|
|
Post by Admin on Jul 22, 2022 18:22:59 GMT
I presumed it meant that, but wasn't sure if it had been autocorrected, or was just some modern Lancastrian tweak on Cockney rhyming slang. Sawn off Shotgun Shotgun wedding Wedding Day Day light robbery Can’t quote what it’s called in my league |
|
|
|
Post by lancsdes on Jul 22, 2022 18:55:48 GMT
Dave Towers , puzzled as to why you thought I might want Northants to win? I was following on the train home from Taunton as I couldn’t stay for the last day and was very pleased. I wore my Lancashire hat every day at the cricket this week .
I admit that my identification with Lancashire CCC as I still call it is less than it was but I cannot recall ever wanting us to lose a game. After the last game last year against Hampshire, when Warwickshire won the following day, I wish we had lost in retrospect as I would much rather Hampshire have won the championship than Warwicks but attending the game I wanted us to win.
The only other game I can remember where I had mixed feelings was the tied Somerset v Lancashire game in 2018 for which I was there . I would rather Lancashire have won , but I would preferred a Somerset win to the tie as the tie was no use for either. However , as a spectator it was interesting to notch up a tie even though there was lots of bad cricket played by both sides to make it possible.
Longstop asked me yesterday whether I was going over to the White Rose with having been at Taunton this week and Scarborough next. I replied by paraphrasing the joke about the Belfast Catholic who converted to a Protestant on his deathbed because “it was better that one of those b…..s dies than one of us”.
|
|
|
|
Post by Dave Towers on Jul 22, 2022 19:13:58 GMT
Dave Towers , puzzled as to why you thought I might want Northants to win? Des, I saw your post on the Somerset forum last week with regard to their match against us:- “I really hope as I said yesterday that Lancashire are not rewarded for this pitch. Come on Somerset”. |
|
|
|
Post by lancsdes on Jul 22, 2022 21:23:17 GMT
Yes, fair point Dave but I wouldn’t have wanted us to lose. I don’t think pitches like the Southport pitch producing enormous scores do cricket any good. Neither do I think that dead pitches like the Taunton one this week do any good either. I actually think there should be fines for wickets which are too good just as much as there should be for really bad ones. I also didn’t want Somerset to be catastrophically demoralised before the game I saw this week from a selfish point of view.
I do appreciate that there is the view that 600 wickets are good for developing bowlers for Test Cricket rather than ones where they get wickets easily. I certainly think a couple of the pitches we have played on the last two years have probably been good for Parkinson and Mahmood in their development when they’ve had to work really hard for wickets.
Re-Northants, I think they’ve produced some deadly dull pitches this season and although this pitch wasn’t one of them, I was delighted we won there. I can imagine a situation where if Somerset were playing for their first ever championship and we didn’t have a chance , I’d be happy for us to lose but that is the only situation I can think of where I would actually want us to lose as opposed to draw.
|
|
|
|
Post by Butter_Fingers on Jul 22, 2022 21:50:23 GMT
I presumed it meant that, but wasn't sure if it had been autocorrected, or was just some modern Lancastrian tweak on Cockney rhyming slang. Sawn off Shotgun Shotgun wedding Wedding Day Day light robbery Can’t quote what it’s called in my league Oh I can imagine  |
|
|
|
Post by Butter_Fingers on Jul 22, 2022 21:53:49 GMT
Longstop asked me yesterday whether I was going over to the White Rose with having been at Taunton this week and Scarborough next. I replied by paraphrasing the joke about the Belfast Catholic who converted to a Protestant on his deathbed because “it was better that one of those b…..s dies than one of us”.
 |
|
|
|
Post by exile on Jul 23, 2022 11:17:25 GMT
That reminds me of a story told by the late Paddy Ashdown (real name Jeremy), son of a Protestant mother and a lapsed Catholic father who bought a farm in Northern Ireland and moved the whole family there. As a new boy at school, Ashdown was bemused when asked aggressively, "Are yew a Catholic or a Protestant?". Not knowing which was the right answer to give, Ashdown replied that actually he was a Buddhist. "Yes", said his interlocutor, "but are yew a Catholic Buddhist or a Protestant Buddhist?"
|
|
