GLAMMY

[Pearcey3]

No one comes out of this well, but the way Glamorgan have treated Donald over the last year makes you think they wanted him to leave - the plan is to develop young players and yet here we are with the youngster who, arguably, has the most potential out of any of them unable to get into a four day team for which 200 is a big score.

Donald has had so many chances and failed time after time. His batting average in all forms of the game is embarrassing. I’m surprised the club offered him a new contract and even more surprised Hants want to take him on.
Yes he has talent but doesn’t have the temperament to knuckle down and build an innings.
This is no loss.

As for this latest debacle this has to change. Too many youngsters are being played and left to sink or swim. They are sinking. It’s not going to help their development if they are constantly losing.

It’s a shambles. Morris and Croft need to be a damn sight more honest about it because this has been a hopeless season.

[the other bob wilson]

Donald has had so many chances and failed time after time. His batting average in all forms of the game is embarrassing. I’m surprised the club offered him a new contract and even more surprised Hants want to take him on.
Yes he has talent but doesn’t have the temperament to knuckle down and build an innings.
This is no loss.

As for this latest debacle this has to change. Too many youngsters are being played and left to sink or swim. They are sinking. It’s not going to help their development if they are constantly losing.

It’s a shambles. Morris and Croft need to be a damn sight more honest about it because this has been a hopeless season.

I did say that no one comes out of this well, Donald has not made the best use of his talent in the last two seasons and his figures in all forms of the game are poor - although I would excuse him that to some degree in 20/20, and to a lesser degree, in 50 over cricket, because he goes in to bat in a way which will tend to see him dismissed early quite often. However, in a team which is giving youth a chance in the four day game,
I find it incredible that someone with, by far, the best record and reputation in junior cricket at the club cannot get a place in a side where none of the top six (nearly all youngsters) are scoring runs on anything like a consistent basis.
I was just speaking to a mate who is fairly well in with some influential people at Glamorgan and said to him that I felt there were more than cricketing reasons why Donald was not being selected, his response was "you may well be right".
I'd like to see Graham Wagg brought into the side to bat at something like number five while being told that he would be considered primarily as a batsman until the end of the season. Something needs to be done, because if we don't win a game before the end of the season we are going to finish bottom of the Championship - nobody at the club seems to be too bothered about that, but I hate the thought of it.

[MacAdder]

The expected drubbing has been confirmed. An innings and 30-odd run defeat on our own patch.
Embarrassing!

[Pearcey3]

I did say that no one comes out of this well, Donald has not made the best use of his talent in the last two seasons and his figures in all forms of the game are poor - although I would excuse him that to some degree in 20/20, and to a lesser degree, in 50 over cricket, because he goes in to bat in a way which will tend to see him dismissed early quite often. However, in a team which is giving youth a chance in the four day game,
I find it incredible that someone with, by far, the best record and reputation in junior cricket at the club cannot get a place in a side where none of the top six (nearly all youngsters) are scoring runs on anything like a consistent basis.
I was just speaking to a mate who is fairly well in with some influential people at Glamorgan and said to him that I felt there were more than cricketing reasons why Donald was not being selected, his response was "you may well be right".
I'd like to see Graham Wagg brought into the side to bat at something like number five while being told that he would be considered primarily as a batsman until the end of the season. Something needs to be done, because if we don't win a game before the end of the season we are going to finish bottom of the Championship - nobody at the club seems to be too bothered about that, but I hate the thought of it.

Yes there have been rumours all season that Donald hasn’t been happy so his departure comes as no surprise. There is talk that he is arrogant. Not sure whether true or not but he will now have a second chance with Hants. If he performs there like he has in his past two seems with us his career will come to an end in a couple of years time.

[DubaiDai]

I did say that no one comes out of this well, Donald has not made the best use of his talent in the last two seasons and his figures in all forms of the game are poor - although I would excuse him that to some degree in 20/20, and to a lesser degree, in 50 over cricket, because he goes in to bat in a way which will tend to see him dismissed early quite often. However, in a team which is giving youth a chance in the four day game,
I find it incredible that someone with, by far, the best record and reputation in junior cricket at the club cannot get a place in a side where none of the top six (nearly all youngsters) are scoring runs on anything like a consistent basis.
I was just speaking to a mate who is fairly well in with some influential people at Glamorgan and said to him that I felt there were more than cricketing reasons why Donald was not being selected, his response was "you may well be right".
I'd like to see Graham Wagg brought into the side to bat at something like number five while being told that he would be considered primarily as a batsman until the end of the season. Something needs to be done, because if we don't win a game before the end of the season we are going to finish bottom of the Championship - nobody at the club seems to be too bothered about that, but I hate the thought of it.

I am all for relegation as well as promotion from division 2.
If the club don't give a toss - go into the minor counties league, where they belong....