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Several counties have held a secret meeting


chunkyshanhawk53 said:
Calm down lads. The EU20 is coming, Ghent Gladiators are gonna kick ass
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The names are even worse than that. The Rotterdam Dockers will be playing the Edinburgh Castle Rockers.

Glasgow Cosmic don't even have a home ground in the largest city in Scotland. They're playing their home games in Edinburgh.
 
Parkside said:
And we decide to absent ourselves without considering members' views. Durham CCC is now a monocracy ruled by self-appointed dictator Bostock.
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He doesn’t run the club. He’s a puppet for North. North is making the decisions, even commercial ones…. Questions should be asked why !!!
 
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Pardon my ignorance on this as I generally avoid anything to do with The Hundred, but

1) How will it save cricket if the ECB don’t have ownership ?

2) Did they sell it off for a one off windfall or does the ECB get money each season ?
 
Eggman said:
Pardon my ignorance on this as I generally avoid anything to do with The Hundred, but

1) How will it save cricket if the ECB don’t have ownership ?

2) Did they sell it off for a one off windfall or does the ECB get money each season ?
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1 The revenue from the sale is the apparent saviour of cricket,although there's no evidence that it has been received

2 80% of ensuing profits go to the owners,20% to ECB
 
Turner the Cat said:
They've only themselves to blame given they voted for this in the first place. They prioritised short term cash over long term stability and it seems that cash isnt as accessible as they expected.

This narrative that the Hundred has saved county cricket is bollox. I've said this before, 17 of the 18 counties are solvent. Compare that to football where 22 of the 24 championship clubs are insolvent with huge debts.
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Only solvent because of the money they make from the hundred. Without that they are dead. They know this. The hundred money has paid the debts off when this ends then what you get this surely.

How can Leicestershire survive having 48 paying spectators this season so far exactly. That's right the hundred money and it's running out soon.

Clueless.
 
The counties have survived for over 100 years. There was no money in the fame until Sky came along.
 
Iamme said:
Only solvent because of the money they make from the hundred. Without that they are dead. They know this. The hundred money has paid the debts off when this ends then what you get this surely.

How can Leicestershire survive having 48 paying spectators this season so far exactly. That's right the hundred money and it's running out soon.

Clueless.
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No, you are wrong. The data on solvency was pre-distribution of Hundred money taken from an independent report. Please don't make things up based on what you think rather than actual financial data.

Let me provide a quote from that report on Counties finances before The Hundred money came in over a 10 year period.

"The average profit/(loss) calculation across the
past ten years shows us that county cricket clubs tend to break even more often than not, in contrast to other professional team sports in England and Wales, such as football and rugby union, where loss- making is commonplace. Collectively the counties made a profit of £7.4m in the three years following the Covid-19 pandemic, from 2021 to 2023".

May I also point out that the ECB was making profits even after payments to the counties and when they were actually losing money on the Hundred.

Also note that in 2025 three players from Leicestershire played in the Hundred and all three came through as youth players at Leicestershire. The Hundred doesnt develop youth talent, they rely on the likes of Leicestershire to develop talent for them. Hundred profits are therefore reliant on the likes of Leicestershire.

Two of those players have also played for England. Again, England need players developed by the likes of Leicestershire if they are to succeed on the field and financially. Therefore, there is a symbiotic relationship between them.

Clueless.
 
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