Bri
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Me too, but there's no denying what smoker has been saying about his form and given that it's fair comment to question his place.
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CC :: Worcestershire v Durham
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Dickson 50* from 89 balls with 8 fours. Batted Dicker lad, gan treble it 
Lunch: Durham 100-1 (30 overs) Dickson 50*, Petersen 21*.
Great session for the Durham boys, Dickson continuing his excellent start to the season has now reached 570 runs for the season. Petersen, much maligned, has looked every bit the Test cricketer so far this morning. His first two boundaries off the pads were glorious strokes and his most recent one, a back foot punch through cover point was arguably the best stroke of the morning so far.
Lunch: Durham 100-1 (30 overs) Dickson 50*, Petersen 21*.
Great session for the Durham boys, Dickson continuing his excellent start to the season has now reached 570 runs for the season. Petersen, much maligned, has looked every bit the Test cricketer so far this morning. His first two boundaries off the pads were glorious strokes and his most recent one, a back foot punch through cover point was arguably the best stroke of the morning so far.
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smoker
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Can't question the MLFs. Remember Coughlin's brother/dad jumping down my throat last season for criticising him bowling a bit loose, after a bunch of wides and no balls? Apparently I wasn't being fair then either, cos Salisbury was worse.
Dickson 50* from 89 balls with 8 fours. Batted Dicker lad, gan treble it
Lunch: Durham 100-1 (30 overs) Dickson 50*, Petersen 21*.
Great session for the Durham boys, Dickson continuing his excellent start to the season has now reached 570 runs for the season. Petersen, much maligned, has looked every bit the Test cricketer so far this morning. His first two boundaries off the pads were glorious strokes and his most recent one, a back foot punch through cover point was arguably the best stroke of the morning so far.
Been a good batting performance apart from a few thick edges. Lees unlucky to play on but TBF Dickson was lucky not to. Hope KP kicks on and gets a score.
It’s not emotion for me, I like him as a player and want to give him more time to find form
I’ll always give local lads longer that’s not emotion it’s just the whole point of why the club was founded
If the option was a local lad from the academy to replace him then possibly by end of summer
Absolutely aye
Not having a go at Smoker here this is purely just my own preference
Others will have different thoughts I’m sure
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smoker
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This:
Is contradicted by this:
= Emotional arguments.
I'm all for maintaining an academy for recruiting and developing the best local players, but treating people differently based on where they come from, once they're in the job is discrimination and in many cases illegal. You wouldn't be amused if you worked down south and kept getting passed over for promotion because you were from the NE not London.
In terms of local lads from the academy, Graham Clark was developed by the academy, was in very good nick last season in the rlc, and does a good job as skipper of the second xi. I suspect, if he'd come from Sunderland not Workington, people would be shouting for him in the firsts.
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Fuck me Joe Leach is in a sorry state for a professional cricketer. He's fatter than Samit Patel. He was always a big lad but has clearly been 'Going Max' on his Maccy D's since last year.
Is contradicted by this:
= Emotional arguments.
I'm all for maintaining an academy for recruiting and developing the best local players, but treating people differently based on where they come from, once they're in the job is discrimination and in many cases illegal. You wouldn't be amused if you worked down south and kept getting passed over for promotion because you were from the NE not London.
In terms of local lads from the academy, Graham Clark was developed by the academy, was in very good nick last season in the rlc, and does a good job as skipper of the second xi. I suspect, if he'd come from Sunderland not Workington, people would be shouting for him in the firsts.
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Fuck me Joe Leach is in a sorry state for a professional cricketer. He's fatter than Samit Patel. He was always a big lad but has clearly been 'Going Max' on his Maccy D's since last year.
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It’s not emotional at all
Not remotely
The club exists to play local lads, that’s not emotion.
Quoting employment laws is beyond parody, no need
You’re allowed your opinion, I’m allowed mine, don’t throw a hissy just as I don’t agree with you won’t change my mind on how I want the club to be run.
Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan
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Christ - occasional off-breaks?
smoker
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Dickson going for it! 100 partnership.
Haway, you can't just come up with a load of spurious crack then claim freedom of speech as a reason not to defend it.
"Quoting employment law is beyond parody" - how? You can't simply refuse to employ people eligible to work, or treat them differently once they're employed because of where in the country they were born? Maybe at Yorkshire CCC. Durham recruits local players because of its proximity to their homes and the limitations of our scouting network not because we have a "Geordie quota".
Haway, you can't just come up with a load of spurious crack then claim freedom of speech as a reason not to defend it.
"Quoting employment law is beyond parody" - how? You can't simply refuse to employ people eligible to work, or treat them differently once they're employed because of where in the country they were born? Maybe at Yorkshire CCC.
Durham recruits local players because of its proximity to their homes and the limitations of our scouting network not because we have a "Geordie quota".Dickson going for it! 100 partnership.
Haway, you can't just come up with a load of spurious crack then claim freedom of speech as a reason not to defend it.
"Quoting employment law is beyond parody" - how? You can't simply refuse to employ people eligible to work, or treat them differently once they're employed because of where in the country they were born? Maybe at Yorkshire CCC.
You can pick who on earth you want. Plenty of fans want a fair amount of local lads in, not a team full of saffers like
Take it to court if you feel so strongly about it
If you think Durham only recruits local lads because of the “limitations of our scouting network” then you really have completely missed the point of Durham, the development of players we do and the whole point of county cricket.
I’m a bit taken aback by that statement actually
He’s good at returning for second spells
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It has been *touches wood*. Few play and misses, but generally we’ve not looked troubled.
Few of observations:
Worcestershire have had two huge appeals today - one against Lees and one against Petersen - and Pollard turned both down. Neither of them looked remotely close to being out, so I was a bit puzzled with the intensity of the appeals.
All our batsmen have benefited from Worcestershire not employing a third slip or a third man for the most part. I reckon 20-30 runs have come from genuine edges through that region. Two of them definitely were at a catchable height.
Pitch looks a belter for batting, but Finch and Barnard have both enjoyed some pretty excessive bounce. I would hope Stokes will be able to exploit that and hopefully, when we do end up bowling, we’ll have the cushion of over 400 runs to allow the lads to be aggressive in their hunt for some form
smoker
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Much as you might think there perhaps should be, there is no "local-first" employment policy at the club. The director of cricket and coach are from the other side of the planet. Several of our young academy players have been from South Africa, Cumbria, Scotland or other random parts of the country (e.g. Jones, Campbell).
Here's all our First Class captains with town or country of origin:
D. A. Graveney (1992–1993) - Bristol
P. Bainbridge (1994) - Stoke-on-Trent
M. A. Roseberry (1995–1996) - Houghton-le-Spring
D. C. Boon (1997–1999) - Australia
N. J. Speak (2000) - Manchester
J. J. B. Lewis (2001–2004) - Hounslow
M. E. K. Hussey (2005) - Australia
D. M. Benkenstein (2006–2008) - South Africa
W. R. Smith (2009–2010) - Luton
P. Mustard (2011–2012) - Sunderland
P. D. Collingwood (2013–2018) - Shotley Bridge
C. T. Bancroft (2019) - Australia
E. J. H. Eckersley (2020) - Oxford
S. G. Borthwick (2021 to date) - Sunderland
A few non locals there mate.
smoker
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Liverpool Beachball
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What’s that got to do with anything?
You always have a few quality players on there, Boon n Bekenstein my heroes
I’m absolutely stunned by your line that it’s poor scouting that is the reason we end up with local lads
What a stunningly poor take on Durham Cricket Club
Bastard!
Just missed the wicket answering the door to a Labour party activist.
Vote Labour mate don’t vote for Tory scum
