Lionator

How often do you see that in cricket? Player gets bogged down v quality bowling then relaxes when rubbish bowler comes on and gets themselves out.

The online right smear campaign of Burnham makes me think he’s perhaps more capable than I thought?

Add a bit of 1987-89 Soviet Union too. Where is our Yeltsin?

Lovely bit of low cloud this morning. A good chance for Green and Holland to get stuck into them

I guess he’s kolpak, they have a lot of money to throw around for a small county

Has Elgar retired?

Can’t believe I forgot

Trevaskis will be first choice spinner so I reckon Kelly first dibs? As we’re a bit short batting wise. Patel Budinger Eskinazi Kelly Hill Tattersall Cox Trevaskis Green Mike Hull

Basically identical to last week.

Lewis as sub? Bit of a sickener for Weatherald as I suspect he’s done enough over here to keep his place in the Aussie test side

Back to my favourite area, and WW3, does anyone actually believe the US would fight China and risk Armageddon over Taiwan? Seems insane to me.

Which is the fundamental socio-economic issue where our economies are evolving beyond the control of government.

One things that saddens me re this upcoming by-election is that Burnham is being attacked by white, right leaning working class voters in the local area around his ‘clean air zone’. There’s nothing libertarian about being diagnosed with COPD before your 60th birthday.

Yep the general trends are going in the right direction. If an improving nhs, slowly growing economy and reduction in asylum hotels isn’t enough for people then there’s not much Labour can do anyway given the economic constraints in the west.

Getting put in and having 140 up 20 minutes before lunch is insane, this club is a rollercoaster. * very unfortunate dismissal there

Essex seem very well supported considering there’s no ‘big city’ in their catchment. Are they big in east London or does most of the support come from Chelmsford itself?

His temperament is the only issue, his ability shouldn’t be questioned. Here he will likely give his wicket away in the 70’s playing a poor shot.

Looks like we’re going at that pace so god knows what they’ll do.

Would be a teeny bit funny, but I can’t see it. He’s incredibly popular in the area. Would be a test however to see if people hate Labour or Starmer, because if you want Starmer gone, you vote for Burnham even as a Reform fan.

Yep, I think the club we need to look at it in terms of example is Worcester. Strong across all formats, produce good young players and always around Div 1, top of Div 2.

Apparently this is the shot VAR had, so you can see why it was given.

No minimum wage would also mean more people emigrating here and being happy to work for pittance because it’s more than they’d earn at home. A lefty view of course but all of our problems can be traced back to giving too much power to the ‘free market’, the policies of Thatcher and then the insane decision of new labour to allow the Bank of England to set interest rates, not the government of the day.

To think the ref refused to give that last minute one for Hearts on Sunday too.

That’s a disgrace, what the hell?

Why is nobody mentioning on tv that if Motherwell get a winner here then it’s done.