2014 Hampshire Thread

[haggishants]

268/7 now. Slowly edging towards 300.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Glamorgan building another partnership. Cmon Tomlinson you have to contribute. Everything on a knife edge and bloody infuriating to boot.

[pompeymeowth]

Just curious after reading the Lancs thread, what year and what team was it that declared preventing us from winning the CC title due to bonus points or something along those lines?

Are you thinking of 2005 when Dave Fulton pretty much gave the title to Notts instead of Hants much to Shane Warne's fury.
I don't think Hampshire fans have yet forgiven Kent despite all the characters involved having now departed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 269762.stm

Rob Key was in that game not that he would have had much to do with how the declarations went.

Warne still probably thinks that Kent did that to spite him personally being the self centered so and so that he is. What Shane seemed to forget was, that Kent had to try everything and anything to win that match to have a chance of winning the title themselves that year. The two captains came to a deal and 420 off 70 was the best Fulton could get, he surely must have haggled for less with Fleming, whose Notts side were better placed and still could have won the title had the match been a draw.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Just curious after reading the Lancs thread, what year and what team was it that declared preventing us from winning the CC title due to bonus points or something along those lines?

Are you thinking of 2005 when Dave Fulton pretty much gave the title to Notts instead of Hants much to Shane Warne's fury.
I don't think Hampshire fans have yet forgiven Kent despite all the characters involved having now departed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 269762.stm

Rob Key was in that game not that he would have had much to do with how the declarations went.

Warne still probably thinks that Kent did that to spite him personally being the self centered so and so that he is. What Shane seemed to forget was, that Kent had to try everything and anything to win that match to have a chance of winning the title themselves that year. The two captains came to a deal and 420 off 70 was the best Fulton could get, he surely must have haggled for less with Fleming, whose Notts side were better placed and still could have won the title had the match been a draw.

Warne did have a point, it was a mental arrangement, Kent didn't have a hope in hell of chasing it down, and it effectively handed Notts the title.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Lunchtime on day two and I would guess the favourite scenario right now is Hants and Essex both ending the season on 229 points and Essex clinching promotion. Still alot can happens over the next two and a half days.

[SaintPowelly]

Woody strikes...112-4

[SaintPowelly]

Here comes Lloyd with a FC average of 12.25

[pompeymeowth]

Just curious after reading the Lancs thread, what year and what team was it that declared preventing us from winning the CC title due to bonus points or something along those lines?

Are you thinking of 2005 when Dave Fulton pretty much gave the title to Notts instead of Hants much to Shane Warne's fury.
I don't think Hampshire fans have yet forgiven Kent despite all the characters involved having now departed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 269762.stm

Rob Key was in that game not that he would have had much to do with how the declarations went.

Warne still probably thinks that Kent did that to spite him personally being the self centered so and so that he is. What Shane seemed to forget was, that Kent had to try everything and anything to win that match to have a chance of winning the title themselves that year. The two captains came to a deal and 420 off 70 was the best Fulton could get, he surely must have haggled for less with Fleming, whose Notts side were better placed and still could have won the title had the match been a draw.

Warne did have a point, it was a mental arrangement, Kent didn't have a hope in hell of chasing it down, and it effectively handed Notts the title.

Warne had his point but, as usual his way of expressing it was totally wrong. What happened in that match was nothing to do with him, yet he actually suggests this.

"I thought David Fulton actually understood the game, but he must dislike us totally to go and hand someone the championship like that,"

As though rather than try and win the match Fulton lost it on purpose to annoy Hampshire. Absolutely childish of Warne to suggest that and if anyone was bringing the game into disrepute, it was Warne himself by making remarks like that about another County captain who was voted Player's player of the year not long beforehand.

I respect Shane as a player who is one of the legends of the game itself but sometimes, when things don't go his way he is a nightmare.

[SaintPowelly]

5 down, Wood bowls Wallace for his 4th...2 new batsman at the crease, get Immy on.

[SaintPowelly]

Just curious after reading the Lancs thread, what year and what team was it that declared preventing us from winning the CC title due to bonus points or something along those lines?

Are you thinking of 2005 when Dave Fulton pretty much gave the title to Notts instead of Hants much to Shane Warne's fury.
I don't think Hampshire fans have yet forgiven Kent despite all the characters involved having now departed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket ... 269762.stm

Rob Key was in that game not that he would have had much to do with how the declarations went.

Warne still probably thinks that Kent did that to spite him personally being the self centered so and so that he is. What Shane seemed to forget was, that Kent had to try everything and anything to win that match to have a chance of winning the title themselves that year. The two captains came to a deal and 420 off 70 was the best Fulton could get, he surely must have haggled for less with Fleming, whose Notts side were better placed and still could have won the title had the match been a draw.

Warne did have a point, it was a mental arrangement, Kent didn't have a hope in hell of chasing it down, and it effectively handed Notts the title.

Warne had his point but, as usual his way of expressing it was totally wrong. What happened in that match was nothing to do with him, yet he actually suggests this.

"I thought David Fulton actually understood the game, but he must dislike us totally to go and hand someone the championship like that,"

As though rather than try and win the match Fulton lost it on purpose to annoy Hampshire. Absolutely childish of Warne to suggest that and if anyone was bringing the game into disrepute, it was Warne himself by making remarks like that about another County captain who was voted Player's player of the year not long beforehand.

I respect Shane as a player who is one of the legends of the game itself but sometimes, when things don't go his way he is a nightmare.

If I remember rightly, there was an issue between Hants and Kents earlier in the season, and the reasoning for thinking Fulton did it out of spite was very plausible.

[haggishants]

Essex 300-7 . So that's playing for a draw out of the equation. We must win this game now. (Unless Worcs play out of their skins 2nd time around).

[budgetmeansbudget]

Wood hitting the wood, three of his wickets bowled.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Essex 300-7 . So that's playing for a draw out of the equation. We must win this game now. (Unless Worcs play out of their skins 2nd time around).

At least we can put that equation to bed and concentrate on the win. Unless it rains for two days at Chelmsford then Worcs aren't getting out of that one, they have no need to even try. Obviously two days of rain at Chelmsford will probably mean some at Cardiff so best if it stays away.

[SaintPowelly]

Obviously two days of rain at Chelmsford will probably mean some at Cardiff so best if it stays away.

We would be promoted if that is the case.

[SaintPowelly]

Coles gets Donald, Wagg in now

Trail by 223...Get Tahir on and the follow-on is a possibility.