wilsdenrover

I popped out for half an hour and now they’re on case number 97!! We seem to have moved onto the supplementary list (which starts with the above number) after lunch. We were listed as number 32 of 83 of the advance list - it appears they gave up on this list at lunch time. Who knows where numbers 84-96 are! I presume the case has been adjourned again but didn’t see/hear that happening.

I’m not worried. I’m more concerned as to whether the chap from the last case is going to get his bananas back before they go off.

My post might not have been entirely serious 😁

Ahem…

Gone for lunch, last case heard was either number 14 or 15. I’m not sure I’ll be able to hang around for the afternoon session.

Just for completeness… If we have 4 ESC players but our number of slots is then reduced, we can still keep those 4 ESC players.

The judge is currently Bazballing it. Already on case 11. edited to add. Case 11 went on forever and the judge has now done a runner. Hopefully he’s coming back… second edit. he came back - case 12 is still going about 20 minutes after the judge said ‘I’ll give you 10 minutes’.

Consecutive. item 5 just called…

Case number 1 just started to be heard. Twenty minutes have been wasted with various people butting in to comment on their cases irrespective of what number they’ve been listed at.

Root (when Bazball began) was playing reserve scoops etc. during test matches. He’s since dialled it back, which is what the other players should do ‘as and when’ the situation calls for it.

I agree, although criticising someone when they’ve got a hundred does seem harsh. That being said, he could easily have been out for under twenty (when the fielder caught him but carried the ball over the ropes). Root is definitely one who has adapted his initial Bazball (I hate that term) technique/mindset - others would do well to follow in his footsteps.

That was my first thought too. Need the judge to turn up first though… I’ve also got to decide whether to get up early to watch ‘just in case’ 😁😁

You’d think so but then you have to remember the (lack of) competence of our senior management.

What we call work permits are actually called GBEs - Governing Body Endorsements. Each home nation has its own Governing Body.

He’ll have a visa for Britain (Home Office issued) and a work permit for Scotland (SFA issued). He’d need a work permit for England (FA issued). I’ve reread the FA info and I can’t see anything regarding what @bluebruce thought he remembered. What it does say is a player being loaned from Scotland to England would require an FA issued work permit (and that this requires meeting the FA, not SFA, criteria).

I don’t know tbh, I’ll reread the FA docs to see if anything jumps out.

Place on list tomorrow = 32.

warning, yellow card, red card would be even better.

Ta Hopefully this one has the right info!

Did you check this as the website I used made him an exceptions panel case? Thanks.

Would Miller definitely qualify for a work permit without being an ESC player?

We could employ him , he just wouldn’t be allowed to do anything. Maybe he could be the new CEO 😁

Work permits are issued by the FA. The work permit is then included in the application (to the Home Office) for the player to be allowed into (and to stay in) the country.

Did you see the look on the umpire’s face after he raised his finger for the first one? This, and the time he took, says to me he guessed.

Obviously hindsight is a wonderful thing because if Brook hits another six (instead of being dismissed) everyone would be applauding. That being said, hopefully the team (and management) will learn a lesson from what followed him getting out. I’ve just heard a glimmer of hope that they will - Brook said in hindsight he wishes he hadn’t played such an aggressive shot, I feel previously he would have said something like ‘that’s just the way I play’.