BosworthBear
Member
Disappointed with Stuart Cain’s video yesterday about investment in the Hundred.
He cited the city of Birmingham as one of his three criteria for assessing bidders.
Given its actually Warwickshire County Cricket Club and supposedly accountable to its members how did we get into a position where the Board could arbitrarily decide who their stakeholders are and in whose interests they operate. We seem to have lost all governance!
If the. Championship does retain its present structure due to member pressure at other counties and if we do get the 250 signatures to make our Board more accountable then I think Warwickshire’s membership committee are going to have to consider their positions! Who do they serve members, Club Board or themselves?
I’ve never even had the courtesy of a reply from them despite a holding reply saying they would do so!
BosworthBear wrote:
Whisper it quietly but there is probably more chance of winning than drawing.
We should never have put ourselves in this position but certainly well batted today!
Still whisper it. Let’s see what happens with the new ball!
Whisper it quietly but there is probably more chance of winning than drawing.
We should never have put ourselves in this position but certainly well batted today!
Andy wrote:
6 down...is the door ajar?!
7 down now. Not certain this is a good thing. They were batting so slowly I think they would have found a declaration difficult.
Well this 4th wicket partnership has now doubled the score!
I agree with all the comments about Davies captaincy. It’s something I’ve commented on since he started. He rotates by numbers, he follows the ball and is very defensive. The failure to declare At Worcester revealed a lack of thought about the game.
My own hope is Woakes might be captain next year which would energise the Club!
It’s a very different club now thanks to Povey, Gascoigne, Leavesley, Snowball et al.
Membership privileges for the test match all but eroded. Tom Dollery Suite part of the general facilities rather than a members’ lounge.
Unfortunately it’s pretty clear from Stuart Cain that members and county championship are an inconvenience they’d rather reduce if they can.
CEO not even trying to pretend they are performing the function of Club Secretary now - Ryder, Deakins, Heath, Amiss.
Edgbaston is branded differently even though technically they are all employees of WCCC.
The Hundred is talked up on linked in etc in terms of appointments. As is Edgbaston. But never Warwickshire CCC.
Decisions on future of domestic cricket taken for what the unaccountable consider best for Edgbaston rather than Warwickshire and its members.
Unfortunately if they can get away with it then it’s only a matter of time until Edgbaston and Warwickshire CCC will be formally separated!
Is it still the kookaburra?
I think we may have to bowl first to get a result!
Sorry Gerry just saw your post
No mention of who commissioned this report
And indeed no mention that the ECB have sold a month of the summer and £40m of TV revenues that would otherwise accrue to the counties. Joke report.
Anyone would think it is propaganda!
mad wrote:
As it should be. Why on earth does Edgbaston treat its Warwickshire members with such disdane and then wonder why domestic crowds are down across the board and don't get me started on the bullshit coming out of Old Trafford
Because they took a deliberate decision when they took the loan off the city council that they were going to separate Edgbaston from Warwickshire even though the Calthorpe estate had donated Edgbaston to the people of Warwickshire and traditionally it was the County ground. No amount of blather from the previous Chairman or previous and current CEOs can cover up what their game was!
Ever since then Warwickshire seems to be some sort of irritation to a succession of people with no connection to the county or to cricket. We are like Middlesex to the MCC!
I see from the email today they have only sold 11,000 tickets for what they claim is a local derby in the Hundred. Serves them right. As Andy says one of the best test series for some time will have finished by the end of July so this circus can take over!
What fools run our club and the game!
We did the same didn’t we to the supposed members committee,
I think they were only offered three options of cuts and picked the one they were told to / wanted.
I wrote to the members committee and have only received one holding reply that they were forwarding my email to the Club CEO which says it all really!
GerryShedd wrote:
I was relying on what Wisden said. And as for crowds, I think as a ground Griff and Coton did ok. The highest crowd was 6,000 for a john Player game.
They used to publish the attendances in the yearbook and it was usually the highest for Warwickshire in the championship,
Only rarely given Sunday games unfortunately. I do remember Hampshire I think.
Not sure it petered out. We were three wickets short with Rice retired hurt and there was an exciting finish set up for a sizable crowd in contrast to the bore draws we have seen in front of v few at Edgbaston this season!
It was wonderful cricket. I missed the test players playing county cricket, the big crowds at Nuneaton and the beer tents and ice cream vans. So different to the anaemic stuff we get now!
Just watching this on BBC 2 and reminded me we watched Warwickshire that day against Nottinghamshire at Griff and Coton in Nuneaton.
I specifically remember Derek Randall fielding by us and asking a bloke with headphones on what the test score was and he didn’t know. Randall then said what are you listening to Bob Geldof!
Anyway here’s the scorecard and what great players played in Nuneaton in front of a big crowd that day:
https://www.cricketarchive.com/Nottinghamshire/Scorecards/46/46204.html
Three dodgy run out calls now by my reckoning!
Back in the day they used to publish all county championship attendances in the WCCC Yearbook.
And the biggest attendance each season was always Griff and Coton in Nuneaton!
Lickey_bear wrote:
Would be interested to know how the forum members rate winning T20 or ODI Cup over the championship.
Personally I go to as many blast and ODI games as possible, but the comp that matters is winning the championship, regardless of the cash involved.
Not interested in T20 until we play as Warwickshire again.
Passionate about the Championship.
Enjoying the one day cup games being played at Rugby which is a great development but unfortunately the Hundred has destroyed the one day cup as a showpiece these days.
So the Championship is the be all and end all for me!