Managed to take Gloucestershire from division 1 to the bottom of division 2 with 2 wins in 2 years. On the face of it it looks like another bottom draw appointment but best of luck I suppose.

It’s not a jobs for the boys appointment which I’m glad about. But that said I’m slightly underwhelmed particularly as had a piss poor effort at Gloucestershire

Truth is at most clubs one death spiral finishes you. The fact he was allowed to have 2 season here is the anomaly. He did far more there than he did here but Sunderland fans and owners demand success. He was never going to last although I’m sure he ingratiated himself with some of their fans with uncle Tony loves you routine and a tangible measure of “success” with getting into the playoffs

Just picking the bones out of next seasons Lancs fixtures. From the 4th of July to the 22nd of August there’ll be no county championship cricket whatsoever. No proper cricket at OT for over 3 months. The 50 overs is still reduced to a 2nd xi comp There’s also 3 t20 “double headers” with the women and 2 on a workday. So no doubt operation ‘we know no one turns up to watch women’s cricket without bolting it on to the men’s fixture so we’ll put the men on during the day so no so no sod can go’ will be in full swing. Any more of those shenanigans and with everything else I think could well be my last year where I get a membership. Also I see Graham onions has gone back to Durham. That will be a blow to the hierarchy as he was the easy “the answer may well lie within” boring jobs for the boys appointment.

A rovers away win does make for a good Saturday evening and the cherry on the cake is always the dingles losing. But when it’s a thumping away win and the dingles lost having been leading in the dying embers of the game. Plus for the same to happen to nob end. Decent day.

I’m enjoying the cameraman panning onto all these glum Indian faces but that’ll soon turn to annoyance when show the convicts celebrating. If only both could lose.

I just can’t go as far as saying I wanted Australia to win but I’m glad India lost (will lose). 2 thoroughly unpleasant sides with intolerable fans. Unfortunately one had to win but looking at it a glass half full one lost. If compiled a cricket xi of prats it’s almost exclusively players from these 2 teams.

A feeble effort at a minutes silence there due to the odd numpty. I hope it was coming from the knob end side of the ground.

Hells teeth that’s a piss poor looking back 5.

As appalling as the keeper has been I also think he’s got away with a few as well because strikers have switched off at a bread and butter catch only for him to drop it. Every striker worth his salt will be laser focused on him off every cross and ball in to the box now.

No idea what to expect this evening. Could be 0-4, 4-0, 4-4, 0-0 and anything in between. Relieved to 2 have centre halves having won the appeal. Dolan played v well vs Norwich but the other 99% of time he’s like a headless chicken. Keeper one of the worst ever had in my lifetime only surpassed by Pears/Walton.

These 2 keepers simply cannot play again We need a journeyman pro/early 30’s or someone who has slipped down the order in the prem and wants a game.

Considering A Wharton has loftier ambitions than little old rovers. He needs to up his general effort by loads and needs to stop giving the ball away. He seems to be a YouTube highlights reel sort of player.

That’s a fairly limp defence of the World Cup. I genuinely can’t think of any reason why. The one minor and I do mean minor thing the 100 has going for it is there’s probably the right number of teams in terms of condensing quality. Nope the morons at the ECB want to expand it. EXPAND IT. Couldn’t make it up. How about 18 teams playing 40 extra deliveries as one tournament. Then those same players play 50 overs cricket. Revolutionary.

This lad and pears up there with the 2 worst keepers had at the club. Scary it’s at the same time.

Another keeper clanger.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/oct/26/england-sri-lanka-cricket-world-cup-match-report That article is brutal but for good reason. I hope we crash and burn if it kills the 100 and ideally livi’s England career too. I hate disliking a lancs player but I really find it hard to find any positives to him. Buttler I like, never expected him to play much for us, but a captain he is not.

All good things come to an end. A tired and old side this England team. Wiley, wood, Woakes, Malan, root all done. Livingston and Curran not good enough. Topley finished. 32, so won’t play next WC. Ali and Deirdre also pretty much done.

I’m not sure what the biggest ever winning margin is in an odi but this might be it the way it’s going.

Who would have thought it - don’t play any 50 over cricket domestically and then fail to make a dint on a 50 over international competition. Powder puff bowling attack acknowledged. In a way hope England lose this. They came into this woefully underprepared due to the domestic farce. Earlier the exit the better if it brings sense into the ECB thinking. Plus folk can start to see Buttler isn’t the superhero everyone thinks particularly as a captain. Same goes for livi. I appreciate not playing but he’s got a tournament average of about 10. An average of less than 30 over the last couple of years and only as, ahem, “high” because of that one game vs New Zealand in the summer he was the only one who scored runs. Pimping himself out round the world playing baseball has made him a significantly worse player than before. Richer though.

I’m tempted to say hopefully this is the beginning of end but it never is. They’re like the terminator just when you riddle it with bullets, think you’ve killed it with a load of liquid nitrogen back it come. The best outcome is maybe some comic relief with a hastily cobbled together jibberish from swag.

Funny you should mention that. Even my mum who knows little about football described her own grandsons penalty a fortnight ago as a Beamo. I knew what she meant though - 3 foot over the crossbar. 🙈

100%. He couldn’t wish to have a more supportive crowd than he did at rovers. I think a lot of the support was born out of apathy. But for a player who cost £7 million and the ramifications that came with it putting in the type of performances he did for a good couple of years he’d have got absolute dogs at most clubs in the top 2 divisions.

This was in response to him starting at home. A couple of - and the last comments. A disaster. One's saying there are junkies with more quality and you'll find them behind the stadium. Another one is saying he's the worst striker in the club's history. He’s not even had a shot on target in the six league matches he's played in. He also got booed off last weekend. Not going well for him unfortunately. To be fair at ewood other than 6 amazing months he was a range of abysmal to average, mainly abysmal. So this is by no means a shock. He’ll be back at Stoke or somewhere next season

Seeing his name I googled Brereton before. He’s played in 10 games this season domestically, in Europe and internationally. 0 goals. 😬. Some have been off the bench to be fair and hasn’t lasted 90 in many but not great reading for the lad. Can’t say I’m surprised in the slightest but I did hope he’d do better.