matt83

With zero activity in the transfer market and the fact this is bloody grim can someone reassure me that in 1994 we lost every friendly.

Well no one else has said it so I’ll be the first. This is fucking abysmal.

I think franny Jeffers also turned out for his first game at Stanley pre season. My mate who’d had one too many kept shouting last chance saloon at him every time he came vaguely within earshot. There’s a highly rated young talent who did naff all with his career.

2 of us in the Farley's stand so there’s at least 2,502 rovers fans.

There’s a few tiers. Normal membership called the traditional membership which gets you into any day plus any format. That’s £150 ish. There’s also first xi membership for about £100 which gets you in to about 10 different days of any format. Then a t20 membership for about £50-80 ish.

Kept doing that even though all membership nos were assigned so just bought more. Only £12.

Free for members. Well if their members portal was working in a touch of rovers cock up meaning most I know paid anyway. £89 plus there’ll no doubt be 500 allocation for each county there then 20,000 event junkies and day trippers. The first finals day went to at the oval was £15 and bought them from Lancs ticket office in the evening the day before travelling down. Times have changed.

Very impressive win. Yorkshite in the semis. 3rd time they can bottle it on last ball

Very much. So. I’ll be bloody livid if he doesn’t turn out for England tomorrow. Buttler and livi are pretty much both mercenaries for hire at this point but as technically Lancs players that’s a formidable first xi.

ECB released salt. That’s something but they’ve shafted Lancs here with their farcical scheduling.

Good stuff. I was just wondering if there’s any decent boozers vaguely near the ground. Nothing wrong with the crown but it occurred to me the other day it’s literally the only pub ever been to in accy pre rovers/dingles friendlies. Do either of those 2 other ones show sport do you know? Looking to watch the egg chasing pre match

The young un plays u9s so wanted to go to watch Lancs and with this probably being the last home game of the short stuff was now or never for his first live game. Originally 2pm ko but moved for bloody sky at 6:30. He’s been looking forward to it but his mother has just realised won’t be home until 10:30-11pm at the earliest so a couple of hours past bed time. With school tomorrow not happy. He’ll learn more on those terraces with his grandad than any classroom 😂.

Think it’ll end up being Lancs 2nd xi vs Birmingham.

Why are India bowling at our tail with slips and close fielders. Surely they should stick everyone on the boundary and bang it in short. 🙄.

This is what happened last year at Lords. Just bowl at the fucking stumps.

This is the worst over I’ve ever seen. Think broad has the world record for tests and for t20s now.

This is pathetic from England. If they are not trying to get the batsmen out I could play. Positive cricket my arse.

With 28 days until the new season is anyone remotely concerned that we haven’t done any business yet. Well except losing 6 of last seasons first xi. With the arrival of the much ballyhooed rookie DOF and the speed he appointed JDT after swags dithering and delaying I was hoping there’d be some positive activity by now.

So at the end of the loyalty window to summarise the season ticket farce - sales have been very disappointing, between an estimated 5,000-8,000 lower levels than some of our equivalent sized nearest rivals, but not as bad as could have been considering the cost. In the world of swag it’s been great as he’s managed to squeeze every last penny out of an ever dwindling loyal core.

Re Crawley I think this is an interesting read: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2022/jun/26/zak-crawley-should-be-a-perfect-fit-for-this-england-but-offers-only-high-farce Good start for England good to see jimmy with 3 wickets. Also I believe Buttler has decided to grace Lancs with his presence. No idea why livi isn’t in the squad though. It’s all pointless anyway. Buttler, livi, parkinson, salt and gleeson all selected for England against India. So will miss all of the quarters and not that will qualify for finals day with the reserves but will miss that as well. Daft having such domestic clashes with international calendar. I bet their 16.4 overs baby won’t clash with anything.

Some trend I’ve noticed with young uns is wearing white sweat socks pulled right up with sandals (sliders) the sort of carry on my sister and I mercilessly teased our old man about when we were younger seems to be high fashion with the current yoof. That said they also wear handbags and bum bags. Weird bunch.

Its too late now to scrap the price structure and start again but I was thinking even though they keep extending the punishment deadline, sorry loyalty deadline, it probably comes down to foolish pride and not admitting they cocked it up yet again to have persevered with some of the most expensive tickets in the division. So I was thinking about how they can wriggle out of this latest pricing cock up without doling out refunds. Perhaps they could say buy a season ticket this season as these prices then the renewal price will be fixed at £250 next season. Might encourage a few to commit this season knowing will be cheaper next, not that it helps those who actually can’t afford one at the current prices.

I’m surprised there’s still 600 tickets left for Stanley thought would have easily sold out the 2,300 allocation by now particularly as it’s JDTs first game.

It’s accepted Mowbray inherited a mess from coyle, but he’s definitely left a mess behind. Especially if work on the basis Brereton will be sold. Kaminski, pears, Ayala, Garrett, Pickering, Wharton, Buckley, Dack, markanday, Travis, butterworth, Dolan, Gallagher, hedges, jrc, vale, Brereton. Vs Steele, Raya, Williams, Lenihan, Henley, Mulgrew, Nyambe, brown, Mahoney, Conway, Feeney, Guthrie, Lowe, Tomlinson, Emnes, Graham, joao, stokes, Gallagher. Who inherited a bigger mess? I think the defence is worse now and the midfield options are better and attacking options (without Brereton) are equally poor. It’s close for me a tie.

The finest innings I’ll ever see was at this ground and by Stokes in the ashes. End of day 3 he needed to dig in and ended 2* off about 50. Day 4 wickets tumbling all around him and he was still digging in and got to his 50 off 150. One wicket left he was on 60 off 177 and by the end 135* off 219, scoring 75 in a 76 partnership. He can play both ways and then played as the situation demanded but at the moment for some reason he chooses not to engage his brain currently and just goes into flail mode straight out of the gate. Absolutely. The foundations to this new style are built on sand. It will end in far more defeats with their ability than wins. Positive cricket doesn’t only have to be clearing the ropes all the time but it’s how these lads are defining it