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General Cricket => Players => Topic started by: joeljonno on August 19, 2015, 07:18:32 AM
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Just announced on YCCC Facebook page ...
3 year contract.
Good signing.
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I just read this too, Yorkshire are gonna have even more of a presence in the England dressing room once the white ball stuff starts again!
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yes don't think Northants can afford him and it's Div 1 cricket which should help his England ambitions
Don't think he will be a test player thou, more one dayers
good signing for the Yorkies thou
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Who will he replace in the Yorkshire 4 day team?
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Sidebottom
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Sidebottom
Bang on.
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Woohoo! Massive signing!!
Should improve our t20 where we are lacking when root isn't about.
Yorkshire!!!
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Always a shame when smaller counties lose star names to larger more wealthy counties. I imagine he was a hero and inspired lots of youngsters at Northants, via his 20\20 and one day performances.
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Always a shame when smaller counties lose star names to larger more wealthy counties. I imagine he was a hero and inspired lots of youngsters at Northants, via his 20\20 and one day performances.
It is a shame but considering the financial difficulties Northants are allegedly having you can see why they've agreed to it, probably a good move for everyone involved really.
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this is the reality now thou, clubs with more money will sign the best players, sometimes those that have come thru the youth system, like Willey and James Taylor.
The clubs left simply don't have the finances to hang onto players once they play for England.They are the same clubs without International fixtures.
I expect in the future County cricket will have a radical change as it's not financially viable for a large proportion of clubs, but what that change will be is anyone's guess.
I don't think myself it's impossible to see clubs merging to create a smaller Championship.
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Yorkies are turning into the Man Utd of cricket, just buying the best players in!
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this is the reality now thou, clubs with more money will sign the best players, sometimes those that have come thru the youth system, like Willey and James Taylor.
The clubs left simply don't have the finances to hang onto players once they play for England.They are the same clubs without International fixtures.
I expect in the future County cricket will have a radical change as it's not financially viable for a large proportion of clubs, but what that change will be is anyone's guess.
I don't think myself it's impossible to see clubs merging to create a smaller Championship.
Yeah but most players won't just leave a county after playing with them for years because another club pays them a little bit more, the problem is Northants are in a whole heap of trouble with financial issues so they are paying him very little . If he was with a club where their financial state was ok, he probably wouldn't have left.
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this is the reality now thou, clubs with more money will sign the best players, sometimes those that have come thru the youth system, like Willey and James Taylor.
The clubs left simply don't have the finances to hang onto players once they play for England.They are the same clubs without International fixtures.
I expect in the future County cricket will have a radical change as it's not financially viable for a large proportion of clubs, but what that change will be is anyone's guess.
I don't think myself it's impossible to see clubs merging to create a smaller Championship.
Although from the article i read on Cricinfo regarding Northant's financial difficulties they were getting circa £100k a year each for Swann and Panesar as they produced them. Now they've both lost central contracts they no longer get the money and it leaves a big hole in their finances. Assuming Willey and others go on and play for England their producing clubs not just their contracted club get decent money so as long as counties can produce talent they still can do well out of it financially
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Yeah but most players won't just leave a county after playing with them for years because another club pays them a little bit more, the problem is Northants are in a whole heap of trouble with financial issues so they are paying him very little . If he was with a club where their financial state was ok, he probably wouldn't have left.
maybe...but he may be thinking with the current set up with England he has a better chance of playing for England with the current County Champions rather than an 'unfashionable' club like Northants.
That may be how he is looking at it.
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they're reducing the number of champ matches anyway. reducing the number of counties will follow.
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maybe...but he may be thinking with the current set up with England he has a better chance of playing for England with the current County Champions rather than an 'unfashionable' club like Northants.
That may be how he is looking at it.
I know it seems a touch cut-throat but if this was the case could you blame him? Most young lads would do whatever it took to represent their country and rightly so in my opinion.
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I know it seems a touch cut-throat but if this was the case could you blame him? Most young lads would do whatever it took to represent their country and rightly so in my opinion.
players move around much more these days.Players who stay with one club for life are few and far between now. You just need to look at the James Taylor situation, right thru the Leics system and their star player, moved on to a bigger more high profile club.Willey is exactly the same.
No I don't blame any cricketer for wanting to do that,it's short career and if they don't have ambitious to play for England what's the point?
Willey has an attachment to Northants( I remember his dad playing for them) but he has made a decision he thinks will benefit his career.
The question is really, what becomes of the lower less rich clubs? some of them are in financial trouble and presuming things will rectify themselves on their own is just not going to happen.
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Fantastic move for him and the club, there was rumours of this happening in the winter.
He should be able to learn plenty from Sidebottom, and by the end of next summer (I reckon Sidearse has at least 1 more year in him) he can take over the mantle, and smash some later order runs, which will be key when Rashid and Plunkett are with England
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I expect in the future County cricket will have a radical change as it's not financially viable for a large proportion of clubs, but what that change will be is anyone's guess.
I don't think myself it's impossible to see clubs merging to create a smaller Championship.
It is essential that the smaller counties survive and flourish. Have the widest possible talent pool with it being concentrated by moves to the top clubs. Who knows whether Willey would have made it in professional cricket without Northants?
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It is essential that the smaller counties survive and flourish. Have the widest possible talent pool with it being concentrated by moves to the top clubs. Who knows whether Willey would have made it in professional cricket without Northants?
People will spout crap about cream rising to the top but it simply does t work like that. People aren't picked because of talent alone, they need to have gone to the rig school,,had the right parents or been stupidly lucky somehow to get spotted. I think football years ago as,it's that for every Steven Gerard that was known about (1), there were at least ten of similar quality who never get picked up (they used the fact we have 70m people etc). The same will apply and probably does already with cricket.
Of course, doesn't mean the others reach the same level... They might never play, get injured early etc etc but the talent is there if you can find it. The talent pool is poor currently as there are too many counties but.. But IF cricket was in state schools, on TV and the correct systems (manned by decent coaches/talent spotters and not the idiots currently as board/county youth coaches ), running state school games, raising the. Umber of village teams back up etc.. You'd find more people play, so the talent pool would rise, so counties would slowly get higher quality youth through, compared to the current players trying to make it at teams like Glamorgan, notprthants, Leicester etc.
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"Average county pro" and all that.