It's that time .

[stewyww]

Essex have traditionally gained a lot of support from the east of the county plus Suffolk/Norfolk. To alienate them by abolishing Colchester week would be folly. To build up a comparable support in east London/Stratford would take decades but I suspect the allure of the Olympic stadium for a short term fix will win out.

You're assuming the club is interested in retaining "traditional" support. Sadly that is probably not so and traditional supporters have been treated as a nuisance since the late Mr Edwards left us. The current management with its football background regards spectators as a problem to be managed (by being pestered with health and safety announcements, hectored with piddly notices saying don't do this and there are no facilities for that, and being scanned to within an inch of their lives), not as a resource to be cherished.  Far easier to sell tickets to people who will drink their way through an evening of T20.

Excellent post

[jimmy]

The entire set up of English cricket is the same. The ECB are systematically turning cricket as it was known into  a completely different sport, each step is engineered from Lords by people like Andrew Strauss who will not have watched a single session of championship cricket in his life outside of the few he was paid to play in. The game has been hijacked by those with an agenda and the idea that cricket without coloured clothes, floodlights,  booze, pyrotechnics, pop music, booze, stupid team nicknames like Lancashire Shazam and Worcestershire rickets, booze, mascots and booze could possibly be of any interest to someone is anathema to them.

[Andy]

The entire set up of English cricket is the same. The game has been hijacked by those with an agenda and the idea that cricket without coloured clothes, floodlights,  booze, pyrotechnics, pop music, booze, stupid team nicknames like Lancashire Shazam and Worcestershire rickets, booze, mascots and booze could possibly be of any interest to someone is anathema to them.

I should copyright those team monikers ASAP. Although I'm not sure teams like to be named after vitamin deficiencies.

[firehazard]

The entire set up of English cricket is the same. The game has been hijacked by those with an agenda and the idea that cricket without coloured clothes, floodlights,  booze, pyrotechnics, pop music, booze, stupid team nicknames like Lancashire Shazam and Worcestershire rickets, booze, mascots and booze could possibly be of any interest to someone is anathema to them.

I should copyright those team monikers ASAP. Although I'm not sure teams like to be named after vitamin deficiencies.

One of the many regrets of the way English cricket has developed in recent years is the failure officially to give the Yorkshire Puddings what should so obviously be their rightful name.

[Valentines Park]

I'm not sure teams like to be named after vitamin deficiencies.

Even if they very obviously lack minerals? 

[Andy]

The entire set up of English cricket is the same. The game has been hijacked by those with an agenda and the idea that cricket without coloured clothes, floodlights,  booze, pyrotechnics, pop music, booze, stupid team nicknames like Lancashire Shazam and Worcestershire rickets, booze, mascots and booze could possibly be of any interest to someone is anathema to them.

I should copyright those team monikers ASAP. Although I'm not sure teams like to be named after vitamin deficiencies.

One of the many regrets of the way English cricket has developed in recent years is the failure officially to give the Yorkshire Puddings what should so obviously be their rightful name.

Rhubarb!!!!!