GLAMMY

[chrisp_1927]

Re: GLAMMY

Douthwaite is a liability as well

Not sure what happened in his last over. 3 really good overs and then just went to pieces. The ways that we are finding to lose games now is just beyond belief.

[Dave Blue]

Re: GLAMMY

I can’t believe what I’ve just seen. I’ve seen us lose 2 home games in T20 with at least 9 dropped catches. We made no use of the shoulder bouncer. Gloucester bowled one every over.

[Lord Worcester]

Re: GLAMMY

Yep he nearly always proves costly....the 21 off that over proved so closely.

Somehow we lost the Essex game and now we have managed to toss another victory away. vdG bowls 4 for 8, gets them 45-5 and we manage to lose. It is pathetic.

[JamesWales]

Re: GLAMMY

I can’t believe what I’ve just seen. I’ve seen us lose 2 home games in T20 with at least 9 dropped catches. We made no use of the shoulder bouncer. Gloucester bowled one every over.

Fkn infuriating

[chrisp_1927]

Re: GLAMMY

We could quite conceivably be sitting top of the table. Been in strong positions in every game, real winning positions in most games. Yet we've conspired to throw it away constantly. Ridiculous number of dropped catches, big 8 and 9th wicket partnerships against us, just unbelievable.

We should have been defending at least another 20 runs, but even with what we were defending we had done enough to win the game. To happen in 1 game fair enough. But we've now blown out and out winning chances against Glos and Essex, to go with the really strong positions that we blew against Surrey and Somerset.

Top 4 starting to pull away a bit now aswell, so looking like end of sports for qualifying

[the other bob wilson]

Re: GLAMMY

We could quite conceivably be sitting top of the table. Been in strong positions in every game, real winning positions in most games. Yet we've conspired to throw it away constantly. Ridiculous number of dropped catches, big 8 and 9th wicket partnerships against us, just unbelievable.

We should have been defending at least another 20 runs, but even with what we were defend we had done enough to win the game. To happen in 1 game fair enough. But we've now blown out and out winning chances against Glos and Essex, to go with the really strong positions that we blew against Surrey and Somerset.

Top 4 starting to pull away a bit now aswell, so looking like end of sports for qualifying

You can forget about that team qualifying, there’s a simple explanation for their defeat tonight, it’s the same one that explains the Surrey and Essex losses - they bottled it.

[chrisp_1927]

Re: GLAMMY

You can forget about that team qualifying, there’s a simple explanation for their defeat tonight, it’s the same one that explains the Surrey and Essex losses - they bottled it.

100%. Always seems like a strong accusation to make, but when the wheels come off with the basics to this extent game after game it starts looking like the only explanation. I really want Carlson to succeed , he seems a nice bloke and I think he's got a good cricket brain, but I think you've got to look at the captain when this level of bottling is happening (especially when he's one of the ones dropping the sitters).

[MOZZER2]

Re: GLAMMY

lots of talk about catches on here but this catch was incredible

One of the best catches I have ever seen live from Marnus pic.twitter.com/NYXEmyyRi6

— Peter Miller (@TheCricketGeek) June 20, 2024

[chrisp_1927]

Re: GLAMMY

lots of talk about catches on here but this catch was incredible

One of the best catches I have ever seen live from Marnus pic.twitter.com/NYXEmyyRi6

— Peter Miller (@TheCricketGeek) June 20, 2024

It was fantastic, one of the best I've seen. Shows that real desire to impact the game aswell. He seems to have that attitude that 'if I don't score runs I'm still going to do something to win you the game'. wether that's bowling a good spell or taking a stunner in the field. Real winning mentality that a lot of the others just don't seem to have

[Pearcey3]

Re: GLAMMY

You can forget about that team qualifying, there’s a simple explanation for their defeat tonight, it’s the same one that explains the Surrey and Essex losses - they bottled it.

Yep and it is a recurring theme. Our record in T20 over the years is abysmal.

[Taffy Blue in Berkshire]

Re: GLAMMY

Yep and it is a recurring theme. Our record in T20 over the years is abysmal.

I'm old enough to have seen Glammy win the County Championship twice, the Sunday league as was and there's no comparison to the team in those days and the squad now. The club doesn't have the resources to have too many quality players and it shows.

The T20 performances have been woeful and we've gone down dramatically over the last 10 years.

Certainly tonight's failure was sloppy and disappointing.

[Ger27]

Re: GLAMMY

VdG' spell and Marnus' catch were brilliant. In fact, I would put Marnus' catch in the top 10 I've seen live.

But then amateur hour kicked in, big time. Again.

Take off the free tickets given to schools, and tonight's crowd was terrible. Probably as many people watching on youtube as there were in the ground.

Feel like a continued downward spiral. Marnus won't want to play here next year, and hard to see where the next talent is coming from.

(All good otherwise)

[Loramski]

Re: GLAMMY

Back on the horse for a game at the Oval tomorrow. I'm glad it's not my job to lift the players after tonight.

Pretty sad really. We all know we're not one of the top teams but everyone's doing all they can to make it work. As Ger said, the club gave loads of free tickets to local schools tonight, they were promoting free tickets for u-17s (half price for adults) for Sunday's Championship game too. The players gave everything, a number of them collapsed to the ground after the final ball. Even the stewards seem friendly and helpful to me. But how can you legislate for players dropping chance after chance and throwing games away like tonight?

My missus works in a school where free tickets were being given out. Hopefully the kids that went had a good time and will want to go again and even take up the game, despite the result. I'm not sure if the players ever make visits to local schools but if they do then maybe they could ask the kids how to catch a ball.

[TWGL1]

Re: GLAMMY

Back on the horse for a game at the Oval tomorrow. I'm glad it's not my job to lift the players after tonight.

Pretty sad really. We all know we're not one of the top teams but everyone's doing all they can to make it work. As Ger said, the club gave loads of free tickets to local schools tonight, they were promoting free tickets for u-17s (half price for adults) for Sunday's Championship game too. The players gave everything, a number of them collapsed to the ground after the final ball. Even the stewards seem friendly and helpful to me. But how can you legislate for players dropping chance after chance and throwing games away like tonight?

My missus works in a school where free tickets were being given out. Hopefully the kids that went had a good time and will want to go again and even take up the game, despite the result. I'm not sure if the players ever make visits to local schools but if they do then maybe they could ask the kids how to catch a ball.

Another angle of Marnus catch

https://x.com/cricbuzz/status/1804033244217626840?s=61&t=opXYWu2ILhmySD2aRt-GNg