brandon
Striker
So with the last month of the season about to arrive, all that is left is the dying embers of another County season. To be in with a chance of promotion at this stage is something we can all be very pleased about and but for the last day defiance from Fatty Batter and his Leicestershire chums, we'd be sitting in one of the promotion places (3rd).
It seems like the season has once again gone in a crack and whilst the weekend was red hot, I do feel like that autumnal chill is lingering in the air - it may just be in my mind and its barmy to think that winter is upon us, especially when the climax of The Ashes and of a County Championship season is still just coming to a simmer.
Our remaining fixtures are thus:
Tuesday 10 - v Middlesex (a) - 11 points behind us in 7th
Monday 16 - v Northants (a) - 10 points ahead of us in 3rd
Monday 23 - v Glamorgan (h) - 5 points ahead of us in 4th
I had thought perhaps of posting the fixtures of the other teams going for promotion like the tabloids do whenever there's a promotion/relegation battle to be won, but as EIGHT teams are still in the hunt and only Worcestershire (surprisingly after their early season predicitons) and Leicestershire (another wooden spoon looms) are out of the running I didn't see the point. We can pore over the other teams fixtures and the ramifications all we want, but the reality of it is - 72 points or even just three wins will definitely get us up. Going off our recent run of red ball form I'd back us to beat anyone and if we can turn over two of those three we should be helped by snookers elsewhere that sees us up. Lancashire (53 points above us) look to have it all but sewn up and so they probably can't be caught, but anyone from Gloucestershire (24 points above us) down to Derbyshire (16 behind us) can go up - there will be so many teams in the hunt playing each other that virtually any result elsewhere will aid our plight if we're winning too, but obviously any defeat will drastically worsen our promotion prospects.
Ha'way Durham!
It seems like the season has once again gone in a crack and whilst the weekend was red hot, I do feel like that autumnal chill is lingering in the air - it may just be in my mind and its barmy to think that winter is upon us, especially when the climax of The Ashes and of a County Championship season is still just coming to a simmer.
Our remaining fixtures are thus:
Tuesday 10 - v Middlesex (a) - 11 points behind us in 7th
Monday 16 - v Northants (a) - 10 points ahead of us in 3rd
Monday 23 - v Glamorgan (h) - 5 points ahead of us in 4th
I had thought perhaps of posting the fixtures of the other teams going for promotion like the tabloids do whenever there's a promotion/relegation battle to be won, but as EIGHT teams are still in the hunt and only Worcestershire (surprisingly after their early season predicitons) and Leicestershire (another wooden spoon looms) are out of the running I didn't see the point. We can pore over the other teams fixtures and the ramifications all we want, but the reality of it is - 72 points or even just three wins will definitely get us up. Going off our recent run of red ball form I'd back us to beat anyone and if we can turn over two of those three we should be helped by snookers elsewhere that sees us up. Lancashire (53 points above us) look to have it all but sewn up and so they probably can't be caught, but anyone from Gloucestershire (24 points above us) down to Derbyshire (16 behind us) can go up - there will be so many teams in the hunt playing each other that virtually any result elsewhere will aid our plight if we're winning too, but obviously any defeat will drastically worsen our promotion prospects.
Ha'way Durham!
