 cup which was 10 games and the one day league which was played on Sundays except for your floodlit game in the summer holidays. There was also the C&G knockout trophy. Id agree with you that the 10 game championship makes sense. I’d go full on 18 team T20 premier league where you play each other team once but that’ll never happen. Then a one day cup played on Sundays across the season.