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Post by lancsdes on Jul 22, 2019 16:23:57 GMT
“That is one of the milder options, I could think of quite a few non PC ones” Apologies if I’ve said this before, but I just find Chapple and Chilton buggering off to the Manchester Maniacs absolutely sickening. As has been said above, it was supposed to be independent of the test match counties. And yet Allott and Gidney also clearly have their fingers in the pie. I have to say I dislike Lancashire more and more all the time. I always want the players to do well but I just find the club as corrupt as the ECB. I just cannot see myself ever becoming a Lancashire member again.My main desire for this season is for Somerset to win the County championship. They are having a season like we had in 2011; starting like a house on fire, quite a few hitches mid season. I’m just hoping it finishes the same way. I go on their forum nowadays days and it feels like a county where members still count, as does Essex in fairness. |
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Post by richard on Jul 22, 2019 22:14:31 GMT
Just seen an interesting theory establish the Hundred kill of the Blast then in the near future revert to a T20 Franchise League You can be pretty sure that it is not just the ECB come up with a crazy idea for a competition that they are running stand alone. This would certainly bring T20 into line with the rest of the world. It sounds an interesting theory, killing off the “ old fashioned” counties with both the County T20 and the County 50 over competition disappearing in one plan and replacing them with the Franchises. What’s next? The first day of three day Championship matches to involve each team batting for 50 overs or until all out whichever comes first. Those then become the first innings scores and the second innings is played as currently from the end of the first innings, usually the start of Day 2? At least for the teams in Division 1. |
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Post by apm51054 on Jul 23, 2019 6:36:25 GMT
Just seen an interesting theory establish the Hundred kill of the Blast then in the near future revert to a T20 Franchise League You can be pretty sure that it is not just the ECB come up with a crazy idea for a competition that they are running stand alone. This would certainly bring T20 into line with the rest of the world. It sounds an interesting theory, killing off the “ old fashioned” counties with both the County T20 and the County 50 over competition disappearing in one plan and replacing them with the Franchises. What’s next? The first day of three day Championship matches to involve each team batting for 50 overs or until all out whichever comes first. Those then become the first innings scores and the second innings is played as currently from the end of the first innings, usually the start of Day 2? At least for the teams in Division 1. At one time the first innings was limited to 60 overs |
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Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2019 13:18:16 GMT
Harrison trying to give it the big sell at lunch time on Sky saying it has been started to try and brings crowds back to the game forgeting the fact that Blast attendances have increased by a lot this season.
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Post by richard on Aug 1, 2019 13:56:48 GMT
Harrison trying to give it the big sell at lunch time on Sky saying it has been started to try and brings crowds back to the game forgeting the fact that Blast attendances have increased by a lot this season. It’s as much about the interviewer not challenging (I am assuming he didn’t) him over it. I am sure he knows full well. |
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Post by Admin on Aug 1, 2019 15:06:49 GMT
Harrison trying to give it the big sell at lunch time on Sky saying it has been started to try and brings crowds back to the game forgeting the fact that Blast attendances have increased by a lot this season. It’s about the interviewer not challenging (I am assuming he didn’t) him over it. I am sure he knows full well. To be honest Richard, Sky have been wanting this for a few years remember Ian Ward at a Roses Blast game in Leeds saying" Wouldn't this be great if it was Manchester against Leeds" Conspiracy theory is that the only counties playing cricket will be those that host the Dread, they will get rid of the Blast and then dump the 10 counties are not fashionable and do not toe the line. |
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Post by chris on Aug 1, 2019 16:22:32 GMT
Harrison trying to give it the big sell at lunch time on Sky saying it has been started to try and brings crowds back to the game forgeting the fact that Blast attendances have increased by a lot this season. |
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Post by richard on Aug 1, 2019 19:01:14 GMT
It’s about the interviewer not challenging (I am assuming he didn’t) him over it. I am sure he knows full well. To be honest Richard, Sky have been wanting this for a few years remember Ian Ward at a Roses Blast game in Leeds saying" Wouldn't this be great if it was Manchester against Leeds" Conspiracy theory is that the only counties playing cricket will be those that host the Dread, they will get rid of the Blast and then dump the 10 counties are not fashionable and do not toe the line. Conspiracy Theories are very often correct. Did he ever explain why Manchester v. Leeds would be any better? Has anyone? |
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Post by apm51054 on Aug 1, 2019 19:53:15 GMT
To be honest Richard, Sky have been wanting this for a few years remember Ian Ward at a Roses Blast game in Leeds saying" Wouldn't this be great if it was Manchester against Leeds" Conspiracy theory is that the only counties playing cricket will be those that host the Dread, they will get rid of the Blast and then dump the 10 counties are not fashionable and do not toe the line. Conspiracy Theories are very often correct. Did he ever explain why Manchester v. Leeds would be any better? Has anyone? No doubt whether they ever will |
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Post by richard on Aug 7, 2019 15:28:03 GMT
Just looking at the Tickets for Fridays game v. Yorkshire.
Apparently it’s Lancashire Cricket Club. So that makes it LCC presumably
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Post by chris on Aug 7, 2019 19:42:37 GMT
Just looking at the Tickets for Fridays game v. Yorkshire. Apparently it’s Lancashire Cricket Club. So that makes it LCC presumably I questioned the dropping of the word County by the club back in February 2018, I was sent a link to a website article providing the rationale:
As you will see the link is now dead. I don't recall any prior or later communication. IIRC it was just waffle about representating all cricket in Lancashire not just the county club but also the age group teams and league cricket etc.
There is one paragraph in the Lancashire County Cricket Club's 2017 report and accounts:
"Rebranding the Club as a whole under “Lancashire Cricket” will enable the Club to continue to focus on pathway and elite performance with the new LCF focusing on growing the game and reconnecting the Club to the network of 331 league Clubs and over 2,000 schools across the North West. Getting more kids to play and watch cricket is a priority for 2018 and beyond; the national All Stars Cricket initiative was extremely successful in its first year in 2017 with plans to significantly increase uptake in 2018. The ten year vision is to get every secondary school in Lancashire playing cricket."
The 2018 report and accounts are not on the website.
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Post by richard on Aug 7, 2019 19:55:19 GMT
I really wish I thought you were imagining that. It is exactly the kind of nonsense I would expect
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Post by apm51054 on Sept 19, 2019 14:15:39 GMT
You’ll like this the women’s Manchester franchise side will play most of their home games at Sedbergh
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Post by chris on Sept 20, 2019 14:46:23 GMT
You’ll like this the women’s Manchester franchise side will play most of their home games at Sedbergh |
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Post by lancsdes on Sept 20, 2019 21:51:10 GMT
“You’ll like this the women’s Manchester franchise side will play most of their home games at Sedbergh
It’s Alice in Wonderland stuff, isn’t it? Rules just published for the Hundred draft - `daft` . And they don`t get any dafter than each team being allowed a `non-playing- player`. He will be a current England Test player unsuited - or too old - for the Hundred, but who will totter out on his zimmer frame for press calls in the pre-tournament publicity phase. Examples already suggested - James Anderson and Stuart Broad, but also including Rory Burns (why?) |
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