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McLaren seems tro have made a great deal of difference to the side, tidy bowling and some solid scores.

then they'll get someone else. Don't care either way myself.

So they've already given up on the WC in '18, doubt it myself, they'll want someone to take care of that before they think about 2020. Hiddink and Blind have been serial disasters, if they don't qualify for next years Euro they'll do something about it soon enough, de Boer perhaps..

Teach him to get tattoos in Dutch next time. Guess he thinks all that makes him look hard. Definite resemblance there I think.

Excellent result, bit unexpected though.

Sussex 7 down now, both partners in their 6th wicket stand gone. Still don't understand why they went for the target.

Got them, bizarrely enough Sussex despite being 5 down already seem to be chasing the target...why on earth would they do that ? I mean I know there's a few bob at stake but enough to risk getting relegated ? perhaps it just doesn't make any difference which division you play in in county cricket.

Must be a powerful reason though, Sussex have just gone into total collapse (so far)..who'd have thought it. Whether they're still capable of shutting up shop and not losing their last 5 remains to be seen.

As I said n an earlier post, the first half of the season made the desperate gamble against Yorkshire necessary. If we'd had another 5 points on the board at that time then I doubt that we'd have even considered offering them 96 overs to make just above 300.

Well as we've only won 2 games out of 7 anyway I'd doubt that yer statisticians would accept that as a representative sample.

Maximum points doesn't enter into the equation, when we win this game we will be on 163 points, Sussex only need to draw, if we had the 7 extra points against Yorks then they'd need to win and would be under some pressure. Somerset are looking none too bright either. Desperate roll of the dice which didn't go our way unfortunately. Anyway we seem to be looking to wrap it up quickly if possible, only way to get Sussex quaking a bit I suppose.

And with Hants now in an excellent looking position, unless Notts have a big tail wag again, that bad bargain against Yorks is going to be churned up time and time again this winter. It leaves Sussex just needing to straight bat their way to a draw which they probably will, being under no pressure whatsoever. We put it all on red and it came up black.

BMW seem to be about to join the list of culprits as well. I have a diesel DS4, I have no doubt that the CO2 emissions are way above whatever's written on the test sheet.

Ah but no, all would change if we won and they drew I think. If we should win and they only draw then we advance by 11 points compared to them. If we'd got those theoretical extra 7 against Yorks then a win for us and a draw for them would see us above them I think. I doubt that we'll win anyway so it will all become academic. I supported that decision anyway and am certainly not looking to beat anyone with it.

So a deficit of 14 on the first innings, better than it looked at one point but we still need to bowl them out cheaply and knock off the difference. Add to that that Sussex still have to lose.....far fetched scenario all in all. I hope that we won't regret the attempt at a result against Yorkshire, although it's been a poor season all round and that decision was only made necessary by previous poor results anyway.

perhaps we get an add on for that..

Got half...well reportedly so anyway.

89/5 now, top order all gone for not a great deal, sad, sad season.

A specialist nigh****chman like Derek Underwood for instance is a useful thing to have in the case of just a couple of overs in poorish conditions.

An attacking full back who the manager seems to think has limited defensive capacities...isn't that a winger ??

Well getting knocked out of Europe at the second hurdle wouldn't have pleased many managers I'd guess. We were truly awful in Denmark and no matter what the selection was you'd have to think that he'd have expected better of the players..I know I did.

Great start again, their middle order seem to be digging in again though.

probably because he's played with the bloke at Monaco and didn't rate his chances of pulling off a save overmuch.

I only saw him do one thing yesterday...take the ball away from an onrushing Saint who might have had a chance of a decent shot from about 8 yards.

Probably looking to see if Barca had texted him with a job offer eh!! You'd have think our last 10 minute push for a draw would have stopped him doing that.