Aye, just the 1087 runs last season
One bad season ffs, I’m prepared to give him a free pass based on the fact he averaged just under 50 last season at 41 year old and has been the single greatest ambassador for Durham County Cricket Club.
You’re making a lot of very wild assumptions here mind. For all we know, the club may have given him some kind of ultimatum which has prompted his retirement. It may well be that the club and Colly have decided to dress it up as a retirement, when in reality he’s been told he won’t be offered a deal for 2019.
He’s not being singled out, most of the batsmen have come in for criticism today - the fact is though, Richardson has had far more chances and far more failures than the others around him.
It wouldn’t be right to keep him, but drop/offload Clark, Poynter, Harte, etc.
Fantastic post.
Seriously mate, has Colly shagged your missus or summit? Lot of vitriol directed his way by you tonight mind.
WHED said the table doesn’t lie. Indeed it doesn’t. We’re higher than we were last season at the same point.
So you want to question Paul Collingwood’s leadership do you??
Right, well aside from all the trophies and honours he’s won, for Durham. What about when we were staring relegation down the barrel in (iirc) 2011? He came back to take over the captaincy and fortunes immediately improved. We staged a Great Escape that the lads would’ve been proud of.
Then, how about this past few years, when the likes of Stoneman, Bothwick, Hart, Coughlin, Jennings et al have jumped off the sinking ship? It would’ve been so easy to walk away, head high after an illustrious career. Instead, he hung around determined to keep the club afloat.
f***ing hell man, some people on here have some short memories.
But aye, what have the Romans ACTUALLY ever done for us
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f***ing morons.
Is all of what he’s done not the absolute definition of fine leadership?
