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[niceonechoppy]

Surely Dernbach knows what hes doing now? England had Stuart Broad as the senior bowler in Bangladesh and hes only played 28 tests! If you are good enough to play county cricket you should work out how to bowl/bat quickly enough....

[niceonechoppy]

As for Surrey, surely every non-Surrey fan wants to see RHB fall flat on his face?

No, hes a talent, why does everyone have this view, the lad is class!

[alexrickyponting]

dernbach knows what hes doing but hes not the same type of bowler as Nel, meaker wouldnt learn that much from dernbach really as hes never been that fast, Nel was a seam bowler rather than swing.
Yes in Bangladesh correct me if im wrong but they didnt want to chose him as the senior bowler werent some bowlers injured?
Anyway Broad would have had senior bowlers to start with while he was at county level wouldnt he.

Clarkie, at surreys first game of the season there was not much support for RHB from surrey members and a great deal of b1tching! Maybe everyone has this view because its the truth choppy 

The commentator thinks spriegel "is a very, very good player"

[niceonechoppy]

Actually Broad was opening the bowling for Leics right from day one, or close enough to it. He is a different bowler now to he was then. Whats true about it? The lads done well and it isn't his fault! He was only offered it and maybe was naive to take it but he will learn, and become an excellent leader and cricketer.

[Outlaw]

I think people want Hamilton-Brown to fail due to how he handles himself, he has a real arrogance about him which is all well and good when you can back that up with performances.

[c1arkie]

No, hes a talent, why does everyone have this view, the lad is class!

Class? His Godfather is the only hint of class about him, and perhaps that explains his otherwise unjustified hype, arrogance and sense of entitlement. Just when you think he has made a sensible career move to knuckle down at Sussex he reappears as Surrey skipper! Personally I cheer every failure, and I expect there to be lots of them.

[Buzz]

I would really like to see RH-B do well. So many people in this country clamour to give youth a chance, then when we see it happen at Surrey the knives get drawn, Adams has picked a lot of young players (as have most of the counties) so it will take them a while to get going.  The Surrey members need something to grumple at, what else do they have to talk about all day!!!!
It willk take him a few games to get used to captaining the team, but a big hundred would certainly really help him.

[jamespaxton]

Surrey other than Ramps, Davies and Hamilton Brown are pathetic, Jaques was on another level than all other Aussie openers, but he Was but isnt now. Rogers has overtaken him for me, and apart from Steve Law and Brad Hodge, Rogers is the most unlucky cricketer to play for Australia.

stuart law?

[alexrickyponting]

I dont mean senior as in opening, there would have been more experienced seamers with him wouldnt there, people who have been there done that that can give invaluable bits of information. Please tell me you dont think hes done well since coming to surrey! If it wasnt for the names on the back of the shirts i wouldnt have known who was captain when i went! And his batting has been poor hasnt it. He was definately naive to take it tbh i reckon adams knew captaincy was the only way he could get his golden boy to surrey and he might strip him of it after a while now hes got the contract. we can but hope.

 "The Surrey members need something to grumple at, what else do they have to talk about all day!!!!" I think weve good enough to bloody grumble at down here already, our utter failure over the last couple of seasons!!?!?!

[niceonechoppy]

You could argue that the lad has put un-necessary pressure upon himself to perform, if he thinks he can back that up with performances then good on him, but he needs to show it, there is no reason why he cant. Personally, I would've stayed at Sussex in a successful team and go about working hard on my game to be the best cricketer possible then captaining a county, but we all have different ideas about cricket and isnt that the beauty of the game?

[jamespaxton]

what about Bresnan and Shahzad at Yorkshire?!

[niceonechoppy]

Changed it now James, thanks for pointing that out. Bresnan and Shazhad are England material and are good foils with Shahzad being a slippery seamer and Bresnan a more work man like swing and seam bowler, what Gale was doing bowling Mcgrath though I have no idea!

[alexrickyponting]

I agree to an extent, Personally even as a surrey fan i wouldnt have touched surrey with a bargepole if i planned to play for england, I think it would take someone special to perform well enough to catch the selectors eyes in the surrey side, Ramprakash doesnt get the support he needs half the time, so how did hamilton-brown think he would do well here,  reckon he shot himself in the foot really but he wont be dropped by adams will he.
"but we all have different ideas about cricket and isnt that the beauty of the game?" one of the many beauties of the game id say

[tommy2tink]

I agree to an extent, Personally even as a surrey fan i wouldnt have touched surrey with a bargepole if i planned to play for england

You should have told your new 'keeper that before he signed for you guys.

[Outlaw]

Money talks.