Print

[uknsaunders]

What's the ten things you would do to make your club better (for the most part!)?

[FattusCattus]

The ten other buggers in my team that can't catch

[TangoWhiskey]

I wish we had bigger changing rooms, at least the home one.

[WalkingWicket37]

Reduce from 4 pitches to 3 (2 teams per ground) and have them a bit closer to our "home" ground.

Focus on getting the colts actually playing cricket instead of going out with their mates on a Saturday.

Try to avoid having 2 sides in the same league again.

Remove the league policy about selection after X amount of games for teams in the same league (e.g 5th & 6th team).

More structured training in winter nets (think thats happening this year).

More 1st & 2nd team players to actually attend training.

Reduced match fees for students/apprentices.

Have the 1st team get more involved with the club (not turn up, play & leave).

More people get involved with helping, not the same few people doing everything (wishful thinking).

Try and get the average age of the higher teams down (1st 2nd and 3rd) so if/when the older guys stop playing or move down a league it isn't as huge an impact.

[uknsaunders]

I wish we had bigger changing rooms, at least the home one.

We had a massive clear out and were surprised how big they were. Could do with ikea space saving designs for changing rooms as most away changing rooms are tiny.

[Liam-SCCC]

I'd love to have a clubhouse with changing room and a bar and a big tv on the wall so we could all go down there to watch football and cricket and make it a more social environment

[joeljonno]

The ten other buggers in my team that can't catch

So you'd be the only one who can't catch then. 

[wilkie113]

I'd love to have a clubhouse with changing room and a bar and a big tv on the wall so we could all go down there to watch football and cricket and make it a more social environment

Agree with this massively, we had a new pavi a couple of years ago, and wish we'd made the dinner room bigger so we could have team gatherings to watch the footy etc. But budgets limit things like this!

[WalkingWicket37]

Agree with this massively, we had a new pavi a couple of years ago, and wish we'd made the dinner room bigger so we could have team gatherings to watch the footy etc. But budgets limit things like this!

We had our clubhouse extended last year so have a kitchen/tea room in the back. You can fit a team in there too (usually the away tea at teas). The main part of the clubhouse is our bar, sofa & armchairs to sit/lay about in and a full length window to watch the match. We do have a telly on the wall in the main area of the clubhouse, so all we need is sky sports and it'd be a near perfect set up!
The only slight issue is if you play on a certain strip the sight screens are directly in front of he window lol.

[acko109]

take the astro off our square.. waste of time and sight for sore eyes (and elbows when diving on it)

[ProCricketer1982]

We already have one cracking purpose built ground but I'd love there to be the second ground next door and as good. Have 4-6 lane static nets and 2-3 cages. Club to do proper winter training sessions where people are actually taughtt and not just a net. Same trainig during the summer and of course, more effort put in on the social side by getting more things arranged in the evenings and encouraging the wags and kids down Saturdays.

Recruiting players isn't a problem but it seems keeping players is (this is only my first season). Not sure why people leave yet but I'd like to know why and stop them. Hopefully in 12-18 months the club will have the backing to really push to be the biggest on gloucestershire. That's my hope anyway but I'd love a clean slate like Jake has.

I'd love the club to have proper club recode and stats and for them to be kept up to date and go back the years. Stats are something people don't realise how interested they are in them until they have them.

[19reading87]

I want to hear yours nick lol

[uknsaunders]

I want to hear yours nick lol

More interested in hearing whether people have the same grumbles or do they want different things.

[TangoWhiskey]

Oh another thing I would change is our outfield. In my first season at the club, it was playing beautifully. No snooker table by any means but true enough to be able to confidently attack the ball. Then there was a combination of the groundsman getting a new tractor with skinny field wheels and the particularly wet summer 2 years ago which mean that he basically corrugated the outfield.

As a batsman, I don't mind it as its always worth a few extra runs due to dodgy bounces but I have seen too many people pinned in the face and chest for it to be worth it.

[ajmw89]

2 Pitches at our home ground.
Better timekeeping from the majority
Better changing/showering facilities at our outground if we can't have 2 pitches at home
Being allowed to prepare our own pitches at the outground

Other than that, not much I would change