I think it's working - just a very dark day in the middle of the Yorkshire Monsoon Season.
If you look very closely you can just see Luther Whitehead emerging from his grave in front of the Hirst/Rhodes Twin Cranes...
wonder if the webcam captured the 'spat' between Moxon and the elderly fan a few weeks back and the recent alleged 'spat' between Vaughan and Stewart Regan in the car park?
I know it's frustrating, but we tend to talk about YCCC as if it's just some huge conglomerate like Man Utd when the reality that it's actually a very small organisation (relatively speaking)with a tiny number of staff. When something happens like the Vaughan retirement, the marketing/website/PR dept must be swamped. I know it's frustrating, but in the middle of an incredibly busy season - with International games coming up - it must be very difficult to keep everything fully up to date. If anyone has ever run a website you'll know what a nightmare it is to keep it fully updated...
(Although perhaps it might be better to forget the webcam which seems to have been nothing but a nuisance since they got it..)
Well its not been too bad a start to the season so far, no wins in the LVCC, Vaughanys retirement, Worcesters approach for Hoggy and Shazzer, out the T20, and to cap it all some Lancastrian drove into me car giving me whiplash (only whiplash I have had before was in some dodgy nightclub in Bradford...) causing me to miss a few games.
But as Moxy keeps telling us, we are one of the best one day sides in the county (or did he say country?) and its really pleasing to see the increasing number of ways we are managing to lose games from winning positions. It shows how creative and innovative we are being this season.
Now Vaughanys gone I can get back to my true place in the batting order at number 3 and you never know this might get one of the England selectors to look at me again for a call up against the Aussies - they seem to have spotted something with Bres and Rash so maybe they want to pick me so as to keep Freddie happy and get some free supplies of my Skippers Ale that has been produced for my benefit season.
Selection this year has followed a different approach based on making sure we have the right split for the pre match 5-a side warm up games. This year due to the absence of any bibs and the refusal of some of the lads to play in skins we have decided to pick the teams based on hair colour so this is why me and Galey have kept the baldy Lyth out the team and we have now got young Bluey in there as well as he's a much better footballer than Brophy. I am trying to persuade Mags to sign up Steve Kirby again. Forget Blainy as he's Scottish and everyone knows they can't play football. Last week Brez and Rash dyed their hair ginger to try and fool us into picking them (or was it to confuse the England selectors who thought they were Ian Bell and Paul Collingwood?)
Anyway, best be off now as my agent tells me he has had a few approaches for my services from next season - some bloke at Surrey called Adams has been in touch and me old mate Goughy down at Middlesex reckons I could get a game with them when he comes out of retirement to skipper them next season. I miss Darren being here as he used to do all the tricky things like toss the coin, sort out the fielding positions, tell the bowlers who was on next and this year I am not sure who is meant to be doing this now.
glad you found my post amusing. Now if you'll excuse me for a few hours, I am back out in the middle trying to bat against some geriatric with big ears and grey hair - keeps asking in a dodgy accent if I know his mate Goughy.
Bit of a novel experience this - we seem to have a first innings lead for a change and I am not sure how we should approach the second innings. best make sure I get some orders from the captain at lunch time.
Told Hoggy not to bowl them out too quick this morning as my neck was a bit sore from the carcrash still - typical of him to ignore me and get their last man out early doors so he can put his own feet up for the rest of the day and watch the tennis.
Rudy also tried to counter his first innings big score by getting out to the second ball of the innings - mumbled something about having to sort out his average again so that he might get put back in the middle order.
So when I got out to the middle I said to one of their players 'I felt stiff', and Trescothick rolled about like a childish schoolboy. One of their fast bowlers nearly throttled me - oh christ it looks like he is warming up to have a bowl at me now and he's about 6ft 7.
Thank god for that - back in the safe haven of the dressing room without having to face that tall bowler who seemed to have a problem with something I said.
Good thing about getting out just now is I can get to the front of the queue before the Somerset boys for lunch as well - the pasties down here are great and their apple juice is something else... couple of glasses with my pasty and I can drift off to sleep this afternoon unless the skipper decides to declare. Wonder when he might do this?
7.28am Saturday 11th July and play is already underway.
Just shows how keen we are when we have a good day.Bit surprised that Durham were willing to start this early.
I don't suppose there is any chance of the webcam being fixed in time for the Test. It seems to have performed almost as poorly as our team this year. I doubt if it has worked for more than a few weeks all season.