Name change

[Valentines Park]

Warwickshire are to call themselves Birmingham Bears in T20.

I reckon Essex should do something similar.

West Ham Wannabees seems appropriate given the designs on the Olympic Stadium & the fact Essex haven't won the comp despite concentrating on nothing else for the last 10 years.

[nat]

How about Essex Egos?

[silasgreenback]

The Essex Wolves

[Blocky]

Warwickshire are to call themselves Birmingham Bears in T20.

I reckon Essex should do something similar.

West Ham Wannabees seems appropriate given the designs on the Olympic Stadium & the fact Essex haven't won the comp despite concentrating on nothing else for the last 10 years.

I'm going to ignore the pop at my beloved Hammers(which I tend to agree with!)  but surely this alienates the rest of the county?  Lots of Coventry based fans plus all those in the black country, who don't consider themselves Brummies. 

We need to leave the football links well alone I'd say. 

[Andy]

The Championship is our priority.

[firehazard]

The Championship is our priority.

Good name. I'd favour that.

I had been going to suggest the Chelmsford Champs (though I somehow keep pronouncing it with a "u" instead of an "a"). But Andy's suggestion is much better.

[silasgreenback]

This must affect the membership scheme's at the club. As pointed out earlier in the thread, why would people in Coventry want to fund a Birmingham Cricket team. The club should be offering a separate Birmingham and Warwickshire membership.
I am originally from Sussex and support them, but if the one day side turned into Brighton I would not support them as I have no affinity to the town. Just seems like County Clubs finding another way to alienate their core membership.

[Slogger]

Of course Big City cricket was one of the options touted  for T20 - played on test grounds - when the ECB thought they should or could take on the IPL. It strikes me that most cricket supporters don't live in big cities - just like most premier league football fans don't live near their club's stadium. The logical extension of this sort of thing would be Essex playing all their T20 games at Stratford and calling themsleves East London.

[BlueEagles]

Stratford is no longer part of Essex, after the boundary changes in the 1960's..........Therefore, I recommend that we're called the ' Southend Shrimpers' with ALL the games played at either Garons Park or perhaps at the Blues new stadium at Fossetts Farm!!!!! ........makes sense as Southend is the largest town in Essex!!!!

[Perov]

Second largest Town in Essex, ..... after Basildon.

[IlfordEagle]

A good name for us in the LVCC could be the Chelmsford Collapsibles, or the Chelmsford Copouts.

[Slogger]

My understanding is that Southend is a unitary authority so administratively isn't part of Essex either. I suggest we play all home T20 games at Halstead and Coggeshall!!!?

[eastsax]

My understanding is that Southend is a unitary authority so administratively isn't part of Essex either?

That's my understanding too.

[BlueEagles]

My understanding is that Southend is a unitary authority so administratively isn't part of Essex either. I suggest we play all home T20 games at Halstead and Coggeshall!!!?

.......apologies but I thought this was a cricket forum, not one on local government/politics!!!!  Great shout though regarding Halstead and Coggeshall, logistically it would be very convenient  for our committee!!!!

[sufcessex]

the speedway team went from Arena Essex to Lakeside Hammers or something like that so i wouldn't put it past the cricket team to have hammers in there somewhere.  at that point i won't even look at results let alone not update my membership.