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Wow, this is properly depressing.

All the good work across recent overs undone in 6 balls by Mike. As the commentator said, what is his plan? Just bowled all over the place.

Some of the fielding has been horrendous.

This is done already. What a miserable sporting year it's been for Leicester.

Reckon Hull could be going for 50-60 today if he bowls his full allocation. Actually, maybe even if he doesn't!

That Derby top 6 is full of power hitters. This could be carnage.

Yes, agree with all that. The other thing that annoyed me about the documentary was Rob Tanner being incredibly patronising about the club and its history every time he appeared.

Agree that we've been totally outplayed in both games so far. What would be your team for the next game, out of interest?

Just looked back. Won 1 of the last 16 games in all competitions. Hadn't realised it was that bad.

Looks like this season is going to be a very hard watch.

See that Worcs, having beaten us comprehensively, are being hammered by Northants at home.....

Can't see Mike and Hull heeding that lesson.

Pedestrian again.

Budinger again wasting a load of balls in the power play by swinging wildly at everything to little effect.

Hull haven't even sold their allocation.

Every pen apart from the one we scored put in an exactly the same place and saved. Awful.

You can see how we only scored 11 goals in 22 games in the WSL.

We're working the ball into good positions but the final ball is horrific.

Put it on about 10 minutes ago and the first thing I heard the commentator say is that Leicester's main weakness is their lack of physicality and failure to win duels. FFS, didn't realise it was the women, too!

Had a quick look at the stats from last night's game. As expected, Worcs hit significantly more boundaries (21 4s and 7 6s) compared to us (13 4s and 5 6s): Interestingly, however, we bowled far more dot balls: 44 to 33. Mike personified this difference by bowling the most dot balls of any player in the match (12) whilst conceding numerous boundaries, as usual. It was telling that a lot of the boundaries we conceded came from short pitched bowling by faster bowlers. By contrast, Worcs' variety of medium pacers taking pace off were much more successful, in the same way as Green and Davey were for us. I also think we lack a quality spinner capable of taking wickets, as Parky used to. Trevaskis is usually fairly economical (though wasn't last night) but he doesn't really pick up enough wickets, which is crucial if you're going to restrict the scoring rate of the oppo.

Last season in the T20 it felt like we ruined some good positions when batting by going too hard and throwing wickets away. Today's batting effort felt like an over correction to that, with far too little intent shown. It never really looked like we were going to chase down what was a good, but not insurmountable, target. Hopefully lessons will be learned, plenty of games to go.

The obsession with putting teams in on belting pitches continues then. Horrendous start.

Reckon we'll line up like this tonight: Patel Budinger Eskanasi Kelly Turner Cox Green Mike Trevaskis Holland Hull

Not sure if that is directed at my post above but just to be clear I’m not defending our European performances. My post was in response to your suggestion that the format change in the ECL and UEL had not benefited English clubs. I think West Ham’s run illustrates that it has. The level of opposition they played was significantly below what we faced.

Let me list who West Ham played in their run to winning the Conference League to illustrate the point: Last 16 AEK Larnaca (Cyprus) QF Gent SF AZ Alkmaar Compare that to our run: Rennes PSV ( usually in CL) Roma under Mourinho