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Post by Steve on Sept 4, 2015 13:18:45 GMT
Sore shins or not, he has a great knack of taking wickets at important times!!!
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Post by hhsussex on Sept 4, 2015 13:19:32 GMT
And in the 60th over Robinson finally bowls. 7 balls later - 7 wickets down.
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Post by howardh on Sept 4, 2015 14:56:15 GMT
All together now....
" We won a match, we won a match" etc.
Well played, team!
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Sept 4, 2015 15:01:28 GMT
Well done Sussex!
Beat Somerset at home and we should be safe given Hampshire are on the march too.
GOSBTS
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Post by philh on Sept 4, 2015 15:35:58 GMT
What a relief! I'm in the skies en route to Bangkok. As I left Gatwick, Worcestershire were eight down and I feared rain. Now, to misuse the word 'literally' as it is so often misused, I am literally on cloud 9.
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Post by fraudster on Sept 4, 2015 16:42:22 GMT
Sussex CCC are a bonkers team. For the last three years the cycle has been the same. Speed out of the traps like a greyhound on amphetamines. Then spend the next three months in the doldrums. Finally, call on a warren of magic rabbits who pop up like a funfair sideshow. The performances against Yorkshire and now Worcestershire present a completely different side. Should they be called Yorksex, perhaps, where the sex element makes viagra dim in comparison. Well done to Captain Marvel Wright. His highest ever 1st class score. Well done to Brown who being dropped from the OD games has helped him discover his true potential. Well done to Nash for retiring hurt yesterday, only to return today to taunt the Worcestershire bowlers. And well done to Mark Robinson for achieving the annual deal with the Sussex alchemist for the end of the season. Magic rabbits or no magic rabbits, the hat is flowing with abundance. Why do Sussex usually only perform when their backs are against the wall? Is this some perverse Churchillian bravado only accounted for at Hove. What ever spell the Brighton alchemist has weaved may it continue. fluffy, this isn't about alchemy. What you have described in your opening para is an organisation that makes the same mistakes year after year and fails to learn from them. So far it has had just about enough resilience and resources to compensate for those errors but the cost and drain on resources increases year by year . That is a description of a failed organisation. I can't agree with your congratulations to a manager who presides over this mess. If Sussex are lucky enough to escape relegation this year - and we probably need to beat Somerset to be really sure of that - then we must start learning from the lessons of failure. The first thing will be to bring in a new management team that doesn't carry a weight of sentimental history around it's shoulders that hampers it from taking progressive action. Don't think Wright was captain either. Bet you wish you hadn't bothered with your rhetorical blitherings now S&F - they work better on the blog.
Have to agree with HH, our pattern is one of frustrating failure rather than last ditch success. Nothing can get away from the changes needed at Sussex, for me.
On a brighter note, a much needed quality win full of top notch performances from the big guns. Maybe Joyce should give up the captaincy now and just play as a batsman if he's fit next game. Sounds harsh but new leadership and balance probably played a big part in this win, and the balance probably came because of new leadership anyway, judging by the games that have gone.
The right balance was absolutely key - we need to stick with it, it's a proven winner for now, unlike the 3/4 man attack. Joyce can only come back for a batsman if he is back - that much is clear to see.
Onwards and upwards, and twirling.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2015 17:05:50 GMT
Sussex CCC are a bonkers team. For the last three years the cycle has been the same. Speed out of the traps like a greyhound on amphetamines. Then spend the next three months in the doldrums. Finally, call on a warren of magic rabbits who pop up like a funfair sideshow. The performances against Yorkshire and now Worcestershire present a completely different side. Should they be called Yorksex, perhaps, where the sex element makes viagra dim in comparison. Well done to Captain Marvel Wright. His highest ever 1st class score. Well done to Brown who being dropped from the OD games has helped him discover his true potential. Well done to Nash for retiring hurt yesterday, only to return today to taunt the Worcestershire bowlers. And well done to Mark Robinson for achieving the annual deal with the Sussex alchemist for the end of the season. Magic rabbits or no magic rabbits, the hat is flowing with abundance. Why do Sussex usually only perform when their backs are against the wall? Is this some perverse Churchillian bravado only accounted for at Hove. What ever spell the Brighton alchemist has weaved may it continue. fluffy, this isn't about alchemy. What you have described in your opening para is an organisation that makes the same mistakes year after year and fails to learn from them. So far it has had just about enough resilience and resources to compensate for those errors but the cost and drain on resources increases year by year . That is a description of a failed organisation. I can't agree with your congratulations to a manager who presides over this mess. If Sussex are lucky enough to escape relegation this year - and we probably need to beat Somerset to be really sure of that - then we must start learning from the lessons of failure. The first thing will be to bring in a new management team that doesn't carry a weight of sentimental history around it's shoulders that hampers it from taking progressive action. Precisely so. One of the reasons some are hoping for relegation is so that lessons will be learned. The danger is that a Houdini-like escape will allow our very real problems to be swept under a newly-rolled square. |
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Post by jimbon on Sept 4, 2015 17:08:30 GMT
Robinson's overs and ofcourse the big wicket were bowled, as in second innings against Yorkshire, at the same pace as Ajmal but with greater success. Even with sore shins super Robbo can obviously still pull a Mushy out of the bag.
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Post by jonboy on Sept 4, 2015 17:08:19 GMT
Although Liddle's part in it was not particularly significant. When our fourth seamer bowling options don't take wickets, and leak runs, until we get a viable alternative, I'd take the extra batter every time. If fit, Joyce for Liddle, would be my choice against the cider boys
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2015 17:13:22 GMT
Although Liddle's part in it was not particularly significant. When our fourth seamer bowling options don't take wickets, and leak runs, until we get a viable alternative, I'd take the extra batter every time. If fit, Joyce for Liddle, would be my choice against the cider boys There's balance and then there's Liddle. If we need a fourth seamer, which may be advisable on such a spiteful surface, maybe Hatchett or Garton could play. Beer must miss out as he failed to take all twenty wickets against Durham. Probably needed a double-ton too to be in the mix. |
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Post by tatesgate on Sept 4, 2015 17:35:33 GMT
Hate to tempt fate but if we do stay up & Somerset go down (which they probably are favourites to do) we will be the only non international ground county in the 1st division. Will be incredibly competitive next year.
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Post by fraudster on Sept 4, 2015 17:45:21 GMT
You still got it Stonewall.
JB, don't underestimate the effect a fifth bowler has on the existing strike bowlers, even if he isn't taking wickets. He does need to be bowling though, and preferably tightly. If your best is over bowled he won't be best for long. I can't see how anyone can logically consider a switch back to the other balance after this and so many dismal losses prior to it - to put it politely.
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Post by jonboy on Sept 4, 2015 18:20:27 GMT
You still got it Stonewall. JB, don't underestimate the effect a fifth bowler has on the existing strike bowlers, even if he isn't taking wickets. He does need to be bowling though, and preferably tightly. If your best is over bowled he won't be best for long. I can't see how anyone can logically consider a switch back to the other balance after this and so many dismal losses prior to it - to put it politely. Well we might not need to if Mags gets his passport |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2015 18:40:40 GMT
One of the reasons some are hoping for relegation is so that lessons will be learned. The danger is that a Houdini-like escape will allow our very real problems to be swept under a newly-rolled square. I was pretty relaxed about a season in Div Two, where we could get used to winning regularly again. But with the strong possibility that the CC in 2017 will be restructured with 8 in Div One and ten in Div Two, that would mean only one team will be promoted next season, not two, so raher glad it looks like Sussex will stay up. If we beat Somerset and they go down with Worcs, that would leave us and eight Test match counties in Div One next season (Durham, Hants, Lancs, Middx, Notts, Surrey, Warwicks and Yorks). I'm sure that's what the ECB wants, although they would no doubt like us to swap places with Glamorgan... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2015 20:11:45 GMT
Although Liddle's part in it was not particularly significant. When our fourth seamer bowling options don't take wickets, and leak runs, until we get a viable alternative, I'd take the extra batter every time. If fit, Joyce for Liddle, would be my choice against the cider boys When we played the cybernauts in the '77 Gillette final, we'd mastered the art of importing talent. Waller, Arnold, Long, Knight and Prideaux before them. No flanneled OAP was safe on the green turf of England. Strange thing is we have young talent now in the green green grass of home but choose to think the grass is greener with the other sides, which is probably why we don't play our best spinner. |
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