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The 2009 fixtures will at last be published on Thursday.
Will the Bears get Arundel? That would be groovy.
Or Liverpool? Or Basingstoke?
I just have a strange, sneaky feeling than those little devils at Yorkshire will send the Bears back to Scarborough where, of course, their last two visits, in 2006 and 2007, brought defeats by an innings and 96 runs and an innings and 210 runs.
Warwickshire's home fixtures for 2009 will include no fixtures at out-grounds.
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Warwickshire's home fixtures for 2009 will include no fixtures at out-grounds? That's a real shame.
A shame indeed.
I couldn't agree more. It's high time they went back to Coventry.
How about a game in the county town?
Sadly the costs to stage games at grounds like this out weigh our wishes.
With the formidable entrepeneurial expertise at Warwickshire's disposal, surely there must be a way.
Hi Brian
I understand it's Notts at Horsham and Lancs at Hove first home game so your chances of joining us at Arundel are improving. Merry Xmas mate.
Cheers mate - and a very happy chrimbo and New Year to you.
Hove for the Bears, I believe, which is never a chore, of course.
Mind you, in the current state of this industry, who knows whether one will still be employed next summer!
A Bears home fixture-list without an outground visit is like an English pub without a pint of bitter.
Very true, sir.
Yes a real shame that Warks are maintaining their ostrich mentality and not taking the game to the people and boosting membership, attendances and coffers.
I still think - and hope - that logic will ultimately prevail and the people of Nuneaton, Coventry, Stratford, warwick, Rigby and Kenilworth will get a chane to host their team.
Happy Xmas Brian!
Cheers Jon - and a very happy Christmas to you. Talking of logic, or the lack of it, by the way, wait til you see the Bears' FPT itinerary for next May. Only one requirement - maximum inconvenience - appears to have been fed into the computer on this one with the highlight being Taunton, Edinburgh, London in four days!
Most other counties manage at least one out-ground don't they?
It would be nice for the Bears to play at least once a season in the county they represent!
Considering the amount of time that Warwickshire can't play at Edgbaston next season due to three showpiece games there you would have thought an outground would have been a godsend. Not to pursue that option even in those circumstances must mean they are about one million per cent dead set against the idea. Very sad.
Everyone at Sun Hill says so.
I'm a bit concerned that there's probably all sort of dastardly crimes being committed while you lot are all reading this blog....