Topic: Unusual Ground Sharing (Read 9574 times)

uknsaunders · « **on:** November 24, 2011, 12:35:00 PM »

We are in the middle of a local dispute over ground usage. Our 1's play at our home of 70 years but our newly formed 2's are trying to work with the club that hire the ground on alternate saturdays, in order to reach a solution. Just wondered if anyone else has their 1s/2s at different grounds or have an arrangement that involves a another club sharing a pitch on a Saturday.

tbarnfield99 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 24, 2011, 12:39:34 PM »

Our firsts and seconds play at our home ground and our thirds play at a Secondary School. We don't have any issues at all, with the school's games having been planned well in advance.

uknsaunders · « **Reply #2 on:** November 24, 2011, 12:46:26 PM »

1/2's at ground 1 and 3's elsewhere is pretty normal for most clubs. I seem to remember from my Thames Valley days that NPL Teddington (was Lensbury CC) had some kind of unusual arrangement for a few years that involved 1 club playing at ground A and another at ground b.

ianbuchanan · « **Reply #3 on:** November 24, 2011, 01:28:40 PM »

Same with us, 1's and 2's play on top pitch, 3's on bottom pitch

Manormanic · « **Reply #4 on:** November 24, 2011, 03:24:46 PM »

Quote from: uknsaunders on November 24, 2011, 12:46:26 PM

1/2's at ground 1 and 3's elsewhere is pretty normal for most clubs. I seem to remember from my Thames Valley days that NPL Teddington (was Lensbury CC) had some kind of unusual arrangement for a few years that involved 1 club playing at ground A and another at ground b.

They have two grounds in the park now, but yes, they did used to be in that position. We're slightly different in that our ones and twos play "away" - we happen to have use of the RAF ground at Vine Lane which, as a genuine first class venue, is that bit too good to let the Threes and Fours loose on it!

Howzat · « **Reply #5 on:** November 24, 2011, 03:26:41 PM »

Blimey you play for Hillingdon!? Small world

Manormanic · « **Reply #6 on:** November 24, 2011, 03:44:33 PM »

Quote from: Leo on November 24, 2011, 03:26:41 PM

Blimey you play for Hillingdon!? Small world

Who do you play for?

Ayrtek Cricket · « **Reply #7 on:** November 24, 2011, 10:09:52 PM »

1st and 3rds usually at home which then alternates too 2nds and 4ths.....our 5ths share another clubs ground and alternate with them when they are home/away each week!

Burdy · « **Reply #8 on:** November 24, 2011, 10:13:59 PM »

1's and 2's on main home pitch. 3's and 4's on our other ground that is actually better pitch wise that main ground, 5's and 6's on other rented ground. We cannot get permission for club house on 3's and 4's pitch as it is in a residential area, residents saying it will cause too much noise.

Both grounds have others teams apart from us using it Sundays.

iand123 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 25, 2011, 06:47:55 AM »

we started a 5th team last year and they play about 7 miles away from our home ground at a grammar school. amazing how difficult some other clubs made it when negotiating to use their pitch that they werent using every other weekend. one club strung us along til the last minute and then said they wanted �5,000 for 10 matches! if we were prepared to travel we could have used the county ground at beckenham that kent play a few games a year on for �250 a game!

Simmy · « **Reply #10 on:** November 25, 2011, 08:17:10 AM »

1st and 2nds on same pitch. are 3rd team is are sunday team and consists of the same players so never an issue.
we dont really have it allternate like one week us at home next week them etc..

just what ever the fixtures say!

johan95 · « **Reply #11 on:** November 26, 2011, 09:53:33 PM »

Interesting topic.

1s and 2s play at home ground. 3s/4s and 5s were at another ground about 2 miles away last year. 5s used the top square (midget pitch

) once every 2 weeks and 3s/4s alternated.

Unfortunately league fixtures cocked up and 3s always played with 5s meaning we had the pitches with small boundaries..4s got use of the whole ground with no other match so could play on the middle square with bigger boundaries.

A school has now bought that ground (formerly the Wilf Slack Memorial Ground) up, and is only giving us 1 square next year, meaning the 3s and 4s will alternate on it.

The 5s are playing at another ground much further from the club itself.

I guess that's the difficulty running more than 2 teams these days. It's highly likely that our 3s/4s will be moving to another ground next year as well - we were looking at Winchmore Hill (bliss as it's an absolute road! - about 300 is par there

).

Colesy · « **Reply #12 on:** November 27, 2011, 01:50:41 AM »

One 1s and 2s play same ground whereas our 3s and 4s play at the local secondary school which is quite frankly awful, the outfield is rarely cut, no boundary line, artificial wicket which allows spinners to bounce you off a length. Makes me glad I'm 1s

johan95 · « **Reply #13 on:** November 27, 2011, 01:56:10 AM »

Yeah, I've played on some awful grounds myself (luckily never an adults game on an artificial..) and I'm so lucky I don't play at rubbish grounds every week.

Would be rubbish to be a batsman on your 3s/4s ground eh Joe..? I guess nothing really goes for 4...

uknsaunders · « **Reply #14 on:** November 27, 2011, 10:11:06 AM »

bit off topic, but here's my old clubs (Marlow) 3rd team ground, lovely spot except for one thing:-

That's right, the wicket, this is before it rained btw:-

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