Don't like to think of us as a yo yo side seeing as Hampshire have been down a division and would have been relegated in 2016 but for Durham's woes and remain a very lucky county (As the T20 final showed) and it's not that long ago that Somerset were always a stone's throw away from the title, Notts are as much a yo yo side as anyone but I do see your point in terms of where both side are now and 2 divisions is what I think most players/counties have always said they preferred. It just goes to show how bad this whole scenario is and any county who are considered a 'Feeder' will be extremely insulted. I can imagine Leicestershire and Derbyshire thinking, "Well haven't we been a feeder county for Nottinghamshire since they nicked most of our good players for the last 15 years".

OHD was leaving all the scoring to Siraj who seemed to have more idea about how to do it, so I do not blame the tactics seeing as there were plenty of overs left to get a batting point. When I have seen him over the years, OHD has got out most of the time very early when trying to play attacking shots.

Players do not generally act like Rhodes did unless the decision is poor.

And they usually pay for it but when you see decisions like the one Hain got at The Oval then you wonder about umpires who stick their finger up very quickly instead of taking a moment to have a think.

Though 182-8 sounds fine, I get the feeling it's another opportunity when we had a side ready for a 130 all out situation and yet again we failed to cash in.

Completely agree, no point in getting an overseas player in for the CC if he isn't a Test player. Siraj just looks like a huge handful, not only very fast but appears to be bowling on leg stump and then it swings late and has the batmen floundering.

Well done Mr Yadav, 3 balls in and a stumping is achieved, 46-3.

Shall I apply, I am not too happy in my job at the moment and I at least could disagree on some of the team selections to shake things up a bit. I would as my first assignment, insist we give a bloke called Lamb, a game and ask why a bloke called Davies keeps being picked. The latter has played some of the most unbelievably poor shots I have ever seen in over 45 years of watching this wonderful game.

Not very confident with the look of the bowling and the injuries to Miles and Norwell are very strange, a bit like the days of Boyd Rankin whereby he seemed to be injured without really having done anything to explain how this occurred. Lamb will no doubt be looking around to see what other counties need batsmen for next season. We do have a habit of treating people (Yes people, they are not just players after all) with total disdain which reflects shamefully on us as a county. I can imagine Barker and Wright would no doubt feel the same.

It is a bit like Duckworth/Lewis which always seemed ridiculous (Just like the 'faster scoring rate' method before it) as it never took into account, the various strengths of a batting side which is obviously impossible to gauge. It is just another reason why cricket is the best but most confusing/mind boggling sport ever.

Agreed. I have to say I am not one to want to go back to the days where a draw or a defeat got you the same number of points but the draw points that a side gets when they are totally outplayed can sometimes by ridiculous. If a side bats out 100 overs with the last pair securing a draw, they have fought for those points but in the case of sides who don't even get started on a mammoth chase of 350+, it does seem a bit lopsided to get points you haven't really deserved. I think there should be a rethink on draw points and having to bat out a certain amount of overs should come into it, not getting 8 for being stuck in a pavilion hoping the rain carries on all day.

That is the one thing that people who don't like cricket, cannot understand, a team well on top getting denied because of the weather. Had Gloucestershire won, Somerset would have been a point behind us having played the same number of games but now they will go ahead of us in the table having been outplayed for the whole game. Come the end of the season, that could make a big difference and I believe it will.

County members want to see 'Competitive' 4-day cricket, not some games that players just coast through to so as not to injure themselves or games where they really cannot be bothered as nothing is riding on it. I would sooner, Strauss got a team to thrash out a new proposed format rather than sit down and think "Now this is what I want so I will propose it and tell the counties that this is the best thing for the game".

Woakes and Stone to tour sounds like a waste of plane tickets. They were picked based on what exactly?

Good point, I often feel that any management might say "You got us this far so why shouldn't you be the ones to try and win it". I cannot help but feel that apart from the monetary rewards, anyone playing in 'The HunDread' do not care that much for it as a team game compared to playing for your county with players you know well and it makes me wonder if they long to play in a final but can't do much about it if not picked.

Don't want Giles back, he just jumps from job to job depending on how big it is and I think the success we had here when he was involved, would have happened anyway, with or without him.

STEVENS FOR WARWICKSHIRE, we can make it happen, just believe.

Last time we won the RL cup in 2016, the semi was played on August bank holiday Monday v Somerset. Today is bank holiday Monday and when are the semi's being played this year, yes, tomorrow when most people are back at work. I have always thought the same as you LE, that we should have cricket most days even if you stagger most fixtures. In 2014 I only watched cricket twice on a Saturday and both times it was because they were finals. It was either Kevin Howells or Pat Murphy who when interviewing a Scottish ECB member around this time, questioned them about lack of weekend cricket. Needless to say, if I could have put my hands through the radio and dragged the bloke out, I would have done so as his crass reply made my blood boil, suggesting that young people should be playing club cricket and not watching cricket and then contradicted himself by saying that only over 50's watched CC cricket at weekends - The very people who are mainly unlikely to be playing, with a few exceptions.

Well, from what SC_Bear said, a close family member saying something might be where the so-called 'Rumour' comes from but playing a competition like the Royal London will not always give players a good test of how good they are.

In the space of a few months, a few years ago I read Duncan Hamilton's book on Harold Larwood, David Frith's 'Bodyline Autopsy' 'The real Jeeves' which might still be in the club shop 'Jack Hobbs' by Leo McKinstry and a small publication 'And the fields were sudden bare' about Frank Foster by Robert Brooke. These books would make cricketers of this age think twice before they have a moan about money, how much they play and the facilities they have. The detail in them is immense and gives you a feel for the times these players lived in.