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Come on rain, let's be having you.

Getting regally mugged by a number 8 and a number 10. Never siimple with Hants is it, same as Saints really, must be something they put in the water.

Tougher going this afternoon, doesn't seem to be anything much helpful in the wicket. Still Somerset won't win and Middx might even lose. Just need to slog it out for a draw.

Not Topley, the other bloke from Radio Essex, a regal pain in the bum that bloke.

Well I never, with Essex at 40 for 6 our score yesterday looks better than respectable. And to think those archibiased Essex commentators on Solent thought they'd done a fantastic job to get us out for less than "par for this pitch 300" . Solent need to get guest commentators to knock off the bias a bit, it's most annoying.

Another poor start that we really didn't need today. Then again with Adams and a neophyte opening the batting what can you expect really.

And Sandro Ramirez looks distinctly average to be honest, can see him being back wherever he came from in a short time. Koeman has obviously bought more midfielders than he needs and Sigurdsson just isn't performing for the time being. Looks like a total waste of money so far. They need to get some of their long term injured back into action. Bolasie for instance.

Not at all bad, in fact quite promising.

​We could lose this still, high unlikely though. Batting is much too weak, all that rain looks as if it might have done us a good turn.

Then I have confused myself. Didn't some other team win the Championship because they had the last day slog that was permitted in the rules of the time and we had nothing at all? Seem to remember being in Honiton at the time, although why I'd be there stumps me completely. Still I spent time in strange places in the 70s so it's entirely possible.

You're probably right, I'm still traumatised by Worcestershire stealing the County Championship from us in '74 when our game against Yorks got totally rained off and they had a shady 1 day slog game on the 3rd day and got 10 points.

Looking like another wash-out today. Hope we'll not regret the lack of bonus points from this match.

Play started, Strange side that Hants have put out. Hope they know what they're doing. No Dawson, Vince or Bailey it would seem. The BBC has Holland keeping wicket, don't think that's right though.

No play today at Uxbridge, wet outfield. Annoying really because all the other D1 matches have started on time,

they must have had one of the toughest starts ever though. City, Chelsea,Spurs and I think it's Utd either this week or next isn't it? That said I just don't see the point of Klaesen though, doesn't look anywhere near the level required for the PL, same as Clasie I suppose. His instance with Martina in nearly all games is most surprising, thought he'd just signed him as a cheap cover player really.

What was extreme was appointing him in the first place. No sane chairman should have overlooked the total Milan disaster. FdB is obviously nothing more than an Eredivisie coach.

No question really, we should have sold him for anything over 60 million payable in a reasonable time. As we've seemingly been sold to a group with not much readies then we need to go back to selling to finance top notch offensive players instead of buying bang average players like Boufal.

Sounds like a top plan actually, winning 1-0 is by far better than losing 5-4. All sport is about winning, it's the name of the game, if you want entertainment go to the cinema.

If you look at an average Ligue 1 day you'll see that every side has at least 1 Boufal like player, Newcastle bought a shedload of them and now they're all back playing in Marseille, Troyes at St Etienne. They flatter to deceive because while it looks like Roy of the Rovers stuff on occasions, there is virtually no end product to it.

Absolutely, as I've said before we are an average side throughout and we get average results. Want better results ? Sign better than average players for higher than average fees. Football is about that these days, the best sides spend the most money and everybody else is just well, average.

Correct. A manager can only do so much. No matter how he lays out the game plan, if the players can't follow it it makes no difference. We needed to sell Van Dijk and buy some real class at the sharp end.

Saved by the lower order today. Going quite well at 233/8 at the moment, 30 odd ahead and approaching a second batting point. Good contributions from Holland, Berg and Abbott.

Well! I thought we'd bowled pretty well to get them out for 200 but as it seems to be our annual batting disaster day I'm not so sure now. 66-6 might lead to problems for Hants.

I see that the fraud cases around the Grenfell Tower fire have started then. Sad event but there will always be those who seek to profit from anything but anything. I think there were about a couple of hundred false disappearances from 9/11.

Quite a few changes to the side today, Alsop keeping wicket by the looks of it. Adams and Wetherley to open.