Bears/Pears/Domestic Cricket Thread

[Gareth]

Will need to bat well (mmmmm!)….weather may well dictate

[Gareth]

Get in!!

Ethan Brookes is a star!

[Villa Lew]

Fantastic win for the Rapids

[Bernie]

Will need to bat well (mmmmm!)….weather may well dictate

Done it! I thought the game was gone when Brookes was out,  but what a finish.

[Bosco81]

What a great win by Worcestershire, they’ve played so well over the whole tournament, Ethan Brookes is a superstar.

[Steve67]

Brookes is beginning to really show some potential. Well done you Pears!!

[paul_e]

I liked the look of him (and his brother) at Bears and thought we let them leave a little too easily. Henry has clearly been screwed by injuries since but it's good to see one of them fulfil their potential, it's a shame for him that there's so many fantastic middle order batsmen for England right now.

[Gareth]

I liked the look of him (and his brother) at Bears and thought we let them leave a little too easily. Henry has clearly been screwed by injuries since but it's good to see one of them fulfil their potential, it's a shame for him that there's so many fantastic middle order batsmen for England right now.

Brookes and Barnard fufill v similar roles, been a good swap around for both really.  Two good batting all rounders who field really well.  Both should be around the conversation for limited overs England sides….sure franchise teams will sniff around both too

[Crown Hill]

We are at the tail end of the season and yet again the same old problems are evident. We have changed virtually the whole coaching staff and on the pitch nothing seems to have changed. With the money that they have and the facilities at Edgbaston we should be doing consistently better than we do but it’s all going to be ok because we are demolishing stands to build a hotel and new stands that doesn’t increase the ground capacity.

It’s so frustrating being a Bears fan at times, it feels like domestic cricket is low down their list of priorities.

Was speaking to a long-time Warwickshire member about this a couple of weeks ago.  He was saying that he feels it is all about brand 'Edgbaston' now and the cricket is very much a secondary concern.

I just don't know where the ambition has gone really.  Growing up in the 90's and even going into the 00's, it always seemed to be an ambitious and forward-thinking club, yet now it just seems the cricket is just bobbing along and is simply a means of attracting pissed-up idiots singing Sweet Caroline in the Hollies.

As someone fairly heavily involved there is afraid this is true. It’s been a continual process since the city council loan and change in governance arrangements which has left the Board less accountable to members. The branding is very strange and wouldn’t happen in football. I’ve often told them we are the only team in world sport which doesn’t play under our own name. It shows how cricket’s priorities have changed!

[cdbearsfan]

Notts champions. Fair play.