Andy wrote:

Am I right in saying we only had Imran Tahir for 1 season because they'd been some sort of work permit cock up with him at Hampshire which meant they'd confirmed a deal with another overseas for that year? I'm sure it was something like that.

yeah they made a mistake and 'double-booked' their overseas as they had Fidel Edwards, so they let us have him. suffice to say, they had Tahir himself after the year he had with us.

Andy wrote:

Fair play to Lintott, it's interesting people have picked up on his body language etc as I've often felt his action falls away a bit when his low on confidence and he almost tries to bowl a bit quicker (overtrying?) and he drops short. He's not a massive turner of the ball so relies heavily on getting his lines right, having little margin for error. I was pleased to see him get a haul though as it felt as though people's opinions were maybe starting to turn on him a bit. Hopefully he can get back in the groove.

thats exactly it. his action when he is 'on' seems to be very muscular through his upper body and especially his shoulders, but when he's lower in confidence there's much less hyper-extension through the shoulder (boxing is more my thing technically so its the kind of thing I notice), like the range of motion seems to be much less, and that's when you get the drag-down long-hops. Funny enough when he is on, the mistakes tend to be more erring on the fuller side towards full tosses, but if he's giving it a good rip the full tosses are still often difficult to hit because of the dip he gets on it, bringing the ball down fairly late.
I also noticed when I had a really good vantage point from behind his arm, he can get some absolutely vicious drift in to the left hander/away from the right hander when is ripping it. It looked like a big inswinger from David Willey.