Bonkers bonkers bonkers. A, that there are so many good Yps around - I mean it's getting to the stage that you can count yourself unlucky if you don't get at least one Resp in your first two pulls. B, that this doesn't seem to have had any appreciable effect on dampening down the transfer market. C, that nobody in BT authority has stopped to think of the massive debasement of BT skills which this flood of Resp Yps is going to have in two or three seasons. D, Quite how vain a lot of managers appear to be, gladly passing up bargain players with one level inferior secondaries or Stam, preferring to pay through the nose for potential U19 prospects, when only twenty or so of the three hundred currently on the market will ever get a look-in.
However, none of that is quite as outlandishly, insanely Brittany Speares'esque as this bloke!
Hayden*Pine £4,000,000 (opening price)
Plays for: alpalz CC Stamina: worthless W/Keeping: woeful
Age: 24 years old Batting: exquisite Concentration: abysmal
BT Rating: 53,077 Bowling: wonderful Consistency: woeful
Deadline: 05/06/2008 05:51 Fielding: woeful
Averages 25 with the bat, T/S 35*, and 66 with the ball, Econ 6.34. Well worth £54K P/W!!! Although, having said all that, I personally don't think he's irretrievable, and if you had two Stam nets, a Field and a WK going spare, he'd probably be a pretty cheap way of getting yourself an awesome allrounder. Would certainly represent a quicker return on your money than a 17YO Resp/Resp
I pulled a Comp/Feeb RFM, Woe Stam, Woe/Woe Bat, comp Field. With wages of £553, he's nothing special, but hopeful of getting £100+ for him.
No pops today - Currently in trans-season fat-camp, with the worst five fatty 1st teamers receiving two nets each, so expecting a glut of pops in two or three weeks time.
Oh yes, and so nearly ****ed up my cup match, resting two many bowlers and TIEing when the oppos GFIed. Posted 400/5, Staveley 162 (121), Greening 109 (88), Patel 57 (44), Mohammed 42* (19). Then shipped 360/5!!! And they were up with the rate until at least 35 overs - That was real squeaky bum time!
Have a really odd second round draw, with ratings in their last few matches of: Qual/Abs/Abs - Prof/Feeb/Abs! What's that all about?
But can anyone top 760 runs in an OD match?
Later, Trev