Stuart Law is leaving Lancs, could it be that he criticised the management to much over the Cork sacking. He was the fiercest ctitic of that decision and now he had paid the price himself.
Sign him. We need some stability at the openers position, but only for a year. By then Ballance will be ready. Or Sayers might have regrouped. A great ONE YEAR fix.
So Lancs are finally following Brian Close's dictum. When Yorks finished Boycott's career at the end of the 1986 season Close said it was to "give the young uns a chance" .... as one rather sad mate has been reminding me for 22 years ... in fact it has become the term we use if we suspect a pub is being used by under-aged drinkers !!
What is happening to sensible, rational thought? Some posters on this site would want to sign anything if it's available and cheap! We do not need second rate cast offs. It will not help us now or in the future. Stuart Law was good, but is now old and would add very little for the future. Any signing we make should be good enough (and young enough) to warrant a regular first team place, but not at the expense of some of the talented youngsters coming through. Stuart Law no longer qualifies on either count. For what its worth, I would not be chasing any batsmen. We need a quality strike bowler with Hoggy and Bres who will get top of the order wickets regularly. Patterson and Shazad will develop but are still learning, and would still have opportunities given the amount of cricket played.
Normally I'd be in total agreement with BPH's eloquent post (as I've made less well put posts on other threads) .... BUT cant help wondering if this is the exception. Yes Law is getting on ... but then in the championship we've averaged under 13 for the first wicket in 2008 (& also for most of 2007) could a short term signing be 'a good thing'. We'd have to make it clear that whilst Law would be in the team at the start that he could be dropped if Sayers form returned.
My thoughts are somewhat clouded by the year in the 1990's when Yorks signed Richard Harden from Somerset .... Gloucester signed Kim Barnett who'd left Derby the previous winter. Harden hardly played whilst Barnett helped Glouc to a number of one day trophies.
btw Atm I'm not saying sign Law, just thinking aloud
I'll stir the pot a little further. Against Somerset at Scarborough some on my friends were chatting to our retiring captain .... Mr G**gh said he'd like Martin Van Jaarsveldt to be his replacement ....... at the time I listened to my Ipod btw
I thought this thread a bit of a joke when it first appeared but now I'm getting worried that fact is stranger than fiction. Perhaps it's the Yorkshire committee's idea of payback after Byas went west for a season? They say revenge is best served cold but this would be almost rigamortis with potential scuicide thrown in too.
Lancastrians give nowt away, I know, I live with one! Law's day has done and we shouldn't even be thinking about signing him. Throw in his ICL conections and he could lose us far more than we gain. I disagree with the persecution of ICL players but, as long as it lasts anyone would be stupid to take one on. Half an arguement with already having one on the books, although even that arguement did nothing for Kent, but to sign one now, especially a forty year old would be plain daft.
I'd like to think we are not that daft.