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5 hours ago, RumbleFox said:

100% likes Toploader. 

Dancing in the Moonlight, was the wedding dance for Rucy.

two spinners for both sides - good toss to win. 

1 hour ago, OadbyBlue said:

We’ve gone from “save are kids” Rowett to a vegan, Buddhist, Green Party voter

Looks a perfect for Forest Green, once he's sacked from here.

Yeh just to echo hat other people have said, all the best to Lewis, a great county pro, he probably could have gone on for a bit longer, but people generally know the right time to go.

I remember going to watch him at the Oval in 2015, when he defiantly scored a hundred, keeping out rockets from Chris Tremlett and it obvious then that while he didn't have the natural talent, he had tremendous determination. This was the game that KP scored 355, flaying one of the worst Leicestershire sides ever - people like Rob Taylor and Neil Pinner in that team.

How bad must Inaki Williams be now, that Ayew is selected ahead of him up front.

10 hours ago, purpleronnie said:

I was talking to someone about this the other day.  I couldn't afford to buy records but my local library would have some and every now and again a load more would turn up. I still remember that feeling of seeing a new album from an artist you loved and rushing home to play it....back when there was no internet i had no idea of the discography of an artist, so just seeing one you'd never seen before whether it was a new release or an older one was really an amazing moment.

I used to go to the music library on Wellington Street (what a gift that place was), check new albums out and record the ones I liked on to cassette tapes. I could never of afforded to accumulate the personal library of albums that I did otherwise.

3 hours ago, SK3Blue said:

The Queen is Dead is 40 years old today. 
 

New music from Johnny Marr on the way, Spin, a new single released today from the album, The age of everything, due out in October 
 

 

That makes me feel old. And yet....the memory of buying it is still very tangible, the whole experience in fact, going to the record shop, bring it home and not opening it until I got home. There is something special about gatefold albums and examining every inch of the cover design. Very different to now and having things selected for you on spotify.

Just now, Brizzle Fox said:

T shirt under a suit jacket.

 

It's a no from me.

And both black.

He wears black on the outside, because black is how he feels on the inside.

Someone at some point, clearly did a deal with the devil. "Premier League Champions in exchange for......? And now the coup de grace.

Great second innings effort, but another defeat. We really need a couple of wins from somewhere.

The batting hasn't really been the problem this season, it's the lack of a quality, penetrative new-ball bowler, that could be an overseas player.

11 hours ago, Voll Blau said:

Could have done with this 48 hours ago...

 

 

Take out his 204 and first innings scores are roughly even.

Crocombe called up to the England squad - Robinson injured already!

2 hours ago, LBTufty said:

Do you mean the 50-over Metro Bank One-Day Cup?

 

As others have said, every chance that Farooq will make his debut at some point. 

I had for a moment been transported back to 1982 and the John Player 40-Over Sunday League. BBC 2, after Sunday lunch.

3 hours ago, TamuffFox said:

Struggling big time. I know we have been producing bowlers for a number of recent years but when was last time we produced a decent specialist young batsman from our academy? 

In the past I thin batters were given more time to develop and backed, whereas there seems to be a general impatience now. Guys lie Maddy and Stevens were in and around the first and second XLs for ages before they made that breakthrough and became first team regulars.

Maybe we'll give Jamie Dunk a chance in the 40 over cup this year.

Couple of promising knocks from Sheridan Gumbs though, really showing a bit of gumption. Perhaps a bit too rooted to the crease at times.

There's the second one 8/2. My God, the commentary is pedestrian.

No Ajaz Patel, bit of a wasted overseas spot at the moment. Looks very seamer friendly.

Bit of a patched up squad, hopefully we give a run out to Alex Green, otherwise seam attack is a bit one-paced. No Josh Hull in the squad at all, is this because he needs to work on his game?

12 minutes ago, Lionator said:

If you were the England cricket team, it really wouldn’t be that hard to get a corner of a pub sorted out especially on a Sunday night when they’re completely dead. And if you need to get paralytic then do it in that setting, or even a hotel bar. 

If they'd gone to a real ale pub for a couple of jars they'd be none of this.

Worst crime for me is going to this White Horse and Rex Rooms, full of Hooray Henrys and Sloan Rangers, the sort of places ex-Prince Andrew used to frequent. I thought Stokes had more class.

Gumbs, top-scored for the seconds yesterday against Essex. Hill, Trevaskis, Scriven and Wood also playing. Xander Silverwood, son of Chris Silverwood, playing for Essex. 

23 hours ago, Walshy5 said:

What is the extent of Budingers injury then? Not really heard anything.

Out for 12 weeks. Grade two ligament. So might be back for championship games at the end of the season, but misses the whole of white ball.

Gumbs will have to fill-in

Wrong thread

46 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Are you English? I always thought I was, never lived anywhere else, but I'm thinking that might not be enough.

 

The deeply contentious debate around what it means to be English - BBC News

 

https://share.google/xvu8YnRZMhLZEDiCt

 

The bit that surprised me was this...

 

The poll suggested that 74% of English people believe that someone can be English regardless of their skin colour or ethnic background.

 

Or to put it another way, 26% believe that non-white people can't ever be English. Which to me is racist and thereby over a quarter of people are racist - which I find surprisingly high. Possibly because the people I choose to spend my time with aren't racist and I wouldn't spend any time with someone who was overtly racist.

 

And the whole St George thing. You know, the legendary Palestinian freedom fighter.  Not sure that all proud patriots would be happy with that. England didn't even exist when he died. The dragon motifs you see are weird too - so you celebrate him by portraying his mortal foe?

 

Apparently, it used to be St Edmund until the 14th century, which would at least make some sense, as he actually was English (though maybe only a second generation immigrant).

 

"But we'll all be speaking foreign!" I hear 26% of you cry. Really? You want English to stay the same? Perhaps we should go back to Shakespearian English, which so many people complain about not being able to understand, despite not being very difficult at all. Nah, sod that, let's go back to Old English - now there's a challenge!

 

Fæder ūre, þū þe eart on heofonum,
sīe þīn nama ġehālgod.
Tōbecume þīn rīċe.
Ġewurþe þīn willa on eorðan swā swā on heofonum.

 

This is a very famous piece of text. Anyone?

Point made, I think.

 

People, and as a result national identity, evolve.

You adapt or you die. Clinging to old traditions is quaint, but not necessary. I mean, we all mourn the loss of vinegar Valentines (sending cruel cards to people you don't like on Feb 14) and bear-baiting, and I'd happily put many a Morris dancer on the ducking stool, but we can create our own traditions that in future times will tell people who WE were and not leave them thinking that we were people from centuries earlier.

 

I find myself wondering - if this country was invaded by a foreign nation, and that nation demanded we adopt all their customs and language, but got the NHS running perfectly, no wait times, less illness, cancer and heart surgery success tripled; brought cheap, efficient transport links, no potholes in roads, well lit streets; put police on the streets, reduced crime by 500%, people felt much safer, shoplifting almost unheard of; cheap gas and electricity with helpful calls centres and prompt attention to any problems, clean water provided by efficient water companies who have help to make the waters of British rivers clean and safe; plenty of affordable housing without stacking people on top of eachother or building on flood plains; pubs, clubs, theatres and cinemas reopening across the land, high streets full of vibrant traders, almost zero unemployment and schools and universities that produced outstandingly talented youth.

 

If all this (of course it hypothetical), I can guarantee you, because they were foreign, and simply because of that, people would rise up and try to get rid of them. England might be crap, but it's OUR crap!

 

Life is strange.

By all accounts most people in this country would accept anyone ruling them if there were no potholes.

7 minutes ago, foxile5 said:

Not really news but I thought one or two might like to revel in the fact that both Daka and Ayew are now firmly in the ex-players category. And Soumare.

 

 

Usual lumbering performance up front for Ghana tonight. Probably should have scored but too slow.

On 01/06/2026 at 19:53, Paninistickers said:

Nice piece from Jordan Blackwell. A far cry from Bill Anderson despising the supporters and revelling in his cushy number. 

 

Also in Jordan's favour is, I think, not referring to the owner as 'his majesty' (khun) - a default position that Owen Palmer Atkins  needs to learn. 

 

 

 

 

I worked at the merc for a bit and used to see Bill most days. He was actually quite an affable, good-humoured bloke, not the way he came across in his reporting.