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Offline Valentines Park

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If you can't beat them join them
« on: May 22, 2014, 11:33:01 AM »
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Offline squarelegumpire

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Re: If you can't beat them join them
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2014, 04:12:06 PM »
At the members forum earlier in the year Hilliard stated that there was no reasonable chance of us playing at the Olympic stadium. Cost, practicality, undesirability of drop-in pitches etc etc.

Do he and Bowden ever talk to each other?

Or does he say the first thing that comes into his head?
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Offline Valentines Park

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Re: If you can't beat them join them
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2014, 04:20:12 PM »
Quote from: squarelegumpire on May 22, 2014, 04:12:06 PM

Or does he say the first thing that comes into his head?

I thought he just said whatever Giles Clarke tells him to.
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Offline DT

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Re: If you can't beat them join them
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2014, 07:58:52 AM »
So it won't be any t20 county matches just a specially created festival - why??
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Re: If you can't beat them join them
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2014, 10:15:25 AM »
Quote from: DT on May 23, 2014, 07:58:52 AM
So it won't be any t20 county matches just a specially created festival - why??

Because it's really, really popular, cricket needs excitement and there's not enough t20 at the moment?

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Offline Valentines Park

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Re: If you can't beat them join them
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2014, 11:02:32 AM »
Quote from: squarelegumpire on May 23, 2014, 10:15:25 AM
Because it's really, really popular, cricket needs excitement and there's not enough t20 at the moment?


Remember that floodlit tournament where Derbyshire played the stooges to our Harlem Globetrotters?

Perhaps this jamboree at the Olympic Stadium will be the other way round?
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Re: If you can't beat them join them
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2014, 01:07:40 PM »
Quote from: DT on May 23, 2014, 07:58:52 AM
So it won't be any t20 county matches just a specially created festival - why??

Why not!! Sounds brilliant
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Offline Valentines Park

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Re: If you can't beat them join them
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2014, 01:19:14 PM »
Quote from: quincy on May 23, 2014, 01:07:40 PM

Why not!! Sounds brilliant

I always wondered who were the mugs who attended the aforesaid floodlit tournament.
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Offline stickyboy

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Re: If you can't beat them join them
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2014, 01:32:31 PM »
Surely T20 will be the only entertainment in the Olympic Stadium
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Offline nat

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Re: If you can't beat them join them
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2014, 02:07:50 PM »
Quote from: stickyboy on May 23, 2014, 01:32:31 PM
Surely T20 will be the only entertainment in the Olympic Stadium

Hey steady. Big Sam likes entertainment.
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Offline Valentines Park

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Re: If you can't beat them join them
« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2014, 02:52:32 PM »
Quote from: nat on May 23, 2014, 02:07:50 PM
Big Sam likes entertainment.

Well West Ham are certainly entertaining.

Even if it is for all the wrong reasons.

You have to admire his broad shoulders though.

Paul Grayson is positively worshipped in comparison.
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Offline Andy

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Re: If you can't beat them join them
« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2014, 04:29:49 PM »
Quote from: Valentines Park on May 23, 2014, 01:19:14 PM
Quote from: quincy on May 23, 2014, 01:07:40 PM

Why not!! Sounds brilliant

I always wondered who were the mugs who attended the aforesaid floodlit tournament.

Does it matter if they're 'mugs' if they pay?  Let's face it, cricket's irrelevant to the next majority of the next generation and support is melting away from ECCC. With IPL and the regional aid thrown at clubs like Durham we have to drum up interest somehow. We can't wait for the reincarnation of Gooch, Lever, Fletcher et al...
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Re: If you can't beat them join them
« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2014, 06:55:52 PM »
Quote from: Andy on May 23, 2014, 04:29:49 PM


Does it matter if they're 'mugs' if they pay? 

A fool & his money are soon parted I guess.

But will there really be loads of takers peering through binoculars at an unofficial tournament?
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Re: If you can't beat them join them
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2014, 07:46:31 AM »
Or maybe the 3 counties mentioned will play home T20 games there rather than a one off tournament? Middlesex are using the Oval for a home game this year and Kent have dabbled with that in the past too.....
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Re: If you can't beat them join them
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2014, 08:21:35 AM »
Quote from: Slogger on May 24, 2014, 07:46:31 AM
Or maybe the 3 counties mentioned will play home T20 games there rather than a one off tournament? Middlesex are using the Oval for a home game this year and Kent have dabbled with that in the past too.....

I think that's nearer the mark.
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