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Club Administration => Club Administration => Topic started by: nat on July 08, 2024, 12:35:06 PM
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Trouble 't mill?
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After three successful years, John Stephenson has decided to step down as Chief Executive of Essex Cricket after the conclusion of the 2024 playing season to pursue other projects.
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AKA he's been offered a better job.
That's worrying news. When taking into account the amount of crap he's had to wade through since being back at the club, I thought he did quite well.
Does this mean ANOTHER ground development is dead in the water?
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Don't Surrey have a vacancy?
My thoughts entirely. Given how he was working on the ground development - all seems a bit odd and sudden!
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I always thought that little ol' Essex CCC was a bit too small town for Mr Stephenson. Probably saw the club as a stepping stone to bigger things.
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I always thought that little ol' Essex CCC was a bit too small town for Mr Stephenson. Probably saw the club as a stepping stone to bigger things.
Must have been a stepping stone down, has previously had a post in the MCC .
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I always thought that little ol' Essex CCC was a bit too small town for Mr Stephenson. Probably saw the club as a stepping stone to bigger things.
MCC down to ECCC and up to SCCC?
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If he goes to the Oval, where does that leave Dan Lawrence? I hope JS daughter looks more like her mother.
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Daily Mail makes it sound like he has left as we could not afford to pay him any longer.
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Daily Mail makes it sound like he has left as we could not afford to pay him any longer.
You/DM could be right. Dan Feist has been appointed CEO under a 'restructuring of the Board' so presumably they will not be recruiting a deputy CEO (they don't need one anyway).
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Wish John every success on hills new project. Pleased for Dan who has given a lot of service to the club and probably deserves this chance to shape our club.
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Heartbreaking what could happen to us because of this utter bllx report, how did it cost so much and the likely fine.
3 failed cricketers and a board member with an axe to grind could very well destroy the whole club.
Awful that it's allowed to have gone this far.
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Daily Mail makes it sound like he has left as we could not afford to pay him any longer.
You/DM could be right. Dan Feist has been appointed CEO under a 'restructuring of the Board' so presumably they will not be recruiting a deputy CEO (they don't need one anyway).
He's not been appointed CEO technically, he's been given the title general manager, although his responsibilities seem to be that of a CEO. I assume this is so the club doesn't have to officially 'promote' him and give him a fat pay rise.
I'm afraid the reality is that the club are banking on that 20-25m they'll get for the sale of the franchises to sort out all their problems. We just aren't generating enough cash to operate sustainably in our current form. Bills have universally shot up, particularly energy bills, while we have zero revenue production outside of cricket operations in this relic of a ground.
It can't stay like this much longer...
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I wonder if the outcome of election is going to derail the clubs plans for a new stadium at Chelmsford? I.E. New Writtle Street car park site may now be used for affordable homes instead?
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Cricinfo framing it as a cost cutting move too:
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/john-stephenson-steps-down-as-essex-chief-executive-in-cost-cutting-move-1442638
"John Stephenson, Essex's chief executive, has announced his resignation after only three years in the role, in what is understood to be a cost-cutting measure that reflects the deepening financial crisis among non-Test-hosting counties.
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Stephenson's time at Chelmsford proved to be turbulent, with the club embroiled in a series of racism scandals, including an alleged racist comment from the then-chairman, John Faragher, at a board meeting in 2017 - a charge that Faragher denies but for which the club was fined ?50,000 by the Cricket Discipline Commission.
Last month, the club was again charged by the Cricket Regulator - the sport's new independent disciplinary body - after a series of historical allegations of racist abuse were last year upheld by an independent report, conducted by Katherine Newton KC."
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The accounts for 2021-2022 show the club spent 460k on legal fees in 2022 and 300k in 2022.
2020-2021 (covid) accounts show turnover of around 6.5 million and expenditure of 6.6 million = a loss of 178k which did not include the legal fees.
Cash in hand at the end of 2021 was 1.6 million.
2021-2022 accounts show turnover of 8 million and expendure of 8.1 million = a loss of 53k which did not include the legal fees.
Cash in hand at the end of 2022 was down to 1 million.
One would presume the club would still have around 600k in cash in the bank but in order to stop making small losses and start to make small profits then some cost cutting measures need to be implemented.
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To reduce costs they could remove the ludicrous use of external security staff for CC matches.
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To reduce costs they could remove the ludicrous use of external security staff for CC matches.
Agreed
Also the Open ground ( brought in so the public can circle the ground and have easier access to the shop,)uses a number of stewards, that would not be needed if that "experiment" was abandoned.
No steward needed at the Pavillion entrance,no stewards at the steps of Tom Pearce stand
No steward needed at players entrance, (the one positioned by the Pavillion steps would act as security to the Pavillion) , but an additional one would be needed where the old sentry box used to be. So a saving of 3 stewards at ?100 a day would soon add up.
The shop have not had any noticeable increase in takings since it was introduced.
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To reduce costs they could remove the ludicrous use of external security staff for CC matches.
What if someone tried to smuggle an umbrella in?
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To reduce costs they could remove the ludicrous use of external security staff for CC matches.
What if someone tried to smuggle an umbrella in?
Call me reckless but it's a risk I think they should take.
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Never even got to do that meeting where we're told what plan B is:-
i.e. location of alternative ground
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Can only speak has I found.
Most accessible person in the position held since Peter Edwards, made himself available to speak to members during match days around the ground. Even contacted me personally when sent a question to the club. A turbulent time during his stay off field, and must have known those reprimanded from the Newton Report.
For those like me who are not privy to the corridors of power, seemed to bring the post into the 21st century.
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Can only speak has I found.
Most accessible person in the position held since Peter Edwards, made himself available to speak to members during match days around the ground. Even contacted me personally when sent a question to the club. A turbulent time during his stay off field, and must have known those reprimanded from the Newton Report.
For those like me who are not privy to the corridors of power, seemed to bring the post into the 21st century.
Agrreed
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Can only speak has I found.
Most accessible person in the position held since Peter Edwards, made himself available to speak to members during match days around the ground. Even contacted me personally when sent a question to the club. A turbulent time during his stay off field, and must have known those reprimanded from the Newton Report.
For those like me who are not privy to the corridors of power, seemed to bring the post into the 21st century.
Ditto
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Got a new job
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c72v4m775d8o
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Well a change is has good has a rest, so they say. Best wishes to him down under.