Do you need to invest in new facilities*? Or at least retain and maintain the ones you have. In light of recent changes in ECB funding, we’ve updated the guidance article.
According to an article in The Cricket Paper, one league requires clubs to pay silly money for pink balls. Others insist clubs pay for umpires even down in the lowest divisions. How are they able to make these rules and Who are the turkeys voting for Christmas*?
Talking of umpires this is a really interesting post comparing and contrasting the development of officials in cricket and football*. Why do we still depend on teammates umpiring in games and not doing more in cricket to create a pathway for young officials?
Last week’s discussions:
- So how did network members access big club funding* and can you increase your odds of landing the jackpot?
- End-of-season performance review of hybrid pitches*.
- Have you considered taking a DIY approach to scoping and installing square irrigation*?
- Did Play Cricket* fall over for you last weekend?
- Does the complexion of the Knight-Stokes cup finalist schools* say anything about the competition?
- South Shields has been nominated for delivering one of the best Holiday Activities and Food programmes* in the country.
*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:
- The “Missing Middle” in junior age groups
- Robots cutting grass
- Maiden Cricket in the Dragon’s Den
- 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.