stevegrant

Haaland only played a couple of games, so a sub keeper moving on is probably nothing to be particularly irked by, but the captain and best player also choosing to do so, when this is now becoming a pattern, should absolutely be questioned. What are the club going to say on a statement other than the bland platitudes that they used? "We offered new contracts but they didn't want to stay in an environment where giving game time to other teams' youth products was deemed more important than playing our own international players"?

Did we? Or did we just have a LOT more money than everyone else at the levels we were competing? The waves of departures we've seen in the last couple of summers don't really point to a lack of finance but players deciding that this isn't the environment they want to play in. We've seen veiled comments and celebrations in front of our director's box from players who have left us and more open comments from relatives of those players that infer that Spacey-Cale is (now/recently) the problem rather than the mastermind.

Surrey declared on 820/9. Some scary looking bowling figures on that scorecard Meanwhile Worcestershire declared on 679/7 and Fletcha Middleton mustered 1 off 23 balls before being pinned LBW

A full round of games where, so far, not a single batting team has put up less than 367. Obviously the weather has likely made it much harder for ground staff to prepare a "result" wicket, but the ball does seem to be having far too much of an impact. And as @Dark Munster mentions, having to use it in a game we would have been targeting to win handily has put us at a huge disadvantage against other teams in the division.

I am expecting us to take a reciprocal approach this season. If teams give us more than the 2000 they are obliged to then we will allow them to have additional tickets at St Mary's. Any team that refuses will just get the bare minimum. Not 100% sure how it works in terms of whether those unallocated away seats will be able to be sold to home fans or not, given the hard barrier on either side of the away end now.

If we've sold 31,500 season tickets, where are the away fans going?