Marshmallow wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 3:26 pm
Zim is a finished team, and we fans are just a bunch of clowns still wasting our time
It's fair to feel that way, I despair as well. Zimbabwean cricket reminds me a lot of Zimbabwean agriculture. It has been destroyed through incompetence on the side of governance.
It can be fixed. It can indeed - but not by this board. The building blocks are all sitting there, waiting. We barely tick over, occasionally producing a good performance (or good harvest) but we are operating at 10 or 20% of where we could be. We are blessed with great natural resources, a highly educated populace and that famous Zimbabwean work ethic. One day we will have a new government. A better government. The job to rebuild can then begin in earnest.
One thing that gives me hope is that cricket is becoming more widely watched (albeit at the expense of soccer). The base of the pyramid is (very slowly) growing, which is good. I believe in the cricket gospel - spread the faith! (I might change my name to 'Bulawayo Vapastori'
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When the time comes:
Hangers on must go _ no passengers at board level _ trim it down completely;
Invest heavily in training, coaches, dieticians, sports psychologists;
Recruit heavily from the diaspora, especially South Africa;
Tour or host as much as possible especially 'A' tours;
Invest heavily in grass roots _ today's kids are tomorrow's fans and players;
Pay the players on time and in full.
No quotas
No politicians
No new stadia (yet)
No murky accounts _ be open and audited
