Bloody hell. What a shock, not sure what he has been doing all these years but that is shocking. Outside of Tests, the best keeper I have seen by a mile. Alan Donald really rated him and said he was a real inspiration behind the stumps, getting up the noses of opposition and taking catches that most keepers wouldn't get near.

Yes, Roebuck and his ways of giving some of the boys he was coaching, a 'Punishment' if they weren't achieving their potential, was rather strange. I remember Richards saying "Write anything about me and I will whack you..." to James Lawton after Richards antics of having all West Indies umpires in his pocket and getting them to change decisions when he came marching down the pitch with his hands on his hips, staring them out until they agreed with him. Like most narcissistic people, he was happy to get away with his behaviour but if anyone challenged it, he was an aggressive thug.

There was also the less glamorous side to having Botham Richards and Garner. Not so sure about Garner but at the time the 2 overseas players were released by Somerset (Which is why Botham left), there were loads of complaints from some of the players about the treatment by Botham and Richards of some of the younger players being openly criticised especially young bowlers who heard the remarks coming from the slips. They were visibly upset at having to hear how awful their bowling was from 2 cricketers who should have known better. We all know Botham has never been well behaved and the stories about Richards marching into opposition changing rooms and threatening journalists are also well documented. I know that Somerset were a happier team when they left though less successful but just don't remind them that they have never won the title.

Gerryshed, how dare you. 'Normal' , I have never been so insulted in my life to be called such a challenging description. I am mad and proud of it. I remember one time (True Event) this woman said to me, "No point in being mad unless you show it" and I said to her, "Yeah, thanks Mum".

Great chase but apart from scraping a 'Best 3rd place' finish, I can't see us progressing even if we win all the other games we have left.

Does it make any difference who we pick or where they bat. We will lose a lot of money in the later home games if we can't qualify and they become meaningless, people just won't turn up and the crowds have been awful anyway.

I think these Lions games are a waste of time. I think county games in any format produce more intense cricket.

Take Lynn out of their side and I don't think they have much batting but we fed them too many runs with short rubbish too often. A few tighter overs early on and we might have had enough to win.

Our last over was disappointing and I did wonder at the time if 208 was enough but even if we got another 10, it doesn't mean we would have won as exactly the same thing can't happen if the circumstances change. But, that was defendable but the 'Powerplay' was awful, too many short balls and it continued into the 12 before we appeared to bring it back slightly. I cannot see the point of bowling it halfway down the pitch, full balls proved to be difficult to hit and so our best batting was followed by our worst bowling. What to do, is it too late, try Gilchrist and Bamber or change the name back to 'Birmingham Bears'. Just a thought, some bloke called Lintott took 4-1-19-3 today v Surrey, just saying.

No reason we can't win. I have always thought that the reason why so many sides from the 2nd division of the CC have won this T20 is because the shorter the format the more it even's things up. Better sides win long format cricket and if you had a 5-over per side competition, even a side depleted by injury could win it. No need to fear Northants, in short-formats, it only takes 2 players to suddenly find form and it all changes. COYB.

Fancy batting badly against this pile of ****, how many of their team would you say were better than most of ours.

A lot has been said about Hain not scoring quickly enough and just when he starts to look like he is 'Going For It', he has a rush of blood to the head.

New Road is notorious for having little pace and sometimes 2 spinners can work. I remember in the 1980's they had Illingworth and Leatherdale and loads of those horrible 'Nibbly' bowlers with no pace and often used to win with crappy scores on the board batting first.

If this one is lost, 1/4 of our games will be gone in this competition and that might affect crowds which I think were down last year compared to 2024. We must start getting the confidence back that we had when finishing in a quarter-final place virtually every year.

Thank you Andy, I always struggle to find the ultimate link/prompt, etc that gets me the right place to get my ticket. I might just get them to print one off for me on Sunday when we are at home to Northamptonshire.

Do members need a ticket still, to get into the T20 game v Worcestershire in June.

Fewer matches in the T20 this season so it's really a case of too many cock-up's and you are gone. At 100 with 8 overs to go, we got a bit stuck, the boundary was far out on all sides but I lost count of the amount of times we hit the ball really hard and straight along the ground to a fielder on the boundary for a single and they managed to bisect our fielders so many times, maybe a bit of practice needed in placing the ball in gaps. The bowling looked poor and majorly disappointed as I sat there from 11.10 hoping for 2 good games and got none.

Is there some sort of mentality or maybe a 'Tornado Like' rush of blood to the head that makes batsmen with a seemingly straightforward task, suddenly think they need to get to the target as soon as they can. After a game like this, do they actually look at each other and say, "What did we do that for when it wasn't necessary". We have seen it before, for instance last year v Sussex in the 50-over game, yes, a lot closer than this but the same sort of situation where hard work is done and all that is needed are a few clear heads to make sure the game is done.

Total Shite or am I being too generous.

Just like that quarter final, why bother working it around, try and win it in 10 overs but at this rate it looks as though we won't win at all.