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mosi said:
We aren’t any longer. The club choose not to bid for them. Bostock has confirmed this at members meetings
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Aye aware of that. But we got banned in the first place because of some twat in the ECB doing what was best for the county he ran.

Greed means we play at certain grounds rather than what is best for the English cricket team. We then don't produce pitches to help the English cricket team so clubs can make more money.

The fact it's a bid process tells you everything you need to know about the ECB.
 
Kumbuka said:
I used to live in North London and watch Middlesex play a fair bit, as well as seeing some day 5s of test matches.

Now I live in South London and have been going to the Oval for a few years, it’s no exaggeration to say I may never set foot in Lord’s again! It represents so much wrong with cricket and society, and they’re just so far up their own arse.

Tickets are expensive anywhere (especially in London), but at least if I spend £100 for an oval test match, I can enter the pavilion and enjoy the facilities without wearing a suit and tie, and without the air of pretentiousness wafting around.

You also have bellends like Farage and Rees Mogg in previous years at the Lord’s test, more just to be at the Lord’s test than to be at a cricket match, making it all a bit of a circus.
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There's a reason the Oval is known as the Peoples Home of Cricket ;)
 
TheRey said:
There's a reason the Oval is known as the Peoples Home of Cricket ;)
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The Oval is my favourite ground too (going on the Saturday of the 5th Test) but it is madness to think that you could have an Ashes or India series without Lords. Maybe more of an argument for the "lesser" series but a Lords Test is still big part of the history and modern economics of cricket

And matches like we've just seen aren't going to help anyone who thinks otherwise.
 
TheRey said:
I like Sophia Gardens myself. Been there for the first day of the Ashes in 09 and a county game.
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Me too. Front row seats as well. A couple of Aussie supporters handed me their phones and asked if I would take a photograph of them. I'd love to see anyone try that at a footie match :D
 
Ian J said:
Me too. Front row seats as well. A couple of Aussie supporters handed me their phones and asked if I would take a photograph of them. I'd love to see anyone try that at a footie match :D
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At Lords on Thursday, an Aussie fella offered to take a picture of me and Mrs TBM, they aren't all bad!
 
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