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The most curious thing..
A pints of your foaming ale landlord please......
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Beer will be the key factor for the rest of the game.A pints of your foaming ale landlord please......
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Why do we play at Arundel and Horsham?
Never seem to win there.
Why do we play at Arundel and Horsham?
Never seem to win there.
Because it's Sussex and not Hove ccc.
Tbf... quite a few teams stick to one ground; one home.
In recent memory we seem to have had a few disasters at Arundel. The defeat to Unicorns, the T20 thrashing by Surrey and now getting slam dunked by Northants.
In the championship we're very good at Arundel/Horsham I think though.
Yes a lot of Counties do only have one home ground nowadays and it is much to the detriment of the County Game in my opinion. As someone else has pointed out it is a County Championship and the Team representing the County should play around the County.
I can't complain as both the current Out Grounds are in West Sussex, but I know if I lived in Eastbourne or Hastings (historical Out Grounds) I would be severely pissed off. As an aside I believe Horsham may get the chop next year due to the lack of availability of a 1 day game which would be very sad.
There you are Mr V - is that serious and sober enough for you?
Never realised all 3 were in West Sussex! Tbf, Brighton and Hove + surrounding areas like Lewes, Seaford, Newhaven is probably home to about 20% of the entire county's population, if also add Worthing and it's surrounding areas it goes up to nearly a third, so that's a third of the county all within a reasonable distance from the ground. Horsham and Arundel located Sussex fans are happy as they get 5 days of glorious cricket each year. Just leaves as you said Eastbourne and Hastings whom I do feel for, if you're a hardcore Sussex fan living in somewhere like that you probably would only bother coming out to Hove a few times a season, and because of this be a bit pissed off, as you said.
Places like Crawley don't count as part of Sussex, they're wannabee Londoners. So really Brighton and Worthing plus their surrounding areas could add up to about a half of this lovely county's population, meaning most Sussex people are happy when it comes to supporting their team in terms of distance from the home of cricket.
Never realised all 3 were in West Sussex! Tbf, Brighton and Hove + surrounding areas like Lewes, Seaford, Newhaven is probably home to about 20% of the entire county's population, if also add Worthing and it's surrounding areas it goes up to nearly a third, so that's a third of the county all within a reasonable distance from the ground. Horsham and Arundel located Sussex fans are happy as they get 5 days of glorious cricket each year. Just leaves as you said Eastbourne and Hastings whom I do feel for, if you're a hardcore Sussex fan living in somewhere like that you probably would only bother coming out to Hove a few times a season, and because of this be a bit pissed off, as you said.
Places like Crawley don't count as part of Sussex, they're wannabee Londoners. So really Brighton and Worthing plus their surrounding areas could add up to about a half of this lovely county's population, meaning most Sussex people are happy when it comes to supporting their team in terms of distance from the home of cricket.