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[Buzz]

I think Davies signed for the cash - the whole "I want to play for England" thing is for the media

Alex RP I totally agree with you on what you have said above.

[alexrickyponting]

lol, its good for us, if he gets into england well have to find another keeper but luckily he seems to be behind kieswetter and prior in the pecking order.
I reckon part of Daviesthinking was that he has realised hes further from the england set-up now so he can practice his keeping on our wayward bowling and hell always get an opportunity for a nice long innings 

thanks buzz

[Alvaro]

surrey are certainly winning on the getting the cash in ... maybe this is what they really care about?

[Buzz]

surrey are certainly winning on the getting the cash in ... maybe this is what they really care about?

I would rather we broke even and were at least in the top division challlenging for the title than with pots of cash and a poor team. At least we have a good administrative set up...

[alexrickyponting]

tbh i doubt it alvaro, adams maybe but not surrey as a whole, we have to good a history to just care about "getting the money in" i know the members dont think like that, go on 606 and see the amount of depressed surrey fans 

well said buzz

[Alvaro]

but isn't that the problem with all pro. cricket? The people/members care about winning and progressing and the administrators/ceos only care about the cash...

[alexrickyponting]

if they only cared about the cash they wouldnt have bought davies or hamilton-brown or symonds would they?

[niceonechoppy]

Thats true Alvaro, thats what teams are doing in test cricket, instead of providing a result they are looking to elongate the match to increase profits, shame really. Unfortunately the days of green tops all summer are gone, at least in pro cricket.

[Alvaro]

to give the veneer of trying to improve?
i'm probably being too cynical

[Buzz]

most have to care about the cash as they run at a massive deficit - so it is understandable as they are about to go broke. But Surrey have a tremendous record and this team and last years team are terrible. It just shows what an amazing job Alex Furgason does in rebuilding his Man Utd team every 5 years. Surrey have singularly failed to do that. Adams is making the right noises and we have to give the players a few games to bed in, but we really seem to have made life hard for ourselves.

Symonds has been bought to fill the oval during the 2020 - again it is all about the cash

[alexrickyponting]

lol probably, i suppose the white van parked over the road from your house is MI5 monitoring you

[Alvaro]

most have to care about the cash as they run at a massive deficit - so it is understandable as they are about to go broke. But Surrey have a tremendous record and this team and last years team are terrible. It just shows what an amazing job Alex Furgason does in rebuilding his Man Utd team every 5 years. Surrey have singularly failed to do that. Adams is making the right noises and we have to give the players a few games to bed in, but we really seem to have made life hard for ourselves.

Symonds has been bought to fill the oval during the 2020 - again it is all about the cash

County Cricket dominance tends to go like that - Yorkshire in the 20s/30s under Lord Hawke, that great Surrey side of the 50s with Surridge at the helm, Surrey in the 90s with Hollioake, then Sussex under Grizzly, now Durham but it is also SO jobs for the boys and benefit-based that county cricket teams have historically petered out with the great players getting old and selfish and hanging on for one more season, and along come another team to take over.

Then the broom comes out 'youth' they cry and therefore I think Surrey will come again, perhaps when smaller counties have gone bust and it's just them and the other counties lucky enough to have Test match grounds and membership of global franchises like Hants.

[niceonechoppy]

This is getting ridiculous, Harinath is on 43 from 211 balls....

[alexrickyponting]

its very annoying because we need someone to stay there but NOT THAT SLOWLY! sussex wont bat if harinath has his way!

[Alvaro]

still there though...if he gets 100 he's on course to face about 500 balls!