Hi,
All plodding along, on and off the field, though stony broke in both versions of reality. So I've put 19YO Prof Bat Bennett on the market for a speculative £1.5M, just to see if I can get any bites. I figured that my season is virtually over, after losing the title-defining match of my Friendly league. In IV.11 I'm sitting fourth, with a twelve point cushion over fifth-placed Victoria Drivers, and to very winnable matches before facing them to make certain. So whilst I'm not yet mathematically home and hosed, I'd be really disappointed if two more wins didn't do it for me.
So I can just about cope without Bennett for the time being, although I wouldn't say I was desperate to sell. It's simply that 19yo Profs are going for about the same price as 17yo Resps, sometimes even more, so what's the point in hanging on to him, when I could trade him in for someone younger and potentially better, and probably still have enough change to improve the fag-end of my bowling attack?
Training is slow going at the moment, nobody is on more than one primary net, and everyone had just popped when I suspended training for fat-camp, so now all my trainees are plus six or seven weeks, putting me still eight to ten weeks away from my next primary pop. Which is another reason why I'd like a new trainee, as whilst the general standard of my team is pretty good now, I don't have many with the potential to go on to be true guns, in the wider context of the game. Until now I'd concentrated on getting the general level of the team up to a balanced strong or so, but it seems as though even that can get pummelled by a side with mainly Comps and Resps supplemented by two or three Wands or better.
I've never had a double ton either, though hopefully that could all change tomorrow. I'm playing a semi-bot with Abs seam and Use Spin, and I've chosen to bat in an attempt to have at least one innings to watch tomorrow. The lucky openers are Sup/Resp Staveley and Qual/Med Greening, so hopefully there could be fireworks. Though I'll get my excuses in first, as the two potential sticking points are that their pitch is permanently uneven, and their fielding is Feeb - Pretty high compared to most human teams and remarkably high for a Bot! However, it could all be irrelevant, as they choose to bat every time they win the toss, in which case my openers will be lucky to get double figures, as Berserkers have only passed twenty batting first on two occasions this season…(Mumbles into his sleeve)…One of those was against me, when they posted 135!! However in my defence, I was still in the Cup at the time, so I played a hodgepodge mix of Med misfits.
BTW, Is anyone who's not in the CW Cup looking for a friendly? Greg? I'll be playing a pretty weak reserve side. I've got a weak off in my friendly league, and I'd just like to try and keep the cash rolling in.
Later, Trev
