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Prest has a great future it seems. What an innings for a 19 year old! Wonder if we can put him as an opener in the county championship 😂

I genuinely think this is why Man City want Delap to go to a championship team. He scores 15+ goals in an inferior league and his value will likely be £30+m next summer

Lewis McManus has moved to Northants permanently. Will be a real blow to lose Fuller... Can only imagine it's because he can't settle here as he's become a key player for us this year

Only watched a bit, but Djenepo looked good I thought, albeit I’m not sure the stepovers are doing him any favours! I do wish we’d look to be a bit quicker at getting the ball into the box sometimes. We get a quick breakaway with someone dribbling down the wing, but instead of crossing in and having players busting a gut to get on the end of it, the winger will cut back away from the goal and look to pass inside. Every. Single. Time.

Tbh this makes me a fair bit less likely to go watch them… Really enjoyed it at a smaller ground where you can wander around and pick your spot to watch from. Add in that attendances will likely be very low compared to St Mary’s capacity and it doesn’t sound like the best fan experience for me, more of a PR stunt. I guess on the flip side some players will be swayed to sign for us by the opportunity to play in our stadium every week.

I’m taking his appearance at the ground as a clear “come and get me” message to the Saints board, and no amount of rational counter arguments will sway me from this view!

Quite an ironic post mate… all I’ve done is post my opinion, which as you rightly point out is what forums are designed for.

Tbf what one person thinks is an epic moment plenty of others will be completely non-plussed about…. Why people who are non-plussed feel so strongly about their non-plussedness that they need to tell the world (or Saints fans) that they are non-plussed and why they should be as well is the real head-scratcher here. Anyway, congrats to the ladies! Looking forward to the final on Sunday. Think we need to defend a little better and certainly start better, but we’ve got a great chance no matter which of Germany or France we’re playing

8 down now thankfully. We seem a strange bowling outfit in the CC this season. No problem getting the top order out, but always struggle with the tail!

As we have no Cricket Defectors Watch thread I’ll leave this here congrats to him! Shame it didn’t work out but he never set the world alight here tbh

I don't think they have given tickets away tbf. I think tickets were so cheap a lot of people bought on a whim and then couldn't be bothered to travel when the game came around. Add to that the COVID rate ATM and it's not that surprising there's a lot of empty seats

They are catching up on subsequent days. Adding an extra 30mins to each day. Not sure if that means they are starting earlier or finishing later though

Back to the county championship. We're batting first, which seems like a good idea today given the heat! Going to be exhausting bowling today

Wouldn't want Dembele. He's made it clear he doesn't want to play here so we should listen to that and move on. There's no actual link to Dolberg is there?

Tbf very view people have called foul on it, and of those some will be out of sheer embarrassment at having lost the game. Most lancs fans seem to acknowledge Hants deserved it in the end

Little bit of whinging by Lancs on the final ball. Have to say it’s a bit ridiculous to suggest they ran a legitimate two…. https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/t20-blast-final-2022-lancashire-argue-final-ball-umpiring-error-cost-them-t20-blast-title-1325115 Edit: having watched the highlights again, it looks like McDermott has both the ball and one of the stumps in his hand at the bowlers end before the batsman completes the second run, so would have been a run out even if the umpires hadn’t dead balled it

On another note we are incredibly lucky to have Vince, both as a player and a captain. What a legend!

No, just that they cannot be caught or bowled off of the free hit which is the extra ball. They can still be run out off of it what an incredible end to a game. Between this and the win against Somerset in 2010 we have had a couple of incredible Finals! Absolutely loving it

Ironically, this thread was already split from one of the threads on the mens team, I think the Summer Transfer Window thread, as people derailed it to talk about the ladies there. The original complaint was that news headlines didn’t distinguish between the mens and ladies enough, and people felt that was “clickbaity”. Pretty much those same people are still all posting in here, despite the thread title helpfully stating this is about the womens game, which is what they wanted in order to ensure they knew what “not” to click on…. Now they want the womens game not to be debated at all on the main board, despite the Saints board being described as anything Saints related with no reference to just the Mens team being in scope. (Btw Saints have both players at the Euros and three games being hosted there, so it’s definitely related). This brings the thread total being actively discussed on the main board relating to the womens game to a grand total of 2, which I guess is far too many threads for people who aren’t interested to have to ignore. what can be surmised from all of this is up for debate, but IMVHO some people just have too much time on their hands

I cannot imagine Spurs not mentioning the buy back clause when they sold him to us, particularly with Levy at the helm. It gets the fans of the selling club excited that they can easily get the player back if he does well. Still I think it was the athletic who mentioned it first and they aren't usually wrong about these things. I think it may be academic anyway ATM as I think Spuds will want to invest elsewhere - or maybe I just hope that's the case!

I don’t think Sunak will win as he won’t have media support (I.e. the express and the mail), so it’s whoever gets to face him in the final two. Have to agree I’ve never seen Mordaunt speak - maybe that’s her advantage though given how dense so many senior tories seem to be at the moment… people assume she must be vaguely competent as they’ve never heard from her!

The counter argument to this is that if an election needed to be called there is no way the BoJo would have been ousted in the first place. There's no perfect solution but this is the lesser of two evils

Very good day today! Looks highly unlikely Surrey will be able to win and we are obviously in the driving seat. Got to keep up the pressure tomorrow

Was just about to post something similar. The main goal for Dibling is to make it as a professional footballer at the highest possible level, not to break into the Chelsea first team - that would just be a bonus and a sign he’s a really great player. Playing with the best paid, and therefore likely much better than average, coaches - as well as alongside some of the best players in his age bracket gives him the best chance of this. The money thing is just a bonus

Don’t get me wrong, I do rate our academy - the likes of Dibling prove it’s worth. However it is just another world where we can aim to be best of the rest, but cannot afford to compete with the likes of Chelsea and City who pay the best rates for both coaches and players, as well as facilities. Sadly for me it’s a no brainier for a player to join one of those two over Saints