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Also I don’t think we’re going to be seeing Budinger again this season. Although god knows how he got onto the pavilion roof to commentate as those stairs are treacherous at the best of times. Can see us extending Gumbs contract and giving him a run in the MetroBank.

He is a bowler first and foremost and I feel like a few of us have forgotten that given how well he did last season. Today he had them on toast, dare I say an international standard bowling performance from him.

He has one of those defibrillators fitted internally right? But still you wonder how many more times he’d be willing to put himself through such a trauma. Needs to retire.

To be fair nobody sane thought we were winning that until maybe the last 2 or 3 overs

Turned out to be a match turning spell before Rehan and Trevaskis came to the party. There’s nothing better than your academy players winning you big games.

Grace Road sounds rocking on the stream, love it, please don’t lose

Are we…favourites from here?

Main positive, Alex Green has bowled very well.

Looks like a tough pitch from the stream but Yorkshire side is stacked.

The forecast is sadly crap for today

Think it was the 2009 ashes when they’d got knocked out of the world t20 early. They basically did a month here non stop. Then lost the ashes anyway

They play completely different systems though, it’s not even as if Martin is poundshop Maresca. Enzo’s teams are far more assertive and he always tried to promote individual talent.

Funnily enough, if he has any ambition as a manager still, he should avoid us as we’re a basket case. It’s the wrong fit for us and for him. He needs a job with zero pressure to rebuild his reputation.

Surprised the depression thread hasn’t blown up 😂😂

Yeah they were famously the only unbeaten team at the 2010 World Cup, and Chris Wood is obviously a decent player. But in terms of qualification path and squad depth, they’re absolutely awful

New Zealand are pound for pound the worst team in the world cup by the way (on paper).

New Zealand are pound for pound the worst team at the World Cup by the way (on paper).

I’m not sure that’s completely true re England players, Freddie Flintoff has always been complementary about playing at Grace Road, tho it’s often for the net facilities which are well known to be the best in the country. edit Ev, I just saw the other post about Freddie moaning so I take it all back 😂😂😂😂

Honestly there’s the small chance he’ll be fine but it’s not the point. Anyone with any knowledge of supporters views knows that Martin would be the least popular appointment we could possibly make because he’s a wet wipe and plays the dullest football you can imagine. The disdain is with the club actively going against everything the support would want.

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Wonder if he’ll get a shot tomorrow if Budinger is still out

How did you guess 😂😂 thank you I appreciate it

Bloody hell lads, I’ve basically just had a 3 week non stop panic attack (not helped by using booze as Valium to calm it down). Finally feeling like I have regained some sanity but my body is in absolute pieces. It’s all basically built up over a year, relationship breakdown, loss of flat, work stress then something happened three weeks ago and my brain just exploded. Haven’t been able to get any help aside from ‘signposting’ but very fortunately relatives have stepped up to care for me. I knew the relationship wasn’t working for me this time last year but she was ‘the one’ if that makes sense. Everyone was expecting us to settle down and have kids including myself. She’s a beautiful person but she has her own issues but it was always me that needed to work on my issues and I’d get accused of gaslighting if I told her she needed to sort a few things out. And day by day I was just becoming more miserable and isolated and quite frankly a bit paranoid (as people on other threads will attest to). Again drinking loads which is not me, I’ve never been a drinker until the last year and it’s been my one coping mechanism which I want to change. And yeah about 6 months ago I got ‘emotionally’ close to a work colleague, nothing ever happened physically but it was enough for me to realise there’s more to life than this relationship. So I called it quits and I’ve been having some insane levels of guilt over it all and keep getting told by her and some of my relatives that I was the issue when we’re trying to sort things out over the flat. I immediately had to leave our flat (was my choice) but I’m still paying for it now which is an issue I need to sort out but she guilt trips me around her becoming homeless if I stop. I know things weren’t great for me but I never felt listened to. Bleurghhhh I guess I’m a bit scared right now because I’ve never quite crashed out like this. But also I guess I’ve never held so much life stress like this at the same time. You’d be shocked to know what I do for a living but also kinda makes sense when you think about emotional burnout. If anyone gets to the bottom of this, thank you for reading, I just needed to vent and write stuff down somewhere.

Bizarre that the bbc have engaged into this Matt Goodwin style race and ethnicity rage debate when nobody needed or asked for it.

What do you mean Fabio Cannavarro is the manager of Uzbekistan?