Take me to the Riverside 2026

[Durhamfootman]

I don't know why, I support you like I do
All the disappointment, you put me through
You take my money, my self respect
Have I even seen the worst of it yet?

I wanna know, can you tell me
You'd love me to stay...........

Down by the River
Losing every over
Down by the River
Losing every over
Taking us down....... Taking us down

I don't know why, you treat me so bad
All of the good times, I thought we'd have
10 years of heartache, time to regret
And then a season I just want to forget

I wanna know, won't you tell me
Will it come good in the end?

Down by the river
Batting out the overs
Down by the river
Batting out the overs
Stop taking us down.... taking us down

Bowling, Fielding, Batting, Losing
Till I can't, till I can't, I can't take it any more

Down by the river
Wasting all these overs
Down by the river
Wasting all these overs
Sending us down.... sending us dow ow ow ow own

I don't know why I support you like I do
All of the changes you're bringing through
Durham Defenders there on our wall
Are we the biggest fools of them all

I wanna know, won't you tell me
Will we ever return...........

Down by the river
Taking wickets every over
Down by the River
Wickets every over
Stop taking us down........Taking us down

Nah, nah, nah
Nah, na, na, na, na, na
Nah, nah, nah
Nah, na, na, na, na, na
Nah, nah, nah
Nah, na, na, na, na, na

Stop taking us down........................................................

[Durhamfootman]

haven't done this for a while

[Durhamfootman]

David Bedingham has extended his contract to at least the end of this season

Lovely fella, great player, been very good for us, but his new status as a SA player screwed us last year. He was hardly ever here and when he was he had his mind on other things. A total waste of an overseas player. I had hoped that his contract was up at the end of last season, so that we could find an alternative player who would actually be around and not missing CC matches because he had to fly to JoBurg for a SA team dinner

It feels to me as though we are about to repeat the very many mistakes we made last season...... we'll know if it turns out that we are going back to Zimbabwe for a pre-season jolly again and end up losing the first 2 matches because we aren't ready to play after a handful of T20 matches against poor opposition

of course, the new contracts were handed out before the sh1t actually hit the fan last season, so perhaps the people in charge can afford to kid themselves that what happened last year was just a bit of bad luck.... one of those things..... just a bit 'perplexing'