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25 minutes ago, old_eastender said:

BBC claim we have had 1 shot on target, can't say I recall it?

Think it was Matty James who had a tame shot from distance which curled just wide (their ‘keeper had it covered).

EDIT: I misread your post Must’ve been Weimann then. 

Pring coming on for Baker. Reverting to a back four or Pring as LCB? I hope it’s the former. 

6 minutes ago, JonDolman said:

Hoping he has a better game tonight. Been pretty ineffective most times he's had the ball in games since Cardiff. Quite a few miss controls in good areas in recent games 

Fair. I expected him to open his body up onto his left foot there and roll it in the far corner. He certainly had the time to do that. 

Poor from Weimann there. Possibly had too much time to pick his spot when clean through and ended up not even getting a shot off. Should be 1-0 up.

57 minutes ago, robin_unreliant said:

I heard Gregor was going on holiday but he seems to have gone silent for quite a few weeks. Everything from the BP is coming from James Piercy.

Any chance Nige has cost him his job as he did seem out of his depth when dealing with him?

And it's no coincidence the City content on Bristol Live has drastically improved since Piercy's been doing it. Funny how Nige's answers in BL are more in-depth as well. Decent questions get decent answers. 

44 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said:

To be honest I think Pring had his worst game for us today . He found it tough . No disgrace in that against a very good side. 
we’ve got a tight squad with competition for places. 

Agreed, although I doubt he’s come up against the likes of Odoi, who I’ve always rated at this level, and Wilson before. Steep learning curve for the lad.

29 minutes ago, steviestevieneville said:

James does need legs around him . Excellent player but not the most mobile . Harrison Reed coming on playing in that area between Kalas & Tanner caused problems, dragging james across & giving their number 24 acres of space on the middle . Don’t like james & Bakinson together personally . Would like to see a midfield three of james,  massengo  & williams 

Agreed. Add Pring on the left, and get a quality right-winger/forward in and I think that’s a very decent starting XI for this level. 4-3-3/4-5-1

1 hour ago, TomF said:

Glos should see this home, really solid season in the 4 day game.  Got to wonder 'what if' had it been a proper Div 1 season.

We’re a good four-day side, albeit we loved to chase. We were built around good seam in the first half of the summer, and spin in the second.

An enjoyable campaign and I hope Harvey and Alleyne are allowed to continue in their roles beyond this year. 

3 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

Scoring 30 and putting on 44 for the last wicket is useful too. Definitely need to make an effort to keep him around.

10-wicket haul for Gohar now. County Championship win number EIGHT to be wrapped up inside two days. 

1 hour ago, Port Said Red said:

Glos have Durham 118-6 with four wickets falling to left arm spin on day one. It can be often that happens, certainly for Gloucestershire home for old seamers.

Nine wickets have fallen to left-arm spin in the first two sessions so far today. Looks like a Bunsen burner.

On another note, I hope we snap up Gohar for next year. He's exactly the type of spinner we've been crying out for. 

Missed the game today, was on godfather duty. What a finish that is from Nahki.

I’m not at all surprised to see us win today. It’s a happy hunting ground, we knew QPR would take the game to us (and that brings the best out in us), and the togetherness of this squad is a pleasure to see.

We know our limitations and there’s plenty of room for improvement, but this is game eight into a three-year project. Gutted I wasn’t there to enjoy it. 

4 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Scrumpty used to be a bloke called Dave (not me btw).

When we used to sit in the wheelchair tin shack on the corner of the Williams / Atyeo, just after half-time this bloke (and his kid) in his City tracksuit used to come and sit in our section and I had no idea who he was or why he sat with us.  So I asked Rob the Wheelchair Supporters Liaison who he was.  He said, that is Scrumpy off-duty!!,

That Dave is a mate of mine, lives in Keynsham and is a top fella. He jacked it in around 2018/19, I think. Still goes to the games, just not dressed as a Robin! 

Apparently, the counties are going to vote in the coming weeks on a) whether to go back to two divisions, and b) whether county cricket should be played in July and August. A minimum of 12 votes required to carry a motion.

Interestingly, the two divisions would consist of 10 teams in Division One and 8 in Division Two. Crucially for Glos, it’ll be based on 2019 standings meaning us, Northants and Lancs will all go up at the expense of Notts (who by a bizarre twist of fate could yet win this year’s title and end up in Division Two next summer!)

Decisions due soon.

11 hours ago, JoeAman08 said:

It is going to be a transition to league one if we don’t start winning home games. We have 2 goals and 3 points from 4 home games. All against current bottom half sides. No one has a devine right to win championship games but you do need to win some. We can’t rely on away form to keep us up

Is it, though? You know as well as I do the old cliche about anyone can beat anyone in this league and I wouldn't be at all surprised if we got this monkey off our backs against Fulham or Bournemouth in the coming weeks. We seem to perform better when teams come on to us, because we don't have the players to break teams down at home. That's where we are right now and we all know the reasons why. 

After 7 games, we're in 12th place. That's above my expectation for this season. Two individual mistakes in stoppage time this season have prevented us from having 5 more points on the board. But then again, I firmly think we're in a mini league to survive and it'll be the games against Posh, Forest and Barnsley in the next month or so that will go a long way to determining where where we end up. 

Last night was the worst performance under NP so far this season, but we still ended up with a point which is more than the performance deserved. At least we're not being dicked week in, week out like we were under Holden. That's the low point we're slowly emerging out of, IMO.

2 minutes ago, Fuber said:

We have a mismatch of players that don't fit a single system.

Hes working with what he's got. This isn't his squad by an stretch. He signed two players that started in the squad today.

Luton have a settled squad and on that display could easily be top half this season if they're more composed. They are not a bottom half team.

Can we not have this every time we drop points against a team people perceive as weaker than us?

Excellent post. Yes, that was probably the worst performance so far this season. But the sad fact is we are 18 months or so behind being a settled outfit like Luton, so why people think we have a divine right to win these games - especially in a transitional season - I don’t know.

As galling as Bentley’s clanger was, that was a good point tonight. 

53 minutes ago, Red Army 75 said:

Hopefully George Tanner is the answer because Vyner is a awful right back 

I’ve been saying it for too long now, but Vyner just doesn’t have it at this level. Not at CB, not at RB, not at DM. 

**** sake, Bentley

We started well. The first 15 was good, the highlight being Pring swinging a pearler of a deep cross from the left and someone (Martin?) fluffing their lines at the back post. The middle 15 was even. Luton bossed the last 15 and should be 2-0 up. We’re still in it, crucially, but need to play much better.

If I was Nige, it’d be Wells on for Martin, Semenyo for Scott, and Dasilva for Baker at HT. 

4 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

They made Glos bat again, just, for 9 balls to knock off 15 and complete a 10 wicket victory. Gohar finished with 6 - 43.

It's about time we had a decent spinner. We've only needed one for about 20 years!

Today's win at Glamorgan makes it seven County Championship wins for Glos this year from a possible 13. No other county has won more Championship games than we have so far in 2021 with one game left to play. It's not every summer we can say that. 

While the Test being postponed is a scandal, we’ve had a belting day at Sale CC with boat loads of Bristolians. Great day today, we are ****** and off to Salford v Bradford tomorrow. Let’s up we deliver

30 minutes ago, Northern Red said:

Feel sorry for @tin who was heading up yesterday.

I know a few people who were going today who luckily live close enough to have not set off yet.

Thanks but no need, @Northern Red. We always come up to OT for the Test and stay with a good mate up here, so we’ll be fine. A pub crawl awaits! Others won’t be so fortunate.

It’s a complete joke to call it off this morning, mind, especially with many of these players due to play in the IPL in 10 days or so.

On 06/09/2021 at 17:02, Northern Red said:

Absolutely spot on.

People are screaming for changes, but who? The cupboard is bare.

The ECB needs to prioritise Test match and county cricket, so that the county structure supports the Test structure. Play the Tests and County Championship in June, July and August. This would give players a change to hone their games at a time when Tests are being played, ensuring they're ready to come into the Test XI if called upon. 

I would personally have the 50-over competition from April to late May. Once that's out of the way, have something like 10 Championship games across three divisions played on Saturdays to Tuesdays each week with T20s on Thursday and Friday nights, taking us up to third week in July. Then have the final six teams contesting the Championship in the remaining weeks (I like the current conference format where points rollover if you've already beaten another team, but think these dead-rubbers for the 12 counties who didn't make the cut should be binned). You could then shoehorn this 100-ball shite into September if the ECB insisted on it (I'd get rid of the circus, personally). 

Agree the cupboard is bare, because the times at which we play County Cricket enable trundlers like Darren Stevens to continue to be a key player. As long as this continues, the Test team will struggle to produce players who are up to scratch. 

I'm off to Old Trafford in a minute. I'd personally go with Burns, Hameed, Malan, Root, Pope, Bairstow, Buttler, Woakes, Wood, Leach, Anderson/Robinson. I don't think Root will go with that, but yet again I'm not impressed with his captaincy and how he's bowled Anderson and Robinson into the ground in the previous two Tests. 

1 hour ago, Port Said Red said:

What a win! They are just so good at run chases.

We certainly are and that’s why we prefer to bowl first. 

It’s a travesty we didn’t get into Division One after five early-season wins, and I really don’t understand the point for the other two divisions when the title is the only thing to play for. 

Get in, my babbers. 

Love the way we saw that out, especially after shipping late goals v Blackpool and FGR recently. No shithousery like last year’s win in Cardiff, either. 

What a finish, Weimann! Get in