Another Wash Out at Hove

It’s now the fourth rain-affected T20 game endured by Sussex Sharks, meaning that we have only 5 points from them, one being a tie. Clubs invest heavily in that select group of players that tour the World playing T20.

In our case we have the Kiwi Ross Taylor. I was some 20 minutes late for the game, unable to work out how you text your payment for street parking.

It’s an old theme of the Rust but not everyone brings a credit card and mobile with them and if they do the instructions on texting were incomprehensible. Further as it was a hire car I had no wish to set up an account for it. Eventually I paid for ticket from a nearby machine, displayed and hoped for the best. Brighton has to be the least car friendly city in the U.K.

Middlesex scored 176 in just inder 18 overs but the heavens opened and Sussex did not get to bat. Not for the first time we gathered inside our bar for shelter and cheery chat. At 8-30 pm it was enough already. For the metro franchise to work there needs to be greater flexibility on start times but as a friend pointed out we are in the hands of the paying broadcaster, in this case last night SKY who eventually showed woman’s cricket instead.

Allow me to update our readers on Brighton HAFC. The biggest signing to date is the Aussie international keeper Mat Ryan as David Stockdale has joined Birmingham.

Midfielder Pascal Gross has signed from the Bundesliga and Oliver Norwood joined Fulham on loan. Suttner an Austrian left back has been signed. The feeling is that the squad is far too weak to survive in the Premier so we must get some fresh talent in soon.

Everyone has been seeking a striker except our first opponents Manchester City who splashed our mote than £100m on three fullbacks; Mendy, Walker and Danilo. The problem is that there is a trickle-down effect for the clubs with more modest budgets. £10m buys you very little these days. I sometimes wonder if the Albion would do better to take the money and a year’s parachute payment, accept relegation and build a team that will get promoted next season.