#bleedredandblue wrote:
I can’t tell you why Simon isn’t there, biggest mistake EP has made is not resigning him.. had 15 more than capable players wanting to rock up every Saturday and play for him, while also bringing out the best in most of them! Like I said the club isn’t run well, that’s no secret and I think they are staring down the barrel of some tough times over the next year or 2, football and cricket.. After that, I can’t see them competing at a decent level again
Personally I gotta work every Saturday, love to be able to have a hit but I wouldn’t get to games until 2.30-3 every Saturday so I just can’t commit
The bigger problem is the league, continue to let clubs do what they want.. Smithfield dropped down to LO1 and somehow were able to name their entire div2 grand final team except for 1 player ? Yet they put restrictions on player movements from certain grades to other clubs because why? What’s good for one, should be good for all.. craigmore the year before, make a grand final and down go up, stay down win one easy and now what’s changed where they are all of a sudden happy to go up? Happens every year with 15 different clubs, not just EP
EP has always suffered from what most northern clubs do, they are a football club that has cricket, cricket generally suffers from it as they don't bring the same revenue in, I've seen it happening up there since the early 00's, some great blokes running the cricket but very little support.
Sounds like the club as a whole is in a bit of bother unless they make some changes at the top.
As for Smithfield, I don't think they were afforded any favours, they pretty much got dealt the same cards as the Units, LO1 seems to be considered as a sideways move, not a drop in grades, they are in a comp with all other A grade teams.......................and they got beat.
I only counted 5 names in there from last years GF, mind you, they are in genuine danger of extinction as there is only a couple of key people holding them together.