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Today I spoke with the person allegedly attributed with the comment about Adams, Kevin James on Solent. He said someone had misunderstood his comment and he has no idea about Adams other than he, Kevin James, expressed the view that he could not see him taking back the captaincy. So no basis for the comment I made for the rumour in my original post.

One of the problems facing clubs, particularly Hampshire, is the lack of concentration in building an innings in the 4 day game and to a certain extent the 50 over format. There seems a tendency of late for players to go for quick runs and never mind they get out to a bad shot. When players come up against better bowlers like we have in the 1st division the mind set cannot cope. That has been our problem until recently. The Test series against Australia proved the point. Australia were so intent on playing their shots that they lost the art of building an innings and lost a series they were strong favourites to win by a street. The Hampshire team have noticed and taken that on board. As a result our performances have improved of late. Unfortunately it might be too late for this season but sets next on a firm basis. There are one or two players in the first team squad who are blocking the way for useful younger players who are now knocking on the door. I will not name either sets of players but the club are aware and more will be revealed when the release information is published by the club. We are trying to sign McLaren on a 2 or 3 year contract. It is not a done deal but positive vibes so far. If he does sign it will be as a Kolpac. We are also talking to Edwards but may face competition from other clubs. Nothing was mentioned about the “overseas” possibility next season but it is likely to be a bowler. The club are very impressed with Stevenson and he is bowling at about 83mph and getting the ball to go both ways. They expect his speed to increase as he develops. An exciting find. Watson is a possibility. He has gone home to think about it. However he will only be used for white ball cricket. I know a lot more about the Dawson affair now. I will not repeat it but let us just say it had the desired effect and I can see why the coach took the decisions he did. There is nothing above that is not readily available from various outlets so I am not breaching any confidences. It has been gleaned from frank talks with the Chairman, Coaches and Players by me and other friends over the last week. They are all refreshingly honest and understand the issues and what needs to be done to arrest a very poor season in red ball cricket.

I dined with Rod Bransgrove today. His one remaining wish is for us to win the 1st Division Championship. The club still see this as their main task. He is bitterly disappointed with the way this Championship season has gone.

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Well done to Carberry who passed 1,000 championship runs for the season in this game and that without a century this season. Well done to Edwards who took his 300th first class wicket in this game Well done to Adams who got a big century, his first of the season Shame we had such a disaster on the first day on a very flat wicket.

He was a classy player but as others have said he was not suited to Premier League and his injury record is horrendous. Reports of him being on £65,000 a week are probably wide of the mark. I suspect a lot of that was appearance and other bonuses. I suspect his basic, which is probably all he collected most weeks, was below £40,000. Still a massive amount and if we can make some savings out of that we should go for it.

Interesting report on possible signings. http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2015/content/story/918227.html

Good win. Shame about his hamstring injury. I do not know how bad it is at the present but he is a big doubt for Somerset next Wednesday. Still we will have Tomlinson, Briggs and Crane available to us. Tomlinson has been offered a lead bowling coaching role with Hampshire over the winter and is delighted. He has a year left on his contract but I can see him moving more to coaching with Topley coming in. Nothing more on having Edwards next season. I suppose it depends on what division we are in for the clubs point of view Rumour that Adams will not be playing next year. I was with his Dad for the early part of the England Australia game but the rumour came later so I did not get chance to ask him Another rumour (Echo) doing the rounds is that Watson might be are overseas next year. Wait to see on that one but it might make sense. He is still a class player.

I had some great sources during the many takeover pre admin. People supposedly involved. It turned out to be bull **** I had some great sources during the Admin period. People supposedly involved. It turned out to be bull ****. Papers quote sources close to.... more bull ****. Deal with facts and not sources. We already had our two domestic loans. Fact is we could not take more. Spurs would know that so again the sources are bull ****

We cannot pay big wages. We are on a tight budget. We lost money on the recent "gig" much to the clubs dismay. We took all the risk and Boys Own were paid no matter what the situation. We do have revenue streams but......

Wood will not likely progress as he has degenerative knee issues. I spoke to him the other day and although he is fine for 1 day games the longer form at 1st team level is a long way off. Massive shame but the signing of Topley will be a great addition and a coup by the club. We are still in talks with Fidel Edwards as well or were when I talked to Giles White a couple of weeks ago

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Warwickshire Kent just abandoned. Hampshire will now be in QF but away from home unless they can beat Notts. Inspection at 8pm. At present we will be away to Gloucester Now confirmed. Gloucester v Hants at Bristol next week, date to be confirmed

Yes I am going.

Koeman said: “Everybody knows we are working at one more defender, and then I think we have a very good squad for this season, and we know that. A little bit unlucky in our options what we don’t have at the moment. “One defender on the bench and Matthew Targett played 90 minutes and he was ill, he wasn’t 100 per cent and we have to accept that and we can’t change that situation.”

2nd Semi it is. Think it is all about logistics. Hampshire have furthest to travel so given more time.

I am registered to microsoft and can log in to my account to get the key number. In the meantime windows troubleshooter found and fixed a couple of issues so I am trying to download and install 8.1 now

I am running a windows trouble shoot at present. See if that works. My windows 8 was installed by John Lewis on a newly purchased laptop over 2 years ago a

Explain? as I am not technically minded

The problem is that you cannot upgrade to windows 10 until you have installed all updates. Windows 8.1 is an update and as I have said it is that which is the problem.

I have a problem in that I have Windows 8. My system keeps reminding me to update with Windows 8.1. My system check says everything compatible including my apps. Downloads ok and then just as the computer (Laptop) restarts it then restores Windows 8 and says it cannot complete at this time. Tried it 4 times over he last few months and even turned off my virus protection in case that was blocking (although Kaspersky is compatible) As a result I cannot upgrade to Windows 10!! Any ideas

Ervine playing in 2nd Eleven game at Ageas Bowl today. Just come in and 3 not out at Lunch Update, 61 not out at present Just got his 100 in 104 balls. Game finished. Only a friendly among younger players but good to see he appears to be ready to come back into the first team. Today followed a good net on Sunday.

That is sensible. You KBSS & Monk have a good reputation on here for getting good information. If the club want it kept quiet, there is good reason. Thanks for clearing up your absence.

They have been discussing since he came back. Club want him, he wants to stay so providing finances sorted it should happen.

What a great day for Hampshire CCC Could this be the the start of the revival which started on the last day of the Durham game when we avoided defeat.