meashambear
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Resounding win and nice to see the top 6 all get scores on he board.
I am still sticking to my previous posts despite it though and despite the inevitable baiting because you have an in game opinion/remark regarding rank poor play. We are not consistent enough and it is frustrating because there is talent there, lets see if we can push on from here.
Davies needs dropping & we have to do better in our first innings and show more resilience, we will not get away with it against better teams and it has to be said that this Yorkshire side is poor.
Andy wrote:
meashambear wrote:
I think that we have to start concluding that we are just not good enough, I am sick of reading that we always seem to get the rough end of the stick on the toss or that the pitch has flattened whenever we bowl. We don't & it hasn't.
Bamber just taking Brookes wicket as I type but he has been very expensive this morning & Brook has chucked that wicket away, just like we did on several occasions.
This makes no sense after only 4 games and the current game could still very much go either way.
This has been said for the last few seasons and we have failed to put in any kind of challenge. Our top under crumbles under pressure and it always seems to be on Haine, Barnard & the tails to give us a total. OHD has dug us out of the brown stuff once again this morning after being sent off to Worcester on loan. We struggle to take 20 wickets consistently despite having more seam bowlers than I can ever remember.
You can absolutely see why Yorkshire have struggled over the last couple of seasons the way that they have chucked at least 4 of their wickets away & despite bowling us out for next to nothing, they have a very average journeymen attack. Yes we are still in this game but you have to look at the standard of the opposition as well.
Cracker from OHD
I think that we have to start concluding that we are just not good enough, I am sick of reading that we always seem to get the rough end of the stick on the toss or that the pitch has flattened whenever we bowl. We don't & it hasn't.
Bamber just taking Brookes wicket as I type but he has been very expensive this morning & Brook has chucked that wicket away, just like we did on several occasions.
Barnard opens in the one day game. Maybe him in for Davies with Smith WK.
Keep Yates & Mousley to rotate the RH, LH. Malik needs a run to see if he can do it, he is 28 not 18.
We have to start showing that we will make changes if players consistently fail to perform, starting with Davies.
3 giveaways
Davies playing the wrong length, Yates nibbling at one that looked already over his stumps just poor decision making and then Mousley after showing some patience chases a full nothing ball and nicks off.
Terrible from us. Davies would have been loaned out or moved on by any other big CC side with how consistently poor he has been.
Yates & Mousley, despite their promise & the fact that as home grown players we all want them to succeed are just not progressing.
They are up against Jack White & Ben Cliff though..........................
Poor decision to put them back in
We should have piled the misery on and seen where we were with 15 overs left of play.
All we have done is play them into form and flogged our bowlers.
Forgot to post on this game:
Good win & good to see Webster take a couple of late wickets after Barker's heroics.
Thompson & Webster are good AR's but we already have 2 in Woakes & Barnard. Woakes was poor in this game and should still make a difference over the season but everything just looks much of a muchness regarding our seamers. Webster is a batting AR.......has he & Thompson improved our attack? I would say not. Bamber takes wickets with the new ball but then tapers off, Booth is still quite raw and erratic
We needed to recruit either a proper quickie or a top end spinner to give us something different, as it is we are no better off than last season with players like Thompson taking the place of our own home grown kids.
Completely comfortable for an average Sussex full of journeymen.
Another mid table (at best) finish for us this season.
Sorry but this is not good enough from us.
One of our big problems over the last couple of seasons has been taking the last 6 or 7 wickets in the 2nd innings and it has not been resolved.
I thought we were a little fortunate to bowl them out for just over 200 in the first innings, several of those wickets were given away.
I am not sure what our plans are but bowling short, wide, down leg side or too full will not make those plans work. We certainly cant put any kind of pressure on the batsmen with a few maidens in the way that Sussex did to us.
Woakes has bowled poorly all game, Webster doesn't seem to add anything and after a reasonable spell Thompson has now reverted to bowling bouncers down the leg side.
We have all these seam options but nothing different by the looks of it.
Thompson has just bowled Hughes (a very lucky played on), hopefully this will pep them up but it isnt too good this bowling.
Strange, entertaining match. Yates, Barnard & Smith have pulled the innings around as Smith & Woakes did 1st up.
We are on top but another good spell of bowling tomorrow morning could change that quickly.
Not long started watching.
Not seen too much of Thompson & Gilchrist but they have bowled some half trackers in the last 10/15 minutes.
Hopefully we can get this pair out because we have been good at allowing teams right back into matches over the last 4/5 years.
We just dont have enough threat.
Conditions were perfect today to take some wickets early doors but we bowled too many gift balls and not enough balls forcing Essex to play at. Gilchrist & Booth do offer a bit of extra pace but not enough to make the difference against decent batters regularly.
I would like to see where the scorecard would be if we were put in with those conditions (actually I would not like to see it). Bamber does take wickets but also costs runs, that one over got Essex going with him serving up 4's every ball. Barnard should be someone we go to to give the quicks a rest & to see if he can break a partnership.
There is no lack of effort but we are not going to start threatening the top spots until we have more threat to our attack.
Young may as well have a go now and see if we can knock off this deficit
Andy wrote:
Didn't pick up on any dissent? Could be wrong. I mean either way it was clearly an absolute seed, right?
He wasn't happy. Yes it was a beaut of a ball but that doesn't mean he actually hit it. I might be wrong but shaking your head all the way off the pitch is not usually because the ball was that good that you think you have been unlucky.
Andy wrote:
What a ball
Barnard didn't seem to think so, unless I have misread his body language.
He was shaking his head all the way off the field and did not make any attempt to leave the pitch.
Getting a positive decision from an umpire at the Oval is like getting a penalty at Old Trafford 20 years ago, every questionable decision seems to go their way.
Really really poor decision to bowl Barnard.
Can’t believe he was chosen after his previous overs, lost us the match.
Yet another season of disappointment
Barnard has bowled poorly tonight, this was the wrong choice last over.
What was Davies thinking having seen the whole game pan out.