And Its Smith

2 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

Careful AIS - you can get into all sorts of bother in this modern world by assuming someone’s sex/gender ...

only a man would post something so stupid so it’s a safe assumption 

We won on xG !

2 minutes ago, Magger1 said:

Disgraceful no passion no will to win , no understanding doesn’t even look like a team GUTLESS BUNCH OF MONEY GRABBING BAR STEWARDS 

Silly man 

8 minutes ago, Fordy62 said:

But the very nature of the youngsters is that they’re inconsistent. We shouldn’t be surprised. 

Tonight was a very inexperienced team. The more inexperienced performers you have, the more likely you are to be inconsistent. Scott doesn’t clear a ball, 1-0. Cundy doesn’t follow his man, 2-0. Not a lot Nige can do about that. Unless they’re training air kicks?

That is a completely fair point. We do though have 6 experienced pros in that team.  Our defence this season has been worse than anyone could have imagined and it shows no real sign of improving at all. It’s very hard to feel positive right now when Massengo is off, Scott maybe as well.  Pearson cannot improve the defence or our ability to pass the ball and his signing record is average at best so far.  

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Sat here for one minute waiting for a video to upload! Refreshed page twice!!

Just now, Fordy62 said:

We all agreed we’d be happy if we avoided relegation. We all agreed we’d be even happier if we could do so and blood some youngsters.

When did things change?

When it was clear there was no sign of progress.  Finishing 16th and blooding youngsters is good when there are signs of progress so we have something to look forward too next season. What is there to look forward too now?  Pearson has proven he cannot get his team to defend and cannot produce more than one good performance in a row 

Kalas wasn’t the problem then!!

24 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Think it’s at AG today???

No Soady?  Travelling with first team, or injured?

He’s been decent recently from what I’ve seen so wouldn’t surprise me to see him on the bench tomorrow. 

Good luck everyone! It’s the hope on day one that kills you!

Tomorrow looks a very hard one. Thankfully most of these are covered by guarantees of free bets afterwards by paddy power and sky bet!  

1:30 mighty potter 13/2
2:10 Magic Daze 16/1
2:50 Tea Clipper 11/1
3:30 Teahupoo 10/1
4:10 Queens Brook 4/1
4:50 The Tide Turns 7/1

4 hours ago, The dastardly red said:

Anyone know any good bookie offers that can be exploited?

Paddy power for new customers is very good 

2 hours ago, Alex_BCFC said:

In West Indies for cricket at moment but get back Friday just in time for Gold Cup day…any tips?

 Very jealous you are over there! My friend flies out tomorrow for the second test 

Will be looking at races the night before as will know the definite list of runners but Tornado Flyer looks a good 12/1 shot.  

2 hours ago, Gillies Downs Leeds said:

2.50 on Tuesday - Lost in Translation is a speculative bet at around the 20/1 mark. 3rd in the Gold Cup in 2020 and this will be his first ever run in a handicap. Not overly consistent now but 20/1 is too big a price in my opinion.

Gericault Roque has my interest in that one. LIT is a good bet though at 20s I agree 

Resurrecting this thread ahead of the best week of the year.  Anyone got any longer odd fancies ?   Anyone going ?   

41 minutes ago, elhombrecito said:

At that point he'd realised how far he'd run, and backtracked a little. Dack would need to be blind not to realise he was there, so definitely should have been retaken. But that ref was an idiot so not shocked he did nothing about it.

Don’t think Dack complained though so don’t think he did see him 

15 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Seeing as Klose appeared to be running in to the penalty area almost in parallel with Dack I fail to see how he wasn’t making a material impact.

It looked to be the softest of penalties to me but one that definitely should have been re-taken.

He’s being Dack when the ball is struck. Dack can’t see him 

18 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

286 in two sessions. Could be interesting at least. 

Windies 20-1 to win so bookies not all convinced they will go for it.  Hope they do as will make for a great last few hours 

Just now, Port Said Red said:

Leach got the ball to turn in the first couple of overs and then it stopped, maybe a bit of wear and tear might help. But using the spinners could also mean a 5-6 run rate, we are running at 5 over the last 20 overs so it's not impossible. Getting to a 300 lead would take probably 20 overs out of the game, the n the change of innings may leave 65 to get 300?

Captains always bat on for too long in my opinion which is understandable really so I am sure they will set them closer to 300 than 250 

3 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

Can you declare on this featherbed? Set a target of 300 in 60 overs maybe? 

 

270 would be enough. They can’t get that in 2 sessions surely. I’d give them 5 overs before lunch if we get enough.  Highly likely a draw but it might start turning 

England going for it!

A Barnsley win certainly makes life more exciting for us all!

Lawrence will be gagging to get out there 

12 minutes ago, Super said:

Have to agree with Overton looks a top county player but out of his depth at Test level. No idea why his pace was so down as well. The future looks pretty grim.

He’s nearly 28 so not sure he’s the future anyway.  England are poor at the moment and the next couple of years will be tough but if we can get the correct people at the top of the game then I’ve got high hopes.  England football changed the structure of youth football years ago playing smaller sided games etc and we now see the benefits of that.  The cricket opportunities and coaching in the youth game has really taken off over the last few years. My one criticism is that it is too 20/20 focused (all the games are 20-30 overs so not too surprising) and most kids still cannot adapt when they come out to bat at 30/4 with 15 overs left to bat but from recent webinars I’ve seen that may well be changing. It’s certainly on the radar.  
 

9 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

I appreciate it wasn't a great bowling performance, but earlier in this thread @TomF made the excellent point that batsmen should be given 18 months to show their worth and surely that has to be the same for the bowlers? We could have picked the aging Anderson and Broad and made more of a game of it, but the young(er) bowlers can't hide behind them forever and they will only improve by the experience of the different conditions. 

Personally I think it’s different. Batsman form is more up and down than bowlers by the very nature of the different jobs they do. Any batsman can play a bad shot or get a bit of bad luck, therefore judging over a longer period of time negates luck and the odd bad shot to give a truer picture of ability.  With bowling, you bowl a bad ball and the damage is limited and quickly forgotten so bowlers can be judged a bit quicker.  Overton for example, has never looked a test bowler and again doesn’t in this test. It seems highly unlikely to me that he will improve enough (or even at all) if we picked him for the next 18 months.  

31 minutes ago, VT05763 said:

Never been less interested to be honest but historically these are the days we actually surprise ourselves !

I would go with this (injuries allowing)

 

                                                  Bentley

                                Kalas     Atkinson     Klose/Cundy

                  DaSilva                                                       Pring

                                         HNM          Williams

                                                   Scott

                                  Weimann

                                                            Semenyo

 

That is a decent mid Championship team - On Paper !!

Kalas is injured 

2 minutes ago, headhunter said:

4-5-1 for me, Kalas in the RWB position he played in on numerous occasions for Boro & Fulham

                      Bentley

      Kalas - Atkinson - Klose - Pring

Weimann - HNM - Scott - Williams - JD

                   Semenyo

Kalas injured according to Pearson. Think he played RB rather than RWB