ralphindevon

I haven't seen figures for this or last season but when I last looked, Somerset had more members than all but a couple counties, bigger championship attendances than every county. They certainly still have far bigger crowds than Glamorgan, Hampshire and Durham, who have international grounds.

Decent team that. Only three pace options might be a worry, until you see who the three are! Can't see many teams scoring big against them. I might make a case for Sunil Gavaskar to open with Tres instead of Smith or even the run machine that was Jimmy Cook, who would have been an international star had it not been for apartheid .

Did anyone go to the Q & A after play yesterday with Guy Lavender and Matt Maynard? I was at the day's play but left before the end, so fed up I couldn't be bothered to wait around for it. Under Brian Rose we behaved like one of the wealthiest best supported counties that we are. Under this regime, we seem to have gone back to the days when we were the poor cousin of the county cricket scene. Thinking that giving us Chris Gale for a few matches, good though he was, just doesn't wash with most members. I think we're the second longest standing first division team, the club has all but thrown in the towel as far the championship goes, making half hearted attempts to do well in the T 20 by signing Gale, Anderson and Allenby, ignoring the LV leaving us relegation bound which is such a shame.

The World Boss has certainly been a big hit in Newton Abbot this afternoon / evening. Somerset have been hyping him up so much in the months since he signed, I thought there's no way he can live up to this hype. In fact in the 5 days he's been here, he's been a bigger star on and off the pitch than anyone could have dreamt. Will it be good enough to win us a trophy? No. The county bosses have really ballsed up imo, most of there eggs in one basket with Gale while forgetting the rest of the team, not replacing players, average overseas players, bar Gale, who is only here for a few weeks. Most members want the elusive championship and that seems like it's been completely overlooked. Although Taunton has a small town feel about it, we are in fact one of the best supported counties in the country, with one of the highest memberships, we should be looking to win that title.

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I wonder where they met? nobody has ever seen this Burt chap.....some secret society perhaps?

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Yeah good question, I often see people online on their phones at the match and I can never get a signal once there's more than 100 people around. Is it because we have older phones? I still have an old iphone 3gs

Around 5300 I heard

Then you need something to translate google....it's rubbish.

This morning I was hoping for Chris Wood to win the golf in Qatar and then a clean sheet victory for City. Well the first just came in, a brilliant eagle on the last hole to pocket 1/4 million £ There might be more chance of me winning the Masters than City getting a clean sheet.