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Off-Topic => In The Hut => Topic started by: Valentines Park on March 17, 2014, 08:04:15 PM

Title: Ten years in the making
Post by: Valentines Park on March 17, 2014, 08:04:15 PM

http://www.essexcricket.org.uk/2014/03/17/essex-county-cricket-club-set-to-commence-ground-development/

Can anyone please explain why we're supposed to get excited about the club building a block of flats?

The bogs will still stink, the beer will still be crap & Grayson will still be a prize wally.

Title: Re: Ten years in the making
Post by: Mog on March 17, 2014, 08:19:30 PM

Keith Brown opines; "Now that the first Phase can start the Club will now focus on its facilities which will form part of the next stage.  Work will now start on reviewing the original plans to ensure that they meet our requirements in that we build  the facilities  that will  serve the needs of the modern game, our members,  sponsors and supporters."

Really?

Mr. Brown may be surprised to know that the tried, tested and collaborative way to; "build the facilities that serve the needs.....of our members, sponsors and supporters", is to actually involve them in the entire process - from the outset. As the Club have thus far failed to consult, seek opinions/ideas or even honestly inform the members/supporters of what is going on, throughout this amateurish fiasco, then he is starting from way beyond the base line.
Perhaps, if he or any of his cohorts read this board he can outline how the above extract of his press statement will be undertaken ......?

Title: Re: Ten years in the making
Post by: Andy on March 18, 2014, 10:19:36 AM

No actual start date? There have been cranes lying idle in Manchester for 10 years we've been here, so their appearance at the CG don't mean a thing...

Title: Re: Ten years in the making
Post by: squarelegumpire on March 18, 2014, 10:57:45 AM

Is that the fourth or fifth start date?

Agree about the cranes, too. They’ve got to be parked somewhere!

Title: Re: Ten years in the making
Post by: eastsax on March 18, 2014, 12:25:21 PM

I'm afraid just like our endangered feathered population, the whereabouts of cranes is a closely guarded secret in order to protect them from extinction

Although they do usually breed somewhere in East Anglia, I'm sure that the mechanical variation was spotted fairly recently in central Essex - used to build luxury retirement homes not a hundred yards from the "home of cricket" (Nasser Hussain) and their behaviour was often more interesting than events occurring on the pitch.