If anything the board, admin and coaches should be on performance based contracts.
They're actually on one but don't realise it. We're in deep shit after 2027, but that's too far in the distance for them to compute. The threat has to be today for it to register.
I'm of the view that when international players take to the field they're giving of their best 99% of the time. If they don't have the tools to deliver then they lack the ability and/or the necessary work has not been done beforehand and in our case its both for most of the players.
The hard yards can't be achieved a week before a series either, that's one of the main problems. These guys can go weeks of being left to their own devices and being responsible for their own fitness and training. Which other board would tolerate some of our players long absences from training and domestic and club games?
They know they're either being protected or there's no- one else to replace them.
These ad hoc local games just prove that we are in disarray as well. They've dreamt up North vs South, then swapped players around during it. They're saying our domestic standard is shite so let's have some impromptu games supposedly pitting strength against strength, but then leave out better players, sometimes including them later. It's a cluster fuck. That North South thing are essentially trials games with Southerners and Northerners being subjected to major identity crises. Then they have Vigne Cup, but decide we now need NPL where they invent a couple of new teams and have to poach good players from existing teams

. That really stinks all by itself. Then they throw some extra T20's and T10's into the mix as well. Theyll stop any one of these competions at a moment's notice as well. Clearly it's hugely better than nothing, but the reality is that is shambolic organization. We need structured annual competitions that develop history and we cant have guys chopping and changing because it almost makes them meaningless games, basically it makes them all individual trials games for national selection.
It ticks a box of more cricket being played, big box, and I'm not knocking that, but it can be done way way better.
In our environment any national player that doesn't want to play club cricket should fuck right off as well. If you're playing club cricket begrudgingly then don't play at all.