ralphindevon

Bigger fish to fry than getting to a T20 finals day, sat 10 hours outside in what is a big stag do towards the end of September isnt my idea if a good day at cricket.

The commentator with Gibbo is an embarrassment, everything he calls he gets wrong and has to correct himself. I've had to turn the sound off

With Hildreth batting and Blacwell the other end I keep wanting Blackie to get on strike

Yeah I don't think he's terrible, but an overseas signing has to be quite a bit better than what you've already got in that position. He clearly isn't and we knew he wasn't before we signed him this season. ,

Why do we pay good money to have Taylor get hit around the ground very week. Why not Bess, Van Meekeren, Joverton, Davey, Leach when he's not on test duty etc etc. All of whom are squad players anyway?

Well that was another rollercoaster 4 days At one point I thought us and Essex would lose, then with Kent out for 40 I was cursing something rotten, now I'm ecstatic but knackered from just keeping up online. I'm gonna need a long holiday at the end of September Great effort and never say die attitude from Somerset

Agree, Arul only 1 wicket less, Ackerman 3 x more expensive

Arul Suppiah's record has finally fallen Ackerman 4-0-18-7 for Leicester v Birmingham Bit expensive if you ask me!

Yes, 2 of course. I would happily un register Taylor and keep the other 2 for the rest of the championship games though.

Azhar Ali will drop out. Too much bother un registering Babar and re registering Azhar and then reversing it again apparently. You can only have one registered at a time

Why is it in these situations, which I often find myself in at football and cricket, the game is never a one sided affair with a certain result obvious well before the end, meaning you can sneak away quickly yo catch that early train? No, you can guarantee it'll go to the wire with the final over taking 15 minutes as the fielding captain makes 50 fielding changes per ball. With T20 it always feels a bit worse missing a bit as it's so short anyway but I can understand it if you have your lad with you

Oh dear! That was quite disastrous. Even in defeat you usually get a minimum of 3 points, 3 for bowling on a bowler friendly wicket and at least 2 batting points and a couple bowling on a batting wicket but how you just get one when you've put them in is disaster. Struggling to find a positive here, I suppose with a month gap now we've time to regroup and plan our last 4 games. And to be fair, in the seasons we've come tantilisingly close we've been more than 4 points behind the leaders at this stage.

When Essex beat us they closed the gap to 15 points, two games each later and it's still 15 points. We're in for a battle royale. Who, if anyone, will crumble before the final game showdown in September?

It certainly could gave been worse, COverton, JOverton, Bess could all have been picked. Just hope they send them back in one piece

Brilliant all round victory and particularly pleasing to see the top order contribute. Abell, Hildreth, Banton, Bartlett all getting over a 100 runs in the match and Azhar not far behind with 91. Our first max points win of the season and we havent pulled any points on our main rivals shows how important it was.

Somerset fans know that more than most.... I've a feeling Essex will be our main rivals

Which would leave Hants needing 7 from 8 or York's 8 from 8. I'm trembling with excitement, I'm considering chucking my job in so I can go to every game left, I don't want to miss that moment, or the last game when we parade the trophy and Tres gets his emotional final innings. OK, I know, I need to calm the **** down

I just asked for a couple quick wickets for me to be relaxed, I must say it was a lot easier than I'd imagined. I'm trying to remember back to the seasons we've finished 2nd and even the season we tied on points. Is it just me or does this team seem a better all round team than those? Everyone is contributing, except maybe Marcus, though his experience on the field and slip catching can't be ignored.

Some poor bowling too, especially from Groenwald. Leach seemed to struggle with cold hands. Need a couple of quick wickets in the morning just to get them nervous, else it' a loss and a huge dent in our dreams. We would have had one hand on the trophy with a win

Me! And Wembley the following day hoping for a repeat if the greatest play off final ever.

I don't think the selectors can ignore him, he's not done much wrong for England and has been nothing short of brilliant when he's played for Somerset. Just had the one bowl this season, on an early season wicket and took 6 for 36. I would have played him in the one day cup, spinners at other counties are returning economical figures and he's up there with the best.

You've mixed up your sentences there. It's not away to leaders on Friday- it's home to the leaders on Sunday. ?

Cricket as we know/knew it is coming to an end I'm afraid. Very sad

Being local to us, a drive up Porlock hill as soon as youve passed your driving test was a must for us, not sure why but we felt it was something we had to do as soon as we could. Walk? No. Maybe the toll road. Looking back at that season it's strange we've got Hull City and Stoke City in the space if a couple days. One down one to go

I'm no groundsman but I wonder how difficult it is to produce a good result wicket. I hated the days where it was 550 plays 520 at the end of day 3, I'm sure it cost us a few titles. Something had to be done and it has, obviously this was too far but is it fine lines or is this a case of getting too greedy for a result?