Lrrr

Can’t wait for the managers of the teams in the final to complain about having to play another midweek game to make up for when the final is

And not a bad goal to boot

Coaching staff will pick up on players who are coasting through pre-season and it won’t end well for them if they think it won’t effect their chances of starting the first game of the season

John Akinde with Colchester's second

I’m a little surprised we said no to be honest, if we didn’t think Surrey would win from the position we’d just taken 5 wickets in 5 overs, Lawrence was left but if you could have a go at the tail who knows what would have happened, we look like we were happy to just scarper with the draw points

I think the annoyance partly comes from it being a round where every game was a draw, we had a game that could have seen a win but because both teams don't want to lose we miss out on what could have been an exciting finish.

Should they be allowed to though? Teams can’t shake hands in football after 89 minutes because they’re happy with a point, there was game time left, should the whole time be played and whatever result come what may, would be annoyed as a spectator in the ground at that point

Genuine question, should teams be allowed to shake hands for the draw when Somerset and Surrey did? Chance of a result was much higher then the start of Surrey’s innings, should the umpire have the power to say it’s still light and we can see the game out?

Again shows what the ball is like if on a day 4 pitch the openers can go at 10 an over

The loans like this are more for experiencing the physicality/speed/competitiveness of senior league football over academy football more then anything, needing to take chances when they come because you may not see much of the ball etc, in academy football ‘oh well score it next time’ in league football ‘oh no I may not get another chance and that could cost us dearly’

I’ve usually found manager v head coach usually refers to things like transfers, head coach gets given a selection to choose from whereas manager would work with head of recruitment do a lot more work themselves in saying what the pool is to start with. Then responsibility for the rest of the coaching staff etc, head coaches may more often have staff hired for them or only get a say at the very end whereas managers more involved with the process of whose being brought in to work under them.

Seb's problem will be the intensity of the Championship vs League Two and bringing himself up to the level physically, his physical data vs Wells & Conway is still some way short in most areas except the distance they all cover when sprinting per 90 minutes played, things like total distance & running at say 70% to 80% he's still some way short of the level. Could open him up as an option off the bench if deemed good enough but then its a balance of is his development best served doing that or on loan in say League One or the SPL as a bridge loan for him to get closer.

No

He's experienced enough at the levels below to know his ins and outs, he also would have had 2 senior enough players alongside him as well as part of a back three, factor with little riding on the result it was the pefect time to try him again

That would be why I only mentioned Tanner the 'and make shift RCB' was still referring to him

Knight-Lebel is the curious one for yesterday that Manning would rather put a RB and make shift RCB in a back three in the middle of the back three over playing an actual centre back there, I'd be getting pretty annoyed by now if I were Knight-Lebel, he's played just 1100 minutes (including U21's) in what's one of the most important years for his development where he's had to sit on the bench for the first team where either Atkinson gets fit in the summer or we probably buy another CB over him.

A lot of budgets in the national league are bigger than those in league two, bigger attendances and no form of financial fair play in the national league has seen Wrexham have a bigger budget then half of league one when in national league and Stockport were paying players 6k a week when they were there.

They'll struggle to get out of the national league Cotts or not, they'd likely have to at least increase their budget by 50% to compete for promotion

we’re back!

Kookaburra experiment needs to end, teams shouldn’t be this bat dominant in early April (bar whatever is happening at Gloucester) you can tell players don’t like how bad the ball is

Looks like it’s a 50% increase on the current deal, whether that relates to each club seeing 50% more will be seen but if it does it would bring in more then the club makes off streaming games.

2 of those 6 for me all my bets are e/w, just used money left in my account from PGA as I broke even Nicolai Hojgaard - 100/1 Ludvig Aberg - 25/1 Ryan Fox - 100/1 Sepp Straka - 100/1 Bubba Watson - 110/1 Sahith Theegala - 30/1 Wyndham Clark - 25/1 Victor Hovland - 25/1

It feels like the limited overs kits haven’t become Middlesex kits

Yeah but how are Blackburn?