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Post by Admin on Sept 6, 2024 13:47:04 GMT
Can the misery get even worse we have another 4 days to prove it can www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2650628Not the greatest of forecast, any news will be on here |
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Post by ian on Sept 6, 2024 17:48:25 GMT
Northants have just sacked their coach after a poor season and losing the T20 QF. So....
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Post by anyportinastorm on Sept 7, 2024 7:15:50 GMT
I've booked to go up first couple of days. Looks like I may have wasted my money. In every sense..
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Post by exile on Sept 7, 2024 8:33:11 GMT
Northants have just sacked their coach after a poor season and losing the T20 QF. So.... Benkenstein cuts an extremely unimpressive figure but I think the problems at Lancs go much deeper than just having an apparently poor coach. For some of us, the alarm bells began ringing when Mark Chilton was appointed as DoC. Like Chilton's earlier appointment as captain of a team that glittered with "stars" but achieved nothing under his invisible leadership, this was a case of an institution appointing "the right sort of person" (i.e. someone guaranteed to relate socially to those in overall charge and to do their bidding) and, if rumours are to be believed, it led to the resignation of Glen Chapple. |
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Post by sillypoint on Sept 7, 2024 8:51:49 GMT
Chapple did indeed imply that it had been difficult to work under Chilton, after previously Chilton had worked for him.
Durham are missing Bedingham, and are certainly not unbeatable, it's just that Lancs don't look capable of beating anybody.
Will Michael Jones play for Durham? Don't think there's anything in the rules to stop him, but what if he scores a century which wins the game for Durham and ends up relegating us?
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Post by John W on Sept 7, 2024 9:00:21 GMT
Northants have just sacked their coach after a poor season and losing the T20 QF. So.... Benkenstein cuts an extremely unimpressive figure but I think the problems at Lancs go much deeper than just having an apparently poor coach. For some of us, the alarm bells began ringing when Mark Chilton was appointed as DoC. Like Chilton's earlier appointment as captain of a team that glittered with "stars" but achieved nothing under his invisible leadership, this was a case of an institution appointing "the right sort of person" (i.e. someone guaranteed to relate socially to those in overall charge and to do their bidding) and, if rumours are to be believed, it led to the resignation of Glen Chapple. Ultimately the blame lies with the people who actually appointed Chilton. To quote Gidney, "After completing a global search over the last three months", "We had significant interest in the position with a vast number of applications from across the world of cricket"...yeah right on Dan. |
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Post by John W on Sept 7, 2024 9:05:25 GMT
Me and the Mrs are up there for the 4 days. We'll be easily spotted, we'll be the ones with MUG written on our foreheads! Weather forecast is a bit better on the Met website.
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Post by exile on Sept 7, 2024 11:58:51 GMT
Spot on, John. Gidney's nose must have grown a centimetre with every word of that statement. To think that Lancs combed the entire world (spending God knows how much money) to find the right person to be DoC and then sifted carefully through the masses of applications, all of them not good enough, and all the time the right guy was under their nose! Obviously it came late to the board that the problem with all the other applicants was that they had some sort of record of success when what they really needed was a compliant mediocrity.
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Post by man in the stand on Sept 7, 2024 13:00:46 GMT
This is now the time for supporters to get behind the team. All the talk of sacking x, or y or the whole team won't achieve anything. Tough matches ahead but who would have thought that Essex would have been beaten by Worcstershire....
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Post by exile on Sept 7, 2024 18:41:04 GMT
MITS, how exactly do we "get behind the team" and how will the team know that we have got behind them or, indeed, benefit from such knowledge? We all know perfectly well that nothing that anyone says on here will make any difference to anything. People are just expressing their frustration and why shouldn't they? All I can do to get behind the team is to keep renewing my membership in spite of the increasing evidence that I am throwing good money after bad.
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Post by John W on Sept 8, 2024 7:27:30 GMT
Notts, Worcs and now Durham, our three immediate rivals for relegation have added to their squad either through an overseas player or domestic. All three realise how serious the situation is and are at least being active. Meanwhile at the house of chaos...
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Post by man in the stand on Sept 8, 2024 9:03:45 GMT
MITS, how exactly do we "get behind the team"........
If you can go along to the game as John W intends to...he suggests he is a "mug" for doing so but I say no to that. A supporter of the team needs to get behind the team in the bad times as well as enjoying the rarer good times.. |
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Post by exile on Sept 8, 2024 10:58:45 GMT
That's a fair point, MITS, and it's why I keep renewing my membership in spite of constant disappointment. You seemed to be suggesting that we should stop criticising the management of the club on this forum. My apologies for any misunderstanding.
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Post by John W on Sept 8, 2024 14:54:00 GMT
MITS, how exactly do we "get behind the team"........
If you can go along to the game as John W intends to...he suggests he is a "mug" for doing so but I say no to that. A supporter of the team needs to get behind the team in the bad times as well as enjoying the rarer good times..
MITS, have you ever heard of tongue in cheek? C'mon, lighten up! I'm actually taking the proverbial out of myself, can you honestly not see that?? I've spent 40 days watching Lancashire this season, Durham will take it up to 44 (if it goes the distance), then I'll be at OT for the Somerset game before taking in the final CC game at New Road, the only days I have missed has been when rain affected plus the Oval game when I was at the OT Test match. I've watched absolute dross at Chelmsford and Trent Bridge in the CC, similar at OT against Kent and Hampshire, rubbish at Taunton and Southampton in the MB plus humiliation at Derby in the same comp. I've spent a pretty penny (my choice) travelling up and down the country SUPPORTING my county, I get behind the team every day I watch them, I could have given up the ghost half way through this campaign because everybody could see which way it was heading BUT I didn't, I have carried on supporting them through (as you suggest) the bad times. What I am not blind to is the black cloud that hangs over Lancashire County Cricket Club, whether that be on or off the pitch and whichever way you choose to dress it up the first team are having one of their worst seasons in recent memory. If I feel something isn't right then I will call it out on this forum, some members will agree with me some won't, but as long as it is done in a controlled manner then everyone gets along fine. A forum is a place where you express your opinion and you cannot expect all members to be singing and dancing from the rooftops when the county are having such an awful season. So, I'll be setting off for Durham at 06.30 in the morning doing what I always do, cheering every time we take a wicket or applauding every run, hoping against hope that we can somehow manufacture a victory. I believe I have earned the right to criticise as long as I do it in a constructive manner and if by any chance anyone connected with Lancashire browses this forum then they have to be prepared for criticism, the team performances this last 6 months dictate that. |
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Post by alanw on Sept 8, 2024 16:30:31 GMT
Iyer named in the squad on the website. I thought we'd seen the back of him, hopefully it's a typo!
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