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Not with the way that Fidel is bowling.

149 all out, pretty lamentable for a side that chose to bat first. Guess it doesn't matter really though. I see that Berg has signed for Northants on loan for the rest of this season and on a more permanent deal for the next. Seemed to go downhill (or be out of favour) very fast. Was always a solid value. No Rossouw today, has he gone off to play somewhere else or just isn't available for this game?

Ah, back to the old joke batting again today then. 51/5 so far, then again we were 26/4 before Vince hit a 6 and 2 fours and then got out. Any rumoured comings and goings for next season?

Probably not though, that's a description of about 25% of Saint's fans

Morris injured or just plain dropped?

Hmm. 3 spinners in the side this evening. Hope there's something in the wicket for them, otherwise it could be carnage. Seamers getting hammered anyway, not looking great.

Never seems to stay anywhere for very long, think we're his 4th professional club at the age of 26 (well 26 next week anyway). Obviously loking for something that he'll probably not achieve. Probably needs to knuckle down and accept a bit less lofty goals.

And those that weren't just have to look at the Saints fans end when he scored. Classic day.

Perhaps we have a few fans who live Basingstoke/Newbury way who'd see that as a rivalry. Hasn't really ever been except when we were vying for the Championship title,

Seems to be glut of DMs that no one seems to want overmuch. Then again as long as the French Club Academies keep turning out 20 or so new ones every season you can understand why really.

As it did to them when they beat us 4-1 at St Marys in 2010; We were the League 1 side and they were in the Prem. Pompey-Saints will always be important to any true fan of either club, perhaps it's different for people who aren't originally from either town though, why some of them have never even been to that craphole..

Probably, then again Lemina is not a particularly desirable acquisiton and we're probably asking for too much. Chelsea will no doubt be subsidising Bakayoko and Monaco won't buy him at the end of his loan there.

Ah well,nothing like a Pompey-Saints game to bring out the neanderthal in usually reasonable people. Tribal innit.

What's going on ? Too many mediocre football clubs living in the shadow of bigger clubs in roughly the same locality..

Well of course. He's not that bright and must assume that if you lost you were crap.

Not very likely, Spurs and City will probably both win and the top 3 will be as per usual. RS, City, Spurs.

Well yes, there is far too much international cricket. Used to be one tourist team, played most counties and 5 tests in a summer. Now you have to wedge in T20, 50 over games and several international series going on at the same time. As I said yesterday, for next season there are 20 international games scheduled in England so counties won't have their star players available at all.

I see now that "sectarian singing" is classed as racism. Not sure that it is, still "racism" seems to be an open bin where they put anything that is to be discouraged, xenophobia, religious differences and what have you..

As I said on the Hants thread, you don't want to bowl rough stuff at the Aussies.

Not Hants related but what a debacle for England at Headingly today. 67 all out I think. Shouldn't have started the rough stuff yesterday, never bodes well against Aussie sides.

There is a solution to this. Only use the 24h/24h card debit pump that only provides fuel, that way you don't get involved in other peoples choccy, crisp or peanut follies.

Hey looks like we have a new player for today's game. Tabraiz Shamsi, something like that. What do we know about him then?

Roma maybe, don't see the OL being in anyway interested in Lemina though, their poor relations down the road at St Etienne perhaps.

I think Jade Goody is in fact dead so wrong tense isn't it ? Anyway, penalty missers have always been villified, just in good, old, anglo-saxon terms though.

Still 3 CC matches left of the season, winning say 2 of those will be an achievement. For next season team seems to need a bit of an overhaul, starting with sorting out the Crane situation. Lad seems to have been missing most of the time for the last 2 seasons, Topley like? I see that England have announced 20 international home games for next season as well so decent overseas players are going to be hard to come by, getting Markram back again would suit me.