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[Mr_Orange]

Disaster for Glos - James Fuller has declined a new contract and is leaving. Not entirely surprising after he's bowled like a hero all season, assume he's been offered a contract by a div 1 county.

Just seen that he's signed for Middlesex on a 3 year deal... Big loss for Gloucestershire that.

[Rob580]

Essex are going to need to do some serious shopping soon!

Lost Topley, Panesar, Greg Smith, Salisbury, Imtiaz & now Pettini.

Replaced them with Jack Winslade & now also Aaron Beard from the Academy.

Once the new coach is in place, we're in serious need of a decent seamer who is in his prime (not a child or an old cripple), a reserve keeper (as it is literally just Foster now with no back up, not even an emergency keeper in Petini) and probably another spinner (Dockrell maybe?) 

Not looking like it's going to be a good season next year at this rate.

[ProCricketer1982]

Essex are going to need to do some serious shopping soon!

Lost Topley, Panesar, Greg Smith, Salisbury, Imtiaz & now Pettini.

Replaced them with Jack Winslade & now also Aaron Beard from the Academy.

Once the new coach is in place, we're in serious need of a decent seamer who is in his prime (not a child or an old cripple), a reserve keeper (as it is literally just Foster now with no back up, not even an emergency keeper in Petini) and probably another spinner (Dockrell maybe?) 

Not looking like it's going to be a good season next year at this rate.

why would you take other counties cast offs like Dockerell??  WOUldn't it be better to invest in a real talent like Slurry with Sanga, or Lancs with PRince etc.. OR .. novel idea... actually invest properly in youth systems and produce some actual bloody quality players rather than mediocre crap.

[SLC]

Until a year or two ago dockrell was quality. He seemed to just disappear without ever performing badly, I'd be very surprised if no one snapped him up.

[Rob580]

why would you take other counties cast offs like Dockerell??  WOUldn't it be better to invest in a real talent like Slurry with Sanga, or Lancs with PRince etc.. OR .. novel idea... actually invest properly in youth systems and produce some actual bloody quality players rather than mediocre crap.

Rightho,

Dockrell is the best spinner available at the moment and still has an enormous amount of potential, as can be proven by his perfomances for Ireland - Nijjar needs to learn his craft, and playing every game in every format isn't going to help him achieve that.

Essex have an Overseas player - Jesse Ryder, and he's excellent.

And lastly in your trade of nonsense - Essex do have an excellent academy set up who have produced (in the last 10 years) Cook, Bopara, Topley, Mills, Westley, Varun Chopra, Chris Wright, Jamie Porter & 

But you can't lose 6 players and replace them with 2 academy graduates and not expect a severe drop off in results, especially when there's no cover available for injuries, of which Essex seem to have suffered a bloody lot of in recent years.

[Manormanic]

I wonder if Yorkshire might be tempted - Middlebrook is unlikely to want another season, Rashid will spend a lot of time with Team England as a glorified drinks waiter and Carver is a couple of years away from being ready.

[Stuey]

Rightho,

Dockrell is the best spinner available at the moment and still has an enormous amount of potential, as can be proven by his perfomances for Ireland - Nijjar needs to learn his craft, and playing every game in every format isn't going to help him achieve that.

Essex have an Overseas player - Jesse Ryder, and he's excellent.

And lastly in your trade of nonsense - Essex do have an excellent academy set up who have produced (in the last 10 years) Cook, Bopara, Topley, Mills, Westley, Varun Chopra, Chris Wright, Jamie Porter & 

But you can't lose 6 players and replace them with 2 academy graduates and not expect a severe drop off in results, especially when there's no cover available for injuries, of which Essex seem to have suffered a bloody lot of in recent years.

+Dan Lawrence and Callum Taylor.
 But you'll win nothing with kids 

[rich041187]

Pettini is a serious coup for Leicestershire!!! With Horton (lancs) and Dexter (Middlesex) signed up too it seems as though Andrew Macdonald and Wasim Kahn are finally turning around what was an absolute shambles

[FattusCattus]

I still think Dockrell could be an excellent signing for someone, I wish Middlesex would snap him up, but they seem content with an Embury clone.

[ppccopener]

Pettini to Leics was a surprise, you wouldn't think Essex would want to let him go.

agree Dockrell is a very good signing, looks a very good prospect

[Stuey]

Pettini to Leics was a surprise, you wouldn't think Essex would want to let him go.

agree Dockrell is a very good signing, looks a very good prospect

They offered him a new contract, but only really played him in limited over cricket. Leics are offering all 3 formats and a longer contract. I think he played 5 CC games this year (at most) and averaged over 100.

[jwebber86]

It was shame to lose dockerell as he is a player I have always liked but he was down the pecking lost behind leach in CC and waller in t20 plus with rehman as the overseas he didn't get much game time

[WalkingWicket37]

Players starting to be let go by their counties now.

Spot the issue with the bat!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/34423964

[smilley792]

Spyders!!!!

[Bats_Entertainment]

Essex never have issues developing players, in fact lots of them go on to have great careers, just at other counties...

They have the biggest catchment area in terms of playing numbers after Yorkshire (I think).

I think Lancahire is second. But I agree with your point.