Ever since a good side under Matthew Maynard was broken up because they unluckily missed out on promotion after the two sides that went up, Worcester and Sussex, engineered an outcome from a game that was going nowhere on the final day of the season, it's been hard to see what the plan is at Glamorgan.
By and large, our specialist batting has simply not been good enough since then as signings of veteran overseas batsmen well past their best has, hardly surprisingly, not paid off.
As for the bowling, I couldn't help but agree with Steve Rhodes earlier this season when he said that we have what is, essentially, an overseas seam bowling attack. However, seam bowling is probably the team's strongest suit - I've already mentioned the lamentable batting, but, if anything, our spin bowling may be even worse than that.
There was a time when Glamorgan had a principled stand where they would not sign Kolpac players and the aim was to field as many Welsh players as possible - Hugh Morris came in saying that the onus would be on home grown players while he was in charge, but the truth is, rather like City, the current side may be the most unWelsh Glamorgan team ever.
The team that couldn't make their latest four day game last half of that time contained three Welsh born players and one Englishmen, the rest were born outside of the UK I believe.
We have become as bad as those teams who packed their sides full of foreigners that we used to criticise seven or eight years ago and where has it got us? I've seen worse Glamorgan sides than this one, but not many of them - this squad has the classic balance of too many veterans and too many youngsters trying to prove themselves that, almost always, equals failure on the pitch.
At the back end of last season, there was some encouragement as poor results at least had a consolation with a series of young players being introduced who showed that they could cope at senior level with a series of big scores and five fors that offered hope for the future.
Most of these players have struggled this year, but their causes surely cannot have been helped by the age old practice of dropping younger players from a struggling team even though there are plenty of more experienced men who were not doing the business.
Lukas Carey is an example of a younger player who has been doing pretty well this season and yet he's not played in either of the two latest embarrassments - the decision to leave him out at Gloucester was a truly baffling one, because I would have thought he would be unlikely to play much 20/20 cricket, so, basically, he's finished with first team cricket for the next six weeks!
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Originally Posted by Pearcey3
