Father Ted

Some of Sussex over appealing and over celebrating has been a total embarrassment.

39 minutes ago, Cakey said:

Salisbury is injured now. Sadly

Rested as a precaution for Saturday or definitely out?

How do we reckon we might line up on Saturday? 
 

Patel 

Budinger 

Hill +

Ackermann 

Mulder 

Ahmed 

Kimber 

Scriven 

Wright 

Salisbury 

Hull 

What do we think?

9 hours ago, CrawlingFox said:

Below is the squad announced for the match with leavers in red and short term in orange:

 

Ackermann, Ahmed, Amin, Budinger, Cox+, Currie, Evans, Hill*, Hull, Kimber, Mulder, Parkinson, Patel, Salisbury, Scriven, Wright.

 

Players not named:

 

Barnes, Davis, Finan, Ramji, Steel, Swindells, Walker, Welch.

 

I think Finan may be the only one left out who is definitely contracted for next season. Could be injured?

 

Shouldn't read too much into one match day squad announcement though its unusual to see one so large given they normally go with 13 or 14 but bad news for Swindells and good for Evans?

Finan has a long term back injury. No great loss.

11 minutes ago, lanefox said:

Scott Currie on loan

Strange signing unless we are looking at him with an option of investing in him next season. 

Put Robbie Keane in for the Wolves Ireland section and it said I was wrong…?

The departure of Nico has Nigel Pearson and Thai orgy vibes 🦊 

26 minutes ago, SickoDicko said:

Buzzing for this, anyone know what stand we'll be filling? would rather be with our mob. 

Fox Road Stand for the rowdy mob 🦊

Forecast looking more wet now. It’ll be a good toss to win. 

Looks as though just shy of 500 tickets have been sold for Tuesday so far if they ticket numbering system online is anything to go by.

1 hour ago, AjcW said:

The other shitty thing to remember is if we get to the final, we'll be playing against a side back to full strength.

My thoughts would be that if this competition is always going to be when it is (alongside the 100) then teams that reach the knockouts should have to field a high percentage of the 11's the fielded in the group stages. 

I’m sure this was noted last year and the two sides in the final both stuck with the players that got them there. 
 

Ideally, we play Worcestershire in the final after beating Gloucestershire in the semis (we owe those cheating f***ers one)

Just now, CrawlingFox said:

Cometh the hour, cometh the white ball specialist...Arron Lilley to the rescue?

He’s officially retired now and moved to UAE, so unlikely unfortunately… 🤣

27 minutes ago, Harpenden Fox said:

Presumably Ackers and Parky will be able to play on Tuesday. Rehan will be with England. Do we know when Handscomb returns to Oz?

I have heard Handscomb won’t be here for the final should we make it, and we can’t replace him with another overseas either.

Does anyone know if the semi finals are pre drawn? As in, do we know which winner of which quarter final we will play?

In regards to Sunday, I saw Yorkshire at 90/8 having played football in the morning and thought about not bothering 🤣 only the Yorkshire tail wagging made me go down for our innings. Perhaps some more had the same idea. As daft as it sounds too, it was in essence a dead rubber (in a way as qualification had already been ensured). 

2 minutes ago, AjcW said:

To be fair... it was probably easier to get to and a more enjoyable experience for most who want to go at Kibworth than our actual ground, that's why Oakham was always more popular.

 

Without getting classist.... our ground couldn't be in a stupider place for people who actually like cricket and go to watch us . Facilities are poor and dated too. 

 

Given the fact it can't really be developed and there's next to no parking, i'd hope we'd explore alternatives in the future. I know it's sad, but you'd see a damn site more going if our ground was in the South/North Leicestershire countryside as opposed to slap bang in the middle of an estate just outside the town centre. 

I think quite the opposite in the long run… you only have to look down the road at Coventry to see what it did to their football club. 

Scott Steel to reappear like Jesus Christ and step in for Ackermann? (We know this won’t happen but as a good bat/spin option would be the most sensible option)
 

Pushing Kimber to 6 and Scriven to 7 and bringing in Ramji significantly damages our batting attack for me. Personally I’d bring Swindells in at 7. Alternative Walker and Ramji depending on conditions. 
 

Budinger has bowled spin too before? Haven’t seen much of it but could this be an option?

1 hour ago, Lionator said:

Very surprised Josh Hull hasn’t got an England u19 call up all things considered.

More beneficial for his development perhaps to stay with Leicestershire and play in the one day cup

1 hour ago, Ric Flair said:

Hope we have a big sell on clause for him.

He cannot kick a football. You think Iversen is bad, then you haven’t seen Odunze.

4 minutes ago, CrawlingFox said:

Squad for tomorrow:

 

Ackermann, Budinger, Evans, Handscomb, Hill, Hull, Kimber, Mulder, Patel, Ramji, Scriven, Walker, Wright.

 

Budinger

Patel

Hill (C)

Ackermann

Mulder

Handscomb (K)

Kimber

Scriven

Walker

Wright

Hull/Ramji

 

Only really one choice to make I can see really depending on how much spin is needed.

 

Going to be quite a few players at the end of the season who won't have played much. Got to think Welch is off after a lacklustre Blast campaign. Steel, Barnes, Davis, Swindells all not seen much.

Welch is playing in Zimbabwe isn’t he? He’s due back any time now I think and would be straight in for Budinger I imagine

1 hour ago, Tevez said:

Yeah done very well to replace the 4/5 that have gone to Hinckley LR - they will be decent at Step 5. But got a ropey red card in them! Aylestone's set up is lovely to be fair.

Anyone in particular you’d back for a red card Shaun 😅

9 hours ago, CrawlingFox said:

I reckon he'll play during the comp itself but we might not see him today. If we can get something like:

 

10 overs from Wright

10 overs from Mulder

10 overs from Ackermann (only spin option?)

 

That leaves 20 for perhaps Scriven and one or two others to fill in. Hull and Walker would be my choices initially with an eye on the future. So 6 bowling options with Kimber capable of throwing in a few overs too.

 

I wonder if now that Nico is gone we might see Scott Steel again? When he was picked he generally batted ok in both white ball comps and he's also a reasonably handy spin option which might be useful without Parky and Rehan.

It’s Henderson that has an issue with Steel, not Nico. 
 

Steel has better bowling figures than Ramji and is a good bat. It’s a shame that certain figures can’t bite the bullet here for the good of the club and involve Steel for the one day cup. 

Am I correct in saying that only Ahmed and Parkinson will be missing for the RLODC for that tinpot tournament? 
 

(And I wonder if they will allow those not selected in a match day squad to return to their clubs to play as they have with Potts and Tongue against us…)

Lloyd Dyer in a 6-0 home win against Ipswich. Poor old Bradley Orr was on loan from Blackburn, remember him twisting and turning, falling to the deck, he just couldn’t get near Dyer. 
 

We had 3 or 4 big home wins over that couple of seasons and each one of them Dyer was unplayable.