AGM

[vim]

No doubt you will have received the communication regarding the Non Executive and Members Committee vacancies.

Why do they need recruitment consultants? It seems like overkill for voluntary positions. The Committee vacancies are elected and the membership will be doing the selection for them.

I hope that there is a system to quickly remove anyone who does not meet expectations, as there no doubt will be.

[nat]

No doubt you will have received the communication regarding the Non Executive and Members Committee vacancies.

Why do they need recruitment consultants? It seems like overkill for voluntary positions. The Committee vacancies are elected and the membership will be doing the selection for them.

I hope that there is a system to quickly remove anyone who does not meet expectations, as there no doubt will be.

If I'm correct then the recruitment process will identify the 'right sort' of applicant who will then be 'recommended' by the board for election by the members. The expectation is that being recommended will carry weight in the election so that the board gets the appropriate quota of two-headed green-eyed martians (if you get my drift)  to satisfy the ECB and thus maintain the funding stream.

I'm hoping the membership stick two fingers up to the 'recommended' quota system and elect people who truly reflect member views.

[vim]

I nominate for the vacancies, the Premier member who when discussing David Acfield asked. Did he play for Essex?

[Andy]

I nominate for the vacancies, the Premier member who when discussing David Acfield asked. Did he play for Essex?

Don’t know. He taught my brother in law history. Well, allegedly taught.

[bwildered]

I nominate for the vacancies, the Premier member who when discussing David Acfield asked. Did he play for Essex?

DA had bit of a do, on the second day of recent game, so they were probably a non invited guest who does the free lunch circuit. Several  locals were present,  Fletch, Gooch, Stephenson, Lever, Hobbs and Pont plus various committee members who looked inside the tent than watch the middle order go slow out on the pitch or applauses at inappropriate moments, or was it that quick single !

[pablo]

Received my AGM notice today with 'Board' and Membership' Committee electoral forms. Three members of the board have of course already been appointed ( who appointed the appointers?) which seems to have resulted in the appointment to one position of a former Tory MP of 65 years appointed by a committee presided over by a current Tory MP.- a major step forward for diversity and inclusion- and given the current political and economic situation a sure fire guarantee of prudent finance and governance. Elsewhere we are 'pointed to' the candidates we should support for the remaining 5 vacancies on the board. Ias Nat has suggested previously, have voted for all those not recommended including the former Chairman's daughter. We are also 'encouraged' to think carefully about who we put our cross to for the membership committee election so that it' contains the right spread of skills and experience'. Why we would bother to vote at all for a body that in all likelihood will have no say or influence when dealing with 'the Board'?

The whole things an expensive mealy mouthed travesty of transparency and democracy, the very things they are supposed to be trumpeting.

[bwildered]

Quite interesting to see who proposed and seconded the board candidates. Personally, would have liked to see the faces of the candidates, who are all anonymous to myself otherwise.

[pablo]

Can't have pictures I'm afraid in case conscious or unconscious bias intrudes. Obviously there must have been total objectively displayed by the selection panel.

[vim]

I have received my ballot papers. It looks as though I will be awarding myself a £500 pay rise as a former Premier member next year. I have no empathy whatsover with Essex CCC's difficulties and I am sick of being associated with the Pantomime.

[vim]

I have voted, although not for all 10 choices and none of the preferred candidates.

I have chosen the ones who I believe will be the most contentious and incompetent as my gift to the Club, which may be a parting one.

A number have a Finance background. Is this where the real problems lie?

[essexfan548]

My ballot pack arrived today - does anyone know any of these people?

[vim]

I know one of them very well. I voted for him as he is a loose cannon who makes his opinions clear, especially if he thinks very little of them.

His catchphrase about people at the Club is, he could not run a bath.

[kingstonj1]

I have chosen the ones who I believe will be the most contentious and incompetent as my gift to the Club, which may be a parting one.

Thanks for that, I'm sure we will all be delighted with your parting gift to make us worse off, the club you call yourself a supporter of!

The club has its faults, however i really do not see what more off the pitch away from the playing side people expect. We have no money so cannot improve the ground (we may be able to if we want to stop investing in the playing staff), on the pitch we are punching well above our weight, and apart from some contentious team selections, batting coach and groundsman, there's not really anything to complain about.

We have a PC 'scandal' hanging over us that we have to be seen to be complying with as anything else would lead to draconian measures against us, such is the febrile atmosphere amongst noisy minorities (i don't mean ethnic) who see ill in everything, and we are already likely facing some out of proportion punishment for completely unproven allegations, which will likely have a severe financial impact on us (ignoring the expensive box tick QC we have appointed), so not really sure what more people want, or is it the usual meteor way complaints and other such fripperies that the committee won't make a jot of difference to??Do you really think the whole preferred candidate thing is anything other than being pushed and steered by the ECB with an eye on the 'allegations fallout?? do you think the club really have a choice in that??

The only way the ground could be improved is selling it for housing and moving out of town which is highly contentious, and you would all soon be moaning if ground improvements were done at the cost of playing staff. Space prohibits self-funding improvements like Somerset and Kent have done.

Genuinely interested in what realistic, meaningful, costed things we could be doing better off the pitch.

[Andy]

Kingstonj1 - if you’re going to come on here talking reasoned, rational, sense then the mods will have to ban you! 

[vim]

I see that in the American elections, everyone Trump endorsed did a Bismark. We can only hope the same happens to the Club's choice of candidates.