BosworthBear
Member
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.
Well it certainly looks like we’ve got to know this pitch! Good effort this. Captaincy, bowling and fielding.
Another big crowd. Three in a row. Must be all the Middlesex supporters!
Yep leg spinners need flight and loop as well as turn.
Ali seemed to be bowling too quickly on Sunday but the results indicated otherwise.
He’ll need to be a lot more consistent and methodical to bowl in the Championship.
Given his background he’s unlikely to play in Sri Lanka but a winter in Pakistan would help his development especially if someone like Mushtaq or Yasir could have a look.
GerryShedd wrote:
I am devastated that we have had no update on the state of the toilets at Rugby.
Ha ha ha!
Don’t even jest. It may still come from him!
A bit snide TBH. It was more of a local game for us which is probably why there was another good crowd. I preferred Kai Smith’s opinion!
Wasn’t there today but crowd looked good today. As somebody just texted me championship crowds at Edgbaston are now lower than anybody but Derbyshire!
Looking forward to Friday!
285 is the par score
Definitely a pitch to take the pace off the ball. Presume Yates is on for a full stint!
Lancashire didn’t offer their members the 14 match option even though they brought in a rule last year that the members had to be given a vote. Now they are holding an SGM to sanction the CEO and to require the 14 match option be put to members.
Our Board did the same trick and didn’t put a 14 match option to the “supposed” members committee.
Sorry to be clear that wasn’t aimed at you. I can see you’ve had a bad experience today although I’m perplexed as we sat to the left of the pavilion for almost all of the day then when the evening sun came we moved to the right of the pavilion with no problem whatsoever.
As I say it was the repetitive criticism of not playing in Birmingham I was responding to not your frustrations. Apologies that wasn’t clear!
I’d actually posted it before your last but one comment came up. Probably shouldn’t have bitten to the wind up merchant anyway!
As I said earlier I hope we can all just comment on the cricket for the remainder of this week!
Crikey if I deconstructed Edgbaston after each day attending the Championship.
Absolutely pointless and destructive IMO
Really hope the Club don’t cave in to vested interests! This has gone on for years. Remember it happening to Griff & Coton and Cov & North Warwicks. Ludicrous!
I remember on the old forum there was a guy who got equally obsessed about Stratford as you do about Rugby. Bizarrely he lived in Warley!