Exiled Bear
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Highveld wrote:
If seems our not very "Super moderator" is becomng the local "Stan Flashman" touting even more tickets.
Obviously he seems to think he can totally and deliberately ignore the ticket conditions of sale and the law.
"The unauthorised sale and/or offer to sell a Ticket, exposure of a Ticket for sale and advertising that a Ticket is available to purchase will constitute a criminal offence under the Birmingham Commonwealth Games Act 2020 and action may be taken against offenders."
Please give it a rest. I know that the real reason that you keep bringing this up isn’t because you actually care passionately about this issue, but is actually a result of your long-running vendetta against Terry, which I know has been a thing since the old bearsfans forum. I will reiterate, again, that I have no issue with what Terry is doing and this is the last time I expect to have to comment on the matter.
I’ve got no problem with it. It’s not like they’re being sold for a profit.
Great to have Norwell back at least.
In fairness I think the club were caught rather off-guard by the sudden retirement of Bresnan. We were obviously expecting to get another year out of him, and the fairly late decision meant that it was a bit late to try to find a decent replacement. We have certainly missed his charisma and determination this season.
That being said, things have still been particularly poor this season. The worst thing is that people will now think that last season's title was just a fluke. I'm sure the shorter league format did play into our hands a bit, and perhaps some of our players were playing above their ability, but we still deserved it.
It takes an impressive effort to lose by such a large margin after bowling out the opposition on the first day for 160-odd
This is going to be an embarrassingly heavy defeat.
I think I read somewhere about a weekly highlights programme for the Blast on free-to-air TV? Other than that though I agree it's pretty concerning.
This also has the potential to be much hotter than any previous heatwaves, and over a much larger area.
An enjoyable day overall in the end. A good recovery, particularly in the evening session. I thought all bowlers bowled well, there were very few freebies, which makes a change from recent games! Hopefully we can keep the pressure on tomorrow morning.
Also a word on the Rose Bowl - it was my first time there for a county game (saw England there a few years ago) and it’s a bit soulless. They also seemingly couldn’t be bothered to have a working PA system in most of the ground!
Two out bowled not playing a shot. Dreadful
Olly Stone is 12th man and is having a bowl on the square during lunch. I wonder why he isn’t playing? Given the weather I would’ve thought that the pitch will suit his bowling
GerryShedd wrote:
If you thought that the Bears took a beating, just be grateful that you're not a Derbyshire supporter.
I'm annoyed that, because Somerset qualified and the Bears didn't, Exiled Bear's mate Harry Everett will get the nod to report for Deep Extra Cover on Finals Day. It's a great day to be in the Press Box - lots of excitement and non-stop food!
Ha! I will pass on your annoyance!
Slightly annoying also that they took away the two records that we broke just a few weeks ago! And it also got more coverage than it did when we broke them, but then Somerset are a more "trendy" county...
That was embarrassing. I made a late decision to go to the game after landing back in the UK at lunchtime today. I don’t regret it as it’s probably the only time I’ll get to Edgbaston this season but crikey that was poor.
Did the pitch conditions change? It looked like we were batting on a completely different pitch to Hampshire. I think we barely middled or timed half a dozen balls in the whole innings!
Also, why did Mousley not bowl?
It's not uncommon to play three spinners these days either, plus his batting is good enough on its own anyway.
That's a terrible call at the end to give that as a no ball.
Almost certainly - we'd need to lose heavily and Derbyshire would have to win by a huge margin to overturn the NRR difference. I think we'd be looking at record defeats and wins for it to happen.
Agreed! Also, Duckworth-Lewis today is bizarre, they are somehow ahead even though they need 13 an over for 7 overs with 4 wickets down??
Still don't know quite what you've got against Vihari, he was no worse than any of the other overseas players we had last season.
Pandya is a good signing and should bring a few more people into the ground as well. I'm guessing we'll be playing most of our matches at Portland Road?
George Dobell reports that Chris has withdrawn from the rest of the second XI match after experiencing some discomfort in his knee:
Hopefully just a precaution