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well it has started, first game up for the sabres is GLOUCESTER!! (crappest chant ever) game though in gloucesters hands at the moment...oh well!

good to see it is finally going...hopefully somerset won't finish near the bottom...even 4th will do!  :)

I need to adopt a county side, preferably local-ish, so i can go to a few games. Any recommendations?

Gloucestershire is closest

i'm liking that idea, whoever you adopt i'll come to some games with you - i might even drive if my car doesn't fall apart and the prospect doesn't scare you 8)

i really want to watch some cricket this year

gloucestershire finish the day on 252/4, harvs and gidders both unbeaten in the 20s. would love them to both ton up tomorrow. the forecast suggests somerset should escape with a draw

we are the best local side to watch, harvs' destructive hitting, spearman' and gidman's classy strokes, bond's sheer pace, lewis' swing and accuracy  and kirby's agression and not particularly nice vocabularly

the only player worth watching at somerset is hildreth

Somerset... best ground, cheap as chips, best booze, Tresco, Caddy, Twenty20 kings  8)

We are champions say we are champions!

Cricket is obsolete this Summer cos theres football on.

Ashes win > potential WC win.

only for two weeks thought. i've got about 8 weeks to kill

Join a cricket club SY. Plenty of friendly stuff about. Fuck it you don't even have to play just prop up the clubhouse bar.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: get a grip.

I stand by my statement.

Ill remind you of it when we win the World cup and the WHOLE country is going mental.

I have plenty of reasons why it is better.

Can't be bothered to list them.

Obviously if we win the WC I'll change my mind but it's never going to happen.

Yeah nearly as bad as SOMERSET,SOMERSET,SOMERSET!, repeat until you fall asleep.

I kinda look out for the Gloucestershire scores as I used to live in various towns in Glos when I was younger.

Sounds good, only the short trip down the M4 for a days action. Fancy going on Thursday or Friday?

not until after my exams mate, but definitely after. finish at the end of may 8)

In the meantime, i'll be keeping an eye on the mighty Glos!

Oh, and their ground in Bristol....The County Ground :D

Supporting Gloucestershire, would be acceptable if they didn't play in Bristhole....which is not and never has been in Gloucestershire.

 Which makes them little more than MKD in my eyes...

Can you recommend me an alternative please Reginald?...i'm more than a little clueless about the County game tbh

Very debatable point Reg. I think you'll find Bristol (or at least part of it) is in South Gloucestershire, which is almost like a district of Gloucs (a very Australian concept i must admit)

don't forget to tell village that gloucestershire host the best outground festival in world cricket - the two weeks in cheltenham in late july/early aug or what cricket was made for. personally i'd support gloucestershire just for the cheltenham festival. also spend a week of the season in gloucester

Good choice young Village!.

Yes the only problem is the ground is in Brizzle,when i went to the England Vs NZ ODI a couple of years back, i was surrounded by the scummy fuckers.  :evil:

amen to that!  :beers: we have blackers, hildreth, wood, gazzard  8) gloucester fans usually have 2 brain cells. espically when i heard a gloucester fan go 'i hate somerset, as i hate trowbridge so much'  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

btw spud, people at somerset don't chant somerset! somerset!

i dont give a shite bout crappy Div 2. its all about Div 1! Hampshire will win it this year with Durham def going down and the others i dont know. dont even know all the teams in Div 1 this year

I'm going to follow Middlesex for no other reason than they play at Lords and so are fairly easy for me to get too.County stuff doesn't really interest me,so probably by the time its mid-June i will have forgotten about it all :roll:

I went to my fist ever county game last year. 20/20 game between Goucester and Somerset (I think?) at the County Ground.

Left work early to catch the train down to bristol (was an evening match) got into Temple Meads no problem and decided to get a taxi to the ground. 30 mins later through rush hour traffic and shitting my pants a few times due to crazy driving taxi driver and minus £20 for the 5 mile journey I arrived at ground.

13 overs in, the game was called off due to pissing rain, I only managed to get through a couple of beers before it was called off. I think Somerset were about 60-7 after 13 overs!

I walked back to the station in the pissing rain stopping off at a couple of dodgy boozers. I'm not going again.

Oh I lied, my first County game was the C&G final at Lords between Gloucester and Worcester in 2004. Gloucester won easily :beers:

Going back to the Gloucestershire/Bristol thing... the general rule is that Rovers fans support Gloucestershire and City fans support Somerset. I for one am happy with that.

SOmerset la la la Somerset la la la

Sounds like there should be a TEF day out on Sunday August 6 for Glos v Somerset in the 40 over league at Cheltenham.

As Boeta says - it's the best festival venue in the world and if you don't enjoy cricket there you never will.

great to see gidders ton up as we've got full batting points

 :nod:

That sounds good,i said a while back we should have a Cricket Forum day out :) .I've heard that Cheltenham is a bit expensive though,sod it it could be a laugh,especially if Ian Blackwell plays :wink:

I will have to ensure I am on the other side of the country that day.......

expensive in terms of what?

tickets are £15 for an adult

pints are probs close to £3 but then everyone brings their own beer anyway

Ok Boeta,i stand corrected,i did say i'd heard it was expensive,not that it was :)

i'd go if i could get there. don't know why you lot don't come to taunton may 1st, its a bank holiday monday.

If youre referring to Cheltenham theres loads of buses! Only 30 miles away if you live in Swindon!

ah if you live in swindon.

I quite fancy that 40 over match in Cheltnum....been to a fair few games there, its not a patch on the Bath Festival...or the late lamented Weston Festival.

 Cheltnum is full of poxy public school  types right up their own arses.

 Still the GCC fans do run a decent benefit quiz in Cheltnum, and its always a pleasure to batter (in a quiz sense) the masters of Clifton College, Bristhole and sundry other minor public schools.

 Think we've had this debate before but Bristhole was its own county from 1373.

 Some of its overspill, may have sullied the verdant and pristine fields of the otherwise wholesome county of Gloucestershire....but that's not a good reason to play cricket there.

Getting to Cheltenham would be a problem for me too,is it easy to get too by train?
I couldn't make Taunton either,i'm going to see Morrissey on that day :D Taunton is easy to get to on the train though,i went once to see a game and there wasn't one,it had been called off :oops:

if me and village go, you could get a lift with us.

i've been meaning to go to the cheltnum thingy for a couple of years with my dad, but we never get round to it.

And I thought you were remotely intelligent Reg, clearly I was wrong....

Gloucestershire, la la la, gloucestershire, la la la!!!!

All out for 437, then Lewis takes Zumerzet apart with 6 for 30, to leave 'em 116-9. :beers:

Easy, easy....(repeat to fade)

:clap:

lewie told us the other day that he'd get tresco early on with an inswinger

ME Trescothick        lbw                b Lewis               12

the man keeps his word

make that twice :D

lewie's a man you can trust  8)

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

if im honest, i was just laughing. typical somerset.

Bunch of knobs.....Marks out...Rose out....Blackwell out.....tits out.

cameron white...154 not out...i thankyou  8) least its something.

Could you tell us a bit about Cameron, please Johno...he seems to have crept into Somerset cricket beneath my radar.?

oh my, i will tell reg something he doesn't know, i will always remember this moment.

he is an young aussie  off spinner, who is over here for one of our oversea players. The other guy who was unknown did well in australia last season and got called up to australia!! so we ain't getting him till the end of may i think it is.

cameron white though is apprantley very handy, as we can see!

 Would he have played in that game where Queensland ? racked up 900, I noticed there was a C. White, but thought probably wrongly it was Craig.?

i dunno reg! i tried to find an article on them and they seem to have gone from both bbc and somerset official website.

the other guy is dan cullian

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/australia/4859732.stm

Shame about the other 10!  :wink:

For some reason or other to do with Ian Botham ive always supported Somerset ... not exactly the best of starts this season tho :(

At least Steve Kirby's continued to embarrass himself, silly northern reject.

Please let it rain :wink:

Tresco talking about being worried by burnout, he doens't stay at the crease yet alone play for us long enough to think about that

It's all over, Glos win by an innings and 7 runs. It's because they heard that i'm their newest supporter, obviously :beers:

Im pinning my hopes on the 20/20 again this year then for Somerset!!

Jon Lewis did well .. local boy of course ... England recall perhaps?? especially with Harmison unlikely to be fit

Reg, Cameron White is the captain of Victoria, aged 22. So he oversaw the 900 run massacre.

He started off a leg-spinner when he broke into the Vics side but his batting has improved dramatically but his bowling hasn't moved anywhere. He'll be a good bowler in one-dayers but in first-class he's pretty much a dud as he can't actually spin it - hardly bowled himself at all for the Vics this year. Over the last 2-3 years he's got a lot of 50s and a couple of tons for the Vics so this year will be a big learning curve for him in making big hundreds and doubles. Seeing as Taunton is a batsman's paradise (I know you wouldn't believe it looking at the shower of shit they call a batting line up) he should rack up some impressive scores this year.

Dan Cullen is an off-spinner from South Aus - also 22 years old. He's had two fantastic years in Aus first-class cricket ripping up shitloads of wickets. He's seen as the next big spin bowler (although being a conventional offie he ain't gonna be half as good as Warne) and has recently been called up to the ODI squad for the Bangladesh tour.

However, neither of them are in the same class as another Aussie, Gloucestershire's true legend Ian Harvey. 45 runs and 5 wickets in the match as we win by an innings. Welcome back Harvs!

Ive been hearing good things of Trott the warwicks SA born batsman who qualifies for England at the end of the season .. new Pietersen perhaps?

trott is a very good batsman, quite destructive and wouldn't mind him in the England odi side at number 3. he'd be a far way off the test side though

qualifies after this summer apparently

cant we just get an English batsman for once  :roll:

sonic and village, i suggest you support sussex, currently in the top leauge for everything, aweekend watching sussex coincides with a night out in brighton.

go and sit on the beach at lunch 8)

plus they play some games at arundel in the grounds of the castle, easily the most picturesque ground in the uk.

I've stopped there a few times when i used to travel down to Uni. Lush place, i think i might live there one day

Shane Bond has pulled out of his Gloucestershire contract with a knee injury.

Massive blow, I was really looking forward to seeing him here but it was always going to be a long shot. I imagine if Harvs carries on his good start he'll be the replacement.

Oh dear,Bond seems to be almost constantly injuried,its a shame for Glos and the Kiwis.Still Harvey is a class act,better than Scott Styris anyway :)

Ive always thought Styris as a good all rounder tbh.