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He'll earn a bit playing for Jersey - they are off playing qualifiers in Cyprus soon - but not enough for a main income I would have thought. Great way to spend your 20s if you can manage it financially.

Good knock from Jamie Dunk for the seconds. Couple of the same seamers who have been turning out for a few years now - Pip Jackson and Julius Sumerauer of Jersey - have to admire their perseverance in trying to make it.

Might also have one eye on restricting their bowling points, given they are possible relegation candidates. If this is a draw we want to get more points than the opposition.

Given how awful they looked before he arrived and that they lost Braybrooke, he's certainly done a good job and looks to have all the ingredients to be a good manager (talks a lot of sense tactically and has the force of personality to make players pay attention). Bit it's quite a roll of the dice, given how important it is for us to get promotion at the first attempt.

5 points from the last 8 games, the most important games of the season, including that 1-1 draw at an abject Sheffield Wednesday (thrashed by Oxford yesterday) and the 0-1 defeat to a Swansea side in terrible form. That's how I'll remember him. Oh and the constant chewing and spitting.

I actually think we played better under King. He just didn't have the experience to manage the games. Rowett's been a mood hoover. Only Luke Thomas looks marginally better, but that's a low bar.

Looking more and more like Wilfred Bramble to me (Steptoe), while the scruffy sidekick, Davidson, reminds me of one of the Bash Street Kids.

She's too old for Roman.

That's a shame, still a still player even at 41. Ridiculous ruling from the ECB.

With someone like Fergie as boss, he would have been out on his ear immediately. Sends completely the wrong message to the rest of the squad that you keep re-integrating a player who has fallen out with successive bosses.

Like watching a very slow car crash

He's actually taken us down. A bit more urgency from the very first game he took over and with subs etc, and we would have stayed up.

My reading of it, is that it's BBC Radio Leicester who have cut his employment after the first round of 6 champ games, when their other presenters will have more time. Of course they will be very stretched again without him once the football and rugby seasons start up again. It's a shame as it marginalises cricket more by not having a dedicated cricket reporter. When you compare the coverage that Surrey had with 4 or 5 established cricket presenters, it really is night and day.

Recruitment and recruitment planning has been abysmal and continues to be, so we end up with so many players leaving with no investment in the club, or players that want to leave. Consequently, their agents have been in their ears with sage advice around not getting injured, don't go for those 50/50 tackles, 70% effort is about fine. Even the January loans were once again terrible, when we desperately needed some sort of goal contributor and wound up with: A midfielder/winger who nominally makes the bench but not deemed good enough to come on as a sub. A young winger, who can't even make the first team squad most games. A centre-back with an injury record, who has only managed a handful of games. An 18 year-old attacker, who has talent, but has lost all confidence because of our predicament and now can't make the first XL.

Here are the relevant bits from The Cricketer article about RR. Seems he may return in 2027 as the the full-time members of RL staff are busy up until May. A group of county supporters is protesting the BBC's decision to end the employment of Leicestershire commentator Richard Rae. Rae, a winner of the Christopher Martin-Jenkins Domestic Cricket Broadcaster of the Year award in 2014, is being released by the club after six rounds of Championship matches. The remaining games will be covered by permanent members of staff at BBC Radio Leicester. As a casual member of staff, previously employed on a freelance basis specifically to cover Leicestershire's season, Rae has few rights and will not receive compensation. There is no suggestion that his departure is performance-related - he is regularly commended in awards citations - with the decision instead based around finances. That is likely to prove somewhat controversial, though. The ECB currently provides funding of around £100,000 to the BBC to support their local radio coverage of the 18 first-class counties. This means each of the local stations receives £5,450. In the case of BBC Radio Leicester, they have decided that money will cover just the first six Championship matches of the season when their full-time staff members are busy covering football and rugby. As a result, Rae will leave his role in mid-May. The decision is likely to raise fears that other local BBC stations, suffering huge budgetary pressure, will make similar decisions around the staffing of their county teams. Rae declined to comment when contacted by The Cricketer, though he did confirm he would be open to returning to the role in 2027 if funding was available. This looks likely with pressure on Radio Leicester's small sports team, especially intense in the weeks where the cricket and football seasons overlap. Radio Leicester will continue to cover all Leicestershire's Championship and T20 Blast matches. Only the knock-out stages of the One-Day Cup will be covered.

Tends to play well against toothless attacks

Yes, Farooq took 6 wickets in the match. We could play 4 Spinners at some point

Looks like he's coached any quality out of the players. Mukasa looked promising when he arrived but has been awful under Rowett. Fatawu looks garbage.

Yes, I think that goal will become symbolic of our whole decline, with some of the key agents involved and the wider sense of what they represent in the whole turgid story.

If we can get 600+, depends how the pitch wears and the two spinners might come into play.

Maybe a move back to Spurs is on the cards if they get relegated.

I just want most of this squad gone now. Out-worked by a side on a fraction of their wages with nothing to play for. Second-half performance was shameful.

We're bowling pretty well, their top 6 have all played for England. The speed gun they have on the stream, must be at least 5mph below actual speeds.

Some good chat about him on the Surrey comms as well. Said his kit was in Hobart, so he had to hop over there first before flying to Heathrow and was indeed jet-lagged the first day against Sussex. Big Geelong fan apparently.

Hull steaming in this morning - shades of Mullally. Great coverage and comms on Surrey stream.