by st_brendy » Sat Oct 10, 2015 7:13 pm
With only one year left on his contract after this season, this season was always going to be a pivotal one for Briggs and his future with us. It started off so well. We'd made the decision to go with him over Dawson as our four day spinner, and Briggs did a half decent job with ball and, for that matter, bat. But the form didn't last, and he rightly lost his place. What then compounded the issue is that, through Crane's emergence, Briggs also slipped down the pecking order in our one-day team. It's one thing for him to only play two formats for us, it's quite another to only play one format (at his, still young, age).
The writing was on the wall for me back in August. I didn't expect it to happen this soon, I thought he would see out the rest of his contract and then leave. I'd be interested to know if he sounded Sussex out, or if Sussex sounded him out. Either way, he now gets the chance to play in all three formats, and I can't begrudge him that chance. The move is bad news for the club, and bad new for us fans. But it's good news for him personally, and for that I think the club need to be applauded for agreeing to put him first. We'll almost certainly be a weaker t20 team as a result though - well, at least 12 months earlier than we were surely going to become any way.
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