Did Play Cricket* fall over for you last weekend? Weight of users, heritage design issues, rogue AI or Putin’s revenge?
If you are looking for big club funding* where would you start? It’s almost certain that your local council is a better bet than ECB. So how did network members do it and can you increase your odds of landing the jackpot?
The finals of the Knight-Stokes cup* take place at Lord’s yesterday (Thursday). Does the complexion of the finalist schools say anything about the competition?
Meanwhile, to demonstrate it’s never just cricket, South Shields has been nominated for delivering one of the best Holiday Activities and Food programmes* in the country.
On ground issues:
Andrew updates us on the discussion earlier in the year on hybrid pitches* and delivers an end-of-season review of performance.
Simon asks if you’ve considered taking a DIY approach to scoping and installing square irrigation*? Or did you Get Someone In?
Last week’s discussions:
- If you have a robot mower or considered robots cutting grass*, we’d really appreciate your thoughts
- It seems the Missing Middle* in junior age groups may be a universal issue.
- How did Maiden Cricket* fare in the Dragon’s Den
*You need to be a member of our private LinkedIn discussion group to access the links. Anyone involved in running a UK cricket club can join over 1,300 club leader peers sharing knowledge and collaborating on common challenges.
You can also click LinkedIn group page, log-in from there and scroll through all the content including these other current discussions:
- Cricket capacity requires cultural mindset shift
- Sustainability of leagues
- Over-regulation and underfunding
- Missing the business end of the season
- Festival of Disability Cricket
- Tackling Climate Change Fund
- Play Cricket data analysis
- Delivering growth, sustainability and diversity of recreational cricket
- Looming ground tenure challenges
- Who or what inspired you to do what you do?
- Can clubs still be the village’s beating heart?
- Premier League review
- Reputation risk management
- Why have All Stars and Dynamos numbers ‘plateaud’?
- Extreme weather impact
- Cricket clubs are a web of social connection
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.