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England would never let a part-time bowler lead their seam attack, but when it comes to spin, time and time again, they toss the ball to a non-specialist and hope that they will somehow deliver. Madness.
Adelaide traditionally offers spinners assistance and Australia have selected their team accordingly, but not us, sigh.
When I was 16 and playing colts cricket, I got hacked off with my club and then, when offered a game by the club my grandad used to play for, jumped at the chance and moved.
They very soon offered me a game with the men's team - something my previous club had never done - and over the moon, I went along for my debut.
It went well and they were a great bunch, but after the game I got a real shock: There were showers but they were for the opposition, the home players were supposed to use the massive, concrete bath .
I was a shy and callow youth, so the prospect of this weird, communal washing experience was utterly terrifying. The way some of the larger players entered the bath with a belly flop was far from helpful, too. I just had to grit my teeth, try not to dwell on how unhygienic it all was and get on with it.
Someone used to nip off the pitch 20 minutes before the expected end of the match to turn on the bath's gigantic taps. I shudder to think how much it would cost to fill such a thing these days.
Maybe every home fan should take their Christmas card list, then, as Marti walks out, showily cross his name off it .
I don't hold a grudge against him, he did a good job with a thin squad and fluctuating support from the board/ C suite. Like most managers without a strong connection to QPR, he probably wasn't going to stay that long and in any case, he appeared to be forced out at the end.
I hear what you're saying but this time, unfortunately, the team we are playing at the end of the three game week is comfortably in second place in the division.
That doesn't mean we should write the game off, but it was always going to be very tough.
I prefer the be patient, build slowly approach, I really do, but my concern is that this club is prone to massive slumps in form, major personnel churn and seismic changes in strategy.
That means that part of me thinks that if - *if* - we do have a chance of going up, we need to seize it, without breaking P&S rules, mind.
As a club, we never seem to be far away from a meltdown plus we have been in this league for a long time without a real sniff of promotion.
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