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Spot on on the outcome of the attacking moves, they broke down at the last phase as a rule. But isn't that why Utd pay Ibramovic 15 million a year or whatever and players like Sanchez are worth 70 or 80 million? You pay for what you get and that's why 14 million £ strikers aren't as clinical as 80 million £ strikers.

So what's happened to all the " I'll be happy with a cup final and mid-table brigade" then ? I thought we did pretty well last night and as someone has just said some excellent goalkeeping denied us at least one goal, there were also so decent last ditch tackles from Arsenal's defence.

But he did shoot, unfortunately his shot was about 5 yards wide and 2 yards too high. Anyway I thought our front men were pretty wasteful yesterday, getting into good positions and then putting an easy pass astray or losing the ball too easily. Look at that Boufal effort, marvellous skill, beats about 5 blokes and then shoots about 10 yards wide from about 15 yards out.

Fortunately for Hants Rossouw is on form today because the rest has looked a bit fragile. Still coasting to a win.

You obviously don't know what you're talking about; The French taxation system is pretty complex. To start with there are a lot of social charges which are imputed to gross pay. Then income tax is calcuated separately on the remainder according to circumstances and a few other things. For instance if you live in say Melun but you work in Paris you can normally deduct all your to and fro work costs plus your lunch from the amount you pay tax on. A lot of people don't pay income tax at all, over 50% of the households apparently. Then you get into the realms of CSG and RDS, these are levied on all income except for some government handouts.

Not so great now though. Bowlers getting hammered by Trego, who, IIRC ,is in great form just now.

Great start for Hants, Somerset 2 down after only 9 balls. However they did recover from about 22/5 to make a biggish total in their first Royal London match this season.

Well given Somerset's record so far this season in this competition we might need to look at restricting their run rate a bit. I'd definitely go for Edwards but I'd not drop Berg either. Think Crane and perhaps Adams will miss out. Edit: Nearly right, Topley and Adams don't make the starting XI today.

Doesn't look like that there any Sainsts players at all in the England U20 group for the WC of the category. That's a bit unusual isn't it ? Has the conveyor belt just stopped or is it that they're not getting first team games and are thus less on show?

So was that for the bear hug, the shirt pulling or the upper arm clearance ?

So who fired Cortese then, remind me...sorry I meant persuaded him to fire himself.

They looked totally jaded after they went behind yesterday evening, as if they'd finally run out of puff. Their squad is a team and a couple of replacements who are roughly at the same level and a lot of also rans behind that.

Chelsea's last 4 games look pretty easy and Spurs are beginning to pay for their CL and EL campaigns.

Didn't have any realistic chance anyway.

Restructuring leadership eh, now remind me does that mean cost cutting or getting rid of those who don't agree with you. I've mislaid my business jargon for the 21st century guidebook.

Have they gone downhill of late then? Thought we started the U23 season in quite a successful manner.

6 what ?

Dunno, what position does he play? Who cares what admistrative personnel come or go, on the pitch is where football is at. The rest are just money men, meejah types and pen pushers.

Naturally, he was a wanting to spend money which the owner obviously didn't have.

Rubbish, Cortese was ambitious, perhaps overly so.

Yes, I looked it up, still if my team had got to 180/2 after 30 overs or so and then lost to a team who'd made 146/2 after the same number of overs I'd probably be pretty miffed.

How can that be if Middlesex were about 180 for 2 after virtual the same number of overs? They scored regularly at about 6 an over with a fairly even fall of wickets after about 180 so for us to win at 146/2 would have been a bit of a travesty then.

I see from the result on Cricinfo that we lost according to the DL rule by 89 runs. That would mean that if terminal rain was forecast for about 2 hours into our innings we needed 235 runs off of 30 overs. Nigh on 8 an over from the start, tall ask really so I suppose that's why our top order folded,chasing an impossible total for a DL win.

37 years so that takes you back to the start of the 80s when most of our best players were Johnny Foreigners. Richards, Greenidge, Roberts, Marshall M, Warne and 2 Smiths, all icons of Hampshire cricket really. County cricket has always been made more attractive by overseas players (unless you're a Yorkshireman I suppose) . Jeez Hants would probably have been awful to watch without our foreign stars. Anyway today's result will probably depend on how long Bailey and Ervine can stick around. They're getting into their bowlers quite well just now and if they can take us to say 170 at a good rate we might get away with the 34/4 start.

Vince, Alsop, Dawson and Carberry aren't Kolpaks though are they and they're the ones who are all out before we get to 35. Poor bowling and even poorer batting apparently and there was me thinking that we'd got past that, obviously not.