Our first advantage of the new season. We're two points clear of the Taffies already.

Yes but do you know how to get there Paperboy?

Glamorgan suffer two point penalty

The three group winners will qualify for the semi-finals along with the best second-placed team.

Group A: ECB Recreational XI, Glamorgan, Lancashire, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex, Worcestershire.
Group B: Derbyshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Holland, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Yorkshire.
Group C: Durham, Hampshire, Kent, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Scotland, Warwickshire

This is going to be a another brilliant season.

All together now.....
Good Old Sussex by the Sea, Good Old Sussex by the Sea, oh we're going up to win the cup for Sussex by the Sea!

You really have to try hard to be this stupid.Too much cricket so add a few teams, play home and away and have no quarter finals. Total stupidity.

If you took two average joes like say Paperboy and Sweaty they would have had 4 groups of 5 (two home ,two away games) with top two going to quarter finals...less games ,less dead games,some knockout fun.

There must have been 22 Average Joes on this messageboard previously saying:

40 over cricket is more family friendly and convenient to watch (after deciding to scrap it, the ECB eventually re-instated it).

Two Twenty/20 competitions in a domestic season was excessive (the ECB eventually scrapped plans for the introduction of the second competition).

No quarter-finals in the Twenty/20 competition created too many dead matches (the ECB eventually introduced quarter-finals)

No semi-finals for the original 50 over C&G/FPT competition created too many dead rubbers (the ECB eventually introduced semi-finals)

And now........no quarter-finals for the new 40 over competition.

If brains were dynamite the ECB executives wouldn't have enough between them to blow up a paper bag.
Expect them to realise their error about this time next year and announce the introduction of quarter-finals for the 2011 season. 

The infinite Giles Clarke theorem states that Giles Clarke hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will never type the complete works of Shakespeare, but will formulate an infinite number of Pro 40 competition formats none of which will have quarter finals.

If you took two average joes like say Paperboy and sweaty they would have had 4 groups of 5 (two home ,two away games) with top two going to quarter finals...less games ,less dead games,some knockout fun.Then you could play a 50 over knockout including Scotland and Raratonga and a Lords final. In all less games and more interest
Why do the average joes know more than ECB.

Really am fed up with the way the ECB re running the game it is high time that some ousted Clarke who couldn't organise a p*** up in a brewery.