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Totally agree. My aunts house backs onto southports ground as it happens too
The elephant in the room is the dismal 100. It’s wrecked the schedule
Surrey have no cc game at Guildford this year and that was always packed. It was a highlight of season for me and a gorgeous little ground
Kent not at tunbridge wells either and that’s as beautiful ground as you can find. Outground cricket is fantastic imo
Actually weather is generally more risky in April May than September ive often found. September is quite a dry month down here and often seemingly more warm these days too. Global warming
But the weather is crap in lancs all summer surely?
There was an article in last year’s Wisden which confirmed that Lancashire has lost more playing time this century than any other county. That is what you get for playing most of your home games in Manchester – rain capital of England.
When Lancashire actually managed to win the Championship back in 2011 for the first time in ages, they played all their home games in Aigburth because Old Trafford was being redeveloped. It made all the difference. When they won their last home game in a just about dry Liverpool, it was raining cats and dogs in Manchester.
It is a pity there is no Championship game at Aigburth this season.
Ha ha, I was about to say the same, the only time Lancashire has won the CC in fifty years, they played their home games at Aigburth.
And having gone to a few of them, the weather was rather good, especially the first few days of the game v Sussex, the same weekend as the National meeting.
The final home game v Hampshire was a cliff hanger; I think there were only 7 balls left when Mackenzie was dismissed by Kerrigan with one that turned & bounced.
From memory, all games had very good & enthusiastic attendences, and I’m convinced the CC should be played on ‘outgrounds’.
Sunday league cricket was rubbish really. One division meant that games are quickly became meaningless. Being in middle of a county game was hardly ideal too. Players CGAF and I recall that Gower once retired during an innings himself because he was bored
And for the crowd? The one place to get a drink on a Sunday afternoon back then. That’s largely all it was about
Players really have a lot more to the NatWest matches but it was all well shy of todays standards
It’s like those who think eighties football was fabulous. It bloody wasn’t. Or it was tvs golden age until you showed them a schedule of wall to wall crap with val doonican and Arthur Mullard and shutdown at 10 30
Racing on tv was dire too. I wasn’t in to it then but it seemed to be no more than grinning creepy old men in trilbies droning on about god knows what in accents from an Ealing comedy
I’ll take my hat off to that Clive. John Rickman wore one and the commentator who wanted O’Sullivans job – skipped my mind but I got used to him and his monotone voice which fitted in with the horses in that it did not disturb
You go to the other extreme and you have one Derrick Thompson. He recounted in his autobiography ( yes he wrote one ) that while he was staying in a hotel in Dubai Bo Derrick had the room next door. He knocked on the door and said we both have Derrick in common you’re Bo Derrick and I’m Derrick Thompson. She quickly shut the door not knowing who the man was.
Derrick Thompson was only living up to his name…A derrick is slang for a
funny yet understanding guy. Always has a way of keeping you entertained when you’re down. He’s the kind of guy you can trust to keep secrets and know he’ll always be there for you. Derrick cares about his friends even new friends (never wants to see a frown in his group of friends). Charming and handsome. Tall and slim. He keeps fit and healthy. Never the kind of guy who judges girls. He’d probably go for girls with brown/black hair and a opposite personality than him (which is okay cause he’s open for any type of person).No that’s definitely not Derrick Thompson !
ON THE OTHER HAND – it may define him perfectly !Oh god gamble. He admitted to stalking as an anecdote?
He should stick to those fat smelly pissed owners wives he interviews after a class 4 sprint at Doncaster
Wasn’t his bio called “too busy to die” or something ? Talk about maudlin
There’s a character in the TV series ‘Superstore’ named Bo Derek Thompson. His marriage proposal to girlfriend Cheyenne goes like this:
“Cheyenne Tyler Lee, will you marry me? Or are you gonna be, like, a dick about it?”
I’d like to think Tommo wasn’t quite so crude when proposing to any or all of his three wives, but you can never be sure.
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