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Post by liquidskin on Sept 24, 2020 17:24:11 GMT
We couldn’t go on the same way as we’d be in the same situation again next year, half way down Div 2. We’ve needed a clear-out for years, carrying players who just aren’t good enough was getting us nowhere. Evans, Wells and Finch all had their good games but none were consistent enough in red ball cricket. Every poster on this site has moaned for years about our lack of ambition, under performing players and forward planning in the CC. Well it’s started now and I’m glad of it. Get yourselves a core of good young all format players and build a team around them. Salt, Rawlins and Garton are a good start. Well if it's started Joe, no problem. Do you know when the improved additions are... additioning? Arriving, are arriving?
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Post by liquidskin on Sept 24, 2020 17:42:28 GMT
At last the club, whoever that is, has made the correct decision. Finch not good enough and Wells has also had plenty of chances prior to this season but has gone backwards. Says everything about the so called great coaching ability of dizzy that he couldn't improve either. Always sad to see home grown players go but on this occasion it's the correct call. Just hope there is money available to get in some decent replacements. Dizzy must be on a huge wack and Greenfield should be sacked which will free up another salary. If we don't get replacements the biggest concern is actually having a real team to put out. I'm all for youth, that probably hasn't gone unnoticed, but chucking in 16 year olds or kids who've barely scored a run for the twos is a farce. Someone mentioned before, there may be a lot of players facing a similar scenario to Wells, so at the very least, the scope is there to add players who can play, and have a pint of lager legally after the game too. I think someone at the club should make a statement about our intentions frankly. Or at least confide in one of you big shots who have watched every game for the last 50 years. S&F - you're the biggest shot of all, or something, get an interview for Christ's sake.
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Post by jonboy on Sept 24, 2020 21:48:05 GMT
If we think we’re in a tricky predicament now, having lost three batsmen from our top order, wait until the end of next season, when we will also likely lose Head, VanZyl, Bopara and maybe Wright
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 1, 2020 17:03:52 GMT
This has the smell of 1996. Time for a repeat of the Members Rebellion.
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Post by ashingtonmartlet on Oct 1, 2020 17:58:51 GMT
Heard it before on here WC, two winters ago people giving it large about revolutions and Adams and Prior riding in on horseback...but of course, nothing happened as everyone just sits back waiting for it to happen.
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Post by ashingtonmartlet on Oct 1, 2020 17:59:42 GMT
That said, there’s obviously something worrying going on for us to be leaking all these players.
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Post by jonboy on Oct 1, 2020 19:20:15 GMT
We are just totally inept as an organisation. So Briggs is going to Warwickshire, Evans has gone to Surrey, who have also agreed terms with a couple of other new recruits. Borthwick and Stoneman are returning to Durham, counties are getting on with their business, despite the uncertain times. Where are we when it comes to reaching agreements with a few, much needed new players? When will we have a new coach in place, and do we have to wait until he is in place before we get on with rebuilding the squad We’ve been nothing less than shambolic in recent years, we really have
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Post by jonboy on Oct 1, 2020 21:22:55 GMT
I’m not so sure the doomsday scenario painted by Dobell is gonna happen Only Sussex seem to be on a major cost cutting exercise. Most of the other counties are just going ahead, releasing a few peripheral players, as they would normally do. Not just that, but the counties seem to be getting on with their recruitment as if nothing has happened. Can we believe that the Wolf sits only outside the Sussex door, or is it more a question of perhaps, Sussex crying Wolf
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Post by jonboy on Oct 2, 2020 9:12:20 GMT
So far, a dozen different players have agreed to join new counties next season, or in the case of Evans from Sussex, already done so. Sussex, who need to do more recruiting than most, have so far, not been linked with anyone It’s actually pretty depressing looking through the lists of players released, and who might still be available. Chris Nash is the stand out name on those lists. Will we have to await the appointment of a new coach, before we can trawl through what’s left🙁
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Post by joe on Oct 2, 2020 9:36:49 GMT
Yes you’d hope there’d be a plan of succession, one out one in, but nothing yet and as you say they’ll be no one worth having if we drag our feet.
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Post by kevininnessupersub on Oct 2, 2020 10:45:19 GMT
Sussex will take a gamble and wait till they see what next season looks like. That means waiting till the new year.
This time last year they signed Bopara, Meaker and Claydon which in the end proved a total waste of money. If we had had a full 4 day programme Meaker and Claydon would have been useful and Bopara should have been in the white ball matches. If 2021 season is like this year, why waste money on a coach and expensive new players? We still have sufficient coaches to see us a through a second BWT and 20/20 . Sussex can’t afford to caught out two years running.
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Post by jonboy on Oct 3, 2020 8:16:19 GMT
Sussex will take a gamble and wait till they see what next season looks like. That means waiting till the new year. This time last year they signed Bopara, Meaker and Claydon which in the end proved a total waste of money. If we had had a full 4 day programme Meaker and Claydon would have been useful and Bopara should have been in the white ball matches. If 2021 season is like this year, why waste money on a coach and expensive new players? We still have sufficient coaches to see us a through a second BWT and 20/20 . Sussex can’t afford to caught out two years running. It’s hard not to agree, that that will be their likely stance, and it’s probably shaped their thinking when it came to releasing established players Perhaps they’ve already made their minds up that they will not take next years four day competition seriously again. What if all counties thought that way? There’d be no meaningful red ball cricket and eventually no Test players. There is always the danger that playing in such an uncompetitive side, our better players will start to look elsewhere.
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Post by liquidskin on Oct 3, 2020 8:44:14 GMT
All bets are off with this new revelation, surely? Numerous players could be banned, or sacked hopefully. This is why there's no movement.
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Post by joe on Oct 3, 2020 13:33:03 GMT
I’ve heard Will Sheffield is also being released.
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Post by joe on Oct 3, 2020 14:12:00 GMT
By my reckoning we’ll be left with a squad of 20 which includes Wright, Mills and Bopara who’ll presumably play white ball only. That leaves a squad of 17 for the CC including our 3 young debutants from this year Crocombe, Carson and Clark.
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