Jim Hulbert
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Jim Hulbert
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Ecclestone having a very bad game here. #indveng
A not insignificant part of me wishes they had called it a day after series 3, but then Marlo wouldn't have existed, so I guess it's win some lose some
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Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
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This is a really good piece on the risks of over-screening and why it's harmful. I know the relevant charities, celebs and pressure groups will lose their shit, but it sounds as though the NHS is going to stand by the evidence. www.thetimes.com/article/700d...
NHS advisers set to reject routine prostate cancer screening
Despite campaigners’ pleas for more checks, experts fear widespread screening risks harming hundreds of thousands of men unnecessarily
www.thetimes.com
Burnham handled this so poorly last time it beggared belief but it needs doing in some form. Manchester is choked by cars.
Yeah, and players were paid appallingly and treated dreadfully! It wasn't some sort of idyllic existence.
I just think that denies the reality that professional sport is a business. It literally can't be any other way if we want the players to be paid, male and female.
Quite a few of their CC team don't though. Openers and foakes off the top of my head.
I think you're very much on the nostalgia side, if that's not too presumptuous. Most non cricket fans would be baffled about the state of things in county cricket. That shouldn't be a badge of honour. That's not to say the ECB are blameless, far from it.
Might it be that if no players are saying the PCA position is wrong, it's because it is in fact broadly correct and representative? Not really a surprise that the entire squad of the 3x county champions want to play more red ball is it?!
But with all due respect, you have not spoken to as many players as the PCA have.
We don't see this the same way, which is fine, but there is too much nostalgia around county cricket. The world has changed,its time for CC to change with it and they are dragging their feet.
If you don't think a professional cricket club should be a business then your problem is with capitalism not the ECB. Obviously they have to be businesses.
The ECB have presented the counties with numerous proposals over the years, all of which the counties have thrown out for various reasons. You let them off the hook too easily.
Exactly this. The idea the PCA doesn't represent what most players think is, I think, not accurate.
Genuinely, what do counties who don't want a change to 4 day cricket expect and want from the ECB? Because I suspect that most would trot out the tired out "scrap the 100 and invest in the Blast" trope, which in my view disqualifies them from being taken seriously.
It is genuinely embarrassing how detached from financial reality the county game is.
How do they think it's going to end? Do they think we're going back to some bucolic age where India don't run the game, where the CC is the pinnacle and where T20 money isn't necessary to bankroll everything else? In any other industry they'd be laughed out of town.
I don't disagree, but counties have to get with the times and deal with things the way they are. That's what running a professional sports team is. It's all very well crying about the ECB but they are in charge and pull the strings. Denying reality will result in counties going under.
Complete lack of self awareness given their golden handshake agreement with the ECB which guarantees a Test cricket windfall every year.
The problem is clubs being completely unable to think about the game as a whole and only being focused on their own narrow interests. Surrey as guilty as anyone, it's easy for them to want more 4day cricket when they're minted.
The only reason it will take 20 years is because of the windfall generated by the Hundred, btw.
Several of the counties will go under in the next 20 years and they will completely deserve it. The ECB are a deeply flawed organisation but there have been multiple opportunities for reform, all rejected by the counties. They are the architects of their own eventual destruction.
If I see another moronic "just get rid of the 16.5, simples" comment on Facebook I'm going to scream.
Counties have shot themselves in the foot for the umpteenth time. The players are unhappy and without them there is no CC. The old codger members don't have a clue about how the modern game is financed
Because I don’t have room to write this here I just want to post my message to my County Cricket Matters Facebook Group about the County Championship structure vote -