I've pretty much made up my mind over the past few weeks that next season will be my last as a fully committed county follower, watching games all over the country, 60+ days per season. Totally fed up with the constant downgrading of proper cricket and the traditional clubs and The ECB, in particular, aiming so much of the marketing budget at people who aren't interested in cricket but treating long term supporters of the game as an irrelevance or worse, I have plenty of other interests and would rather spend my time and money where my custom is appreciated. Could go on and on but don't want to bore everyone to sleep.
The county game will no doubt continue in some form but I've followed the game since the 1970s when it was taken seriously and had world class players in most matches, sadly it has become a shadow of those days and will probably continue in that vein.
I've pretty much made up my mind over the past few weeks that next season will be my last as a fully committed county follower, watching games all over the country, 60+ days per season. Totally fed up with the constant downgrading of proper cricket and the traditional clubs and The ECB, in particular, aiming so much of the marketing budget at people who aren't interested in cricket but treating long term supporters of the game as an irrelevance or worse, I have plenty of other interests and would rather spend my time and money where my custom is appreciated. Could go on and on but don't want to bore everyone to sleep.
The county game will no doubt continue in some form but I've followed the game since the 1970s when it was taken seriously and had world class players in most matches, sadly it has become a shadow of those days and will probably continue in that vein.
I posted a link to this here on the Surrey fans' message board - hope that's OK https://ovalworld.forumotion.com/t308-grumbler-s-county-cricket-newsletter-no-111-december-2023