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ralphindevon

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  1. How did we throw away that? Not having a go at Sale because he's young and very inexperienced............... WHICH IS WHY YOU DON'T GIVE HIM THE FINAL OVER WITH ALL AT STAKE
  2. When Bartlett got us to 200 on Saturday I said that was enough runs with our bowling attack, my tweet was read out on the commentary. Well, for all those thinking I was talking nonsense, this is the best all round bowling attack I've seen in over 40 years of watching and that's without Bess and Leach and Gregory for 2 games I know we haven't played against the best teams so far and will adjust that total when we do.......to 250
  3. I know, the whole episode is so Somerset, can there be a sporting team with less luck than we have? If you wrote a book about just this century so far it would seem far fetched.
  4. I'm not sure I've seen such a dominant Somerset team in my 40 odd years of watching them. Even when the top order have failed you just know the tail will wag and with this seem attack 150 is usually enough anyway. I genuinely believe we would have overcome our 12 point deduction and won the championship this year
  5. How many times has the Somerset tail wagged in recent years? The way we've been bowling that could be a very good total
  6. Wolves season ticket holders have been asked to fill in a form saying who you attend matches with. Presumably family or people in your bubble will all sit together therefore taking up less space as no distancing needed. Must admit it's going to be a logistical nightmare for clubs
  7. In 6 innings against us so far this season the opposition average 129, so we could easily have declared as soon as Jamie hit his ton, it's not as if we could lose, we still had s 2nd innings if needed. It's fine margins and we don't help ourselves sometimes......often
  8. Yes, definitely with the forecast, plus none of these teams bar maybe Worcester are capable of scoring bug runs against this Somerset attack. Having said that we didn't have a stroke of luck today with the weather, that last cloud burst which cost us the game seemed to have blue sky all around the ground but not above it. Plus they could have easily eeked out a few mire overs if they really wanted to.
  9. I think I've played 8 rounds since we were allowed back, more than I normally would in that space if time. I think when this is over everyone will be saying yes to every invitation and we'll be grabbing all the fun things in life with both hands
  10. We're going to get in the play offs, win the final for the first time, get in the premier league for the first time..... ...and it'll all be behind closed doors and none of us wil be there to see it, just our luck.
  11. Agree. When I was in Singapore recently the media would produce a family tree type illustration, they hadn't had any deaths so it was of everyone who had been tested positive. You could check out every cluster, most cases came in clusters, like churches, a business convention and a couple of large workplaces. Surprisingly very few if any got it by just going about every day life, like commuting or shopping. The whole of Singapore was a model of how things should be done a number of experts have said. A bit wierd to get back to Heathrow and not see or speak to a single airport official between the plane and my car. Just an automated passport machine.
  12. Although I'm 100% opposed to the tournament I don't blame the players one but dating a big payday. Some excellent and unexpected contracts for some Somerset players, Gregory and Abell getting £100k contracts must give them a huge boost. Banton is just printing money atm. As for Eddie Byrom getting picked on the back of 198 career T20 runs and 1 decent innings is remarkable. Well done to them and the 3 others but remember, do your best to make sure your county survives
  13. The support for cricket in Cardiff is one of the lowest in county cricket. Taunton is the countries cricketing hotbed, it would be the first place I'd hold games outside of the big cities. Or at least share it with Bristol. Personally I'd rather visit the dentist, so glad it's not here. The decision is apparently a way of compensating Glamorgan for not having test matches anymore. Money before sense, hope it goes tits up in year one
  14. True, and TBF when he came on to field he looked like he'd already started enjoying retirement. That shirt was a tight fit to say the least
  15. Well that was a hard watch. It doesn't get any easier however many times we've come 2nd.....and it's a lot. Watching the legend leave the field for the final time didn't help, deffo something in my eye.
  16. A gorgeous summer of weather and not a single days cricket at Taunton from the 10th July to 10th September. A few T20 evening games but no proper days cricket during 2 months of high summer, then the grand finale at the end of September in the rain. Bonkers!
  17. That too of course. But to take the winning catch from a kneeling position in the slips off Leach first.
  18. They announced last week he won't be in the squad. I'd love yo see him come on as sub fielder towards the end though
  19. Correct, hugely unlikely bonus points will cone into it. It would mean something like us scoring under 200 them scoring over 400 and us winning. Best in mind there will be no declarations from Essex. On the other hand, anything's possible with Somerset
  20. Or Eddie Byrom but why the hell we would pay out money to bring in someone with an average record to play I shall never know. It even seems unfair on him to be expected to score runs in these circumstances
  21. Looking like it's going to be a 7 point lead, Essex likely to get a 3rd batting point but no more as there's only 9 overs left. I'd have taken that before this round of matches. Maintain that lead into the Essex game, make the wicket a road, pray for rain and open the champagne
  22. Half a dozen mire days if everything going our way like today and It could be ours. Not all our way though, those lost 13 overs could have allowed us to declare and put Yorkshire in to bat in what has so far been wicket tumbling time, the morning session.
  23. We've got to stop wasting money on overseas players that don't improve what we've already got. How Eddie Byrom feels about not playing in this game after drafting in Vijay I don't know. Besides that great day so far
  24. Let's hope we both achieve it ???
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