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Re: All Pretty Vacant, Down by the Riverside
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Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:32 pm
by westoelad
Worrying news about the Duke.
Career is potentially over unless he discovers a reason why he constantly coughs up blood when he is bowling
He's tweeted
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpRiG5gU0AEfvX-?format=jpg
Re: All Pretty Vacant, Down by the Riverside
Posted:
Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:44 pm
by captaincolly
Oh dear. That sounds awful, hopefully he can get it sorted and return to full health.
Re: All Pretty Vacant, Down by the Riverside
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Sat Oct 13, 2018 12:26 pm
by Durhamfootman
captaincolly wrote:Durhamfootman wrote:captaincolly wrote:Asher Hart released by Hampshire! So that move went well.
almost as good as Coughlin's move
did he actually play for Hants?
Career record is 2 FC and 5 list A games so at best he made fleeting appearances. Can't remember if any of those games were for Durham.
first class games could easily be university games. Are matches against touring international sides considered first class?
Re: All Pretty Vacant, Down by the Riverside
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Sat Oct 13, 2018 12:27 pm
by Durhamfootman
His body seems to be telling something. I hope it isn't a sign of something more sinister
Re: All Pretty Vacant, Down by the Riverside
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Sat Oct 13, 2018 1:22 pm
by captaincolly
Durhamfootman wrote:captaincolly wrote:Durhamfootman wrote:captaincolly wrote:Asher Hart released by Hampshire! So that move went well.
almost as good as Coughlin's move
did he actually play for Hants?
Career record is 2 FC and 5 list A games so at best he made fleeting appearances. Can't remember if any of those games were for Durham.
first class games could easily be university games. Are matches against touring international sides considered first class?
Yes. Looked him up and the 2 FC games were one University game and the other against South Africa A.
At least two of the list A ones seem to have been on a Hampshire pre-season tour of the Caribbean.
Re: All Pretty Vacant, Down by the Riverside
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Sat Oct 13, 2018 3:06 pm
by Durhamfootman
a bit of winter sun before getting the bullet, eh?
that's nice, for him
Re: All Pretty Vacant, Down by the Riverside
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Sat Oct 13, 2018 3:21 pm
by Durhamfootman
given that his first list A match was played on 3rd Feb and his last on the 17th Feb, I reckon it's reasonable to assume that all of his 5 matches were on the pre-season caribbean tour.
An object lesson to very young players who haven't done anything yet.......sometimes it's better the devil you know, than the devil you don't.
It was such a bad move for him, that now he's been released, he could very easily slip out of the professional game and end up playing part time in some lower league somewhere.
perhaps he'll 'do a Rushy', but he'll have to do extraordinarily well for us to even consider re-signing him, and even then we probably wouldn't. Rushy's saving grace was that it was the club, not the player, who made the bad decision, and they made it just before a bowling crisis emerged
Re: All Pretty Vacant, Down by the Riverside
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Sat Oct 13, 2018 3:25 pm
by westoelad
Durhamfootman wrote:His body seems to be telling something. I hope it isn't a sign of something more sinister
His tweet implies that he's been checked over and given the all clear- at least that's the way I interpret it.
Re: All Pretty Vacant, Down by the Riverside
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Sat Oct 13, 2018 3:29 pm
by Durhamfootman
coughing up blood, doesn't sound particularly like "just one of those things, you'll be fine"
Re: All Pretty Vacant, Down by the Riverside
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Sat Oct 13, 2018 3:36 pm
by westoelad
Durhamfootman wrote:given that his first list A match was played on 3rd Feb and his last on the 17th Feb, I reckon it's reasonable to assume that all of his 5 matches were on the pre-season caribbean tour.
An object lesson to very young players who haven't done anything yet.......sometimes it's better the devil you know, than the devil you don't.
It was such a bad move for him, that now he's been released, he could very easily slip out of the professional game and end up playing part time in some lower league somewhere.
perhaps he'll 'do a Rushy', but he'll have to do extraordinarily well for us to even consider re-signing him, and even then we probably wouldn't. Rushy's saving grace was that it was the club, not the player, who made the bad decision, and they made it just before a bowling crisis emerged
An object lesson in not listening to agents -I doubt Hants would have ever heard of him unless approached by an agent. Hants have hardly any record of developing youngsters; both he and his parents should have checked that our themselves before committing. Should get off to Uni. and play his cricket there. Reading Astronomy perhaps?
Re: All Pretty Vacant, Down by the Riverside
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Sat Oct 13, 2018 3:39 pm
by Durhamfootman
Astronomy?
I must be missing something here
and I'll probably kick myself later
Re: All Pretty Vacant, Down by the Riverside
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Sat Oct 13, 2018 3:40 pm
by westoelad
Durhamfootman wrote:coughing up blood, doesn't sound particularly like "just one of those things, you'll be fine"
Exactly- presenting with that symptom would surely have alerted his club's medics to have him thoroughly checked?
Re: All Pretty Vacant, Down by the Riverside
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Sat Oct 13, 2018 3:43 pm
by westoelad
Durhamfootman wrote:Astronomy?
I must be missing something here
and I'll probably kick myself later
Come in- keep up at the back. Surely you know his full name and the reason for it?
Ashley
Hale-Bopp Hart- something about that comet appearing at time of his birth-or anniversary of.
Re: All Pretty Vacant, Down by the Riverside
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Sat Oct 13, 2018 4:03 pm
by Durhamfootman
I did wonder if it was to do with his middle name, but even when I looked at it, it didn't illuminate me since I've never heard of the hale bopp comet
I'm very dim, sadly...... damn that grammar school education.... not fit for purpose... no wonder they got rid of it
Re: All Pretty Vacant, Down by the Riverside
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Sat Oct 13, 2018 4:18 pm
by westoelad
Not had I, nor most people I suspect. Unfortunately for him, his parents obviously had
"Hale-Bopp was an unusually bright comet that swung near Earth in the late 1990s, reaching its closest approach to the planet in 1997. It was most spectacular in the Northern Hemisphere and visible to the naked eye for about 18 months".