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We ended up with 0 points as we lost 1 point for poor over rate over the game!

Middlesex won the toss and are batting. Weatherley in for Alsop who has flu. Good move as these two are our prospective openers when Carberry and Adams retire in the near future. Must give them as much experience as possible. 6/1 as Tomlinson gets Gubbins

We are already doing all of this. This is our Black Box. I am not allowed to go into detail but I know someone who has sat in that black box and was very very impressed and he is a former Director of the club. There are a number of affordable and suitable players for each position that can walk into the side, an even larger number for each position that are up and coming and future suitable players, stats for all available in the public domain and much more in private following interviews with friends, family, coaches and other parties.

Wrong I am afraid. My brother bought a season ticket for the first time on the first day renewals were started. I just emailed the club to confirm the seat he wanted was not held by a season ticket holder (we knew it was not) and they told us to come down to sign up which we did. Non seaon holder tickets seats were on sale from day 1.

A little birdie tells me Tino Best may play for Hampshire 2nds tomorrow at Ageas Bowl. Also that they may play it on the main ground not the nursery. Tom Barber who was released by Hampshire may be in the Somerset side!

Yes he is ready but will need time to get up to speed and gain experience.

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And Dawson cannot bowl because of pain in his stomach

Present deal is about £1m per year. Club have suggested they see us worth £5m - £7m a year now. We will see!

I think some posters forget our club is also trying to develop younger players, Alsop, Weatherley, McManus, Crane, Stevenson Wheal and Taylor come to mind. However you cannot just throw them all in. We are playing Alsop to get him used to championship cricket as an opener. Crane will be our main spin bowler when it drys out a bit. Weatherley probably needs another year, McManus got games last season and looks the part and Stevenson got starts but is injured, Taylor and Wheal got a look in last season. Why is Tomlinson playing.....well it is because Berg and Stevenson got pre season injuries and now we have lost Topley. Ervine was not able to bowl either. He did take 3 wickets so is not as useless as some suggest! Why did we not get another top class batsman or bowler... Where were they supposed to come from for one season only! We have our overseas players so it would have to be English qualified. We must try to balance by developing within, otherwise what is the point of the Academy We picked up Topley who will hopefully develop into a top world class opening bowler. How is that negative? Taking positives from the opening game.... how is that negative. Positives... We have Edwards firing as he did last season. We drew a game we would likely have lost last season. We were playing a side who are tipped for the top of the table and apart from Bell we almost matched them. We got the worse of the weather for batting. I spoke to Trott and he said he would not have wanted to bat on the first day. The ball was doing everything. Accept we lost wickets in the second innings and that was frustrating but we did put up a rear guard fight in both innings. I am confident we will improve. Smith and Ervine places may be at risk if they do not start scoring

The Members AGM was at 5.30pm that day so all questions would have been answered at that meeting. Solent forum followed. Could not get to it so cannot tell you what was asked or said.

Adams is not fit. Alsop will open. Not sure Crane will play this one. Another seamer.

Only 7 points from 4th now

Along with Vince and Topley. Thant is 20% on the full squad. Well deserved

Do not believe all you read in the press. The contract will be made up of appearance bonus, win/draw bonus, scoring bonus, and those bonuses will depend on position in the league after each game. Those bonuses will be fairly high even as much as 40 - 50% of the finally "reported" figure. Gaston will not have been picking up anywhere near £60K per week.

Proper man, proper family, proper footballer, proper football. How times have changed!!

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On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional being, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you won't have my hatred. I don't know who you are and I don't want to know - you are dead souls. If this God for which you kill indiscriminately made us in his own image, every bullet in the body of my wife will have been a wound in his heart. So no, I don't give you the gift of hating you. You are asking for it but responding to hatred with anger would be giving in to the same ignorance that made you what you are. You want me to be afraid, to view my fellow countrymen with mistrust, to sacrifice my freedom for security.You have lost. I saw her this morning. Finally, after many nights and days of waiting. She was just as beautiful as when she left on Friday night, just as beautiful as when I fell hopelessly in love over 12 years ago. Of course I'm devastated with grief, I admit this small victory, but it will be short-lived. I know she will accompany us every day and that we will find ourselves in this paradise of free souls to which you'll never have access. We are two, my son and I, but we are stronger than all the armies of the world. I don't have any more time to devote to you, I have to join Melvil who is waking up from his nap. He is barely 17-months-old. He will eat his meals as usual, and then we are going to play as usual, and for his whole life this little boy will threaten you by being happy and free. Because no, you will not have his hatred either.

I have not read through this thread, just a few posts so forgive me if this has already been posted. Dr. Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist--a man, whose family was German aristocracy prior t...o World War II, and owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. 'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of our world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.' We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers. The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous. Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people. The average Japanese individual, prior to World War II, was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians, most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet. And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'? History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt. Yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun. Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. Islamic prayers have now been introduced into Toronto and other public schools in Ontario, and, yes, in Ottawa too while the Lord's Prayer was removed (due to being so offensive?! To whom? Not to the vast majority of Canadians!). The Islamic way is only peaceful until the fanatics move in. In Australia, and indeed in many countries around the world, many of the most commonly consumed food items have the halal emblem on them. Just look at the back of some of the most popular chocolate bars, and at other food products in your local supermarket. Foods on aircraft have the halal emblem, just to appease the privileged minority who are now rapidly expanding throughout the world. In the U.K, the Muslim communities refuse to integrate and there are now dozens of ?no-go? zones within major cities across the country that the police force dare not intrude upon. Sharia law prevails there, because the Muslim community in those areas refuses to acknowledge British law. As for we who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts -- the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

I was surprised he did not sign as a Kolpak as I suggested at the back end of last season but this it from the cricinfo web site explains

OK I will spoil it and name them all Back (from left): Allen Tankard, Matthew Le Tissier, Steve Davis, Neil Maddison, Jamie Webb. Middle row: Andy Cook, Leroy Whale, Ray Wallace, Keith Granger, Peter Spargo, Ian Down, Greg Llewellyn. Front: Francis Benali, Barry Wilson, Alan Shearer, Phil Underhill, Rod Wallace, Jason Walkington.

Link worked well, survey fine and I have completed. Let us give the lad some slack and just give an honest response to his survey. What the hell does it matter where he is studying!

Briggs signs for Sussex in a 3 year deal. Released early from his contract with Hampshire. Charlie, doubt we will sign a batsman for Championship games. The emphasis when I spoke to Rod Bransgrove was another front line bowler.