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Post by coverpoint on Sept 26, 2015 16:06:00 GMT
Several matches stand out that added to our predicament. These were matches we could have achieved something from.
1. Notts at Trent Bridge where we had them 70-7 on the first morning. We lost that match.
2. Somerset at Taunton. We were negative in our declaration but with more time could and should have won the match.
3. Middlesex at Lords. Having taken about a 60 run lead into the first innings we allowed them to score over 300 runs in their second innings and lost by 20 runs.
4. Lest we not forget the pathetic effort playing Hants at home in an important match. No spirit and we lost easily.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2015 17:49:40 GMT
I think we can come up with all kinds of triangulations, given that the difference between staying up in seventh place and going down in eight place was the tiny margin of two points. Wasn't there a game in which Sussex played out the 110th over and then got the runs that would have given them an extra batting point from the second ball of the 111th? (I might have dreamt that, but it was something very close).
The reality, surely, is that, Sussex were not good enough in every area over the entire season (or to be strictly accurate,from May onwards; half of the games the side managed to win came in April, which makes a mockery of the 'early season spicy pitches' excuse.)
I don't want to make any judgements until there has been a forensic enquiry by May and Toumasi into what went wrong, whether it could have been avoided and whether replacing Joyce and Robinson will fix the problem or whether the malaise runs deeper than that. At least one supporter on another website believes that the rot goes all the way back to the head-in-the-sand state of denial when Sussex players so disgracefully conspired to fix that game against Kent in 2011. That was a festering sore for several years, and, given that when it was finally proven in 2014, Sussex management and players claimed to be "completely shocked" when everybody else in cricket had known about it all along, there was a serious credibility gap that may have continued to eat away at the team's commitment and self-belief.
But I honestly don't know.As said, I'm not going to rush to judgement ahead of the executive's enquiry into why the 2015 season was such a train wreck. But that doesn't prevent me expressing a personal opinion, which is that Robinson for hs own good should move on and apply for the vacant Essex job and allow someone with fresh ideas the opportunity to reinvigorate what remains a very good squad of players and plot both Sussex's immediate return to the elite division and its return to competitiveness in the white ball competitions.
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Post by coverpoint on Sept 27, 2015 4:17:51 GMT
You are right Bordermen and at the end of the day we have won only 1 match out of 17 in the last two and a half months in all competitions which simply isn't good enough.
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Post by fraudster on Sept 28, 2015 16:04:32 GMT
You are right Bordermen and at the end of the day we have won only 1 match out of 17 in the last two and a half months in all competitions which simply isn't good enough. That little doosie is the most damning indictment of the coach and captain's position at the club. Does the Chairman know this? That is utterly untenable. You could have said the 14 matches, never mind four, CP. |
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Post by flashblade on Sept 28, 2015 16:26:56 GMT
You are right Bordermen and at the end of the day we have won only 1 match out of 17 in the last two and a half months in all competitions which simply isn't good enough. And wasn't Nash the captain in that isolated win - at the fortress that is New Road, Worcester! |
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Post by mrsdoyle on Nov 4, 2015 16:45:42 GMT
Can I belatedly add the last home game of the season to this list, v Somerset, when, in my opinion, we were lacklustre in the field and only got one bowling point.
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