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Ashbrooke Cricket Ground

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Skandhaless said:
They tell me young Hills has fucked off back to Gateshead, comes helps em down and moves back for premier league cricket, some club man :rolleyes: .Legend in his own lunch time for a young un.
So was Youlden for that matter, good cricketer , just 1/4 as good as he thought unfortunately:lol:
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I think you're probably right to be fair....although a lot of the problem last season seemed to be their negativity....it was a bit like watching England...and I don't mean any disrespect to the Sunderland lads.
 

chunkylover53 said:
What has that got to do with the MCC?

And the ECB has regularly handed out tests to Durham, Headingley, Old Trafford, Notts, Warwickshire and Glamorgan. I struggle to see where else "northern" they can play tests to be honest.
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I was just using "MCC" as short hand for the Pimm's and cucumber sandwich brigade. Yes, CLS sometimes gets included but not as much as it should be, imho.

Anyway, this thread was about Ashbrooke not CLS. However, I don't see why DCCC shouldn't have two first class grounds at either end of the county instead of blowing all it's money on the Emirates Riverside or whatever it's official name now is.
 
AlpineExile said:
I was just using "MCC" as short hand for the Pimm's and cucumber sandwich brigade. Yes, CLS sometimes gets included but not as much as it should be, imho.

Anyway, this thread was about Ashbrooke not CLS. However, I don't see why DCCC shouldn't have two first class grounds at either end of the county instead of blowing all it's money on the Emirates Riverside or whatever it's official name now is.
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Counties bid for tests, thats the process

I don't disagree with your second point
 
Bri said:
There was lots of land around Gateshead Stadium. A lot is old industry sites, maybe contaminated beneath the surface but as a consequence there'd no doubt be lots a grants for clean up available.

I'd have thought Gateshead Council would fall over themselves to have the Stadium and a first class cricket ground right next to each other.

the metro link is good too.
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Would have been better with the public transport links but I'd have hated it there for some reason
 
Paddy O'Dors said:
The advent of Tyne & Wear killed off any hope of Durham playing in the north county if the truth be told.
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Why? Gateshead/Sunderland/S. Shields even is still in Durham Co as far as cricket is concerned, same as Hartlepool and Darlington to the South and Stockton and Billingham in Teesside, not to mention Middlesborough in Yorkshire, Newcastle in Northumberland, Bristol in Glous and so on and on and on......
 
Bri said:
Why? Gateshead/Sunderland/S. Shields even is still in Durham Co as far as cricket is concerned, same as Hartlepool and Darlington to the South and Stockton and Billingham in Teesside, not to mention Middlesborough in Yorkshire, Newcastle in Northumberland, Bristol in Glous and so on and on and on......
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Just feel people in those areas have lost a bit of connection with Co Durham. Nobody under the age of 45 probably even remembers it being part of it.
 
Paddy O'Dors said:
Just feel people in those areas have lost a bit of connection with Co Durham. Nobody under the age of 45 probably even remembers it being part of it.
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True, but it all gets a bit complicated. If you were to exclude tyne and wear you'd lose more than half the population (potential and actual supporters) and the bulk of the top premier league clubs from the south of the tyne.
 
Bri said:
True, but it all gets a bit complicated. If you were to exclude tyne and wear you'd lose more than half the population (potential and actual supporters) and the bulk of the top premier league clubs from the south of the tyne.
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Anyway, I always do my bit. Whenever I send cards etc back home I always write Sunderland, Co. Durham on the envelope etc.

1926.Saturday July 16th Durham County played the Australians at Ashbrooke and 20678 paid for admission. If one adds members, officials, guests, the total must have been near to 22,000. The gates were closed, but long-time Senior League supporter, Fred Seadon, 91 years of age as this is written, says he climbed the wall to get in. On the wet Monday following only 2826 paid for admission.

From elsewhere on the interweb
 
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