[jjamez]

Themaclad, the board is composed of people with blinkered vision of yesterday and are deluded, they expect players to play for peanuts, the players do right to chase the money. The island rivalries are nothing major, its mainly fans who are compelled by the rivalry, its only like over here where a surrey fan would want stoneman in the england side, whilst a durham fan would want jennings ect, the Caribbean fans believe the players from their island deserve a place and that the teams fortunes would change if they got their chance. Its normal really.

As for Ireland and Afghanistan, its about time that someone new got test status especially with Zimbabwe struggling as bad as they are. I hope it doesnt end with just ireland and Afghanistan, I hope that some others make that step eventually. When they do test cricket and odi cricket can have a proper revamp and even I have an idea on what could be done in that regard...