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The Corridor’s doors are closing
By Will 3 years ago, at the end of October Leave a comment on this post
Unfortunately I’m going to have to change the name of the blog quite soon, for I am infringing a registered trademark (”The Corridor of Uncertainty,” obviously). So - add your thoughts as to what I should rename it and, in a few days, I’ll pick the top 5 and run a poll. I’m not suggesting I’ll choose any of your suggestions, but it ought to keep you busy for a few minutes.
Get creative!
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73 Responses to “The Corridor’s doors are closing”
October 25th, 2005 at 12.12 pm
October 25th, 2005 at 12.14 pm
Gah, that’s a bit of a shame! For a minute though when I read your title I thought you were closing down the blog entirely, so phew.
Just off the top of my head, I thought of “The Jaffa”, but then you might also have problems with that too… So how about:
“The Kevin Pietersen Factor”? Would acknowledge the immense popularity of one of your posts, and would also get the ladies visiting.
Or “The Whole Twenty-Two Yards” (oo-er). Cheesy, and you might have problems with some film-makers…
Or “The Twelfth Man”. Though there is already a blog called this and it has little to do with cricket.
How about “Bunnies and Rabbits”, to confuse animal lovers? (I’m clutching at straws now).
Maybe “Through The Gate”.
Or as a reference to some of your posts, “Silly Point”. (Just kidding)
Right, that’s all I can think of for now.
October 25th, 2005 at 1.30 pm
“Boundaries and Belters”
October 25th, 2005 at 1.30 pm
“The bowlers Holding…”
“sex isn’t too bad either” (great for google that one)
“Gone into the confectionery
stand”
“Hutton ill”
October 25th, 2005 at 1.32 pm
Trying to be sensible here, how about “first wicket stand” or “Middle order”?
Not so seriously, how about “Burning Deck”, in celebration of famous boy playing cricket on said surface?
“Middle wicket” is out - no pun intended - it is a registered type of beer.
October 25th, 2005 at 2.07 pm
“Chin music”
October 25th, 2005 at 2.29 pm
Back in Australia our local competition used to have a newsletter called “Red Leather”. Still the best name for a cricket news site/newsletter I have heard.
October 25th, 2005 at 3.22 pm
Hmm… what about ‘cow corner’ or may be ‘extras’ or ‘follow through’ or something like that …but I still can’t think of any thing quite as unique and catchy as CoU!
Do you really have to change the name, William? ‘Cause I quite love CoU 
October 25th, 2005 at 3.45 pm
ps for Nick: The board is already very popular with the ladies (4 of the top 5 “commentators are ladies)
October 25th, 2005 at 6.06 pm
enjoy the blog - sorry to hear you’ve got to change the name, how about “sticky wicket”?
October 25th, 2005 at 7.40 pm
What about The Nightwatchman.It’s not as good as CoU but what is?
October 25th, 2005 at 8.40 pm
1. The Zone of Uncertainty
2. Tape-Ball
3. Cricipedia
4. Some name derived from your place of birth or country. EG - Burewala Bomber
5. Silly MIDON
6. Square Leg
7. Cricdemonium
8. DustBowl
October 25th, 2005 at 8.41 pm
The Cricket Factor
October 25th, 2005 at 10.48 pm
A homage to the CLR James… Beyond the Boundary
October 25th, 2005 at 10.52 pm
All good, some excellent - thanks all. Keep ‘em coming
October 25th, 2005 at 11.37 pm
“Dreadlock Holiday” (I don’t like cricket, I love it…)
Could have the same trademark issues though
October 26th, 2005 at 2.20 am
This is really sad! CoU was like ahome to me durring the Ashes!
I like the idea of a fielding position…
“Long On”
“Third Man”
“Fine Leg”
“The Back Stop”
“Cow Corner”
Other ideas…
“Back in the Shed”
“A Quick Single”
“Taking Guard”
“NOT OUT”
“Four More”
“A Ripping Leggie”
“Sticky Wicket”
Somthing to do with Bouncers or Yorkers
Somthing using your name like….
“Will’s Willow”
“Will’s Wicket”
“Mailliw” 
OK i’m running out of ideas now. Hope i have been some help and hope it alls goes well! 
October 26th, 2005 at 2.54 am
1) Googly
2) Reverse Swing
3) The Great Game
4) Swept Away
or, best of all,
5) Corridor of Uncertainty. Oh….
October 26th, 2005 at 7.54 am
1.hawkeye
2.WillowBlaze
3.lap sweep
4.yorker
5.legslip
6.redcherry
7.fannels n willow
Regards
Rajesh
October 26th, 2005 at 8.55 am
Bummer about the trademark issue. Thanks to trademarks, there are lots of things with really stupid names, but you’ve got a lot of great suggestions here.
I was going to say “Silly Point”, too, or “The KP Fan Club”.
Here are a few other ideas:
As the Pitch Turns
The Slips Cordon
Cracking Good Shots
The Members’ Stand
On the Front Foot
On the Back Foot
Off Stump
The Fourth Umpire
The New Ball
Pull Shots
Down the Pitch
The Bouncer
Bouncers Galore
Owzat!
The Pavillion
The Pavillion End
The Long Room
The Forward Defense
The Rough Outside Leg
The Boundary Rope
Outside the Boundary
Fielding Restrictions
October 26th, 2005 at 9.13 am
Continuing on from before…
“Taking Will’s Wicket”
“Booowling Will”
“The Fall of a Wicket” (FoW)
“Change of Innings”
“Day 6″ (like the 19th hole in golf)
“The Third Dig”
“Over and Out”
Try some famous commentator sayings…
“Morning All” (Or what ever it is)
Um…..
“A good Length”
“Right Online”
“The Perfect Line”
“Right on the Money”
“Over the Rope”
“Into the Stands”
“Top Edge”
“Green Light”
“Through the Covers”
“Bad Light”
“Back to the Pavilion”
“90 MPH” (Bloody imperial poms)
Drawing blank again…
October 26th, 2005 at 9.16 am
How about ‘Doosra’?(or The Doosra) Since you already know it simply means ’second’ in english…and its your second stint at blogging…in a way.
October 26th, 2005 at 9.33 am
Suggestions? You have so many already. This one doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue…..
“accounted for tiny hit error”
but it is a maybe relevant anagram of CofU
Others
The channel of confusion
The passage of procrastination
The hallway of horrors
The alley of edges
The tunnel of turmoil
The angle of angst
The lobby of woes
Outside Off
Line and length (Oooh thats not bad, probably gone)
Will meet again ;-(
Ashes to Ashes
Sorry getting bad now, time to go
October 26th, 2005 at 10.05 am
Ashley Giles zindabad?
October 26th, 2005 at 10.06 am
Oh here i go again…
“First Drop”
“Second Slip”
(Both coming off wormas Doorsa/Second idea)
October 26th, 2005 at 10.10 am
How about something out of the Mark Nicholas dictionary
Jimmony Crikey
SIXA!
Jeepers
Oh My Gosh!
Or Tony Greig’s
Hard and Fast
Welcome to this Telecast
October 26th, 2005 at 10.12 am
“Will’s Worshippers”
October 26th, 2005 at 10.24 am
Ha, these are excellent, thanks all. Just because the name is changing doesn’t mean anything else will be…the blog will remain the same, so don’t jump ship just yet.
October 26th, 2005 at 10.25 am
Particularly keen on “Boooooooooooowling Will” - thanks Elliott
October 26th, 2005 at 10.37 am
I liked Elliot’s “Day 6″, but call it “The Sixth Day”.
Nothing else of significance springs to mind . . . well, maybe “Through the gate”, or “the drinks break”. Need more wine for this . . .
October 26th, 2005 at 10.38 am
Know i’m starting to think of sledges we use…
“Lets Knock his Castle Down”
“More blocks than a Lego set!”
“More Dots than an Aboriginal Painting”
(mabey not so good for you poms)
“Got him Jumping”
Ok so that lot wasn’t so good! I think i am running out of ideas!
October 26th, 2005 at 10.52 am
“Behind the Sightscreen”
“The Streaker!”
“Over the Top” (that one is a bit over the top though)
“Through the Infield”
“Stopped on the Boundry”
“Under the Grandstand”(Although this was a lunch break TV show in Australia when the Ashes were on)
Some of my friends refer to cricket as…
“Watching the Grass Grow”
“Around the Wicket” (A Tribute to Flintoff V Gillchrist)
“Will’s Warriors”
“The press Box”
AND
Reffering to the KP post…
“Will’s Women”………….
October 26th, 2005 at 10.55 am
Hang on. Change that last one to…
“Will’s fair Maidens”
October 26th, 2005 at 10.56 am
Oh and i just though of the best one yet!
You could name the blog……
“Please Click on the Google adds!”
October 26th, 2005 at 11.12 am
I like Elliots sledge concept.
Best sledge ever and new name for CofU
“Mind the Windows Tino”
October 26th, 2005 at 11.14 am
Er… please don’t call it anything KP-related… please, my friends will drive the mickey out of me if they find out I spend most of my free time talking cricket on a blog named after him - please Will, no.
All of Elliot’s suggestions are interesting, but you could try out something nice and simpe too, like ‘Will’s Cricket Blog’ …
October 26th, 2005 at 11.29 am
“Bowl to Your Field”
“Down Leg Side”
“Hit Wicket”
“Handled Ball”
“Down The Track”
“Hit the Deck”
“Pushing them Through”
“In the Cracks”
“Bring out the Covers”
“Step Up To the Crease”
October 26th, 2005 at 11.39 am
The new cherry
The shiny nut
White balls can’t swing
Seams Proud
Cork in Cowhide
Gotta go to bed!
October 26th, 2005 at 11.44 am
What about calling it “Michelle Pfeiffer”
or may be “second slip” (which might be apt in a way)
or perhaps “reverse swing”
October 26th, 2005 at 11.44 am
White balls can’t swing! Ha!
October 26th, 2005 at 11.45 am
You could have “the new nut” and “the shiny cherry”, Chris
(damn! I didn’t think of balls)
October 26th, 2005 at 11.56 am
God I can’t believe I’m starting to get competitive over this. Must get a life.
The Aluminium Bat
Underarm and overjoyed
Desktop Willie
A Glorious Day at the Oval
They don’t like it up ‘em
October 26th, 2005 at 12.17 pm
“Playing it Straight”
Just a bit of fun Chris. Although i didn’t think i would be able to think of this many cricket related phrases!
*Note to self: run down to shop and get a life!
“Down the Ground”
“Jump the Fence”
And back to the sledges…
“So hows the wife, and my kids”
October 26th, 2005 at 12.35 pm
I’ll tell you what. Will is gunna have a hard time picking the top 5!
Anyway its off to bed for me! I gotta go to school tomorrow!! and its 10:30 here!
Keep them coming Chris!
October 26th, 2005 at 12.39 pm
My favorite sledge of all time is
“I’ll bowl a piano, try playing that”
thankfully that’s too long for a name - for some reason I’m not too keen on the sledged for a name idea … how’s your wife and me kids is a little is not exactly in good taste or definitely not my level …
October 26th, 2005 at 1.36 pm
“Kevin Peiterson ate my Hampster!”
October 26th, 2005 at 1.59 pm
Will, looks like you might have to set up 2 blogs - the “really witty cricketing name” blog and the “knotted bloomers over KP” blog!
October 26th, 2005 at 5.52 pm
I had a thought. You could take a tip from Prince and call it “The blog formerly known as The Corridor of Uncertainty”. And then you could have a picture of a ball whizzing by off stump and say that the picture is the actual name of the blog.
October 26th, 2005 at 6.44 pm
Something we use in club cricket is a personal favourite:
“all swing no ding”
for when someone aims a terrific mow and misses
There are some excellent examples here but I like The Passageway of Procrastination even though it might describe constipation more aptly.
October 26th, 2005 at 8.40 pm
Hmm, I’m a fan of Cow Corner too, but ideally you need something that contracts into a TLA, like CoU.
…The Bowler’s Will(ey)?
Flat Truck Bulletin?
Silly Mid-Off?
On the other hand, maybe SIXA! is best.
October 26th, 2005 at 8.50 pm
Will,
Have you decided? Could you atleast let us know your top 5.
Thanks
October 26th, 2005 at 8.51 pm
The Padded Englishman
The Bulldog Spirit
October 26th, 2005 at 9.04 pm
I haven’t decided yet…but I will do soon
October 26th, 2005 at 9.16 pm
Alan R - whatever Will decides, thought your suggestion was brilliant, really made me laugh out loud. Good one!
October 26th, 2005 at 9.25 pm
Fielding Restrictions Over.
October 26th, 2005 at 11.01 pm
I thought it was “Big Swing no ding”, sean
October 26th, 2005 at 11.56 pm
OK! I’m bored at school now so i got the thesaurus out for thesse ones…
“The Aisle of Anxiety”
“The Foyer of Bewilderment”
“The Hallway of Hesitation”
“The Lobby of Uneasiness”
You get the picture…
October 27th, 2005 at 12.12 am
“Two Legs, Please”
October 27th, 2005 at 2.14 am
The Maker’s name!
October 27th, 2005 at 3.13 pm
‘The blog formerly known as the Corridor of Uncertainty’
‘Ashes? What Ashes?’
‘Second Slip’
‘Ashley Giles is the King of Spain’
October 28th, 2005 at 5.29 am
So have you decided dude?
I see that Navjot Sidhu’s spirit has inspired some of the names around here.
October 28th, 2005 at 5.31 am
Javed Miandad is a big fat idiot
October 28th, 2005 at 5.32 am
Its not Sports, Its Cricket
October 28th, 2005 at 6.05 am
I just thought of
‘Where there’s a Will there’s a way”
October 28th, 2005 at 9.33 am
“Chin Music”
“Taking the Biscuit” (sledge reference)
“Me Gran’s stick o’ rhubarb” (Boycott)
“Red Buses and Pigeons”
“A thousand stories behind the glasses”
October 28th, 2005 at 6.06 pm
“It’s your turn to ‘urn’ it” or “are you hopping mad?” with a picture of a kangaroo would do nicely.
Won’t have a massive following down under, but…
October 30th, 2005 at 5.28 am
some more…..
1. Deep Fine Leg
2. chinese cut
3. second slip
4. chinamen
5. stupmed
6. late cut
7. the arm ball
Regards
Rajesh
October 31st, 2005 at 12.15 am
englandbeataustraliahahahah.com
followon.com
October 31st, 2005 at 1.51 am
“Following on . . .”
October 31st, 2005 at 3.40 am
I can’t believe i didn’t think of Follow On!!
Well done Tony! That should be on the poll!
October 31st, 2005 at 4.03 am
Thanks, Elliott
I did see ‘follow on’, elsewhere, but thought ‘following on’ sounds a bit better, as in ‘following on from the last comment . . .’
November 8th, 2005 at 10.38 pm
Yet to have made a decision…am in “talks” at the mo, but thanks a lot for all the suggestions.
July 25th, 2006 at 10.08 pm
Hi chaps. Just wondered if you could all have (another) think about a new name for the blog. Some bastard’s now trying to sue me, which is rather unpleasant. Loyal readers that I hope you are, come and support me!
Thanks a lot. Look forward to hearing your suggestions
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