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Offline Valentines Park

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20/20 boycott
« on: January 07, 2014, 06:40:27 PM »
I've boycotted it for years but is it time for members (not interested in maintaining the status quo) to follow suit?

Hit the club where it hurts.

Refuse to buy 20/20 tickets.

It's not like we're going to win is it?

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Re: 20/20 boycott
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2014, 06:51:36 PM »
I have boycotted T20 for years as.

Members have to pay.

the competition has gone down market. Not that it was that upmarket in the first place.

Another way of getting to them for other competitions is to,

Bring all your own food and drink. Just spend 50p on a scorecard if that.

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Re: 20/20 boycott
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2014, 09:15:53 PM »
I've boycotted it for years but is it time for members (not interested in maintaining the status quo) to follow suit?

Hit the club where it hurts.

Refuse to buy 20/20 tickets.

It's not like we're going to win is it?

It won't work...unfortunately. Most members don't buy tickets anyway.

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Re: 20/20 boycott
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2014, 11:22:06 PM »
I've already decided to boycott the plethora of lout's Friday night binges this year. Although I think that the Castle Park T20 game is an inappropriate venue for it, I intend to be attending that and the midweek T20 at the ECG .Even if relatively few Members, who I know of, that do attend crash 'n' bash declined from doing so, then they'd most probably be able to sell the deficit in Member's ticket sales at full price to those with little or no support for ECCC generally, nor with any particular interest in cricket. The idea is a non starter I'm afraid.

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Re: 20/20 boycott
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2014, 08:14:29 AM »
Not so sure.

This year is a World Cup year so the football hooligans will have something else to occupy their time.

Helping to prevent sellouts would be a victory of sorts.

Remember the club panic when the club failed to sell Sussex out a few years back.

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Re: 20/20 boycott
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2014, 12:57:04 PM »
I think a better solution would be to sign Boycott for our 20/20 campaign.

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Re: 20/20 boycott
« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2014, 01:52:16 PM »
So VP is going to organise all the people who hate T20 to boycott T20. Then the Club Committee and Coaching staff will just fade away. These are tactic that General Haig would have been proud of.

Though not sure Michael Gove will back this one.

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Re: 20/20 boycott
« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2014, 03:17:43 PM »
So VP is going to organise all the people who hate T20 to boycott T20. Then the Club Committee and Coaching staff will just fade away. These are tactic that General Haig would have been proud of.

Though not sure Michael Gove will back this one.

Baaaaah! As General Melchett would say.

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Re: 20/20 boycott
« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2014, 03:21:26 PM »
So VP is going to organise all the people who hate T20 to boycott T20. Then the Club Committee and Coaching staff will just fade away. These are tactic that General Haig would have been proud of.

Though not sure Michael Gove will back this one.

Baaaaah! As General Melchett would say.

I've been boycotting T20 ever since it started. Sadly it seems to have had no effect yet.  ;)

It's obvious why Gove hates Blackadder. Gove is, after all, Captain Darling.

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Re: 20/20 boycott
« Reply #9 on: January 08, 2014, 07:32:44 PM »
So VP is going to organise all the people who hate T20 to boycott T20. Then the Club Committee and Coaching staff will just fade away. These are tactic that General Haig would have been proud of.



Well if we're using analogies members that buy 20/20 tickets are appeasers on a par with Neville Chamberlain.

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Re: 20/20 boycott
« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2014, 08:01:13 PM »
"The settlement of the T20 problem, which has now been achieved is, in my view, only the prelude to a larger settlement in which all Essex may find peace. This morning I had another talk with the Essex Chancellor, Herr Bowden, and here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine. Some of you, perhaps, have already heard what it contains but I would just like to read it to you: ' ... We regard the agreement signed last night as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again"