BosworthBear
Member
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!
I’m pleased with the position Somerset are taking and wish we could find the 6 more to block it but it’s in Somerset’s financial interests to keep the number of games because they don’t host the Hundred and get good attendances at CC and Blast.
I really hope we can hold an SGM and torpedo this!
Seemed to take us too long to get the spinners on.
A couple of wickets now so who knows.
Davies seems to play unthinking cricket by numbers!
Ha yes the dark ages! I do keep thinking about that but thought would be naughty to post!
Richard Bentley on County Cricket Matters Facebook page is also collecting signatures for Warwickshire
Highveld wrote:
Worcestershire have just posted this on their website, I thought it was informative and well balanced.
I love that they think they play Warwickshire in the Blast!
Thanks Terry for the summaries
Attendances have been awful at Edgbaston again. Pitch hasn’t helped.
I was told 600 Sunday and 400 Monday.
If we had enlightened leadership they’d take around the county but we don’t!
Out of interest was anybody at the members’ forum on Monday? I couldn’t make it.
If only he would try something funky. He seems to have no clue whatsoever. At one stage he simply ringed the boundary with fielders.
He also follows the ball which is the tell tale sign of a poor captain.
We seemed to have no direction out there on a used pitch with a kookaburra ball. The only hope was the Aussie spinner and he was today but not much more. Is Barnard carrying a knock. It was crying out for him to bowl!
Andy wrote:
That email from Stuart Cain we've had today, sounds as though our lot have accepted the reduction in the amount of games no matter what.
Apparently our Chair wants to become ECB Chair so I guess he’s pushing this as hard as he can!
Many counties have done a member survey of their own. Lancashire are giving members a vote on it. Surrey are voting against a reduction in CC games. Yorkshire need member consent before they can approve a reduction in CC games. Middlesex have a SGM on 26 June which will pass a resolution to oppose a reduction in CC games I expect. Glamorgan are having a SGM in the near future. Derbyshire are opposed to a reduction in CC as are Somerset.