Is this your opening weekend or have you already started? Looking forward to keeping the plates spinning, once again? Will the winter months of planning and development pay off? There’s no surfeit of late regulatory changes this year………well, at least the accreditation hoops have been deferred to next year, for most of us, and we can focus energies on our new women and girls’ programmes. So is it a good time to contemplate arguments for spending more on paying people to do more of the work*?
The new season is galvanising some clubs’ thoughts on livestreaming. It seems there are pros and cons for both Frogbox and NV Play*. ECB hedges as it’s partner with both. So if you’re already a user, we need your view on best options, what you’ve learned, key tips and things to avoid.
Livestreaming is driving more member, not just player, engagement with Play Cricket*. With one sports media entrepreneur suggesting the platform represents a huge opportunity for ECB to create serious value, what’s potentially in it for clubs?
The results, by county, of County Grant availability* are posted. We still don’t know what’s happening in some and the position changed in others just in the two weeks the poll was open. So we need your continuing updates.
From last week:
- ECB’s message* for the new season
- Could it have been Build it and they will come*?
- Anyone aware of any deals on Sky or Sky Sports*?
- With the shift to payments online and mobile wallets*, who is using what accounting software to keep track of it all?
*You should have no problem accessing the asterisked links above so long as you’re a member and logged on to LinkedIn. Not everyone realises we are a closed private LinkedIn group so only members can see your posts and comments in the Group and not your colleagues, clients or other LinkedIn connections.
You can also click LinkedIn group page, log-in from there and scroll through all the content including these other current discussions:
- Who’ll help County Boards raise the other £100 million?
- United Nations Environment Programme survey
- ECB and County Board priorities
- Administrators are clubs’ Most Valuable Players
- GrassRoots Club
- Where’s your electricity being used?
- Low fixed cost electricity tariffs
- Future of Women’s Cricket* conference
- Share in lifetime earnings of your talent
- ECB clubs strategy
- Strategic Investment Fund
- Scorers’ Pathway
- Frogbox versus NVplay
- (Not) Making Tax Digital
- Thriving clubs…a collective vision
- Hosting Last Man Stands games
- Metro Bank Girls in Cricket Fund Network Live 2026
- Recreational Game Leadership Conference
- What will your 2026 adult playing subscription be?
- Animated short video: supporting your cricket club
- Sport for People & Planet
- Club shirt sponsorship agreements
- Club Development section on Members’ Portal
- Using LinkedIn for sponsor recruitment
Links to past discussions, sorted by theme and listed in chronological order, can also be found on the Members’ Portal along with a treasure trove of club development resources, signposted information and sources of support including webinar recordings and club admin product reviews.