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Leicestershire County Cricket Club

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Bert

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11 hours ago, Sunbury Fox said:

Not sure what we can do to boost the crowds. If people don't turn up on a beautiful summer day when we need to win to qualify for a semi final when will they turn up? I guess the proposed ground development might help as the current facilities aren't the best, plus on the Milligan Road side of the ground the seats are miles from the pitch. But the location of the ground is a problem too. It's not easy to get to and there are few local amenities such as good local pubs, etc. 

 

One further reflection on yesterday. The pitches we have had for 50 over games at GR have been really stodgy, which hasn't helped create the most entertaining spectacle. I hope they can sort this for the knockout game(s) as our batting line up is much better suited to fast scoring grounds, as we've shown in our away wins. 

The ground is easy to get to, how is not?
 

You’re literally 5 mins in the car off the motorway and plenty of buses that go around the area from town as well as from South Leicestershire. 
 

There’s also a pub bolted onto the ground, (and it’s not like it’s the biggest ground either) You’ve got the local hero amongst others amenities just a 10/15 minute walk away too. 

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Graceroad

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7 hours ago, Bert said:

The ground is easy to get to, how is not?
 

You’re literally 5 mins in the car off the motorway and plenty of buses that go around the area from town as well as from South Leicestershire. 
 

There’s also a pub bolted onto the ground, (and it’s not like it’s the biggest ground either) You’ve got the local hero amongst others amenities just a 10/15 minute walk away too. 

Not too mention plenty  of good cafes nearby Munches  choice cafe etc which are both excellant

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CosbehFox

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Think the location is bit of a misnomer. Other counties have similar issues - Northants County Ground comparable in that sense. Some are superbly positioned to a city or town but parking is a headache. 
 

You could be the Ageas Bowl or Derby which have no sense of location at all. 

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I think the only way the crowds would come back would be sustained success and better scheduling. People would always go to Sunday League games because they knew what day of the week it would be on.

 

We’ll have our biggest game in years on a Tuesday, the day after a bank holiday, in an empty ground, all because the scheduling is messed up. 

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Father Ted

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2 hours ago, Lionator said:

I think the only way the crowds would come back would be sustained success and better scheduling. People would always go to Sunday League games because they knew what day of the week it would be on.

 

We’ll have our biggest game in years on a Tuesday, the day after a bank holiday, in an empty ground, all because the scheduling is messed up. 

Ultimately, the scheduling has a lot to answer for. It started this year with the outrageous 11am Thursday T20 blast start at Lancs. 

 

Why can’t they spread fixtures more evenly over the course of the summer? Do T20 double headers on Friday and Saturday nights? One Day Cup spread over 8 consecutive Sundays or an occasional Friday day/nighter? The only cricket we had in July really was 2 county championship fixtures. 
 

The ECB want counties like us dead and they do a pretty damn good job at trying with the scheduling. Andrew Strauss can come up with all the reports he wants but they still don’t see what fans really want. 
 

I know it may not be for the purist, but surely more T20 blast fixtures on more accessible days and times would be far more beneficial for the future of clubs like ourselves. I started off by attending a couple of the Friday nights about 8 years ago and now I’m a full member that tries to get down as often as possible. It seems the best way to gain interest initially and get much needed funds into the club kitty. 

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3 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

Think the location is bit of a misnomer. Other counties have similar issues - Northants County Ground comparable in that sense. Some are superbly positioned to a city or town but parking is a headache. 
 

You could be the Ageas Bowl or Derby which have no sense of location at all. 

Derbyshire's two biggest issues are that they play at the extreme south end of the very long and narrow county they represent, and that they don't seem to attract at all the same kind of Friday night crowd from the neighbouring estate that Leicestershire can occasionally take advantage of.

 

Other than that, the ground's actually in a pretty plum spot right on one of Derby's main road junctions, 10 minutes walk from the city centre, with a bus stop outside serving some really fast and decent routes to satellite towns to the east, and 15 minutes walk from the railway station (via five very good pubs en route to boot). If we had all of that going for us, I reckon we'd be seeing much healthier attendances.

 

Think Derbyshire would be a county that'd hugely benefit from taking more games on the road to places they used to play like Ilkeston and Buxton. The Chesterfield games always seem really popular, especially because they wisely usually schedule any game they play against Yorkshire there.

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3 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

Think the location is bit of a misnomer. Other counties have similar issues - Northants County Ground comparable in that sense. Some are superbly positioned to a city or town but parking is a headache. 
 

You could be the Ageas Bowl or Derby which have no sense of location at all. 

As well as Edgbaston. Not a great deal round there from the few times I’ve been either. 

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1 hour ago, Father Ted said:

Does anyone know if the semi finals are pre drawn? As in, do we know which winner of which quarter final we will play?

Would we not get the winner of 2nd & 3rd from the other group?

 

Edit: After a quick look around - Group A Winner has a home semi final versus Group A 2nd/Group B 3rd, and vice versa. 

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