Judging by early results we may be wrong and it’s the A team representing you at League meetings. Take our anonymised Quick Poll here.
Then maybe clubs actually support some of the costs and conditions being imposed on them. How are they able to make these rules and Who are the turkeys voting for Christmas*?
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.
Darren’s really interesting post deserves wider discussion. Is paying people the only way to go in getting the game on and why do we still allow players to umpire their own team? Is it time for a more effective officiating pathway in cricket when comparing cricket and football* developments.
*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:
- Network members access big club funding
- Play Cricket reliability
- Knight-Stokes cup finalist schools
- End-of-season performance review of hybrid pitches
- DIY approaches to scoping and installing square irrigation
- Holiday Activities and Food programmes
- 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.