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Oct 2019
9:20pm, 3 Oct 2019
4,845 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
Was there an 'Oh sh•t, we forgot Northants' moment?
'It's OK Somerset, you can get a boat'.
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Oct 2019
9:24pm, 3 Oct 2019
576 posts
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Scorge
if it's not retitled the FRANCHISE HIT AND SHIT 2020 CUP then it's off down to trading standards pdq
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Oct 2019
9:34pm, 3 Oct 2019
115,334 posts
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GregP
I thought that about Northants too. As if being relegated straight back to division two wasn’t bad enough.
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Oct 2019
10:40pm, 3 Oct 2019
1,128 posts
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Oscar the grouch
57.5 rightly points out that Cardiff is not adjacent, or anywhere near, Somerset. I can't see anyone very much bothering to go from here. Cardiff is notoriously hard to get in and out of AND the stadium is always 3/4 empty... unlike Taunton which sells out and had 3 successful World Cup games which were praised universally from what I saw. Go figure.
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Oct 2019
10:40pm, 3 Oct 2019
1,129 posts
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Oscar the grouch
...and as for those that travel from Devon and Cornwall to support Somerset. I guess it is only a short swim to Cardiff...
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Oct 2019
6:10am, 4 Oct 2019
115,337 posts
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GregP
Spiritually it would have made more sense to lump Northants with Notts I’d have thought but hey. At this point I have no intention of watching The Hundred anyway.
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Oct 2019
6:54am, 4 Oct 2019
40,861 posts
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Diogenes
I don’t pretend to understand this, but are Lancashire in a group by themselves?
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Oct 2019
7:16am, 4 Oct 2019
29,295 posts
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♪♫ Egnys ♪♫
I think planners in London like Cardiff because it is straight down the M4 and so it feels to them as if it is easy to get to. But you're right, OtG, Taunton is a fine venue.
*Goes away to reminisce about watching Gower's 130 against Sri Lanka in the 1983 WC*
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Oct 2019
7:23am, 4 Oct 2019
29,296 posts
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♪♫ Egnys ♪♫
Greppers, I'll be not-watching with you.
What I really don't understand about this concept is how it creates any fan base that really cares about or has a loyalty for a particular team. Will spectators be drawn to the team that has a home base in their region or that has a couple of players from their county? Or is it all about individual stars? I can't see that I will be remotely interested in the fortunes of the Cardiff-based team just because Somerset forms a component part of it in some way.
I just don't sense that there will be much partisanship and passion in all this. Am I missing something?
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Oct 2019
7:25am, 4 Oct 2019
34,573 posts
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Derby Tup
It’s bollox from what I can see. Hopefully it’ll be rained off - all of it
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The Ashes 2009
Jun 2022