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@LCC_swans @NeweyEd I see Tom’s agent is in background !!

Congratulations to @NeweyEd and Tom Nunn who are the first to 20 wickets this season. #seeds

@scbadger Surprised you haven’t mentioned the number of teams struggling to get sides out. Approx 6 teams will have their records expunged if they concede another match. A worrying trend and perhaps time the league to look at 12 team divisions at the bottom end playing each other once.

Sussex Prem at 13 games is interesting after yesterdays results 3 maybe 4 could win it, and anyone bottom half could go down Who is your money on?

@andy23culver @SussexCricketLg No way! What about junior matches on Saturday mornings?. Current start times is perfectly acceptable. Early starts only for agreed events

@SussexCricketLg Should just start at this time all weekends anyway

@imesh468 It was a pleasure watching your innings. Well deserved my friend

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@scbadger Depends on the make of your side and if it’s perceived by your club and league dangerous for young players playing up higher up the divisions.

Anyone know how this can happen? Asked why but I don’t know Thought you always had to play the highest teams or is there a rule that covers?

@thegma_ @Jegsy71 Hi Phil. I’ve sent you a message on Messenger. Hopefully you can help.

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@DavidHorne @Roger89835988 Very disappointing news - missed opportunity by the Council. Are you able to appeal to the Planning Inspectorate ? Hopefully you have time to submit a new application (with amendments) with help from Railway Heritage in time for the anniversary.

@Roger89835988 The recommendation was refusal. 23/01640/LBC was this attempt, our previous application was 23/00114/LBC.

This evening, I spoke at @CityofYork Planning Committee about our proposal to repair and restore the Porte Cochère at York station in time for the station’s 150th anniversary. Once again, we were refused permission. Going home sad that this opportunity has been missed 🙁

@scbadger The reality is the players are unfortunately not good enough. Bringing in an overseas player for 3 games says everything. To be fair to Farbrace you can’t change things around overnight. Will take a couple of seasons.

Sussex Men. Discuss? Any light amongst this gloom? Farbrace “That was the worst of the lot. This is the point where we say that’s it, we can’t get any lower than that.”

@CrawleyDownCC @scbadger Great to see a youngster doing so well. Will soon be contacted by a premier division side and promised 1st XI cricket and end up playing for the 2nd XI

What a performance by 16 y/o Alex Barker, scoring his 3rd consecutive 1st XI hundred yesterday in Div 5c 123 against Hayward’s Heath CC 2nd XI 135* against BalcombeCC 1st XI And yesterday 109* against St Matthias CC 1st XI #futuresbright 🏏👏 @ImberhornePe @SussexCricketFd

@LCC_swans Have you been on a photographic course?!!

Threatening clouds over the Common tonight...

@LCC_swans They have changed !!!

Name the band and album. Winner gets a 12 month supply of Fosters shandy.

@LCC_swans Good Luck Dom

Our Dominic Morgan is playing for Exeter University against Sussex CCC at Hove Saturday 1st -3rd April. First match of the season for both teams. All welcome at the County Ground. Free entry. Weather permitting.

@LCC_swans @RoffeyCC Is he registered??!!

Reckon @RoffeyCC has signed a new player. Lewis Shivarveree...

@Signature__Ldn @Dragon_Awards Good luck to everyone at Signature.

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@Si__Locke @scbadger @DaveSimmonds77 Premier Leagues in midlands have maximum of 5 teams in the league. Also need to accept that clubs rely heavily on a few individuals running their juniors etc. if they move on or retire it’s not easy to replace them. unfortunately in many cases takes clubs many years to recover.

Who is getting a 7th XI out 💪

@chrisbrady1981 @scbadger Can’t believe the league will let this go. What’s the point of having a league rule ? If it’s already happened before the league should have informed the clubs.

@scbadger The league will let it go, they have to, they already let the same thing go in a different division this season with a club conceding their higher level team & playing the lower level team

Shouldn’t be allowed. Who was it?

@scbadger Cricket needs to move with the times. Covid ‘bounce’ is over with more family oriented events at weekends. Divisions need to be reviewed throughout with considerations to playing teams only once at the lower end to enable shorter season to counter football season. Max 13 games.

7 weeks in, what are your thoughts on the season so far?

@01Wickers @LCC_swans Agree. Unfortunately MSDC like to implement more processes than the Brexit agreement so will probably need Boris to break these to implement.

@LCC_swans worthwhile investment . 👍

Fighting a losing battle over the next few days....

@MJBurroughs77 @sxcricketchair @scbadger structure is already based on Invitation, Mid Sussex and East Sussex leagues. Perhaps reduce the number of games played at the lower end, play teams once during a season. Max 12 games. Combine Divisions 3&4 with regional below with teams only playing each team once.

@sxcricketchair @scbadger Personally would like to see us go back to having 3 county leagues, 2’s mirror the 1s. Standard would improve as clearly declined over last 10 years. Bring back invitation league and other sub leagues across county as was actually a good level of cricket….

What do we think? Record number of conceded Sussex league games this weekend? Gotta be a struggle getting sides out with the combination of half term and loverly jubilee?

@sxcricketchair @scbadger It’s a Countrywide problem, not just sussex. ((. Needs to be a review which includes Junior cricket. Nothing should be off the table. Don’t delude ourselves, covid gave cricket a boost but we are now back to reality. Things will get worse with holidays, football early August!