pompeymeowth wrote:Luke Wright and Mags aside, the rest need to look at how they have performed this season. Congrats to Hampshire they wanted it more, the brave decision against Yorkshire showed that. Sussex have become far too negative and would never have taken a risk like that
The batsman never got going, but I dont think we can fault the bowlers. It feels a bit like England failure in UAE first time up, bowlers making inroads against teams then the batters not making a dent. We would have stayed up, even challenged at the top, had our squad stayed fit. 9 players we had at one time on the injury list, two premature retirees to injury without playing a CC game (and one we just bloody signed!!!) and 8 bowlers.
We lost Shehzad.... Mills...Prior...Hobbo.... it was endless. Even the loanees we got in got injured.
I think to be honest the spicy pitches we prepared at the start of the season meant our batters never got in knick, and that was the death of us.
The main man for me is Joyce though, his captaincy has been very poor this season, and at 38 or 39 now and no longer seemingly capable of big scores, or away with Ireland more, Id look to save some wages and cut him. Harsh to say, but as a leader this year he set the tone.
Oli Robinson, Shehzad, Mago, Jordan..... in Division two, if these stay fit no one is scoring 200 against us.