GLAMMY

[Dave Blue]

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Uncanny ability to melt away when some character required. The batters who you rely on can’t help finding any fielders with no one else around them within a mile, and today’s tail could barely go through the motions

[FormerlyJohnnyBreadhead]

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I think Cooke needs to come back in for Horton. Ingram moved up to three in the order. Drop Kellaway down to six.

Horton has been really poor, not just with the bat but with the gloves too.

Longer term, I'd say Smale is in pole position to take over when Cooke eventually stops playing.

[Lord Worcester]

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Another very poor performance. Its turning into a typical Glammy T20 campaign.

It certainly is. Pathetic end to the season. 3 consecutive defeats. All quite easily. After some really impressive wins. So annoying. But as you say classic glammy!

[Don Corleone]

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It certainly is. Pathetic end to the season. 3 consecutive defeats. All quite easily. After some really impressive wins. So annoying. But as you say classic glammy!

Yes agree, our record in T20 is quite appalling!

[The Bloop]

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A quick glance at wiki shows we haven't qualified for the quarters since 2017. The worst run of all the counties.

[Taffy Blue in Berkshire]

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I'm still hurting after that awful bowling display on Friday night. let's face it there's not much talent in that squad compared to other sides and nobody leading by example. Carlson has been poor of late and Horton not worthy of selection. the business model doesn't permit any star performers and our expectations should perhaps reflect that.

[Loramski]

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I'm still hurting after that awful bowling display on Friday night. let's face it there's not much talent in that squad compared to other sides and nobody leading by example. Carlson has been poor of late and Horton not worthy of selection. the business model doesn't permit any star performers and our expectations should perhaps reflect that.

I'd agree with that but you're the one who's always running the team down on here. We won at Taunton and thrashed Kent but there wasn't a peep out of you, then a freakish stand took the game away from us at Hampshire and you're straight on here saying how crap we are. I know you care but it's an odd way of showing it.

What's been frustrating this time round is that it feels like we're not that far off it. Key players have lost form (Cooke and Carlson) or been injured (Crane and Kerr) and games have been thrown away due to a lack of belief, experience, game management or whatever but we're still not out of it. I'm sure every team can look back at losses and think 'if only' but we've had a few of those. Would we have lost Friday's game with Timm and Crane playing (and without Mr Magoo making the call on Tom Curran's run out)? Surely not.

Today was poor though. Some muddled thinking all round, nine overs of spin going at ten an over but Douthwaite didn't get to bowl his four and the shot selection left a lot to be desired too, as Dave Blue said. It's a shame because there are positives to be taken (Leonard was outstanding again today) and the players look to be giving everything but it seems like we'll come up short again.

[Taffy Blue in Berkshire]

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I'd agree with that but you're the one who's always running the team down on here. We won at Taunton and thrashed Kent but there wasn't a peep out of you, then a freakish stand took the game away from us at Hampshire and you're straight on here saying how crap we are. I know you care but it's an odd way of showing it.

What's been frustrating this time round is that it feels like we're not that far off it. Key players have lost form (Cooke and Carlson) or been injured (Crane and Kerr) and games have been thrown away due to a lack of belief, experience, game management or whatever but we're still not out of it. I'm sure every team can look back at losses and think 'if only' but we've had a few of those. Would we have lost Friday's game with Timm and Crane playing (and without Mr Magoo making the call on Tom Curran's run out)? Surely not.

Today was poor though. Some muddled thinking all round, nine overs of spin going at ten an over but Douthwaite didn't get to bowl his four and the shot selection left a lot to be desired too, as Dave Blue said. It's a shame because there are positives to be taken (Leonard was outstanding again today) and the players look to be giving everything but it seems like we'll come up short again.

point taken and Leonard, Tribe, Gorvin, Ingram have impressed.

I watch Glammy a lot online (red ball and white ball) and my first game at the old Arms Park was in the 60's. I remember seeing 2 Championship wins, old John Player league etc. etc.

What is so frustrating is the inconsistency and you have a great bowling display at Taunton and that fiasco at the Oval on Friday night which I witnessed first hand. The future is clearly bringing through young players but having a balanced team with experienced campaigners. The batsman did very well at the Oval in the main but were let down by very poor bowling. Yesterday the batting missed a getable total at home.

We don't know why Northeast isn't in the T20 squad but he did well in this format last year.

This one is over now and you hope that the success in the 4 day game continues.

The one day cup?

I don't envy the financial team trying to balance the books down there and like football results and performances bring the crowds in.

The coaching team however need to explain a lot!

[chrisp_1927]

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I don't want to write our T20 obituary too early, because we could still qualify. We've done some good things this year, I like the decision to put Kellaway at 3 playing attacking cricket, it shows good intent. But as the games progress and your championship opener in Tribe is scoring runs for fun, and Kellaway isn't quite firing then surely it becomes obvious that you move tribe in to open and drop Carlson to 3.

Douthwaite has looked great with the bat this year, but can't get higher than 8. Ingram scoring for fun at 4, so gets dropped to 5 to fit Horton in. It's just become muddled, dare I say it's almost become a parody of what was trying to be achieved at first.

I was critical of Carlson's decision to bowl Kellaway for that over against Somerset. It seemed equally stupid not to give him at least an over against Surrey when out seamers were getting battered. Carlson's individual fielding has also plumbed the depths in recent games.

We've done a lot right, as evidenced by the fact we were in top 2 contention until 3/4 of the way through game 12 of 14. Just a shame a bit of sloppiness seems to be leading to the wheels falling off at the end.

[FormerlyJohnnyBreadhead]

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Kellaway and Crane both been selected for Welsh Fire.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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Possible county championship and T20 shake-up proposed:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/crk6vrm4x4jo

[the other bob wilson]

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Possible county championship and T20 shake-up proposed:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/...s/crk6vrm4x4jo

Surprise, surprise, they want yet another reduction in the amount of red ball cricket played, so I'm against it straight away.

I'm going to sound like the "things were better in my day" merchant I was determined not to become when I was young here, but, in this case, I don't mind because things were better in my youth when sides played twenty odd three day County Championship games, there were two knockout one day cups and a limited overs league on Sundays. There was much less specialisation in those days and, with smaller squads at counties, there were plenty of players who would be included in the team, if fit, for every competitive game a county played across the four competitions in.a season - the best county bowlers sent down far more overs than today's players do as well.

Compare all of that to today where it's impossible for anybody to play a full season in all four competitions because two of them take place at the same time. Furthermore, with separate red and white ball contracts often on offer, players get plenty of chances to recharge their batteries unless they become one of those white ball cricketers who spend their year gadding about the planet lining their pockets while playing for about five different sides.

So, as someone who is usually on the sife of the "workers", I have little sympathy with modern day complaints that cricketers play too much (even when their case is being made by as decent a bloke as James Harris).

[chrisp_1927]

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Glamorgan look like wrapping up a good win. Unfortunately it won't be enough, with Kent close to a win against Essex.

[Lord Worcester]

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And so we end up 5th, with a pile of what ifs and maybes! Not the 1st time. Some really good wins and performances, mingled in with some horrible defeats and utter dross. Maybe the inevitability of t20, certainly an inevitability of glammy playing t20!

[chrisp_1927]

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Not bad overall, 7 and 7 and some positive moments. Unfortunately it's the 2 Surrey games that are the only 2 that could be described as us really throwing it away. In massive positions in both games to really stuff them, but a poor chase of 149, followed by not being able to defend 222. In fact Glamorgan throwing away games against Surrey seems to be a recurring theme season after season.