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Cricket => Official Q&A => Topic started by: essexfan548 on December 02, 2014, 06:25:14 PM
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Anyone know when we might see the Newsletter this year?
It's usually arrived by the end of November but nothing yet ...
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Evening,
This mailed yesterday so this week it should all land. We wanted to include the fixtures which were only confirmed late last week. We have outlined the benefits, ticket on sale dates all within a new look Members magazine.
Thanks, Danny
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Anyone got it yet?
Still waiting for mine.
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Got it last week. I noted a £1charge to park at Meteor Way next year and an article about the development
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Still waiting for mine.
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Got mine.
Haven't opened as it's bound to be the usual BS.
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Got it last week. I noted a £1charge to park at Meteor Way next year and an article about the development
What did the article on the ground redevelopment consist of? Anything "new" or a cut and paste of the equivalent members newsletter from '10, '11, '12, '13?
Danny, can you advise when the "Big Interview" with the CEO, that was signposted on twitter and facebook over a month ago, feature? It's one aspect being unable/unwilling to provide or share any meaningful updates on the "redevelopment" of the spectator accommodation - apart from highly restrictive and user unfriendly "consultations", quite another to fail to deliver something the Club have advertised on their official social media feeds.
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This was added to website and social media this week, thanks
Please see previous thread re consultation timing
Thanks
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For some reason it has come off the website, I will get that looked into
In the meantime the link from social media or via our you tube channel will work
Thanks
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It does seem to me that the Club are damned when they do make official statements but also damned when they don't, unfortunately not everything they say can be to our liking.
I don't know about other Counties but at least us Members do get a twice yearly newsletter cum report which is better than nothing, that said a bit more progress on the Ground Improvements wouldn't come amiss!!
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So, having watched and listened closely to the interview with Derek Bowden, I can only muse at how the Club appear even further away than six years ago at the inception of this vanity project.
He talks about the completion of the pavilion as though it's a half finished project - it may come as a shock to him that the current pavilion was constructed circa 1970!
He continues on to state [the] pavilion, "will be redesigned to ensure we do it without taking on any debt". What?
Back in the day, DE and his cohorts were crowing about how the lease/sale of the Clubs' land would encompass the construction of a sparkly new pavilion - (although one loosely based on the twenty-year old design at Durham's Riverside), whilst the Club made a tidy profit. Of course, his successor failed to touch on or explain that aspect. Although, such was the deference of the interviewer, sounding as though he was constantly checking his script to ensure no difficult questions were asked....or 'indeed' answered. Due to Bowden's clip on microphone being located closer to his stomach than his mouth, it is varyingly inaudible. (Knowing ECCC, probably a deliberate move - or more likely the typical amateurism we're all used to!)
He bizarrely mentions the members consultation; 'to decide what we (the Club, as opposed to the mere member) will include with the pavilion, although we've already done that with our staff'. ??
As I have stated previously, until the Club open up and engage, then there is little point in attending this muddled fiasco. Surely, if designs are being retraced and architects are still providing options then the members should be included, collaboratively with this process.....Question is why isn't this the case?
DB concludes that it will be 'a perfectly adequate pavilion for a Cat. C cricket ground'. Reading between the lines it will be a budget construction, with the paying member/spectator coming a poor last to corporate and staff requirements. I envisage cramped seating provision with knee-scrunchingly tight leg room to make up for the seats that will be lost at the River End. (Not asked or mentioned here, of course.....)
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DB concludes that it will be 'a perfectly adequate pavilion for a Cat
You'll be okay then, Mog !
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You already can't swing a cat at the County Ground.
Still so long as Larry gets a shiny new bunker to take cover in.
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DB concludes that it will be 'a perfectly adequate pavilion for a Cat
You'll be okay then, Mog !
;D Perhaps a scratching post should be installed with every new seat? ;)
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According to the BBC Mr Bowden said
Frankly, we make most of our money from T20 and T20 is largely floodlit these days," said Bowden.
"So at the very least I think we will need to play our home T20 games here, but ideally play all our cricket here."
So are the club planning to ditch Colchester?
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bowden all cricket at FCG...no castle park???
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Well, match days are going to be fun. Not so much 'bring a bottle' (which are banned anyway) as 'bring a trowel'.
Send in the clowns. Oh look, they're already here...
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bowden all cricket at FCG...no castle park???
(sigh) he was talking about during the construction phase.
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bowden all cricket at FCG...no castle park???
(sigh) he was talking about during the construction phase.
no, we was talking in the context of that season. he did not allude to just the construction bit. the fact that he wants all t20 at chelmsford despite the fact the castle park game was a runaway success says it all.
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If Castle Park is discontinued then it is likely that some Members from that area plus those from Suffolk & Norfolk who probably look forward to the Colchester Festival more than most will stop following us & cancel their Memberships which will be counter productive for Essex.
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I'm not sure they care about what members want any more.
I joined partly for free parking as I live outside Essex - without consultation that goes ....
Ilford and Southend have gone.
The 'redevelopment' is an expensive joke with us picking up the tab.
No aspiration from DB to be more than a cat3 ground whatever that is.
All very sad.
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it will be very disappointing if when other counties are using more and more out grounds, Essex decide not to.
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I'm not sure they care about what members want any more.
I joined partly for free parking as I live outside Essex - without consultation that goes ....
Ilford and Southend have gone.
The 'redevelopment' is an expensive joke with us picking up the tab.
No aspiration from DB to be more than a cat3 ground whatever that is.
All very sad.
The common thread with each point you've highlighted is No Consultation.
Indeed, all very sad - at the same time all very predictable. This is the result of fifteen years of ignoring anyone with an alternative opinion and following the same path. Beginning with David East's appointment - by his buddies on the committee - through to Derek Bowden, who clearly hasn't got a clue about cricket or delivering a substantial capital project, a man brought in to progress the development - but has turned it into even more embarrassment with each contradictory statement.
Sadly, all of the above is why an EGM should have been called long ago. These people know they can do what they damn well like and be met with shoulder shrugged resignation.
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Good luck with the EGM.
If you were to get enough support. I think that you will find that the people that would be useful have walked away long ago.
If I decided myself to move on. I would forget all about the issues and personalities in six months.
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Good luck with the EGM.
If you were to get enough support. I think that you will find that the people that would be useful have walked away long ago.
If I decided myself to move on. I would forget all about the issues and personalities in six months.
It would take as long as that?
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These people know they can do what they damn well like and be met with shoulder shrugged resignation.
Or active support in the case of certain misguided individuals.