championship final

[Slogger]

I was thinking about going Friday but work intervened. On the days when there was play what was the attendance like?

[Perov]

First day was around 200.

[Slogger]

Thanks I would have thought a few more would have been there

[Perov]

One thing of note was the batting of Darren Gough's lad playing for us, he looked a decent batsman, and scored 82, with 16 x 4's.

[nat]

One thing of note was the batting of Darren Gough's lad playing for us, he looked a decent batsman, and scored 82, with 16 x 4's.

The other things to note were that Craddock, Phillips and Saj were absent. Don't need to be a rocket scientist to work out the reason why.

[bwildered]

Reports where available on the OWS .

[Mog]

As this site has for some reason been inaccessible for the last few days this is a rather late comment, but I felt intensely depressed at the experience of watching day 3 of the Second XI championship final yesterday. I accept that the club had reasonably taken a booking in the pavilion for the 4 days -we need the money no doubt and it would have been a bit excessive to say sorry we can't take a booking because we just might be in the 2nd XI final that week-but was it really necessary to bar the seating in front of the pavilion off with barriers and snotty "keep out" notices of the type you used to see in public parks? What harm would it have done to allow people to sit in front of the pavilion? Given that the 1st XI's match had finished two days earlier, where was the 1st XI coach? Why was only one committee member there as far as I could see? Why was it not possible to see any real detail of the progress of the match on our own website? It was only by looking at Leicestershire's site that I discovered the rather basic fact that a 1st innings lead would decide the match if it ended in a draw. All these things combine to give the impression, intended or not I wouldn't care to say, that the club can't really be bothered with anything except the big ticket floodlit nights. Saddest of all was the fact that nobody at all, except me, applauded Mark Pettini when he was dismissed after what could possibly be his final appearance for the club.

Sadly, Postman, I can only refer you to my earlier contribution to this thread. The Club need to take a long hard look at themselves and their implicit contempt for anything other than T20.
Yesterday, on my first visit to Chelmsford since late June, I noticed the shanty town of scaffolding/sheeting, now so swollen it must be close to being awarded its own postcode, still in place despite the great god S*Y having no interest in Essex's attempts to elevate themselves into the upper echelon of English cricket. It's still in place because the Club are complacent and lazy, as you eloquently identify in your post.

[afinetickletoleg]

Yesterday, on my first visit to Chelmsford since late June, I noticed the shanty town of scaffolding/sheeting, now so swollen it must be close to being awarded its own postcode, still in place despite the great god S*Y having no interest in Essex's attempts to elevate themselves into the upper echelon of English cricket. It's still in place because the Club are complacent and lazy, as you eloquently identify in your post.

The things that some people moan about, does it make any difference?

[Valentines Park]

Not to you.


You lap up any old guff the club dish up.

[afinetickletoleg]

Not to you.


You lap up any old guff the club dish up.

Come on then, explain to me what impact that leaving the scaffolding in place has on performances? Ot anything else come to that?

[Valentines Park]

The ramshackle nature of that construction is indicative of the mindset of a club that has spent 10 years overseeing an abortion of a redevelopment.

The club couldn't organise a piss  up in a brewery.

Which is why Shepherd Neame are on board with their pitiful excuses for beer.

[Mog]

Yesterday, on my first visit to Chelmsford since late June, I noticed the shanty town of scaffolding/sheeting, now so swollen it must be close to being awarded its own postcode, still in place despite the great god S*Y having no interest in Essex's attempts to elevate themselves into the upper echelon of English cricket. It's still in place because the Club are complacent and lazy, as you eloquently identify in your post.

The things that some people moan about, does it make any difference?

Well clearly not to you. Have you considered the aspect of creating additional seating space for this final (very well attended) Championship game, without that annual eyesore blocking off at least 50% of the Hayes Close End? The paying member/spectator is clearly as diminished with you as it is No Change Essex.