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[vim]

Has anyone else received this e mail or has it just gone to Premier members? All 25 of us.

[Slogger]

https://www.essexcricket.org.uk/2022/04/28/club-statement-board-update/

[Slogger]

David Acfield is club president. I don't know if his departure from the board creates a vacancy. If it does I would hope that Mr Gooch would step forward.

[firehazard]

I have just received an e mail advising that the club will be looking for almost all a new board. Applications are invited from under represented groups.

They can stand and no doubt members will find other candidates to vote for. When they get a Lt Cdr Boakes number of votes, perhaps the message from the membership will get through.

Eight out of nine new board members needed. Opportunity for a takeover there if concerned members could get a slate together?

[nat]

I have just received an e mail advising that the club will be looking for almost all a new board. Applications are invited from under represented groups.

They can stand and no doubt members will find other candidates to vote for. When they get a Lt Cdr Boakes number of votes, perhaps the message from the membership will get through.

Eight out of nine new board members needed. Opportunity for a takeover there if concerned members could get a slate together?

yep go for it.

[vim]

With the election it must be previous candidates need not apply.

[Andy]

With the election it must be previous candidates need not apply.

Are whistleblowers allowed to stand again? Just asking…

[firehazard]

I have just received an e mail advising that the club will be looking for almost all a new board. Applications are invited from under represented groups.

They can stand and no doubt members will find other candidates to vote for. When they get a Lt Cdr Boakes number of votes, perhaps the message from the membership will get through.

Eight out of nine new board members needed. Opportunity for a takeover there if concerned members could get a slate together?

yep go for it.

Unfortunately I resigned my membership a few years ago, after they stopped playing at Colchester. Or possibly fortunately, given the way this season appears to be going.

[vim]

also anyone who has the hobby of amateur social work need not apply. The damage these people's best intentions cause is never ending.

[Andy]

also anyone who has the hobby of amateur social work need not apply. The damage these people's best intentions cause is never ending.

Surely that’s what we need. Unless you want another fine after after some ageing ‘businessman’ decides he’s Bernard Manning.

[Perov]

What you don't want is someone who is offended by a word, fails to challenge at the the time, but stores it up to use it month's later in a bid to cause havoc and unsettle the whole club, in order to follow some personal objective.
The use  of that word is still disputed,  and many people who are Essex through and through,  have fallen on their sword, and will be interesting who applies to replace them.

[Andy]

David Acfield is club president. I don't know if his departure from the board creates a vacancy. If it does I would hope that Mr Gooch would step forward.

Why? He was a poor captain and the jobs for the boys mentality started under his watch. I’d rather have Nasser who upset the complacent people at the club.

[Slogger]

Club president is essentially an honoury role. I wouldn't have GG as chair. But as the figurehead he would be a good fit. If not him, someone like John Lever would be good.

[Mog]

David Acfield is club president. I don't know if his departure from the board creates a vacancy. If it does I would hope that Mr Gooch would step forward.

Why? He was a poor captain and the jobs for the boys mentality started under his watch. I’d rather have Nasser who upset the complacent people at the club.

Or perhaps a certain A.Lilley....? 

[Andy]

David Acfield is club president. I don't know if his departure from the board creates a vacancy. If it does I would hope that Mr Gooch would step forward.

Why? He was a poor captain and the jobs for the boys mentality started under his watch. I’d rather have Nasser who upset the complacent people at the club.

Or perhaps a certain A.Lilley....? 

You read my mind. Fletch and Gooch were the reason the club got into a mess in the 1990s that took two decades to recover from.