Bears/Pears Thread 2013.

[bertlambshank]

Bring back Sunday League Cricket ya bastards!

[cheltenhamlion]

I was hoping you would....

[Dave Clark Five]

Five of the Bears' T20 fixtures at Edgbaston will be played on Friday nights.

That's five evenings that the garden won't need watering then.

[Simon Ward]

Please sign the petition against the stupid name change.

http://www.change.org/petitions/warwickshire-county-cricket-club-to-stop-the-renaming-and-rebranding-of-warwickshire-county-cricket-club-warwickshire-bears-to-the-birmingham-bears?fb_action_ids=10151853592663763&fb_action_types=change-org%3Arecruit&fb_ref=__XpNZxmqSNm&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=[663060793745690]&action_type_map=[%22change-org%3Arecruit%22]&action_ref_map=[%22__XpNZxmqSNm%22]

[bertlambshank]

Done.

[bertlambshank]

Living back in Atherstone now.They have lost 4 members already.One of them is 76 and been going for 35 years.First time I heard him swear.

[Rotterdam]

Signed.

[Lsvilla]

Signed

[PGW]

Signed

[PGW]

That'll get the members tutting into their cucumber sandwiches.

Pint of Cider in my case....or maybe a Marston's

[exiled on the wirral!]

I thought the twenty20 tournament in England was played by 18 COUNTIES..i didnt realise Birmingham has suddenly become a county!

I find it quite condescending of the ECB that they feel they have to 'pigeon hole' the different forms of cricket. 4 day cricket will start on a sunday so 'grandad can take grandchildren'... and 20/20 will be played on a Friday so the 'laaaaads' can have a piss up! Its quite pathetic really and patronizes the real cricket fan.
 

[Villan For Life]

It's all the council's fault....

Povey says Council asked for name change

But the club agreed.

[peter w]

Its still Warwickshire and the idea of using city names for 20/20 has been explored before. maybe warwickshire got good feed back. can't see how getting the money in, and some new ideas in trying to do that, is such a bad thing.

[PGW]

Did anyone notice the article in yesterdays Birmingham Mail - an event of potentiallyy catastrophic proportions to the immediate future of the Bears.
Graeme Welch has applied for the 'Elite Sporting Director' role at Derbyshire CC. Which is his former club,going there after being released by Warwickshire so will have a bond with them as he has with us.             This is a man who has worked wonders at WCCC as our bowling coach, developing the likes of Chris Wright into possible future England bowler, he has got Rankin into the England set up. He will be a massive loss to us.....he of course may not get the job,if so he says business as usual, but he cites that he wants to be the top man at a county set up where i suppose at WCCC he is number 2 to Dougie Brown.

Watch this space!!!

[adrenachrome]

Did anyone notice the article in yesterdays Birmingham Mail - an event of potentiallyy catastrophic proportions to the immediate future of the Bears.
Graeme Welch has applied for the 'Elite Sporting Director' role at Derbyshire CC. Which is his former club,going there after being released by Warwickshire so will have a bond with them as he has with us.             This is a man who has worked wonders at WCCC as our bowling coach, developing the likes of Chris Wright into possible future England bowler, he has got Rankin into the England set up. He will be a massive loss to us.....he of course may not get the job,if so he says business as usual, but he cites that he wants to be the top man at a county set up where i suppose at WCCC he is number 2 to Dougie Brown.

Watch this space!!!

I am not surprised by this development as he applied for Ashley Giles; job last year and was disappointed when he lost out to Dougie Brown. It will be a blow if he gets the gig, though.

In better news, Chris Woakes has signed a new contract:

Nuneaton News

WARWICKSHIRE and England all-rounder Chris Woakes has signed a new two-year contract at Edgbaston.

Woakes, 24, has been with the Bears his whole career and made his Test debut against Australia at The Oval this summer.

"I've been at Warwickshire for 13 years, so the opportunity to extend my contract was something I was very keen to do," Woakes said.

Woakes is a product of the club's development programme and has scored more than 3,000 runs and taken 290 wickets since making his first-class debut in 2006.

He helped the county win the 40-over competition in 2010 and the County Championship two years later, when he averaged over 70 with the bat and picked up 47 wickets.

He made his limited-overs debut for England in a Twenty20 international against Australia in Adelaide in 2011, hitting the winning run in a last-ball victory.

A one-day international debut followed against the same opposition soon after, but Woakes had to wait until the final game of last summer's Ashes series before winning his first Test cap.

It proved a steep learning curve as he made scores of 25 and 17 not out, but only took one wicket at a cost of 96 runs, not enough for a place in the current Ashes series in Australia.