County comparisons
Sep. 9th, 2010 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
undyingkingThis page has some interesting figures from the county Twenty20 group matches earlier this season – during which each county hosted eight home games. As an Essex fan I am particularly interested to see that we had the 3rd highest revenue, and the 6th highest attendance, of the 18 counties.
For one thing, it suggests we are charging people a lot more per head than the other counties are. Which is certainly how it has always seemed to me, but good to have it backed up with figures.
For another, it shows that the arrogant attempts of the counties who have Test grounds (Middlesex, Surrey, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Hampshire ad Durham) to restructure the system in their favour, and to force the supposed lesser counties to merge together, is profoundly misguided and should be firmly resisted. As the article points out, Essex's revenue was more than that of Yorkshire, Warwickshire and Durham combined. Our attendance was better than Hampshire, despite their ground being three times the size, and them actually winning the tournament. And this is not because Essex were doing unusually well: we only won three of those eight games.
For one thing, it suggests we are charging people a lot more per head than the other counties are. Which is certainly how it has always seemed to me, but good to have it backed up with figures.
For another, it shows that the arrogant attempts of the counties who have Test grounds (Middlesex, Surrey, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Hampshire ad Durham) to restructure the system in their favour, and to force the supposed lesser counties to merge together, is profoundly misguided and should be firmly resisted. As the article points out, Essex's revenue was more than that of Yorkshire, Warwickshire and Durham combined. Our attendance was better than Hampshire, despite their ground being three times the size, and them actually winning the tournament. And this is not because Essex were doing unusually well: we only won three of those eight games.
