Bert

The thing with spinners is they’re generally supposed to hold an end up, Bashir gets absolutely spanked around the ground and only seems to take wickets when the batters are going absolutely gung ho. Ahmed has the ability to change things up in an over with his variations as well as being able to bat.

Sibley cannot play cricket the way McCullum and Stokes want it to be played.

Mike Galloway has passed away.

Take it you’re not married then?

Unsurprisingly, Southampton have lost their appeal.

Starman loves a goal in a final.

180+ is the par score for t20s these days I feel. Throughout the blast we’ll see plenty of teams smash through 200. Fast starts needed and someone in the middle to go big what the rest can bat around.

Come on Villa.

I’m sure many people in your situation/people that don’t like football, when we won the league, with everywhere being crowded and all sorts of celebrations happening felt the same too. Obviously it’s a bit more personal to you. I’m not overly keen on Arsenal, even more so their fans but some of the clips did bring a little smile to my face.

To be fair, the scenes around the emirates and the celebrations of the Arsenal players have looked class, that’s what it’s all about.

I would imagine they are waiting on the verdict of the appeal. No chance they’ll be reinstated but can possibly see their points deduction become a suspended one.

You know Hull and Middlesbrough have played each other twice this season?

Totally agree!

Bastards must’ve only spied on us for 45 minutes

The amount of Southampton fans that will have booked travel and some even hotels

Although it seems like they’ve accepted it and start on -4 next season.

Wow. This is going to start all sorts of appeals.

Comfortably bat down to 11 there.

I’m not as sure. He was good when he was good but he was very inconsistent. We’ve got a really solid opening pair and Green, Cox even Mike coming in lower order can sometimes be good for explosive runs.

Disgusting tackle. Unbelievable it’s not a red.

I think it’s all about equal game time in tournaments. I as a parent wouldn’t be happy if one person got more time than other, whether it was my lad getting more time or not. We have a squad of 9 which is too much for 5 a side. During the normal season we’ve been having 2 lads have a week off on a rota basis which has worked really well. The tournament Saturday was a bit better as it was 6 a side and we only had 8. Knowing we were guaranteed 4 games the coaches again rotated so each of the boys got 3 full games and sat out for 1 of them. In the semis and the final each of the lads got equal game time. Into Sunday we had our full 9 and knowing we had 7 games, they all got 3 and half matches and should they have made the knockouts their game time would’ve been evenly split. I was there early yesterday and caught the end of the under 8’s final. One boy got subbed on and off within 2 minutes, didn’t even get a touch of the ball and came round to his dad absolutely distraught.

I’ve got mine in B2.

Really enjoyed that one, maybe a bit more so than yesterday. Whether it was the minimal expectation I don’t know. Our boys missed out on a semi final spot by a single goal, on goal difference. They really seemed to up their game against higher level opposition. 7 games played, won 2, drew 2 and lost 3 and the biggest defeat was only 2-0. They were the lowest level team in there so can come out with huge amounts of credit, even more so after yesterday’s rollercoaster. Another well ran tournament, decent facilities (apart from the parking) and everything seemed to run smoothly. Sporting Loughborough level 3-5 tournament up next for us on the 13th June.

Yes mate that’s them. Don’t get me wrong a good side and absolutely no fault of the children they were in that level. The annoying thing is there was a higher level tournament at the same age group at the same venue at the same time and I’ve absolutely no doubt they’d had a good shout at winning that one as well. You can hardly blame the organisers either, obviously they had no idea about them being from Walsall. The worst thing about it all is that it can be so demoralising for the boys and the exact opposite of what football at their age is supposed to be about. Gutted to hear your lads lost in the final, even more so when it comes through a mistake but I’m sure you’re proud of them for making it all the way to a final. I’m pretty sure one of my mates lads plays for you. Unfortunately as well, you’re going to get them sort of teams but karma always strikes and them getting knocked out was that karma. Onto Birstall today, I’ll just be happy if the boys are competitive and score a few goals because it’s a big step up in level today, but at least we are ready for that.

He’s been at an even more power crazy institution in Real Madrid.