BosworthBear
Member
Obviously want to be Warwickshire Bears given that’s our name and identity.
I think we’re the only team in world sport which doesn’t play under our own name.
However if I had to chose I prefer Bears to Birmingham Bears although I won’t bother watching or taking an interest until we revert to playing as Warwickshire.
I thought today was supposed to be the final vote? Now because they can’t get the two thirds they want more talks and then a vote in a few weeks.
The ECB (led by our “Chair”) is getting more and more like the EU.
paulbear wrote:
Freddie Calthorpe, he was captain and a decent allrounder, distantly related to Henry Blofeld.
Yep he was a member of the Gough- Calthorpe family who built and own the estate.
They also gave the land for Birmingham Univeristy and Cannon Hill Park.
paulbear wrote:
It annoyed me that the club name wasn't on the side of the building and maybe that's why people who know absolutely nothing about cricket assume there is a team called Edgbaston who play there like my uncle once did. I wrote to the club asking if the name could be put somewhere on the building like it should be and wrote, "Can you imagine Anfield without Liverpool F.C. on the front of the building".
Good for you. There’s certainly been an attempt to separate Edgbaston from Warwickshire CCC for some time now. And the Chairmen and CEOs have been disingenuous about it. At one stage the letterhead sent to members only mentioned Edgbaston and not Warwickshire CCC which was bizarre. I remember telling Gascoigne that’s like Manchester United sending letters to supporters headed Old Trafford but he didn’t get it at all!
The floodlights are “e” for Edgbaston but Yorkshire have the county rose on them and Surrey their feathers.
If they can get away with it the unaccountable powers that be will remove all Warwickshire first class matches from Edgbaston and just have internationals, Hundred, T20s.
No sense of recognition that the Calthorpe Estate gifted Edgbaston to the people of Warwickshire!
Well Birmingham was very much part of Warwickshire and still is as far as I’m concerned.
As I say no difference to Manchester relationships to Lancashire or Leeds to Yorkshire or even Leicester to Leicestershire for that matter.
Anybody confused about the County we represent should look at the clubs covered by the Warwickshire Cricket Board.
As you know from previous discussions I think that is utter rubbish! I won’t go through it again.
At the time the Club denied Birmingham Council had pressurised them over the name change. It was that awful Povey era.
I remember Brian Halford passionately arguing against the name change in several articles in the Evening Mail and anonymously quoting players against it. Of course he’s employed by the Club now.
We seem to have a misunderstanding locally that Birmingham isn’t in Warwickshire. west Mids is only an administrative area. It’s not a proper county. The 1972 Act which brought in the local government reorganisation stated it wasn’t supposed to change traditional loyalties.
Try telling somebody from Manchester th st they aren’t in Lancashire or somebody from Leeds that they aren’t in Yorkshire. It’s exactly the same thing.
So yes I’m happy to support a Warwickshire football team in Villa the same a four precious generations did and I’m happy to support my county cricket club in the same way.
Lichfield and the Black Country aren’t in Warwickshire of course.
And don’t think there’s anti rhetoric. The very many Nuneaton members I know love going over to Edgbaston. The only people who are the problem are the small number of vocal luddites who try and wreck outground cricket whenever it emerges in Warwickshire because it’s wrecks their vested interests in attending games in Birmingham,
Plenty of space and room at Nuneaton CC and Cov and North Warwick but I suspect the Club will look for a Birmingham ground to pacify the vocal people.
There seems a sudden shift away from County. Championship at Edgbaston. Our Chair led calls for reduction of matches. Our CEO told the members forum we lose 60k on every county game played at Edgbaston.
Looks like they will do everything they can to keep Edgbaston for internationals, Hundreds and subsidised womens games.
I’m normally passionate about playing games around the County but I’m suspicious about what’s going on here.
I love games at Edgbaston as much as anyone else I just want some games around the county and us to retain our identity.
Edgbaston is starting to get a life of its own separate to the Club.
I don’t need to build any straw men.
I’m from Warwickshire. I support Warwickshire as four previous generations did. I know the history of my County Club and I understand the value of heritage and branding professionally and personally.
Yep we’re getting really great crowds since we reverted to Birmingham Bears and now Bears.
And lots of people from Nuneaton, Coventry, Leamington, Kenilworth, Stratford, Rugby, et al etc feel really engaged and enthusiastic.
If you can’t see the PR value as playing as the name our Club is actually called and as the county it represents and the name is has had throughout its history since 1882 then I am absolutely amazed but it takes all sorts I suppose.
There was a leaked article on it here (from our Chair?)
Hope the counties stay strong and block this nonsense and we get our SGM!
paulbear wrote:
I always hated being called Birmingham Bears but Bears is better and I think eventually we will be called Warwickshire Bears which isn't too bad. As for the pavilion, it isn't really that popular, massively cold at times (It has been called the 'Icebox' for a while), which is why so many people (Mostly members), sit at the opposite end. It is functional but I would have preferred something a bit more aesthetically pleasing to the eye. When we won the title in 2021, there were not many in there and 80% of people were over the other side.
It didn’t replace one stand either it replaced several stands.
I am proud to be from Warwickshire and want to see my county play as Warwickshire. None of the other counties would put up with this nonsense.
We are the only team in world sport who don’t play under our own name. It’s ridiculous.
So no I won’t bother with T20 until we play as Warwickshire again and I’m far from alone in that. Its such an easy PR and marketing win for the Club I don’t know why we don’t just revert instead of looking so odd when listed with all the other counties!
Enjoying the posts!
Must confess I’m much more concerned about the Surrey match than the T20 quarterfinal.
Possibly because we are still playing under that Bears nonsense!
I was told McCafferty wants to be ECB Chair and that’s why he’s pushed the reduction so hard.
Goodness knows why we ever picked him.
Very disappointing. All seemed a bit flat. Slow used wicket and huge number of empty seats. After the Lord Mayor’s Show.
Credit for Barnard for this campaign!
I wonder where the wicket will be on the square?
Devon_Bear wrote:
Remaining fixtures:
Yorkshire: Sussex (A) Kent (A)
Somerset: Kent (A) Northants (H)
Bears: Durham (A) Sussex (A)Middlesex: Northants (A) Lancashire (A)
Warwickshire
Has the future of county cricket thread disappeared? Its so important
It’s a great effort. Well done!
I hope the rule change goes through and will make sure I’m there. Above all I hope the members’ committee have the gumption to realise they are there to represent members and not to suck up to the Club Board. I hope they are embarrassed by this.
Somerset coverage is very different with pluses and minuses. They are very biased but loveable. The ads are intrusive, they don’t appear to be know much at all about us.