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Doubt it would be any different from an average Fresher's Week in the 70s. Except that you'd not be dead of course, mind you...

So what happened there then? Did the wicket or conditions atmopheric change radically or was our top order batting just duff?.

Ah bolloaks. Hants 15/2 both openers gone, probably to dibby, dobby seamers. Then again, Vince really isn't an opener and Weatherly isn't...well anywhere near good enough to be opening in Div 1.

Well I hope the wicket is as flat and lifeless as our bowlers (still no Fidel) are making it look. Yorks 519/6. Not scoring very quickly but we'll need some really solid batting for 2 days to get a draw.

1 I think, unless they've changed it this season.

Well we've got Ballance at last, caught behind off Berg. Tykes 371/4. Doesn't look like Fidel has bowled today, not an injury I hope.

Looks like it could be a good one not to lose. Big scores all round hopefully.

Struggling for wickets today.

Packed her trunk has she ?

But we won't so it's not a problem.

QUOTE=lickierambert;2725027]Good grief, we appear to have beaten Essex comfortably for the first time in a long time Ah but Wheater was out injured for all but a couple of overs. No bogey man, no horrendous loss.:rolleyes:

I don't see any team apart from Huddersfield, Fulham and Cardiff going down. The rest are just jockeying for the prize money.

Looks like we're going to lose more time to bad light, pity, we are in a strong position but we need to be bowling at them for all the overs possible..

We looked pretty good most of the time yes but I'd still question the need for all 3 CBs to go forward for a corner leaving Bertrand as our only backup in case of any breakaway from the set piece.

So then 525/8 declared and Fidel gets one of their openers in his second over. Unfortunately not that old stick in the mud Cooke.

Probably just getting old and decrepit. Then again it was his birthday yesterday, might have had a bit of a bender. 28 used to be about the age that footballers were at their peak, that's probably gone down to 23 or 24 now due to the younger age that they're starting out on pro-careers.

Very few workplace based private pension systems in operation here. Might even be none at all. The state "social charges" are so high that you'd have nothing left if you were paying into a parallel pension system at the same time. I can't remember the exact details because I wasn't in the private sector for very long in France but from what I can recall your take home pay is about 75% of your gross pay and about half of what it costs your employer.That's without income tax by the way. The French tax system is just fundamentally flawed. If you live away from where you work you can deduct what it costs you to get to work and back every day from your taxable income. Up to 25 miles or so, that's 50 miles a day they don't even ask any questions. Depending on the fiscal rating of your car you can knock off 40 or 50 euros a day with no questions asked. 200 or so days a year and about 4.60 euros a day for lunch. So that's 11000 euros before you start. Result is people with decent salaries are paying little or no income tax at all. So the system has to catch up by deducting whopping amounts from everyone whether they're making a decent living or not.

Well yes, but the French still manage to pump about 4 billion euros into savings accounts every month. Probably because at the end of your career your income takes a 50% (or more) hit bcause of the pension system based on 50% of the average of your best 25 years salaries.. Unless of course you're one of the 6 or 7 million or so civil servants who don't even notice a difference because of their pension based on 75% of their pay on their last day at work. That's where the real inequality lies in the French system.i

The funny thing is (well not so funny if you're fuel dependant) is that the prices at the pumps are now at least the equivalent of those that they would have been if the new fuel taxes had been implemented on 1/1/2019 as planned. The crux of the affair was to make E10 fuel less expensive than diesel. The diesel secteur of the car market plunged by about half as people traded in diesels for petrol versions, which are by far less economical and probably just as polluting. After a couple of weeks when E10 was a fraction cheaper than diesel we've gone back to diesel being about 3 or 4 centimes per litre cheaper than E10. So we've all bought "cleaner" cars and are now paying over the odds for our ecological gesture. Apart from that the original yellow vest movement has become a hobby horse for anarchists and political extremes.

Well yes but I'm kind of used to Hants collapsing in the mid-order. Still it's a great looking start to the season.

Probably would have taken a straight red after about 30 seconds. How long do you think Brian O'Neill would have lasted on the pitch with today's interpretations of the rules? We loved watching them, that was football as it was then but those blokes had very little skill and virtually no self control.

Ton up for Northeast. Good start, should get at least 4 batting points, perhaps 5.

Saved from what "au juste"? Good looking start to me. 303/4, Northeast just 6 away from a century, good knocks from Vince, Rossouw and Markram.

How strange, or not. The bottom 6 in the agents' fees tables mirrors exactly the bottom 6 in the actual premier league table as of today. Ah no, scrub that, the clubs are just in league order and not the amount spent on fees order.

Not just the pilot, he was obviously keen to take on the gig, even though it seems that he shouldn't have. Whoever was running the aircraft should have checked it all out surely.