England League and Cup Discussion

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A. Chellaiah (rfs) 10-1-41-2, E. McCall 22 (21b), P. Callaway 0 (6b)
End of over 50 (maiden) - Ruff Royals(251-6) RR 5.02

An okay total but we could certainly lose the game still. Paton was out 6 balls after I mentioned he was a finisher. Issa with a great innings of 104 from 128 balls; he's starting to get a few good scores now.

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South London's Number One CC v Topmen >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC Topmen
Batting - Top Order 12,963 12,772
Batting - Middle Order 11,865 11,203
Batting - Tail 4,826 5,367
Bowling - Seam 13,263 (40) 13,063 (30)
Bowling - Spin 13,294 (10) 12,396 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 16,502 15,641
Overall 229,643 222,909


Well that lifts my mood after yet another Palace managerial debacle

Result: Won by 5 wickets. A superb chase, and 2 wins from 3 games a fantastic start to life in Div 1.

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Well that lifts my mood after yet another Palace managerial debacle

They haven't hired Mark Hughes have they?!

They should have stuck with Hodgson if they could have persuaded him to stay on (from the outside, it didn't seem like they tried to keep him).

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Ruff Royals won by 121 runs

Ruff Royals Danger Hotspurs
Batting - Top Order 13,900 13,232
Batting - Middle Order 10,350 9,093
Batting - Tail 4,303 4,024
Bowling - Seam 14,177 (20) 11,046 (20)
Bowling - Spin 13,491 (30) 12,904 (30)
Fielding/Keeping 16,617 14,976
Overall 228,590 207,107

Big win; the sooner we can get safe, the better.

Issa's 104 set up the win and the bowlers completed the job. 3-27 for Ten Dam and 3-27 for Moses were the best of my bowlers.

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Well that lifts my mood after yet another Palace managerial debacle

They haven't hired Mark Hughes have they?!

They should have stuck with Hodgson if they could have persuaded him to stay on (from the outside, it didn't seem like they tried to keep him).

I wasn't opposed to Roy going, the football was shocking, but surely we could have had a replacement lined up 28/1 Dougie Freedman on Skybet I've stuck 20 quid on, well worth a bet I think.

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Well that lifts my mood after yet another Palace managerial debacle

They haven't hired Mark Hughes have they?!

They should have stuck with Hodgson if they could have persuaded him to stay on (from the outside, it didn't seem like they tried to keep him).

I wasn't opposed to Roy going, the football was shocking, but surely we could have had a replacement lined up 28/1 Dougie Freedman on Skybet I've stuck 20 quid on, well worth a bet I think.

You need better players to play good football though and that can be quite expensive. I doubt they want to spend that much money so I imagine Hodgson did the best he could with the resources he had. Eze and Zaha are good attacking players but that's about it as far as I can see. Benteke was improving towards the end of the season and I liked the look of Mitchell. But if you want to stay in the league and play attacking football then you'll need to spend some money or have some academy players ready to come into the first team. For instance, over recent seasons, Brighton have spent about 200 million and still get in a relegation battle.

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They haven't hired Mark Hughes have they?!

They should have stuck with Hodgson if they could have persuaded him to stay on (from the outside, it didn't seem like they tried to keep him).

I wasn't opposed to Roy going, the football was shocking, but surely we could have had a replacement lined up 28/1 Dougie Freedman on Skybet I've stuck 20 quid on, well worth a bet I think.

You need better players to play good football though and that can be quite expensive. I doubt they want to spend that much money so I imagine Hodgson did the best he could with the resources he had. Eze and Zaha are good attacking players but that's about it as far as I can see. Benteke was improving towards the end of the season and I liked the look of Mitchell. But if you want to stay in the league and play attacking football then you'll need to spend some money or have some academy players ready to come into the first team. For instance, over recent seasons, Brighton have spent about 200 million and still get in a relegation battle.

It's a balance I guess, we played better stuff with better results under Allardyce and Pulis with worse sides. Not to say Roy did a bad job, but I was in favor of him going.

Anyway good start for us both look forward to our meeting in round 6

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Anyway good start for us both look forward to our meeting in round 6

It could be a top of the table clash for all I know! I was expecting Ffoh to walk it this season but it looks like it's going to be close. There's a couple of younger players that I want to give regular games to so I won't generally be at full strength for SOD games; I might regret that if it means I drop points which would have won me a surprise title. I'll be happy just to survive though.

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Home Inchigeela Angels
Away wolfberries
Ground Tir na Spideoga
League Youth Twenty20 2.2
Date 28 Jun 21 10:00
Crowd 9,068
Weather Humid
Pitch Uneven


Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

D. O'Sullivan (rfs) 3-0-18-1, C. Martel 4 (8b), J. Easton 0 (3b)
End of over 10 (3 runs) - wolfberries(37-4) RR 3.70

Not a great start by us!

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J. Brewer (rfm) 4-0-10-2, K. Hartigan 1 (3b), S. Munday 12 (20b)
End of over 20 (3 runs) - wolfberries(86-8) RR 4.30

Probably 40 runs short of par, we aren't defending this.

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D. Kennedy (lm) 4-0-41-0, M. Schmidt 11 (7b), R. Schneider 5 (3b)
End of over 20 (10 runs) - Ruff Royals(218-5) RR 10.90

A good total on a flat pitch but we'll still need to bowl well. 85 from 45 balls for Gera was the best performance.

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Inchigeela Angels wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 7,239 6,406
Batting - Middle Order 5,067 4,530
Batting - Tail 2,837 2,597
Bowling - Seam 6,312 (16) 5,272 (16)
Bowling - Spin 6,172 (4) 10,510 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 7,344 7,994
Overall 111,188 107,119

Inchigeela Angels won by 7 wickets

As expected we lost!

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bigsexybarry Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 7,419 7,835
Batting - Middle Order 5,731 6,468
Batting - Tail 3,331 3,694
Bowling - Seam 6,731 (12) 7,351 (12)
Bowling - Spin 7,899 (8) 5,859 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 5,684 9,278
Overall 115,639 129,899

Ruff Royals won by 67 runs

Big win and pretty much a formality after some good batting and an economical start with the ball.

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Home Ruff Royals
Away Ffoh
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League Twenty20 1.1
Date 29 Jun 21 10:00
Crowd 20,314
Weather Sunny
Pitch Dry

Should be a tough game and one I need to win if I have any wish to get into a title race. I decided to bowl first.

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Sunny and Slow conditions today, lost the toss and bowling first.