Isn’t it wonderful how joy can turn to despair so quickly.
Harumph. Back to the pub.
Lancs 17-2 
Well, we’re now 158-6, so that’s a lead of 208. Five wickets to the off-spinner, so that might just bode well - as will Rallyboy keeping well away for the rest of the match!
Lead of 226 with three wickets left
Still alive - just
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I reckon 250 or anything over that would be a challenging total on what could well be a deteriorating wicket. Their off-spinner has done well with 5-64 so far, so if our own spinners can get their collective act together then we’re in with a good shout.
We’ll see - I’ll stay optimistic until it’s no longer possible to be optimistic.
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As the whole season boils down to one day and I have developed the psychic ability to negatively alter the outcome of games just by checking the score, I will stay away from the scores and here until tomorrow evening, it’s the least I can do to help.
Aaaaampshire!
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One of the good things about being over 50 is that you can remember the last time we won the County Championship; one of the bad things about getting relegated is that the 43 year LONG WAIT to win it again goes on for at least another two fucking years. So, one last BIG effort to stay up please, Hampshire!
I’d like to think that chasing any sort of target – even 226 – won’t be easy for Durham, and that our spinners will make things very difficult for them. Trouble is, though, Dawson has a bad finger and young Crane seems to have been labouring under the weight of too much expectation recently. Maybe Smith turning it out of the rough will be key? Vince needs to show ingenuity and intensity with his captaincy and be prepared to mix things up a bit – for instance, I thought he should have made more use of Wheal yesterday, especially against Onions.
Anyway, I’m supposed to be working at home today, but I can’t see me getting too much done from 10.30 onwards. I’m tempted to put the Naughty Nuns and Bouncing Boobies on stand-by in case we need to buy a wicket; but I appreciate that these sort of things suddenly popping up on screens can be awkward for fellas at work, so I guess we’ll just have to rely on the players out there on the pitch to Do The Business (and, of course, for Jonahboy to stay away from this thread until this evening!)
Come on 'aaaaampshire!
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If I remember Gorden was in the team then ?
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Thats the man. At the time every body was afraid to bowl against them. must have broken the spirits of many an opening bowler between them.
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Yeah, Phil, I watched Greenidge and Richards a lot in 1974 – the season after we won the championship – because I had a quite a bit of spare time that year between leaving school and starting work. At times they appeared to be competing against each other to see who could take the piss out of the opposition bowlers the most. Barry Richards’s biggest problem was that he found batting so easy there were times he seemed to get bored and throw his wicket away!
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Halo you do realise that some youngsters are going to come on here and say what the heck are you two old fogey’s on about?
But we will know we watched some maestro’s of the cricketing world play for Hampshire.
Vince does just not cut it for me.
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To be honest, Phil, most of the time I don’t know what the heck I’m going on about myself. 
As for Vince, he’s a very talented batsman but appears to have a fatal flaw with balls at a certain width outside the offstump. His concentration seems to be an issue at times too. I wouldn’t be surprised if his experiences with England this summer have undermined his confidence, although, to be fair, he played well in the first innings of this match and, according to the guys on the radio, was undone by a very good ball in the second innings.
Be interesting to see where his career goes from here. I’m not too sure he’s the right man to captain us tbh.
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What needs to happen from the BBC.
Who joins Nottinghamshire in being relegated to Division Two next summer will also be decided on the final day of the season, with Warwickshire, Lancashire and Hampshire battling to avoid the one remaining relegation place.
The Bears look favourites to seal the win that will secure their survival after reducing Lancashire to 28-3 at Edgbaston in their second innings, requiring another 319 runs to win.
However, a win for Hampshire, who closed on 176-7 with a lead of 226 over Durham, would relegate the loser of the Warwickshire-Lancashire game.
Meanwhile, a draw at Edgbaston and a Hampshire win would send the Bears down - while an unlikely Lancashire win would mean a draw would be enough for Hampshire to stay up at Warwickshire’s expense.
In that last scenario, Hampshire and Warwickshire would both finish on 160 points, with the same number of wins, but the south coast side would stay up by virtue of fewer defeats than the Bears.
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I’m off into the wilderness now - good luck boys, make me proud.
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In some far off time yet to come the Founding Fathers (and Grandfathers) of Papsweb will tell Future Generations of the time Rallyboy took one for the team.
Well played that man!
P.S. If this works out you do realise that you’ll be expected to stay in the wilderness for the entirety of next season?
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Ah, when Bournemouth had just left Hampshire and was now part of Dorset but they still played the odd game at Dean Park!!
Mind you I was 4-6 then, and living in Germany so as you were…
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186-8 BTW
Originally posted by @BTripz
186-8 BTW
Who is ?
Got to be forgiven first day off the boat with an open bar
Are we going to stay up?
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When I was that age I saw Hampshire play a couple of games at Cowes, Isle of Wight.
Hants now 200/8. Lead of 250.
Well played McManus
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