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County Championship Reduction For 2026?


Someone should make a large "Bostock Out" banner and take it to the game on Friday.

Sky cameras will be there.
 
Aidan11 said:
Are they for real?

What a selfish attitude. Fk the fans and destroy English cricket at the same time.

Bostock has shown his true colours. He needs to be shown the door. Absolute vile person. Starting to make Colin Graves look like a saint.
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Bostock showed his true colours a long time ago and more recently his Kevin The Teenager style strop at the last Members Meeting merely confirmed to a few more what he's all about.
 
Turner the Cat said:
I just looked at thd county season 1985 to compare as an example. You had the County Championship, Benson & Hedges cup, Natwest Trophy and Sunday League. I worked it out as 95 days of cricket as a minimum per team and that would also be more hours of cricket played e.g. 60 overs games vs 20 over games.

You could argue the game is more demanding now but fitness, nutrition etc is also much better.
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First year I had a membership for Durham the schedule was…

1x UCCE game
16x CC games
16x National League games
5x T20 cup games (Became 8 the next IIRC)
At least 1 game in the knockout cup
Aidan11 said:
Someone should make a large "Bostock Out" banner and take it to the game on Friday.

Sky cameras will be there.
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“BOSTOCK OUT…….and what happened to the hotel eh?”
 
Struts said:
First year I had a membership for Durham the schedule was…

1x UCCE game
16x CC games
16x National League games
5x T20 cup games (Became 8 the next IIRC)
At least 1 game in the knockout cup

“BOSTOCK OUT…….and what happened to the hotel eh?”
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Remind me when we played 32 cc and 32 national league games..or did we play every game at home and no away games?
 
Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan said:
Imagine a worker on the production line at Nissan suggesting to management that the number of cars they are being asked to produce is affecting their health.

I suspect they'd be advised that they only work for a maximum of 78 days a year, possibly a couple extra if they do well. Pre-employment training will be provided annually, usually abroad, all expenses paid. They will only be asked to work outside when the weather is nice in spring/summer/winter. Some of the days work will be cancelled due to bad weather, some days won't happen because they made enough cars in the preceding 2/3 days. Almost half of the time they can sit on a balcony having a cup of tea and a laugh with their mates. In 14 of the days, your shift won't be longer than 75 minutes, it will be mainly standing in a field but you may be required to wave a bat around for a bit at some point. Your poor performance won't really ever lead to your contract being cancelled but you may not get asked back. You will be required to work at different locations but luxury coach travel and hotels will be provided at no cost to you. All meals/snacks during your employment time will be provided free of charge. You will receive free private health care. You will not need to provide your own uniform and you will receive more equipment than you reasonably need. Alternatively, get a real job.
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But alternatively, imagine a professional footballer being asked to play for, say, 56 7 hour periods and another 20 four hour ones. That’s about 314 90 minute games a season. It’s not a realistic comparison either, as the physical intensity of the games differ, but at least it’s one in the area of professional sport.

In the end, if a cricketer can get paid more for a late sub stint into the IPL than for an entire championship season they will make the same decisions we would make faced with an equivalent choice in our jobs.
 
Fleagle said:
But alternatively, imagine a professional footballer being asked to play for, say, 56 7 hour periods and another 20 four hour ones. That’s about 314 90 minute games a season. It’s not a realistic comparison either, as the physical intensity of the games differ, but at least it’s one in the area of professional sport.
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Cricketers know what they sign up to when they agree a contract. So do all employees. Any deviations from contracted hours of work (fewer games?) should mean salary is altered too. Cricketers are molly coddled and it is doing them no good. I heard Overton say that his body hurt for a week after the last India game. I suspect that the players are fit but not tough. Anyone who does a spell of exercise they aren’t used to will get sore afterwards. I don’t want to sound like someone stuck in the past but bowlers used to bowl more and crucially more regularly. The current obsession with ‘keeping bowlers fresh’ doesn’t do it for me and may well contribute to injuries because their bodies aren’t hardened.
 
Aidan11 said:
Yep. Here we go again. Not content with the fact that Strauss' High Performance Review failed to push this through, there is now a new review looking to reduce the season from 14 games to 12. (Strauss wanted 10).

The ECB are using the money the counties will get from the sale of the 16.4 as the carrot, as they will now be on a firmer financial footing. What happens though when the money runs out?

I don't buy the player burnout excuse. The players don't seem to complain about playing in the various global T20 tournaments. Constant travelling must be more wearing than playing a few gentle red ball games. Or are they playing with hernias due to having to carry those big fat wallets around the world?

Now that the counties are.getting more money, increase players salaries foe playing red ball cricket.

It still needs the county 2/3 majority vote but I've got a feeling they'll vote for it this time. We all know which way Bostock will vote. It's an insult to county cricket watchers. If this gets through everyone should refuse to renew their memberships.

Death by a thousand cuts.

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Reduction you say? What they going to do now?

Stop county cricket taking place in July as well as August? :rolleyes:

Maybe they can cram the whole county chamionship into the first two weeks of April and the end of September? That might be a plan. We cant be playing cricket when the schools are off during the actual summer.
Steak Pie said:
How about they go on strike in August?
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:lol::lol::lol::lol:
 
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The first two ODIs this week have been an absolute shambles. Its like we've forgotten how to play cricket.

Of course most of them spent the last month playing in that ridiculous circus. They're concentrating so much on that pointless format that they aren't able to switch back to a normal format so quickly.

The ECB have taken their eye off the ball. The large sums of money from the franchises has blinded them to the fact that our top players are turning in shit performances where it counts. Reducing domestic matches won't solve the problem.

The one day cup needs to have a higher priority instead of pushing it into the background. Two shabby performances in England colours are just going to put people off going to cricket. Especially considering it costs a fortune to attend these days.
 
Aidan11 said:
The first two ODIs this week have been an absolute shambles. Its like we've forgotten how to play cricket.

Of course most of them spent the last month playing in that ridiculous circus. They're concentrating so much on that pointless format that they aren't able to switch back to a normal format so quickly.

The ECB have taken their eye off the ball. The large sums of money from the franchises has blinded them to the fact that our top players are turning in shit performances where it counts. Reducing domestic matches won't solve the problem.

The one day cup needs to have a higher priority instead of pushing it into the background. Two shabby performances in England colours are just going to put people off going to cricket. Especially considering it costs a fortune to attend these days.
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Just wait for the hand-wringing and ‘we need to have a red ball reset’ should things not go well in Australia.
 
This is worth watching. Sets out the current situation re the proposed changes to the domestic game, from a Surrey perspective.

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bumble2 said:
This is worth watching. Sets out the current situation re the proposed changes to the domestic game, from a Surrey perspective.

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It’s mad how the proposed changes (by those seeking to ruin the game) were resoundingly declined - but they threw their toys out the pram and have tried to force through a bastardised version anyway.
 
Dan..Dan..Dan..Dan said:
Cricketers know what they sign up to when they agree a contract. So do all employees. Any deviations from contracted hours of work (fewer games?) should mean salary is altered too. Cricketers are molly coddled and it is doing them no good. I heard Overton say that his body hurt for a week after the last India game. I suspect that the players are fit but not tough. Anyone who does a spell of exercise they aren’t used to will get sore afterwards. I don’t want to sound like someone stuck in the past but bowlers used to bowl more and crucially more regularly. The current obsession with ‘keeping bowlers fresh’ doesn’t do it for me and may well contribute to injuries because their bodies aren’t hardened.
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And God bless all those ex professionals who have died suffering from horrific injuries caused from it.

The years of hospital treatment and unable to walk..the amount of dementia patients from football and cricket etc.

If your job did that to you.

Wow just wow.

In hope you don't have to suffer anything from your job in future years.

Oh hang on let's bring back the coal mines shall we?

Jog on.
 
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