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Post by coverpoint on Dec 5, 2015 15:58:28 GMT
How much do you think it costs? Because it's not free! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2015 17:55:09 GMT
How much do you think it costs? Not very much as their two main sponsors , Thatchers and St Austell, brew the stuff! |
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Post by hhsussex on Jan 4, 2016 16:16:45 GMT
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Post by flashblade on Jan 4, 2016 17:54:56 GMT
Good for them. Khan is certainly making his mark on the club. |
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Post by hhsussex on Jan 7, 2016 15:51:49 GMT
More evidence of the energy and purposefulness of Wasim Khan at Leicestershire as the council gives permission for floodlights to be erected at Grace Road. www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2016/content/story/959273.html. Khan had previously addressed residents' concerns about light pollution by warning that, without floodlights, "we might not be here in five years' time". |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jan 7, 2016 16:18:04 GMT
It's great to see what a young, dynamic and thrusting CEO can achieve in county cricket. If only there were more of them! At 44 years-old Wasim Khan is the man to watch with his future life destined for great things and is viewed as one of the more important men in English cricket (voted 11th out of 50 in a recent magazine poll) www.leicestershireccc.co.uk/news/2015/december/wasims-christmas-message.htmlAlready, he has ambitious plans for Leicestershire CCC to interact far more with their local community, particularly with the growing ethnic/Asian groups. Their population between 2001 and 2011 grew by 79,000 in Leicester City alone and this figure has increased again during the last 4 years. The Indian population accounting for the City's largest portion at 28%. It is interesting to note that an Asian youngster is 11xs more likely to play cricket compared to his white counterpart; and if a child, in general, plays cricket at school, he is 6xs more likely to watch a county cricket match. |
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Post by leedsgull on Jan 9, 2016 10:27:32 GMT
Essex have just announced a new club sponsor. They are a betting company. Surely this should not be accepted policy within cricket? Tobacco firms were hounded out of sport due to their health risks. In my opinion betting firms are in their own way a cancer to sport and as invidious as sponsors.
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Post by flashblade on Jan 9, 2016 10:59:41 GMT
Essex have just announced a new club sponsor. They are a betting company. Surely this should not be accepted policy within cricket? Tobacco firms were hounded out of sport due to their health risks. In my opinion betting firms are in their own way a cancer to sport and as invidious as sponsors. Couldn't agree more. leedsgull. It sends out all the wrong signals, IMO. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jan 9, 2016 11:51:44 GMT
I share the sentiment. It's wrong, wrong wrong and gives out all the wrong messages. It is the cricket players who are most vulnerable as this article suggests. www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/dec/03/footballers-cricketers-gambling-michael-chopraAnd then when you add the whole match-fixing carbuncle to the mix, the ECB should deem that betting company sponsorship is not appropriate for county cricket. Although, Essex have taken on Unibet, one hopes other counties turned their sponsorship down. For again it creates bad taste when the 'great' Graham Gooch states, "We would like to thank Unibet for their support moving forward. The backing of such a large company can only bode well for the future..." www.essexcricket.org.uk/2016/01/08/essex-ccc-announce-new-club-sponsor/Yet sadly, gambling companies are getting their insidious tentacles ever more into cricket. Here's another example from Leicestershire CCC where 'Bookies Offers' are sponsoring the club's new head coach Andrew McDonald, which is a little bizarre. Does this mean McDonald gets FREE bets with them? www.leicestershireccc.co.uk/news/2015/january/continued-support-from-sponsors-for-new-era.htmlAnd I'm sure that if there was time to research the 18 counties, a majority would have sponsorship, some more high profile than others, with gambling firms. edit: A quick Google search and immediately other gambling sponsors spring out. A typical example is Gloucestershire where '188Bet' are their RLC shirt sponsors. www.gloscricket.co.uk/hospitality/sponsorship-and-advertising/sponsors-and-partners/Even 'The Home of Cricket' is beset with gambling sponsorship as Middlesex CCC have had a major deal with 'Sporting Index' during the last 5 years. |
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Post by hhsussex on Jan 9, 2016 14:19:14 GMT
Excellent points made by today's posters. In the wake of the collapsed Chris Cairns trial, where there must be considerable doubt that whistleblowers will dare to raise their concerns in future it seems to me incredible, as well as morally loathsome, that any plausible cricket team should think of prostituting itself to the betting industry. Where is their sense of integrity? Do they seriously think that they can get their players to wear sponsor's logos for this nasty little coterie of vicious scum who make vast sums from profiting from the weakness of resolve of their customers, without themselves being seen as endorsing this addiction? And how, then, should any committee man accepting this money have the chutzpah to protest if his players are caught out doing a Vincent or a Naved Arif?
Gloucestershire's sponsorship is no surprise, their CEO Will Brown having joined them from Betfair, where he ran Betfair’s sponsorship of the “Test Match grounds” and also their partnerships with the ECB and the Professional Cricketers’ Association. As a transfer of vested interests it ranks pretty close to those senior civil servants who move from heading procurement departments of state to cushy positions with their suppliers!
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Post by fraudster on Jan 10, 2016 21:42:30 GMT
Excellent points made by today's posters. In the wake of the collapsed Chris Cairns trial, where there must be considerable doubt that whistleblowers will dare to raise their concerns in future it seems to me incredible, as well as morally loathsome, that any plausible cricket team should think of prostituting itself to the betting industry. Where is their sense of integrity? Do they seriously think that they can get their players to wear sponsor's logos for this nasty little coterie of vicious scum who make vast sums from profiting from the weakness of resolve of their customers, without themselves being seen as endorsing this addiction? And how, then, should any committee man accepting this money have the chutzpah to protest if his players are caught out doing a Vincent or a Naved Arif? Gloucestershire's sponsorship is no surprise, their CEO Will Brown having joined them from Betfair, where he ran Betfair’s sponsorship of the “Test Match grounds” and also their partnerships with the ECB and the Professional Cricketers’ Association. As a transfer of vested interests it ranks pretty close to those senior civil servants who move from heading procurement departments of state to cushy positions with their suppliers! What? So if a player takes a bribe we can blame his shirt sponsor, or his club boss for putting it there - don't be ridiculous. Nothing wrong with that sort of sponsor at all, I'll bet ya. |
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Jan 21, 2016 13:14:23 GMT
A classic example of what happens when a TMG hosts an Ashes Test and why 5 doesn't go into 9. Astonishingly, the Aussies boosted the club's turnover by 47%. The Test helped the club post a pre-tax profit of £699,427, compared to a loss of £1.2 million the year before. Edgbaston accommodated an average of 24,556 fans on each day of the third Ashes Test Match, which boosted the wider city's revenue by £26 million. T20 attendances were also up by 86%. Surprising what can happen when you change the name to 'The Birmingham Bears' and clearly shows that City Franchises can work and work very well. It seems the financial worst is behind the club. A great shame Colin Povey cannot bask in the glory as he stepped down as CEO in December. But with a surname of 'Snowball', the new Chief Exec must have experienced an 'icy & alcoholic tease' at school! www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/record-year-warwickshire-ccc-after-10761534www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/35363002 |
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Post by leedsgull on Jan 21, 2016 14:17:21 GMT
s&f I think it is a bit of a leap to claim that the rise in 20/20 attendances was a ringing endorsement for the name change and hence franchises. I suspect that a lot of spectators were unaware they were not actually watching Warwickshire as the team contained 11 Warwickshire players. The presence of a certain Brendon McCullum would account for a large part of the increase as well as the fact they were defending champions so realistically would be expected to win quite often.
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Post by hhsussex on Jan 31, 2016 9:29:48 GMT
Latest financial results from Leicestershire www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2016/content/story/967219.html, a story that seems be pinned to the audito's qualification on their reliance on a floating overdraft with no time limit, leading to the inevitable doom and gloom about the future of the county. And yet Leicestershire have shown with the appointment of a really dynamic Chief Executive, with good links to the community, how there can be inspiration and hope even within the confines of the old umpteen-county championship structure. In the last few months Wasim Khan has won a battle to erect floodlights, so as to gain important T20 revenue from the Friday night fixtures; he has secured a sponsor for Grace Road - not the obvious Leicester icon of Walker's Crisps, but the tongue-twisting Fischer Future Heat; new players have been brought into the squad and there are positive signs for development of young players from the vast and diverse asian communities in the county. None of this will wipe out that overdraft straight away, of course, but improved revenue streams and powerful backing from local industry and community leaders can give some assurance to creditors. Perhaps a future step would be for Leicestershire to work with some of their neighbours to develop a new regional approach to making cricket a major sporting attraction, one that sidesteps the timewarp of the old 19th and early 20th century model of shires and Lord-Lieutenancies and instead focuses on the kind of communities people live in now, linked geographically by ease of mobility, and affinities between communities and interest groups. That would be a story worth reading. |
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Post by coverpoint on Jan 31, 2016 10:27:13 GMT
www.roa.co.uk/en/news/index.cfm/levy-warning-jan16Cricket is not the only sport facing severe financial problems in the years ahead. Horse racing is heavily dependent on HBLB funding with up to 50% of prize money in some cases. Earlier this week there was the suggestion that the levy might fall a further 80% from £57m to £12m, it was over £100m at its peak, because of the increasing number of offshore bookmakers. The biggest problem facing smaller racecourses is the ine quality in HBLB funding. For every £5 jump racing gets just £2 with the other £3 going to flat racing based on betting turnover. If you race in the summer fairly obviously you are going to get more people and betting turnover will be higher. However, the ground is too hard for us as a jumps racecourse to race in the summer. The other problem is that the funding increases proportionately with the prize money you put in so the bigger racecourses are getting richer. For example Plumpton gets £25K of HBLB funding per fixture compared with £140k for Aintree. Money needs to be directed towards the grassroots level of racing rather than to the elite horses. issuu.com/ownerbreeder/docs/tobdec15/108If the levy decreases by 80%, or 50% if it was divided equally between the sixty racecourses, this would inevitably mean a reduction in prize money of up to 40% or more realistically 30% given the minimum race values and the requirement to have £40K of total prize money on feature days. Would the British Horseracing Association reduce the amount they charge racecourses by 80/50% since two of the funds are supposed to finances these costs? I suspect not. Would HBLB, RCA and BHA be able to commercially justify being three separate organisations rather than one? I suspect not. There are people within these three organisations on very good salaries whose jobs are on the line if the levy funding gets cut any further. Why the BHA and HBLB have increased their headcount and salaries over the last twelve months despite knowing this is a mystery to me. Those at the top of racing need to start taking decisions to secure the future of British horse racing. Most racecourses would not make a profit if it were not for the picture and media rights which equates to 48% of our income. levy funding is 27%. admissions is 11%, other including non-raceday events 9% and sponsorship and advertising 5%.
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