At the risk of repeating myself. Doesn't Big Ronnie's firm sponsor the club???
There's a simple solution to that, politely advise the company, thank them for their support, but tell them ECCC are looking to move in a different direction.
I recognise finance is tight in the County cricket circuit, but I'd doubt the sponsorship from whoever this company are amounts to more than a couple of grand....
I'd be confident that with Irani out of the picture, other sponsors may be encouraged.
I don’t disagree with you mog. Maybe other sponsors can be found, but the club may have become too close to RI. Personally I could see this sort of thing happening back when he came in back in 2016: I’m surprised and glad that it didn’t back then, otherwise the club’s 20 year decline could have been terminal.
I completely agree on that point, Andy. To me it demonstrates once again ECCC's poor governance and management structure over two decades and longer, in terms of the continual reference and employment of former players - the majority of whom have remained unqualified for whatever role the Club has 'invented' for them. This surely requires a rather more professional approach.
I can completely understand Gooch and Fletcher's roles - pivotal in the Clubs' migration, attainment and maintenance of success until the early nineties.
However, I'd struggle to think of any success that Irani was responsible for - in fact quite the opposite. Disharmony, infighting and the departure of players who had had enough of his 'leadership', which ironically maintained the
miraculous rise of medicorities such as Grayson.
