So a few days to go to the 20/20 finals. Good luck to Leicestershire, I really hope we do win it again but I hope it doesn't mask the sorry state that the club is in at the moment.
We've been going down hill for a couple of years now. We hit a high when we won two championships in three years but now we are in a sorry state with mis-management and ineptness on and off the field
There are a few problems:
* Every recent signing we've bought in has been poor. Even the overseas signings have been a joke this season. It was only a few years ago when we bought in quality signings like Sehwag and Kumble. Now who do we have? Mongia and Willoughby. Average players in their own countries who have done nothing spectacular this season.
* The selection policy of this club is awful. Favouring old, past it players ahead of young prospects. We've had so much young talent leave this club in recent years (Adshead, Wright, Kirby, Crook) and who have we got instead? Defreitas, Gibson, Nixon, Habib, Henderson. All players who are past it and are here on a final pay day.
* The management has also been guilty of inadequate employment practices that have cost us a bit of money in recent years. Link. Its depressing because its such a basic procedure to handle contracts yet we can't even do that properly.
* Then there are the players. They underperform a lot, we know that some of them can do better but the problem is that they aren't dropped when they are out of form. Thats where a squad comes in useful. Leicestershire have noone in reserve who can come in. We should have at least 8 decent batsmen, we struggle to put out 6!
I would get rid of James Whitaker and Gus Mackay. The men in charge and get someone with fresh ideas to come in. We have some good players who and some very good prospects but we're going nowhere if we keep making the same mistakes we've been making in the past few years.
We've been going down hill for a couple of years now. We hit a high when we won two championships in three years but now we are in a sorry state with mis-management and ineptness on and off the field
There are a few problems:
* Every recent signing we've bought in has been poor. Even the overseas signings have been a joke this season. It was only a few years ago when we bought in quality signings like Sehwag and Kumble. Now who do we have? Mongia and Willoughby. Average players in their own countries who have done nothing spectacular this season.
* The selection policy of this club is awful. Favouring old, past it players ahead of young prospects. We've had so much young talent leave this club in recent years (Adshead, Wright, Kirby, Crook) and who have we got instead? Defreitas, Gibson, Nixon, Habib, Henderson. All players who are past it and are here on a final pay day.
* The management has also been guilty of inadequate employment practices that have cost us a bit of money in recent years. Link. Its depressing because its such a basic procedure to handle contracts yet we can't even do that properly.
* Then there are the players. They underperform a lot, we know that some of them can do better but the problem is that they aren't dropped when they are out of form. Thats where a squad comes in useful. Leicestershire have noone in reserve who can come in. We should have at least 8 decent batsmen, we struggle to put out 6!
I would get rid of James Whitaker and Gus Mackay. The men in charge and get someone with fresh ideas to come in. We have some good players who and some very good prospects but we're going nowhere if we keep making the same mistakes we've been making in the past few years.
