I want Dyche to go

[7decades]

and manage the England cricket team !!

[MarkGreen]

[houseboy]

and manage the England cricket team !!

I don't like cricket. I don't really care if they win or not. Ergo: the above post is of course nonsense.

Question: How did anyone manage to invent a game that is both boring AND dangerous? When I was at school my loathing of cricket didn't prevent me from being in the school team occasionally because, although I can't bat or bowl in any way shape or form, I was put in the field because I was quick and displayed an ability to catch a ball. This skill lead to me being in one of two positions, either slips (only occasionally) or in a ridiculous position known as mid-on (or more commonly silly mid-on). It was here that I learned that the game I believed to be boring in the extreme became dangerous. If the batsman hits the ball in a natural and common way mid-on becomes basically a firing range and the fielder is the bloody target. Given that a cricket ball is A - hard and B - fast if hit correctly I found myself spending half the time ducking. I came to the conclusion that I was in the team not for my fielding ability but because the PE teacher didn't like me. Either way this whole exciting interlude in my life only served to make me hate the damn game even more.

I don't care that we lost the Ashes.

[dpinsussex]

I don't like cricket. I don't really care if they win or not. Ergo: the above post is of course nonsense.

Question: How did anyone manage to invent a game that is both boring AND dangerous? When I was at school my loathing of cricket didn't prevent me from being in the school team occasionally because, although I can't bat or bowl in any way shape or form, I was put in the field because I was quick and displayed an ability to catch a ball. This skill lead to me being in one of two positions, either slips (only occasionally) or in a ridiculous position known as mid-on (or more commonly silly mid-on). It was here that I learned that the game I believed to be boring in the extreme became dangerous. If the batsman hits the ball in a natural and common way mid-on becomes basically a firing range and the fielder is the bloody target. Given that a cricket ball is A - hard and B - fast if hit correctly I found myself spending half the time ducking. I came to the conclusion that I was in the team not for my fielding ability but because the PE teacher didn't like me. Either way this whole exciting interlude in my life only served to make me hate the damn game even more.

I don't care that we lost the Ashes.

Catch the damn thing you wuss

[cricketfieldclarets]

I don't like cricket. I don't really care if they win or not. Ergo: the above post is of course nonsense.

Question: How did anyone manage to invent a game that is both boring AND dangerous? When I was at school my loathing of cricket didn't prevent me from being in the school team occasionally because, although I can't bat or bowl in any way shape or form, I was put in the field because I was quick and displayed an ability to catch a ball. This skill lead to me being in one of two positions, either slips (only occasionally) or in a ridiculous position known as mid-on (or more commonly silly mid-on). It was here that I learned that the game I believed to be boring in the extreme became dangerous. If the batsman hits the ball in a natural and common way mid-on becomes basically a firing range and the fielder is the bloody target. Given that a cricket ball is A - hard and B - fast if hit correctly I found myself spending half the time ducking. I came to the conclusion that I was in the team not for my fielding ability but because the PE teacher didn't like me. Either way this whole exciting interlude in my life only served to make me hate the damn game even more.

I don't care that we lost the Ashes.

Is that you Lee Grant?

[ablueclaret]

Without Irish imports he'd do nothing.

[houseboy]

Catch the damn thing you wuss

I did a few times and that's what made them keep picking me. I eventually figured that if I was sh!t they would drop me. I don't like cricket you see so it was no loss to my life when they eventually realised I wasn't actually enjoying myself. I also played rugby union, which I enjoyed immensely.

[bobinho]

I like cricket. And I support England. But anyone, ANYONE, who wants SD to leave Burnley to manage a cricket team must never be allowed to access the Internet ever again.

Yes, I know it was tongue in cheek, and he probably didn’t mean it, but all the same....

[cutsy123]

Cricket is terrible

[houseboy]

I like cricket. And I support England. But anyone, ANYONE, who wants SD to leave Burnley to manage a cricket team must never be allowed to access the Internet ever again.

Yes, I know it was tongue in cheek, and he probably didn’t mean it, but all the same....

It IS a damned disgraceful suggestion even in jest. Mr Dyche (or Sean to me) has a job to do in the same way that God did when he/she/it created the world (did you notice my little nod in the direction of PC there - a gender, non-specific reference to God - even if there is one)? Sean has to carry on creating and honing and fine tuning this well-oiled machine that is Burnley football club so no commitment to any outside influence is allowed I'm afraid.
Fredric Nietzsche once coined the famous phrase 'God is Dead', and if Sean ever leaves us to go elsewhere I believe that is how we will feel at the time.

***Nietzsche, whilst being a brilliant thinker (although more than a little bonkers, literally) kind of missed his own point with that famous phrase. He was an atheist so pronouncing dead that which you believe to be non-existent was a little illogical (although I THINK he meant 'the church' really).