Window Cleaner

Especially as Inter wrote off that competition before they even started seemingly.

Think it does, if he's saying Andy isn't right then it's fine as it is, not that I think that's what he meant though.

Pfff if they wanted a wheeler dealer, barrow boy type manager they only had to appoint the organ grinder of the art and not the second stringer.

absolutely, if we'd been capable of taking a "normal" number of bonus points throughout the season we'd have not been in the do or die situation that we were on the penultimate day of the season. We were incapable of bowling sides out and that's down to poor management and coaching.

Good news about Topley and Edwards then plus a new bowler in view. Was always going to be our problem this last season, dibby dobby dolly drop bowling gets you nowhere, especially if the batting is on the erratic side.

Losing interest must mean that there aren't enough games surely. It's the 13 th September and we've played just 4 competitive games since mid May. Once we get the old Tuesday/Sunday/Thursday going it will be much more interesting. Football is about playing and watching actual games not speculating about it for months on end on t'internet.

Well.. could Middlesex be doing us a big favour here. They restricted Lancs to 2 bowling points although they collapsed a bit afterward and now the same Lancs are 6/3 in reply. Of course we've seen plenty of middle and late order partnership contrary our plans this season so nothing is certain but a drubbing with just a couple of points for Lancs would put us into a not so dusty position for the last round of games. Oops scrub that, Lancs have gone to 6/4 while I type.

Don't remember our start to last season being particularly inspiring either. We won one game out of 6 I think in the League and got tipped out of Europe in the preliminary rounds.

I see that the Luxembourg Foreign Minister wants to expel Hungary from the EU. It really is becoming a free for all shambles on many fronts. The Irish with their low taxes are now being told to toe the line over that, the Hungarians over refugee policy, I think the Polish are in some sort of trouble over some of their religious orders aren't they? It's gotten too big and too cumbersome to last very much longer in it's current state. Perhaps May is just waiting for an implosion.

This is the problem, there doesn't seem to be a way forward except to procrastinate to the maximum extent and wait until Hollande and perhaps even Merkel are voted out of office next year in the hope of getting more from their successors.

I did say footballer....

Absolutely. A leave vote was never considered possible, the referendum was merely an electioneering exercise to filch a few,but oh so decisive votes, from the independentists and hard right. There was no exit plan and as far as I can see there still isn't. However scaremongering was never the way to go. Still costs me 300£ a month though due to the exchange rate fall and I couldn't even vote. If we european long term expats had been able to vote the result may have been different as this was always going to cost us money, probably far more than anyone in the Uk...

Had a chat with my Strasbourg aquaintance today. Apparently Gasmi is playing in Thailand. Has been so for about 4 years now. I suppose a pro footballer who really wants to play can find a game anywhere nowadays.

Well from what I can gather a major terrorist incident was avoided there because the girls only jihadist brigade kinda sucked at the practical aspects of being terrorists; they had 6 big gas bottles and 3 jerrycans of petrol but couldn't work out how to ignite the petrol and thus set off the gas bottle explosion without getting their hands dirty. The car was there where it shouldn't have been for 2 hours before anyone in authority did anything about it and the women just couldn't set it alight.

Because they're football fans and don't really give a toss about how much a supposed billionaire has left in her purse. Anyway the writing has been on the wall for a few seasons now, an "if it's saleable sell it policy" and bugger the consequences. It's early days yet so we'll have to see what comes to pass for the rest of the season.

This is of course why he wanted to go to Spurs again this summer and was prevented from doing so by Mourinho because he might want to play him one day or the other and didn't want to lose face by having to reinstate Schweinsteiger if shove came to push. With Utd out of the CL Morgan has taken a 25% pay cut this season along with most of the others except Rooney and Schweinsteiger and is probably on just a few quid more than he could have got at Saints.

Mané, Pelle and Koeman didn't want to be kept, it really is as straightforward as that. We have kept just one player against his wishes in the last few years and it has resulted in an eventual move that has totally destroyed his career for the time being at least. if he had gone to Tottenham when he wanted he'd not be in the doldrums today. This is a lesson to every player, move when you get a chance if you want to go wherever it is and let the club sort themselves out with it.

Surely going down the league table is a new direction for us in this incarnation.

We wuz robbed.

Looks like there's some good batting from Ervine (again) and McClaren this morning, not to mention Alsop's maiden( ? ) first class ton yesterday. With Warks losing badly already it looks like we may just be going for it here. Of course bowling Surrey out again in time may not be so easy. Still at worst we'll probably be about 8 points behind Warks going into the last round of games in 10 days time or so.

Well I was far too busy being a hedonistic postgraduate student to remember a whole lot about that era but I doubt that thin air trading and what might happen in darkest africa in 20 years time were factors that affected the stock exchange at that time. If I recall at all correctly shares concerned entities that actually produced something and everybody else bought government bonds for the 4% or so annual interest. Do they still sell premium bonds nowadays ?

Well at a guess I'd suggest that a succession of farkwit labour governments had a fair bit to do with our decline in the late 60s. Didn't we have to go begging to the IMF for a bail-out in that period?

Then be like me and not give a toss about either Bournemouth or Jack Wheelchair.

I have no idea, perhaps there's less money than some like to think. We'll have to wait and see what the accounts say come springtime.

Virtually all of the players have performed well at sometime this season. Trouble is they rarely all perform well at the same time. Take this last match, not bad on the bowling front apart from the 50 or so put on by their last wicket pair. All we needed was some decent batting but all failed apart from Ervine and Vincent, although we probably needed a 100 or so from Vince yesterday. Now the bowling is looking average again so we'll be looking at a big total on the last day. Consistency is what's lacking really this season.