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If we're not there already, we surely must be getting to the stage where we won't be seen by any team as the big scalp other clubs want to get by beating us but the absolute laughing stock of League 1.

He may be a revelation, but on the face of it it's a poor trade. We should have made every effort to keep Cox who more than proved his worth this season (and indeed we would have been undoubtedly relegated with far fewer points without him, and there's not many players in the squad you could say that about). We've got someone who is 28. He's basically been playing for Sutton CC, a couple of winters in Australia, coaching (not a substitute for playing) and the Surrey Seconds. Basically he's only ever played at Surrey and it's like some actors in the Mousetrap - been in the company for years, but as they're an understudy, never get to go on stage. He's played 8 first class matches. 8.

At this rate we'll get investigated for the strength of the team we're putting out....

Kelly aside, that was pathetic. I hope it hurts them like hell. They deserve to feel sick to their stomach for that. Middlesex played well, but they didn't have to put in a great performance. We gave so many wickets away.

And the cricket team showing, just like the football team, how much we love to f@€£ up something that should be straightforward

Fun to hear BBC coverage both praising the chanting but also trying to mask a bit exactly what is being said! And any serious county should and would move heaven and earth to keep Cox. But no, we go for someone who’s being cast as a younger option with potential who’s 27 already and has only played 8 first class matches.

Back when I did some aikido (liked it but wasn't very good at it), Ballard's move was one I'd have been very proud of!

He’s tied with Ben Stokes for the most 6s in an innings in the UK apparently! Astonishing stuff. Great fun to end a long week.

Well we played better with 10 last game....

There has to be SOME distribution we're good at. Seems like payroll is it.

Well for all our excellent performances last year, Glamorgan now (and sitting 4th, over the season so far) have rather shown us how it should be done without reaching for the "we've only just been promoted from Division 2" excuse.

Let's hope you're less of a jinxer than I am!

Should have known that would happen...

Eskinazi scores the odd cracking innings, but too often he's out for a low score and takes too long to even accumulate that - another 14 runs at @52 strike rate. 82 in the list of top scorers in the competition. Feels like a lot is riding on Rehan Ahmed and Shaikh's partnership today.

And that was against a team that spent 4 seasons in non-league football, 3 seasons in League 2 and got promoted for this season through the play-offs having finished 5th in League 2.....

Kevin Davies (surely one of the most faceless CEOs ever) was replaced as Company Secretary the other day according to filings at Companies House by a Matthew Ashworth, whoever he is.

Same - too young to see him play but what a cricketer. He could do everything, brilliantly. Those six 6s. Highest differential between his batting stats and his bowling - 23.75. You got three for the price of one bowlers - left arm fast medium, left arm wrist spin and orthodox spin. This is a nice piece https://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1027587/the-man-who-could-do-everything

Cut and pasted from the BBC site. Often graphs don't really tell the tale they're supposed to. But this one does. It shows momentum. Just look what happens after we score our only goal. One way momentum from Argentina from that point. Presumably our little flurry at the end was when we stuck two forwards on at 90+6 minutes....

Taking off Rice and Gordon for defenders (I sort of get the James sub but that's also in part what you deserve with such an injury prone and lacking in match fitness player, he was never going to last) so we had Burns, Konsa and O'Reilly on meant we absolutely deserved to lose. We were never going to defend successfully for 20 minutes, and what they hell did he expect, even if we had survived that, to happen in extra time??? And putting on Rashford and Toney on 90+6 minutes was pathetic. Way way too late. How were they supposed to attack when Tuchel had gutted the midfield for defenders?

At the country to which he personally owed his own senior professional career, having played 187 out of 200 of his entire senior club appearances for any club for Forest, Leeds and Man City. And with the rest only occurring for Byrne/Rosseland 4 years after he’d effectively retired.

Key still keeps his job though….

Accuracy. Not asserting as true utter BS because you've swallowed it and can't be bothered to find out whether it is true or not? I'd have thought that a moment's thinking would have raised questions as to the likelihood of any government minister being invited to sit in on a birth.... To be clear, I can't think of a single thing I agreed with Anne Widdicombe on. I didn't agree with, or like as a matter of personal opinion, any of her political beliefs and many of her personal ones. It was Government policy that all prisoners, including pregnant women, be handcuffed while being transported from place to place. It was never Government policy that a pregnant woman be handcuffed while giving birth, in fact the policy explicitly said that once labour is confirmed all restraints must be removed. In Parliamentary debate and in her capacity as the junior Minister at the Home Office responsible for that policy, she confirmed that position, so the policy, along with herself personally was still criticised - fair enough. But she never made such a demand while witnessing a birth and never in fact called for the policy to be extended to that. 2 minutes Googling would have got you there. Which you might want to bear in mind when you're making your long list. Chris Mason's piece on the BBC news website is a pretty balanced assessment of her.

Put Ramos on. Put Leao on. Put Danny Murphy’s cat Bob on. But someone do something!

Freely admit it could be me and I don’t do well in the heat, but this match really isn’t gripping me and it should be excellent. I had high hopes….Now just hoping for anyone to score because it’ll mean the other has to go for it. But it doesn’t look like happening at all. This will either be a brilliant reverse jinx or we’re going to penalties.

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