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Would highly recommend Rob Eastaways book What is a Googly for anyone that wants a beginners guide. Its a pretty quick, humorous read that covers most of what you need to know. Seems to be out of print but they have it here: What is a Googly? | Sporting Gifts

If you're lucky! Although it has got better from the days of just commentary when you could be midway through the first half before they remembered to turn it on.

I'm sure there's people that would love us to get done 5-0 tomorrow so they can bang on about how bad everything is.

Nearly said that but resisted the temptation! Do they really go out canvassing not expecting to be asked questions about anything?

I would guess that his mate at Lincoln had a word and persuaded him to go there. If he went to the staff at Forest and said he didn't want to come to Coventry he wanted to go to Lincoln would they force him to come here even if there was an agreement in place?

Fear not, this isn't about the Ricoh. Just had a prospective local councillor at the door and was astonished at how unprepared they were for a simple question about probably the most talked about issue locally. I'm over in Finham and there are plans for new houses, which are desperately needed...

But that's to be expected as we're at a different point in pre-season. Not sure why its taking people by surprise.

Are people really getting worked up over a few standard PR comments? Was there an expectation that Robin's was coming to come out swinging having a go at Forest or that Lincoln were going to say they can't believe he signed for them instead of us and it was a stupid decision?

If someone has to come in and bat for a short amount of time at the end of the day they sometimes send in a non-batsmen whose job it is to just stay in until close of play. The idea is to not risk one of your main batters and have them ready to go the next day.

Not deflated, can't wait for 3pm tomorrow.

Good luck to him. Will be interesting to see if he kicks on. Could just as easily be another Thomas or Stevenson as he could be the next Maddison. Facts are going to stop people raging at SISU and demanding a huge signing to replace someone who wasn't a regular in our starting lineup and has...

Fair enough. Personally I see little point in the club putting out statements every few weeks saying nothing has changed when nobody is listening to what they are saying and applying pressure to the other sides involved. You don't need the club to release a statement to know what the response...

But it doesn't create an us vs them mentality. If it did you'd have the trust, telegraph and CWR hammering Wasps and the council. In reality they all appear terrified of upsetting them. All that would happen is the club would report nothing has changed and there would be hundreds of abusive...

Being realistic what are you expecting them to say? Wasps are making unreasonable demands so the route back to the Ricoh is blocked by them - nothing the club can do about that. As for a new ground, if you believe there is any chance of that ever materialising, we were told they'd made...

Just before anyone panics and thinks you have to make it to the Butts today you can also sort it out at St Andrews tomorrow: That's purely for collections and queries so you won't be queuing with people trying to buy tickets.

I see people saying this whenever we sell a player but surely if most deals are structured the same way then the same will apply to any players coming in.

You do wonder how much potential revenue they are throwing away. Once you've pushed people to use free streams by not making what they want available to them through legal channels its hard to turn around when they inevitably make the decision to allow UK purchases. They only need to look at...

Bit of a novelty factor maybe? Could see that if maybe we were there for a year or two while a new ground was being built but not really in these circumstances. The only potential benefit I can see is that the pitch hopefully won't be as bad as the Ricoh but it will take a lot more than that...

That's a hell of an innings from Smith in any circumstances but first test back and with wickets tumbling at the other end makes it even more impressive.