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CC : Durham vs Gloucestershire
- Thread starter The Red Telephone
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Inside Forward
Winger
We’re going up!
Aidan11
Striker
Poor Carty
When’s his ban run out?
Dunno but he says he's not coming back. He's having too much fun on the other board.
Durham-Mackem41
Midfield
Another cracking win unreal opening spell by Potts.
Dexter
Striker
Christ man he’s a decent bloke and mostly harmless but how he has the nerve to call some people on here spammers
Turned that county championship thread into 95% Durham updates.
Monument View
Striker
Excellent day for Durham
Well done
Well done
viccarlton
Striker
I can confirm this.Dunno but he says he's not coming back. He's having too much fun on the other board.
Dunno but he says he's not coming back. He's having too much fun on the other board.
Too much fun talking to himself?!
The Red Telephone
Striker
WG Grace, Wally Hammond, Mike Procter, Zaheer Abbass, My cousin Rosemary, Jack Russell, Dr Foster..can you hear me Dr Foster?...your boys took one hell of a beating!
Joking aside - what a great performance from Durham again. Just after lunch yesterday we were 109 - 4 and still 217 behind their first innings but did we cave in? Nope we dug in, stepped up a gear and before they knew it Gloucs were under the cosh and 117 runs behind.
And today we got the 5th batting point then Pottsy blitzed them in an electrifying opening spell. But it wasn't just about him as all the bowlers contributed showing the new spirit Campbell has installed into this side.
I'm not really one of life's natural optimists but even I know that we're almost promoted after that result.
Oh and a shout out to Durham's unofficial pet dog mascot who made it 5 home wins out of 5 ( he was absent from the Glamorgan match due to the extreme heat!)
Well done Durham - nearly there.
Joking aside - what a great performance from Durham again. Just after lunch yesterday we were 109 - 4 and still 217 behind their first innings but did we cave in? Nope we dug in, stepped up a gear and before they knew it Gloucs were under the cosh and 117 runs behind.
And today we got the 5th batting point then Pottsy blitzed them in an electrifying opening spell. But it wasn't just about him as all the bowlers contributed showing the new spirit Campbell has installed into this side.
I'm not really one of life's natural optimists but even I know that we're almost promoted after that result.
Oh and a shout out to Durham's unofficial pet dog mascot who made it 5 home wins out of 5 ( he was absent from the Glamorgan match due to the extreme heat!)
Well done Durham - nearly there.
Aidan11
Striker
Apart from a couple of grumpy posters he's quite popular on there.Too much fun talking to himself?!
It's similar to the old TMS boards.on the BBC where English and Aussie posters would banter and bait each other.
Carty racked up 1000 posts in about 3 days
Ottery
Full Back
Is that the dog in the pram?WG Grace, Wally Hammond, Mike Procter, Zaheer Abbass, My cousin Rosemary, Jack Russell, Dr Foster..can you hear me Dr Foster?...your boys took one hell of a beating!
Joking aside - what a great performance from Durham again. Just after lunch yesterday we were 109 - 4 and still 217 behind their first innings but did we cave in? Nope we dug in, stepped up a gear and before they knew it Gloucs were under the cosh and 117 runs behind.
And today we got the 5th batting point then Pottsy blitzed them in an electrifying opening spell. But it wasn't just about him as all the bowlers contributed showing the new spirit Campbell has installed into this side.
I'm not really one of life's natural optimists but even I know that we're almost promoted after that result.
Oh and a shout out to Durham's unofficial pet dog mascot who made it 5 home wins out of 5 ( he was absent from the Glamorgan match due to the extreme heat!)
Well done Durham - nearly there.
The Red Telephone
Striker
I've actually spotted our Chairman at the ground but I've yet to see this dog in a pram.
Regarding promotion…
229 points is the official figure that we need to be guaranteed promotion based purely on that being the maximum number of points that Leicestershire can get (then being third highest in points still to be played for).
So that’s a further 74 points from our five remaining games. HOWEVER, realistically it won’t need to be that high because it’s virtually impossible for them to win their current game with Glamorgan unless we see a ridiculously contrived set of scores tomorrow to arrive at a target.
Sussex theoretically could win their game, it’s far more likely anyway that a contrived result could occur there given that fixture is much further along than the one at Cardiff. It may well be that Derbyshire are open to being set a target, I know that Micky Arthur is an aggressive minded coach and he’ll not want to stay second bottom for much longer. If there’s a chance they could win that game tomorrow allowing them to keep their slim promotion hopes alive I think they’ll fancy their chances of going for it.
Realistically both of those games will fizzle out into the inevitable draws that are looking most likely at the minute - although Sussex aren’t totally safe if they lose early wickets and that may be an issue that prevents an ‘arranged’ target because Derbyshire will still fancy they can win that one naturally.
In a nutshell, it’s far more straightforward to do the calculations come tomorrow night, once all fixtures from this round of matches is known and then from there we simply need to add 120 points to everyone’s total (144 to Derbyshire who have a game in hand) to see what we need to overcome whoever sits in third place. Currently, second and third are the two clubs I mentioned above but the other factor is that they still need to play each other, so failing the ridiculous possibility that they tie their game and take maximum bonus points, third place won’t be able to take 120 points from the games that remain. More likely it’ll be 104.
The reality of it is, we’re probably going to seal promotion before the kids break up from school.
Last season 224 points wasn’t enough for promotion, this year, the 194 points that Worcestershire totalled in fourth place in 2023 would probably be enough to win the title.
Is your head hurting yet?
229 points is the official figure that we need to be guaranteed promotion based purely on that being the maximum number of points that Leicestershire can get (then being third highest in points still to be played for).
So that’s a further 74 points from our five remaining games. HOWEVER, realistically it won’t need to be that high because it’s virtually impossible for them to win their current game with Glamorgan unless we see a ridiculously contrived set of scores tomorrow to arrive at a target.
Sussex theoretically could win their game, it’s far more likely anyway that a contrived result could occur there given that fixture is much further along than the one at Cardiff. It may well be that Derbyshire are open to being set a target, I know that Micky Arthur is an aggressive minded coach and he’ll not want to stay second bottom for much longer. If there’s a chance they could win that game tomorrow allowing them to keep their slim promotion hopes alive I think they’ll fancy their chances of going for it.
Realistically both of those games will fizzle out into the inevitable draws that are looking most likely at the minute - although Sussex aren’t totally safe if they lose early wickets and that may be an issue that prevents an ‘arranged’ target because Derbyshire will still fancy they can win that one naturally.
In a nutshell, it’s far more straightforward to do the calculations come tomorrow night, once all fixtures from this round of matches is known and then from there we simply need to add 120 points to everyone’s total (144 to Derbyshire who have a game in hand) to see what we need to overcome whoever sits in third place. Currently, second and third are the two clubs I mentioned above but the other factor is that they still need to play each other, so failing the ridiculous possibility that they tie their game and take maximum bonus points, third place won’t be able to take 120 points from the games that remain. More likely it’ll be 104.
The reality of it is, we’re probably going to seal promotion before the kids break up from school.
Last season 224 points wasn’t enough for promotion, this year, the 194 points that Worcestershire totalled in fourth place in 2023 would probably be enough to win the title.
Is your head hurting yet?
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mosi
Winger
Regarding promotion…
229 points is the official figure that we need to be guaranteed promotion based purely on that being the maximum number of points that Leicestershire can get (then being third highest in points still to be played for).
So that’s a further 74 points from our five remaining games. HOWEVER, realistically it won’t need to be that high because it’s virtually impossible for them to win their current game with Glamorgan unless we see a ridiculously contrived set of scores tomorrow to arrive at a target.
Sussex theoretically could win their game, it’s far more likely anyway that a contrived result could occur there given that fixture is much further along than the one at Cardiff. It may well be that Derbyshire are open to being set a target, I know that Micky Arthur is an aggressive minded coach and he’ll not want to stay second bottom for much longer. If there’s a chance they could win that game tomorrow allowing them to keep their slim promotion hopes alive I think they’ll fancy their chances of going for it.
Realistically both of those games will fizzle out into the inevitable draws that are looking most likely at the minute - although Sussex aren’t totally safe if they lose early wickets and that may be an issue that prevents an ‘arranged’ target because Derbyshire will still fancy they can win that one naturally.
In a nutshell, it’s far more straightforward to do the calculations come tomorrow night, once all fixtures from this round of matches is known and then from there we simply need to add 120 points to everyone’s total (144 to Derbyshire who have a game in hand) to see what we need to overcome whoever sits in third place. Currently, second and third are the two clubs I mentioned above but the other factor is that they still need to play each other, so failing the ridiculous possibility that they tie their game and take maximum bonus points, third place won’t be able to take 120 points from the games that remain. More likely it’ll be 104.
The reality of it is, we’re probably going to seal promotion before the kids break up from school.
Last season 224 points wasn’t enough for promotion, this year, the 194 points that Worcestershire totalled in fourth place in 2023 would probably be enough to win the title.
Is your head hurting yet?
But you’ve overlooked the fact that the ECB will be convening an emergency meeting to work out how they can deduct points from Durham for looking at them in a funny way.
wayne entwhistle no9
Winger
Durham again dominated another championship match. I would say they actually bullied Gloustershire yesterday.
Wouldn't dare. If they tried that Woody would threaten to go into their offices and bowl thunderbolts at them
The Breen Machine
Striker
Just happens to coincide with a week with the family in Whitby. No prizes for guessing where I’ll be going on the Tuesday.
