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Another 100 for Northeast in tough circumstances, really think he should be next in the queue

Always seems to score runs in tough situations
 
The Rat said:
Another 100 for Northeast in tough circumstances, really think he should be next in the queue

Always seems to score runs in tough situations
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Hes just about the only batsmen in the country to put their hand up so far so fair play to him. The likes of Hameed, Jennings, Joe Clarke and Livingstone haven't had a decent knock in 4 attempts. Hildreth got a ton but in easier conditions and at 33/34 they are unlikely to go down that route.
 
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Hes just about the only batsmen in the country to put their hand up so far so fair play to him. The likes of Hameed, Jennings, Joe Clarke and Livingstone haven't had a decent knock in 4 attempts. Hildreth got a ton but in easier conditions and at 33/34 they are unlikely to go down that route.
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True. Jennings is fading fast in the selectors thoughts in my opinion

Problem he has he isn’t that pretty to begin with, so when he’s out of form he looks nowhere near international standard, looks a player more suited to flat pitches abroad

Hameed struggling yeah
 
Point I've made on here before, but -

We beat Hampshire, most people's title favourites, with a team including 10 England qualified players, 7 of which came through our academy (Including the two match winners)

Yet some woukd have you believe all Surrey do is go around throwing money at the best players and sign everyone else...
 
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TheRey said:
Point I've made on here before, but -

We beat Hampshire, most people's title favourites, with a team including 10 England qualified players, 7 of which came through our academy (Including the two match winners)

Yet some woukd have you believe all Surrey do is go around throwing money at the best players and sign everyone else...
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similar to what we did in the mid to late 90s signed excellent players from overseas to nurture through a great set of academy lads. how our current crop of younsgers could do with a benkenstein, di venuto, sangakarra equivalent or two to help them develop
 
Twisted said:
similar to what we did in the mid to late 90s signed excellent players from overseas to nurture through a great set of academy lads. how our current crop of younsgers could do with a benkenstein, di venuto, sangakarra equivalent or two to help them develop
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I'm not sure we have any cause to boast and isn't our current problem finding the local raw material.

If you look our current first team squad it contains: Carse, McCarthy, Harte, Trevaskis, Clark, Richardson, Smith, Steel, Stokes, Latham, Harding and Main. All spent time in the academy or in the 2nd's but weren't born in the region.

( I've been kind and haven't included in the list Weighell, born in Middlesbrough but educated in Stokesley)
 
Bri said:
I'm not sure we have any cause to boast and isn't our current problem finding the local raw material.

If you look our current first team squad it contains: Carse, McCarthy, Harte, Trevaskis, Clark, Richardson, Smith, Steel, Stokes, Latham, Harding and Main. All spent time in the academy or in the 2nd's but weren't born in the region.

( I've been kind and haven't included in the list Weighell, born in Middlesbrough but educated in Stokesley)
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I didn't think I was boasting at all, it is fact that we had a successful team back then and it was in no small part due to bringing in some class players from abroad. surrey are doing similar and well done to them
 
Toby Roland-Jones ruled out for the season had a recurrence of stress fracture. Gutted for the lad thought he looked good in the home Tests last Summer.
 
Bri said:
I'm not sure we have any cause to boast and isn't our current problem finding the local raw material.

If you look our current first team squad it contains: Carse, McCarthy, Harte, Trevaskis, Clark, Richardson, Smith, Steel, Stokes, Latham, Harding and Main. All spent time in the academy or in the 2nd's but weren't born in the region.

( I've been kind and haven't included in the list Weighell, born in Middlesbrough but educated in Stokesley)
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It's successfully developing the raw material that's important surely. Where they come from is irrelevant. The above names prove we have an extensive scouting system-that's got to be a
positive.
 
Parkside said:
It's successfully developing the raw material that's important surely. Where they come from is irrelevant. The above names prove we have an extensive scouting system-that's got to be a
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You're right of course and as I said I have nothing against any of these lads at all and it's a good feeling to see them do well.

I'd like a few more from places like Hetton, Easington, Consett even Newcastle and Ashington and so on.....
 
Bri said:
I'm not sure we have any cause to boast and isn't our current problem finding the local raw material.

If you look our current first team squad it contains: Carse, McCarthy, Harte, Trevaskis, Clark, Richardson, Smith, Steel, Stokes, Latham, Harding and Main. All spent time in the academy or in the 2nd's but weren't born in the region.

( I've been kind and haven't included in the list Weighell, born in Middlesbrough but educated in Stokesley)
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I think the Cumbrian lads count as part of the region. It is brilliant what the Academy have done to work with schools cricket there and give their talented youngsters a chance. Pre Durham 1st class status Cumbria was ignored even more than the north east minor counties.
The likes of Carse, Jennings, Richardson and Steel are the products of other countries youth systems and have nothing to do with the youth system in this country. Sadly the county game is becoming over run by them and shows how much so many counties have neglected their youth development commitments over the past that they can't produce their own players. I certainly agree with you that Durham have enough Southern hemisphere players in their squad playing as Englishmen.
 
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The likes of Carse, Jennings, Richardson and Steel are the products of other countries youth systems and have nothing to do with the youth system in this country.
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I'm sorry but I have to disagree. They may not have started their cricket education here, but at Durham they were given their first class opportunity. To say they aren't a 'product' of our set up in some way is wrong. To go to an extreme end - Jennings came as a Saffer and we made him into an England player.

There are plenty of players who we've nurtured into county cricketers and who our system at Durham deserves to be fully credited for it - the likes of Clark, McCarthy, Weighell, Stokes, etc may not be Durham/NE born and raised, but I don't think that matters one iota in the grand scheme of things.

Not in the modern world anyway.

I think it's warming to know that kids raised in Cumbria, Scotland and Ireland have a chance of a FC future even if they have no team in the County Championship. Just like once upon a time kids from Durham wouldn't have had a cricketing future because we weren't a FC county.

Anyway, to alter the topic slightly, my nemesis Mick Newell talks some sense (but also some absolute shite) about the County Championship and the idea of a Conference System -
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brandon said:
I think it's warming to know that kids raised in Cumbria, Scotland and Ireland have a chance of a FC future even if they have no team in the County Championship. Just like once upon a time kids from Durham wouldn't have had a cricketing future because we weren't a FC county.
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and by the same token, in years to come anyone not near one of the 8 franshites will be in the same boat any leaving their region to go live near a big city, further centralizing not just cricket but populations and young folk especially around London, Birmingham, etc
 
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and by the same token, in years to come anyone not near one of the 8 franshites will be in the same boat any leaving their region to go live near a big city, further centralizing not just cricket but populations and young folk especially around London, Birmingham, etc
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Spot on they should have ripped up county cricket decades ago and created 10 regional teams where every area of the country is covered not like what it is even now with certain Shires having first class status and others do not.
 
brandon said:
I'm sorry but I have to disagree. They may not have started their cricket education here, but at Durham they were given their first class opportunity. To say they aren't a 'product' of our set up in some way is wrong. To go to an extreme end - Jennings came as a Saffer and we made him into an England player.

There are plenty of players who we've nurtured into county cricketers and who our system at Durham deserves to be fully credited for it - the likes of Clark, McCarthy, Weighell, Stokes, etc may not be Durham/NE born and raised, but I don't think that matters one iota in the grand scheme of things.

Not in the modern world anyway.

I think it's warming to know that kids raised in Cumbria, Scotland and Ireland have a chance of a FC future even if they have no team in the County Championship. Just like once upon a time kids from Durham wouldn't have had a cricketing future because we weren't a FC county.

Anyway, to alter the topic slightly, my nemesis Mick Newell talks some sense (but also some absolute shite) about the County Championship and the idea of a Conference System -
You must be logged on to see external links
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I agree with this and as I said I haven't nothing against any of these lads and even if they leave I'll probably support whatever they do. I suppose my quibble is around the term 'local' which I interpret as from the North East region and I'd like to see more or at least a healthy proportion of lads from here. And of course Durham Cricket are working for just that. I'm not complaining just noting a fact.

NB I think Richardson came to us from Nottingham Uni which puts him in the same category as Smith who came from Durham Uni. and Steel who also came from Durham I think.
 
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