Members Forum 8th December

[essexfan548]

Will Ronnie bother to turn up is my question! 

[bwildered]

Bullet points.

Fixtures - not released yet might know early Jan , set up 3 Conference leagues , Bob Willis Trophy between winners and runners up
 Three Ladies games at Chelmsford.

Membership
 Prices up 10% new , discount 10% for renewals  , direct debits to be taken 26 Feb.
83 new life members due to new prices .

Members only entrance next season.
 Behind closed doors likely for April.
No out grounds to be used .

 Streaming to be available again next season .

Received 600k from ECB grants
No more monies to be received from previous flat development , project finished.

Ground improvement will be upgrade toilets and groundsman facilities, River Gate entrance complete.
Security gates to be installed by groundsmans house .

No plans recruit additional players .

Second XI cricket next season .

No plans for Champions v MCC game.

Survey to members to go out online .

[vim]

If I am expected to pay 10% more with a number of days play unavailable to view live. They know where they can stick their membership.

[nat]

If I am expected to pay 10% more with a number of days play unavailable to view live. They know where they can stick their membership.

yep they are taking the p***. Seems they haven't learned any PR lessons from last season.

[essexfan548]

If I am expected to pay 10% more with a number of days play unavailable to view live. They know where they can stick their membership.

That's not the renewal price there's a reduction

https://www.essexcricket.org.uk/membership-2021/

[vim]

The early bird discount ends on 1/3/2021. I took advantage of this last season and had my trousers well and truly pulled down. What if in the fixtures there are two home championship games behind closed doors in April. The way the fixtures are planned someone will have this. That is 8 days possible play out of the allocation.

Also the One day cup, if Essex will be facing little more than 2xi or youth teams due to the 100, will there be a discount for that?

[Postman]

I don't see anything about the bonus mentioned at the last forum under which renewing members got a free guest ticket for each day of the CC-effectively meaning that only one half of a joint membership needs to rejoin?

[golden duck]

One piece which was discussed was Derek Bowdens departure as CEO. It didn't really have much detail but they did say members would have to vote on a change of constitution before a replacement was recruited... sometimes it's little snippets which are dropped in which we need to keep an eye on as members. Not saying there is anything dodgy going on but we do need to avoid anything which could in the future take the club away from the members.

[Valentines Park]

Cricket behind closed doors in April is probably a blessing in disguise.

[bwildered]

Seems like NO guests tickets will be available due to size of ground and restricted seating arrangements.

Wonder what happens if a ballot system is introduced to attend and fourth day of match has already finished, or day allocated is lost to the weather or member continuing never attends ?

Members bubble for several who want to sit together ?

[Slogger]

Well if the current tiering system is in force by April (and the Prime Minister seems to think it won't be, but who really knows?)and  if Chelmsford is in tier 3 there would be no spectators allowed but anything lower than that limited numbers could come in. I reckon you will be able to go but it may only be a few hundred pre booked seats per day with members getting priority. The lack of a fixture list until New Year is a bit of a niggle. I'd like to book some leave, even just to sit at home and watch the live stream, which will be available and improved apparently. Before I know it my colleagues will have snaffled some home days!

[essexfan548]

It's up on the website now: https://www.essexcricket.org.uk/2020/12/09/watch-decembers-end-of-year-members-forum/

No Ronnie again 

[vim]

If there are tiers it will be a boon for the search every bag and you cannot go there as there is a child within 100 feet brigade. i bet the whole crisis and the restrictions has made their day.

The executive suite has a limit as it is available for functions. With distancing you would not get many in there. A corporate member with the amount they pay would not be pleased to be turned away as their area is full up.

To get in any numbers, the public areas will have to be used for the members. There being no public of course.

[essexfan548]

If there are tiers it will be a boon for the search every bag and you cannot go there as there is a child within 100 feet brigade. i bet the whole crisis and the restrictions has made their day.

The executive suite has a limit as it is available for functions. With distancing you would not get many in there. A corporate member with the amount they pay would not be pleased to be turned away as their area is full up.

To get in any numbers, the public areas will have to be used for the members. There being no public of course.

There will have to be a way of booking a place/being allocted a place in advance.

I'll need to know before driving for two [on a good day] hours that I can get in. What about away games?

[bwildered]

Recent experience at football was, got chosen has season ticket holder , sent email about three days before to accept attendance and terms and conditions which accepted, about two days before got another email with allocated seat.
Had to download ticket on gate for scanning. Can see this being not dissimilar.
Problem is members to seat ratio, at away test match grounds not a problem for conference games , but any restrictions home members WILL obviously take priority.
Anybody not allocated a seat and a member will receive streaming service, non member will have to pay a fee .