Hello there! One thing I would like to suggest. How's about a County Cricket forum? I have no idea where to post anything on county cricket atm. Of course, this should also include overseas national competitions if people wish to discuss them, but as a big fan of a county, I'm lost at the moment to see where I should debate the major county questions of the day and end up posting them on the England page where I don't want to run the risk of cluttering the forum with issues that others may not see as important to them.

Yeah, I posted county stuff on the sub forum in the england page (for lesser interest/rhino posters) about Kent, and I know other guys/girls have posted stuff on the England board about counties. Perhaps You could ask admin to make a sticky post for county issues for the time being and maybe a sub forum for county issues could be a future development.
Many posters follow a county/state side, it could be a interesting forum.

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The description of the England forum says, "England cricket forum for national and domestic cricket discussion." Domestic cricket means county cricket. Please post county threads on the England forum.

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I realise that, but I would also say that any county thread would probably quickly get overwhelmed by England threads, especially for more occasional users like myself and also, and rightly so, those who do not have such in interest in county affairs could get annoyed by the posting of county related issues. I certainly feel uneasy about posting minor interest county issues to the England board.

hence make it sticky

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Andy, the name of the board is World A-Team. There should be equal emphasis given to domestic cricket issues especially in relation to up and coming players we should know about who may go on to play international cricket.

Was anyone surprised to see Glamorgan's Alex Wharf called up to replace injured Kabir Ali in the England one-day squad to face India?

Gloucestershire seam bowler Jon Lewis has been placed on stand-by to provide cover if any of the pacemen in the tour squad to South Africa suffer injuries. Is anyone surprised?

I'd like to see more county related posts discussing such issues.

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Fine. It was just a suggestion as its the one thing the Beeb forum has over this one in my opinion; but I'll forget about it and do as you say and post my county posts on the England board. But I reserve the right to raise this again if county posts are getting diluted or ignored

I've a lot of sympathy on that front Andy: County cricket discussion HAS been slack around here this summer.. and not just duriing the Tests: I for one would welcome more on that front.

I've seen boards in the past where county cricket threads were kept seperate.. and though those threads were less active.. they were frequently more interesting.. not least because the county cricket forum simply appealed to the contributers who really cared about English cricket right down to the grassroots (and who understood the game very thoroughly) and didn't appeal to the "England Fans" (of whom, the less said the better).

Seems a godd time to test the water on the county cricket front though: there's no English Test cricket of any sort for some time.. and I suspect there are enough grass-roots contributers on this board to keep such threads pretty near the top of the heap!

There have been threads on county topic, in the past, and there has been some interest, but not a great deal.as Mike says the right is there to post on county issues, but being honest it is used as an England board in the main, I hope it catches on for Andy, but there is more demand on the BBC for county topics.IMHO.

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Andy, I am prepared to create a sub-forum for county related issues if necessary. Try a few county threads on the England board first and see what sort of reponse you get. If people don't participate in those threads on the England board I'm not sure they will be any more motivated to do so if the same threads were posted on a dedicated county forum.

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