Glamorgan

Glamorgan has not been a very happy club for a while now. Since the schism that saw the departure of coach Matthew Maynard, his son Tom, CEO Paul Russell, captain Jamie Dalrymple and Mike Powell in a few short months in 2011, things have not been right at the SWALEC Stadium. Fans have been disillusioned by results on the pitch, a lack of local talent and little signs of progress towards a successful team. At the end of the 2012 season Director of Cricket, Colin Metson, also moved on, something that has pleased most fans.

These feelings of frustration were not helped by the departure of local boy James Harris to Middlesex. Almost as soon as the ink was dry on his new contract at Lord's he got a long awaited call up to the full England squad. This just added to the opinion of Glamorgan fans that when you play for an unfashionable county you are at the back of the queue when it comes to international recognition.

Glamorgan is the only county that represents a country and Welsh people are proud of that. That local players move away to be recognised is exasperating. Rightly or wrongly some Glamorgan fans would rather see a Welsh team lose than a team of "foreigners" win. Right now they have neither and are understandably annoyed. With the signing of Michael Hogan, a British passport holder who has been playing for Western Australian, some fans have started referring to the county as "Glamstralia". With Jim Allenby, Marcus North, Stewart Walters, Dirk Nannes (for T20) and now Hogan turning up, they may have a point.