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Time to go again. Having started the season completely disinterested I'm fired up in the hope the 2nd half will be as competitive as the end of the first half.

Smith looks like the genuine 6/7 keeper/ batsman they've been looking for. Competent keeper who can bat particularly alongside the tail.

Problem for ECB is there's little chance women's Hundred cricket could stand on its own. And packaging 2 games together defeats the ECB's original argument that T20 takes too long and younsters were unable to stay focussed that long. So they created 6 plus hour cricket as opposed to a 3/3.5...

It's a mess. Counties argue it is actually making a loss and that ECB are using clever accounting to show a 15m profit (sky contract 220m a year). Now in calendar conflict with US and Canadian T20 who are apparently offering bigger contracts. All the bigger Aussie names were in US T20...

Shame they've wasted all that money on buying a new house this summer :)

That's a problem if no-one is covering. First 5-10 minutes Oxford were looking at 3 or 4 long cross field balls to attack space Bidwell leaves - teams have id'd him as a postional weakness.

Could easily have been 5 or 6. Defence still making similar mistakes to last wek. At least midfield was passing the ball forward more.

shocking thing about that again is how many crimes result in a prosecution. Pitiful

But in London the majority of murders is teenage black men killing teenage black men. Setting quotas for who gets searched seems an inefficient use of an already stretched police resources. In other high crime areas the ethnic makeup maybe different. Then local police should be aware of who...

probably a more shocking set of stats. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1402586/crimes-solved-england-and-wales/#:~:text=For%20the%20year%20ending%20March,percent%20of%20crimes%20were%20solved.

I'm in the Ricky Gervais school on how to deal with "offensive".

2023 about 30 % end with just cautions according to Home Office. Immediate custodial sentences fallen as low 30% - average of 7.8 months.

We've had about 1 day under 30C in last 10 weeks. We've had a record number of red and orange warnings. Even the breeze is warm. Been a nightmare. We've had 39mm of rain in that time - 35 of those in one big storm end of June.

People were raising doubts about Wright and Simms first couple of months last season. But I would like Robins's to work out quicker how he's going to use these players.

Desperately sad about Thorpe. Battling anxiety and depression that ended in him taking his own life. Mental health is a bitch.

For a side that wants to pass the ball around the back Thomas is still an issue. Even when we're 1 down and in their half the ball ends up back at our keeper rather than in their box. It's like our midfield saying "we're not good enough to create something on our own". Did like the look of...

Their press is much quicker and stronger than ours.

Being outmuscled. These silly pass backs just bringing pressure. Torp and Allen not working as pair.

Something extra special about first day of the season. Has an extra vibe. Even after so many years butterflies kicking in. Can't wait for this afternoon.

Not sure Wilder is good enough.Could be gone quickly with a poor start.