Essex CCC 2019

[Shrimpers are Magic]

No great loss Coles moving on.
Looks like the local pie seller will be upset mind.

 

[ESG]

Sad to see Ravi go and all the best to him. Thanks for the memories.

Good to see that RTD has signed an extension.

 

[tia]

Sam Cook signed up to 2022

 

[cerbera45]

Shane Snater signs a contract extension until end of 2020.

 

[tia]

Membership prices out and £185 for standard adult membership is good value for money I think.Lot of cricket and extra county game this season too

 

[Ex-Member1]

Considering the likes of Yorkshire are charging £230 that is a great price.

 

[tia]

Is good price last season by time I factor in my 20 20 season ticket members discount my membership worked out about £110 and I visited about 13 times so less than a tenner a visit is great value for money to watch some great cricket

 

[Ricky Otto]

Membership prices out and £185 for standard adult membership is good value for money I think.Lot of cricket and extra county game this season too

Bargain if you are retired or have hours to suit, but for someone working 9-5 Monday to Friday it isn't so great. Especially when you are let in for nothing after tea on days you work.

 

[tia]

Bargain if you are retired or have hours to suit, but for someone working 9-5 Monday to Friday it isn't so great. Especially when you are let in for nothing after tea on days you work.

I agree works out well for some people and if you have a 20 20 season ticket you dont have to do much cricket to get your moneys worth

 

[Stuart W]

Membership prices out and £185 for standard adult membership is good value for money I think.Lot of cricket and extra county game this season too

Where do you get the idea from that we have an extra game?
We are still playing 14 championship games next season, some counties once and some twice.

 

[tia]

Where do you get the idea from that we have an extra game?
We are still playing 14 championship games next season, some counties once and some twice.

Yeah your right I didn't know that there is going be same amount of games and a seeding system in place

 

[mattitouk]

Somerset have currently been docked points from next season for preparing a poor pitch against us in the title decider.

More on it here......

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/50466256

 

[AndyT]

So, if they had won that match I'm wondering if this would have happened.

 

[londonblue]

Somerset have currently been docked points from next season for preparing a poor pitch against us in the title decider.

More on it here......

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/50466256

Interesting last paragraph:

Somerset accepted a pitch rating of "poor" was correct, but pleaded not guilty to a second element of the charge that the Taunton surface "was not the best quality pitch that Somerset was able to prepare for the match".

So are Somerset saying their home ground is so **** they can't prepare a better pitch? Or are they saying their groundsmen are so **** they can't prepare a better pitch?

 

[Blueronron]

Only 12 points this coming season, the other 12 held for two years

Not really much, just one rained off game in points difference, if the board thought it was poor then they should have thrown the book at them

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

So, if they had won that match I'm wondering if this would have happened.

I‘m pretty sure it would have done.
Don’t wish to sound like Billy Bollocks know all but I was expecting this.

 

[AndyT]

I'd have thought all manner of ramifications would have surfaced if so.

I can't imagine Essex accepting it, had Somerset won the title in that match and it subsequently proved to be an "unfit" surface.

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

The umpires would’ve reported the pitch at the end of the match. If Somerset had won then the result would have been reversed. Not ideal at all but Somerset can’t say they haven’t been warned.

 

[AndyT]

Yes, but the punishment process wouldn't have happened until well after Somerset had paraded the trophy in an open top bus.

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

Yes, but the punishment process wouldn't have happened until well after Somerset had paraded the trophy in an open top bus.

probably not. They would have docked points pretty sharpish.
Essex winning saved a lot of grief all round