Down by the Riverside 2025

[captaincolly]

Coggers has been released

perhaps they don't think he's a div 2 cricketer

According to The Cricketer he's going to Lancashire but I wonder if that is the case?

[andy]

because he got promoted up the order in the T20 semi, faced 6 balls before Lancs retired him out to bring in Hartley, who was then out first ball anyway

If I was Balderson, I'd be livid at that. It was Lancs that sent him out there early

Ah yes I saw that hmm happening more and more in short form cricket these days

[Durhamfootman]

Coggers has been released

perhaps they don't think he's a div 2 cricketer

According to The Cricketer he's going to Lancashire but I wonder if that is the case?

confirmed

he's quite lucky to get this chance, I think, given his injury record and his lack of playing time. Especially at his age

[captaincolly]

Coggers has been released

perhaps they don't think he's a div 2 cricketer

According to The Cricketer he's going to Lancashire but I wonder if that is the case?

confirmed

he's quite lucky to get this chance, I think, given his injury record and his lack of playing time. Especially at his age

I thought so too. Perhaps Jennings has put in a good word.

[captaincolly]

Gay and McKinney selected in the England Lions touring squad.
Think Gay is one of the few to emerge with credit from this season - a lot of ducks but also a lot of big scores.
Raine, Lees ( with the bat!), and Clark also did well - although I think GC tailed off in the second part of the season.
Rhodes had a disastrous start but was excellent in the One Day Cup and the good form continued 8n the last few red ball games.

[Durhamfootman]

Gay had the advantage of a loan move to us at the end of last season, so didn't come into the season 'cold'

I don't think we quite knew what we wanted from Rhodes when we signed him. If we didn't know, then I'm not sure he could have known what we expected of him. Perhaps that's a little clearer now. If Bedingham departs, then he ought to slot straight into the top 3, or 4 if we want McKinney to play.

I suppose there's an argument that Gay could move to 3, he's certainly stylish enough with the bat and that might see the number of his ducks reduce. McKinney is probably more of an opener than a number 3 if you ask me. I guess the elephant in the room is that we'd have 4 lefties at the top of the order, followed by 3 righties, and that makes me think of the one day cup game v Warks, where Bamber was all over the place while he had to keep changing his lines, but once Robinson gave his wicket away and Bamber had a string of lefties to bowl at he was much more effective.

Robbo surely has to shift down the order. After a terrific first season and a half, he's followed that up with a season and a half of poor and average scores, which haven't justified the number 5 berth..... he has to be 7 surely, or he has to convert himself into an opener

[Durhamfootman]

members meeting coming up

I won't go. Presumably either hardly anyone will go, or it'll be packed to the rafters with irate members

[captaincolly]

Gay had the advantage of a loan move to us at the end of last season, so didn't come into the season 'cold'

I don't think we quite knew what we wanted from Rhodes when we signed him. If we didn't know, then I'm not sure he could have known what we expected of him. Perhaps that's a little clearer now. If Bedingham departs, then he ought to slot straight into the top 3, or 4 if we want McKinney to play.

I suppose there's an argument that Gay could move to 3, he's certainly stylish enough with the bat and that might see the number of his ducks reduce. McKinney is probably more of an opener than a number 3 if you ask me. I guess the elephant in the room is that we'd have 4 lefties at the top of the order, followed by 3 righties, and that makes me think of the one day cup game v Warks, where Bamber was all over the place while he had to keep changing his lines, but once Robinson gave his wicket away and Bamber had a string of lefties to bowl at he was much more effective.

Robbo surely has to shift down the order. After a terrific first season and a half, he's followed that up with a season and a half of poor and average scores, which haven't justified the number 5 berth..... he has to be 7 surely, or he has to convert himself into an opener

Yes, Robinson should move down the order. His struggles have been a mystery, he seemed to go off the boil around the time he was in the England frame.
I think they ate expecting Bedingham will stay because North said something about the SA schedule next season should mean he's here for the fuil campaign - although it seems odd that no contract extension has been confirmed.
Also agree about Rhodes, he's- in red ball cricket- a top order batter who can bowl a bit, not a middle order all-rounder.

[Durhamfootman]

Bostock is perplexed by our relegation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/art ... vr9yl0vnqo

perhaps he should consider that him not having his eyes on the ball this season, with his head full of 100 teams and county championship restructures, was part of the problem. If he considers that and is still perplexed, then maybe he should ask us, because we can tell him exactly what went wrong

[Durhamfootman]

maybe Bostock lifted his head out of his @rse long enough to notice that we were in a bit of trouble when we got to September, but was reassured by our head coaches glib assertion that we'd win our last 3 matches and went back to sleep to dream of selling the club to Arabs in exchange for a shiny new hotel

win our last 3 matches

took us 2 days to bowl out the worst batting side in the division on a green top

win our last 3

daft knacker

[Durhamfootman]

Matt Salisbury released by Leics, so Trevaskis will be the only Durham player playing div 1 cricket next season

[Durhamfootman]

I forgot to mention that I sat with Southwood and corkball at the last day of the Worcs game. They were telling me about a members meeting earlier this year with Bumble as a guest speaker and the topic of the proposed changes to the CC structure came up. Bostock gave the impression (as I'm sure he did at the ECB meeting) that his idea (and subsequent vote) for a 12 team div1 split into two had been discussed with the members first. There were some dissenting voices when he made this claim, so Bumble asked everyone (and the members suite was chocker) who had knowledge of any discusssions with members taking place to raise their hand and not a single hand went up in the room

A real piece of work our CEO

#ledbydonkeys

[captaincolly]

I forgot to mention that I sat with Southwood and corkball at the last day of the Worcs game. They were telling me about a members meeting earlier this year with Bumble as a guest speaker and the topic of the proposed changes to the CC structure came up. Bostock gave the impression (as I'm sure he did at the ECB meeting) that his idea (and subsequent vote) for a 12 team div1 split into two had been discussed with the members first. There were some dissenting voices when he made this claim, so Bumble asked everyone (and the members suite was chocker) who had knowledge of any discusssions with members taking place to raise their hand and not a single hand went up in the room

A real piece of work our CEO

#ledbydonkeys

I wasn't at that meeting but heard that it was acrimonious!