News just in – the proposal to break the CLL into two has been voted out.
According to our ‘rep’ just four people voted for it, with Monton not even aware there was such a vote! New money, eh!
That is not to say it’s anything to be happy about. Change is needed and I for one thank Norden for having the cojones to bring this to debate.
I say use this is a starting point for reform. Standards need to rise and I fear Norden will look elsewhere for satisfaction. And I don’t blame them.
What next then?
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I was blessed to play CLL for 18 years – and made great friends and had great competitions.
The Norden Heywood banter – great stuff along the way.
As league cricket goes, my late unaanticiapted sojourn to the LL taught me a few lessons – primarily the strength of a league competition is defined by the competiveness of the weakest teams. There is no doubt that LL is considerably stronger on that measure. I am not a fan of league mergers – the traditions are worth maintaining – but the CLL needs to find ways to support the bottom six – for the good of the combined competition.
How is that done Paul? We can’t allow such poor standards to be tolerated, especially, from our point of view, when there are so many people at Crimble putting their heart and soul into the club only for other clubs to either rest on their laurels or fall in the effort of trying. We work our nuts off here because cricket is our lifeblood. I can imagine Accrington are similar in the Lancs League
Wow that was quite a margin. Although it had it’s merits I think it is probably the right outcome as it may well have made worse some of the problems we already have (eg alleged payment of players, clubs short of players etc).
Full marks to Norden for the proposal though as it’s good that at least some clubs are trying to be proactive.
Interesting to note Paul’s remarks about the weaker teams in the LL still being able to remain competitive though – do we have any idea why that is – money, different catchment characteristics, mindsets etc? Would certainly be worth knowing and see if we can adopt any ideas.
Where now? Well I guess we try to solve the known issues that we have and help the struggling clubs (if they show a will themselves of course!).