#ZCBOARD MUST GO

[encore]

In the free market, if it's sustainable it will survive. The ICC may stop funding, but maybe a few local sponsors get involved and there's enough support for the game that people will go and watch inter-provincial stuff, and there's enough money floating around that players can earn a living from it (or they do it for the love of it).

OR, it's not sustainable and it will die. In which case why should it be propped up forever by the ICC? If it's not sustainable, what's the damn point?

Development of the game is important (return on investment in the long term), but it can't just be a funding black hole.

So you're arguing that, all along, despite having multiple times more corporate sponsors and TV income than Full Member Zimbabwe, Ireland and Afghnistan, were as non-Full Members able to centrlly contract 15+ players, pay competitive wages, and have a competent FC system? WITHOUT ICC MONEY BOOST?

Ok?

[brmtaylor.com admin]

In the free market, if it's sustainable it will survive. The ICC may stop funding, but maybe a few local sponsors get involved and there's enough support for the game that people will go and watch inter-provincial stuff, and there's enough money floating around that players can earn a living from it (or they do it for the love of it).

OR, it's not sustainable and it will die. In which case why should it be propped up forever by the ICC? If it's not sustainable, what's the damn point?

Development of the game is important (return on investment in the long term), but it can't just be a funding black hole.

So you're arguing that, all along, despite having multiple times more corporate sponsors and TV income than Full Member Zimbabwe, Ireland and Afghnistan, were as non-Full Members able to centrlly contract 15+ players, pay competitive wages, and have a competent FC system? WITHOUT ICC MONEY BOOST?

Ok?

Cricket Ireland is a pretty well oiled machine, that's certainly not a black hole. You can bet that any ICC funds they are getting are directed in the right places. As I said, development is fine if there's a return on investment.

Afghanistan I don't think you could say the same about, however, for some reason which totally baffles me given it's literally a war zone, there seems to be a lot of support for cricket as evidenced by all of their dodgy T20 leagues and TV deals. And their players are darlings of the top-tier T20 leagues for some reason, so there's always a bit of awareness about them even here in Australia and I imagine India too.

Sadly, I'd say both of those countries have more commercial upside to world cricket than Zimbabwe does. Ireland has first-world money, Afghanistan is dirt poor but the number of eyeballs adds up in the TV ratings I suppose.

Zimbabwe is poor and has a small population, the ICC propping us up until now is probably more to do with sympathy and respect for our cricket history than anything else.

[Googly]

I could dig out a hundred posts where you’ve shamelessly attacked people who are not “sons of the soil,” you never stop. I want good cricket, you want good black cricket. You’re the racist!

[ZIMDOGGY]

Encore with reference to your last two, who was it that used to have the catch cry here 'context, context, context?"

[TapsC]

For me I have no personal stake in ZC and I live without it. Its just sad. Nothing personal here but this situation requires one to pick a side. It all just depends on which side you sit on I guess and I know exactly how its going to be spit up. Exactly. Lets see if they will get a squad of 15 to play for free and their racial makeup. Its going to look bad and Unfortunately it always ends the same way.

Where I think we will always be lost in translation Googly is who is wrong and who is right in this specific incident. Not from a historical perspective but this very specific incident. I guess some people feel like breaking the rules to get rid of these guys is the right thing to do. I dont. The ICC certainly doesnt think so too.

[brmtaylor.com admin]

I'm not sure anyone thinks what the SRC did was the "right" way to go about it.
But how do you go about things in the "right" way? The game is always rigged. It's like the 2008 Zimbabwe election, Mugabe obviously couldn't win but there was no way he was going to lose. The same thing would have happened here.

So it is what it is. ZC gets reinstated and cricket just withers away over the next few years (because there's nobody to replace the current playing group). Or roll the dice now and maybe changes occur which means Zim cricket will still be around in 30 years time.

[Googly]

So when is the right time, Taps? Do you want another 4 years of these guys? There is no convenient time.
I see ZC have fired their first real broadside now.
Mlotshwa will be on Dean@Stumps tonight, so let’s hope Dean holds nothing back.

[Googly]

From a historical perspective everyone has been wrong, but everyone thinks they’re right
We need a clean slate and the first person that plays a race card gets 40 lashes.

[sam_ahm]

Looks like the players and staff have said they will not report to an illigitimate board. So they are in favor of old ZC board.

Where do we go from here?

[brmtaylor.com admin]

https://www.3-mob.com/sport/statement-z ... UBgzC-B29Z

I wonder how many players and staff were there.

You know what would be interesting: if the SRC can scrounge together a few dollars from the govt to pay some wages... if they did that I wonder how quickly people would flip.