Lunch to be scrapped?
In 1888, after a year of very poor financal performance, Warwickshire trimmed costs by ceasing to provide lunch for the professional players. Is this not a move that the county should seriously consider in 2008?
If not a complete abolition of lunch, perhaps an incentive-based system whereby a player is allocated an amount of nosebag relevant to the amount of runs/wickets he has secured.
I can vouch for the fact that avoidance of an empty tum is a great spur to work harder. When I was little I had to do the chores (sweep the chimney, scour the cooker, remove the dead rats from the outside lavatory and sandpaper the cat) before I was given even a few scraps.
I came from a poor family, you see. One year things were so tight that mum and dad gave me an empty box for Christmas and told me it was an action-man deserter.
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Brian Halford
Brian Halford’s look at Edgbaston.
Pack it in Halford! The season's not even started yet and you're already wheeling out the Action Man deserter.....
Could I fit in that box?
Cold, wet and the Action Man deserter - now I know I'm home.
Lewis is generally optimistic, but concerned about the absence of Ambrose.
We'd scrap lunch yes. One interval, halfway through the day, is more than enough. Having 40 minutes for lunch, when the day has hardly got going to start with, is plain crazy especially as so much time is lost to the weather anyway.
Wot say this theory is expanded to Brian's writing?
If he doesn't do the business, then he doesn't get cake?
As we celebrated Jesus' resurrection on Easter Sunday, so I agree that Warwickshire should resurrect this idea Brian. Nice one.
Ash Christon
And the crowd for the Bears opening Friends Provident League fixture is...five thousand, no hundred and eighty three.
Maybe Brian's not the only one who should cut out the cakes!
what a load of cobblers
I used to love sandpapering the cat - I can sense that familiar smell now!
Must be a great view of Cobblersville from the top of that Express Lifts Tower.