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**Kim** · 29-07-2010, 09:07 AM

(29-07-2010 08:53 AM)Terry Wrote: So the ECB have created a mess that everyone know about and are now paying Deloittes £100k to tell them so - a classic case of consultants borrowing your watch to tell you the time.
As for the elite Twenty/20 competition, do they really think that average attendances of 15,000 are realistic?
By the way, I see that Yorkshore's Chief Executive has resigned, leaving a crisis behind him.

Im sure they are. After all the group who came up with this figure are the same group who projected they could borrow and pay off all this money. When it comes to projections, they are ace.

Terry · 29-07-2010, 09:47 AM

(29-07-2010 09:07 AM)Kim Wrote:
(29-07-2010 08:53 AM)Terry Wrote: So the ECB have created a mess that everyone know about and are now paying Deloittes £100k to tell them so - a classic case of consultants borrowing your watch to tell you the time.
As for the elite Twenty/20 competition, do they really think that average attendances of 15,000 are realistic?
By the way, I see that Yorkshore's Chief Executive has resigned, leaving a crisis behind him.

Im sure they are. After all the group who came up with this figure are the same group who projected they could borrow and pay off all this money. When it comes to projections, they are ace.

Oh, good, for a moment I thought we were in trouble - as Paul Newman said just before he and Robert Redford went out to face a hail of bullets at the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Warleybear · 29-07-2010, 11:56 AM

"Cricket counties facing bankruptcy, Deloitte report reveals"

So is it time for a reduction in the number of counties through amalgamations etc. ?

Mad Brummie · 06-08-2010, 10:45 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/...879192.stm

worth a listen

**Kim** · (This post was last modified: 14-08-2010 09:59 AM by Kim.)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket...shire.html

Half way through this report the future seems to suck for older players

Mad Brummie · 14-08-2010, 11:07 AM

Older players who have no future in the grand ECB scheme of things will be deemed surplus to requirements the more the ECB is the one central pot for income.

Players could actually revolt or take industrial action to protect their interests. There must be some leadership from within the playing side of the game that is based on protecting the interests of county players and county spectators from the ravages and ill effects of rampant corporate commercialism. That leadership is sadly lacking within the ECB and county exec's these days and this has put the long term health of the county game at risk.

The county spectators (who have already been hurt by all the stupid changes we have seen in the game over the last 10 years) have patently never mattered to the authorities, never been listened to and therefore lack a voice. The county players are going to feel the pinch now.

It is time for the players to make a stand to protect the county game I feel.

Or are they as powerless as us spectators?

**Kim** · 14-08-2010, 11:22 AM

http://www.cricinfo.com/countycricket200...08281.html

They didnt strike and the incentives came in so not a good sign.

Boot out older players and surely younger players - who all get old - will wonder if cricket is the game for them?

Mad Brummie · (This post was last modified: 14-08-2010 11:34 AM by Mad Brummie.)

Where is all this SKY money?

BTW I have heard rumours there will possibly be no Minor Counties Championship from next season.