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Club Administration => Club Administration => Topic started by: essexfan548 on December 08, 2020, 12:18:46 PM
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Will Ronnie bother to turn up is my question! ;D
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Bullet points.
Fixtures - not released yet might know early Jan , set up 3 Conference leagues , Bob Willis Trophy between winners and runners up
Three Ladies games at Chelmsford.
Membership
Prices up 10% new , discount 10% for renewals , direct debits to be taken 26 Feb.
83 new life members due to new prices .
Members only entrance next season.
Behind closed doors likely for April.
No out grounds to be used .
Streaming to be available again next season .
Received 600k from ECB grants
No more monies to be received from previous flat development , project finished.
Ground improvement will be upgrade toilets and groundsman facilities, River Gate entrance complete.
Security gates to be installed by groundsmans house .
No plans recruit additional players .
Second XI cricket next season .
No plans for Champions v MCC game.
Survey to members to go out online .
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If I am expected to pay 10% more with a number of days play unavailable to view live. They know where they can stick their membership.
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If I am expected to pay 10% more with a number of days play unavailable to view live. They know where they can stick their membership.
yep they are taking the p***. Seems they haven't learned any PR lessons from last season.
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If I am expected to pay 10% more with a number of days play unavailable to view live. They know where they can stick their membership.
That's not the renewal price there's a reduction
https://www.essexcricket.org.uk/membership-2021/
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The early bird discount ends on 1/3/2021. I took advantage of this last season and had my trousers well and truly pulled down. What if in the fixtures there are two home championship games behind closed doors in April. The way the fixtures are planned someone will have this. That is 8 days possible play out of the allocation.
Also the One day cup, if Essex will be facing little more than 2xi or youth teams due to the 100, will there be a discount for that?
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I don't see anything about the bonus mentioned at the last forum under which renewing members got a free guest ticket for each day of the CC-effectively meaning that only one half of a joint membership needs to rejoin?
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One piece which was discussed was Derek Bowdens departure as CEO. It didn't really have much detail but they did say members would have to vote on a change of constitution before a replacement was recruited... sometimes it's little snippets which are dropped in which we need to keep an eye on as members. Not saying there is anything dodgy going on but we do need to avoid anything which could in the future take the club away from the members.
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Cricket behind closed doors in April is probably a blessing in disguise.
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Seems like NO guests tickets will be available due to size of ground and restricted seating arrangements.
Wonder what happens if a ballot system is introduced to attend and fourth day of match has already finished, or day allocated is lost to the weather or member continuing never attends ?
Members bubble for several who want to sit together ?
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Well if the current tiering system is in force by April (and the Prime Minister seems to think it won't be, but who really knows?)and if Chelmsford is in tier 3 there would be no spectators allowed but anything lower than that limited numbers could come in. I reckon you will be able to go but it may only be a few hundred pre booked seats per day with members getting priority. The lack of a fixture list until New Year is a bit of a niggle. I'd like to book some leave, even just to sit at home and watch the live stream, which will be available and improved apparently. Before I know it my colleagues will have snaffled some home days!
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It's up on the website now: https://www.essexcricket.org.uk/2020/12/09/watch-decembers-end-of-year-members-forum/
No Ronnie again ;D
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If there are tiers it will be a boon for the search every bag and you cannot go there as there is a child within 100 feet brigade. i bet the whole crisis and the restrictions has made their day.
The executive suite has a limit as it is available for functions. With distancing you would not get many in there. A corporate member with the amount they pay would not be pleased to be turned away as their area is full up.
To get in any numbers, the public areas will have to be used for the members. There being no public of course.
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If there are tiers it will be a boon for the search every bag and you cannot go there as there is a child within 100 feet brigade. i bet the whole crisis and the restrictions has made their day.
The executive suite has a limit as it is available for functions. With distancing you would not get many in there. A corporate member with the amount they pay would not be pleased to be turned away as their area is full up.
To get in any numbers, the public areas will have to be used for the members. There being no public of course.
There will have to be a way of booking a place/being allocted a place in advance.
I'll need to know before driving for two [on a good day] hours that I can get in. What about away games?
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Recent experience at football was, got chosen has season ticket holder , sent email about three days before to accept attendance and terms and conditions which accepted, about two days before got another email with allocated seat.
Had to download ticket on gate for scanning. Can see this being not dissimilar.
Problem is members to seat ratio, at away test match grounds not a problem for conference games , but any restrictions home members WILL obviously take priority.
Anybody not allocated a seat and a member will receive streaming service, non member will have to pay a fee .
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Recent experience at football was, got chosen has season ticket holder , sent email about three days before to accept attendance and terms and conditions which accepted, about two days before got another email with allocated seat.
Had to download ticket on gate for scanning. Can see this being not dissimilar.
Problem is members to seat ratio, at away test match grounds not a problem for conference games , but any restrictions home members WILL obviously take priority.
Anybody not allocated a seat and a member will receive streaming service, non member will have to pay a fee .
I usually attend several days and book B&B so would need to know in advance as would people who work to arrange time off.
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The current guidance from DCMS (and I stress current because it may all change by April) says no "away" fans admitted. Mainly to cut down on lengthy travel. They don't want people travelling about the country and spreading CV19. If you live in a tier 3 area you are strongly advised not travel outside it. So if, say, Basildon is tier 3 but Chelmsford is tier 2 members resident in Basildon would be discouraged from attending the county ground. I know the current tiering system hasn't been applied at district/borough level (although some Tory backbenchers are pressing for just that) so just an example.
Clearly all the ground would have to be used. The very narrow walkway around the back of the public side must be a real headache. You'd have to have a one way system? My guess is you could get around 900 people in if you have to have 2 metre spacing. I don't know if the club have commented on how many they could accommodate.
Someone asked about using outgrounds but that was quickly shot down on cost grounds. The funny thing is if you told people to bring their own chairs and sit in household groups only it would probably work quite well at somewhere like Castle Park....
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The current guidance from DCMS (and I stress current because it may all change by April) says no "away" fans admitted. Mainly to cut down on lengthy travel. They don't want people travelling about the country and spreading CV19. If you live in a tier 3 area you are strongly advised not travel outside it. So if, say, Basildon is tier 3 but Chelmsford is tier 2 members resident in Basildon would be discouraged from attending the county ground. I know the current tiering system hasn't been applied at district/borough level (although some Tory backbenchers are pressing for just that) so just an example.
Clearly all the ground would have to be used. The very narrow walkway around the back of the public side must be a real headache. You'd have to have a one way system? My guess is you could get around 900 people in if you have to have 2 metre spacing. I don't know if the club have commented on how many they could accommodate.
Someone asked about using outgrounds but that was quickly shot down on cost grounds. The funny thing is if you told people to bring their own chairs and sit in household groups only it would probably work quite well at somewhere like Castle Park....
Slogger makes a good point at the end there. Last season (after club cricket was allowed to restart) I went to several matches in the East Anglian Premier League where this is exactly what happened, people brought chairs etc and sat in groups without any fuss or stewarding, and that included the championship play off at Mildenhall at the end of September where I would guess there were about 300 people. The home clubs were allowed to open their bars provided people queued sensibly and one way systems were in force inside to get there and to the loos. OK, you're talking smaller numbers than would come to first class cricket but against that you have more space to play with. Let's see some imagination here please.
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The ideal place for social distancing would be Garon Park. Especially as unlike the David East time one end is not reserved for Corporate.
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Come back Barren Park all is forgiven.
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It's up on the website now: https://www.essexcricket.org.uk/2020/12/09/watch-decembers-end-of-year-members-forum/
No Ronnie again ;D
Having watched most of the forum JF seems to be taking an increasingly dominant role. Maybe that might explain the rather abrupt departure of DB.
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It's up on the website now: https://www.essexcricket.org.uk/2020/12/09/watch-decembers-end-of-year-members-forum/
No Ronnie again ;D
Having watched most of the forum JF seems to be taking an increasingly dominant role. Maybe that might explain the rather abrupt departure of DB.
JF like many others may have his faults, but as a member he clearly believes his acting in the best interests of the club. His domineering tone will definitely come in handy when he deals with the ECB's of this world etc.
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Kent have already recognised their members by displaying their names on a new-look County Championship shirt in 2021, and members who didn't claim their money back in 2020 will receive 25 per cent off their fees for next summer.
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Kent have already recognised their members by displaying their names on a new-look County Championship shirt in 2021
Rob Key XXXL size? ;)
Middx are giving out season long guest passes to members.
I guess the cramped nature of the Fortress precludes that for Essex.