Summer Sports - Cricket
What other Yorkshire clubs said VALE LEAGUE
ASKHAM BRYAN - Six out of sixteen games called off. Secretary Mike Bains said: “Our fundraising target would normally be around £1,000 a year but we are well under half of that target.”
BISHOPTHORPE - Six games rained off. Ian Holmes, secretary, said: “Those six games saw us lose £50 to £60 a team which is £360 to £400 over the course of the year.”
COPMANTHORPE - First and second XI lost six to seven games. Secretary John Hughes said: “We have probably lost between £300 and £400. That sort of money is not easy to claw back.”
DUNNINGTON - Also in the Senior League. Secretary Gary Andrew said: “Bar takings go straight into the sports club, so it doesn’t materially affect us, but you can’t get any momentum going.”
FULFORDGATE - Four home games lost. Alan Baldock, secretary, said: “We get our money from match fees and, if we don’t play, we don’t get any money in. We just about coped.”
HIRST COURTNEY - Secretary Anthony Hinch said: “We will have made a financial loss this year, simply because we haven’t had the turnover with the teas and raffles that we run and the game fees that come from the lads that play.”
NORTH DUFFIELD - Chairman John Patrick said: “Financially, it affects us badly. We only actually lost two home games, which is our teas money, but when we lose away games it is the match fees we lose as well. It’s between £500 and £600 in total.”
OVINGTON - First XI lost nine fixtures. Alan Fletcher, secretary, said: “We are more than £1,000 down. We’ve worked on a system for a number of years where we pay match fees. If we don’t play, we don't get any money.”
WOODHOUSE GRANGE - Also in the Senior League. Eight games abandoned for the first XI. Secretary David Farmer said: “If you lose a third of your games, you lose a third of your bar income as well. We were fortunate that we had a few big games towards the end of the season.”
SENIOR LEAGUE
DRAX - Lost ten fixtures out of twenty-two. Keith Powell, secretary, said: “It cost us about £60 a fixture. We paid £7,000 for a new drainage system three years ago and it hasn’t coped. The sheer amount of water made a dip in the outfield which needs rectifying. It’s going to cost around £1,200.”
LONDESBOROUGH PARK - Peter Milne, secretary, said: “The groundsmen and others are having to put twice as much work on the ground and we’ve lost £1,000 to £2,000 of income.”
OSBALDWICK - Lost nine games. David Rippon, secretary, said: “It cost the club around £900 in total. The land drainage couldn’t cope with the amount of water. You couldn’t see the grass.”
SHERIFF HUTTON BRIDGE - Colin Mole, secretary, said: “Players got used to not playing and found other things to do. We lost four or five players. We couldn’t afford to have another season like this.”
THIRSK - Secretary Philip Robshaw said: “We lost a lot of away games and two or three of our home games. We lost money from unused teas.”
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Press told a similar tale - frustration at a lost season and significant financial losses.
At Goole CC, secretary David Caldicott presided over a double whammy for the Senior League outfit. Not only did they lose £8,000 in bar takings, but the first team were also relegated, he believes, as a result of the weather.
“It was most difficult at the beginning of the season,” he said. “In April and May, we only played one or two half-games out of eight or nine and we lost around £8,000. We normally take around £1,000 a game.” “Our first team got relegated this season because of the weather. We found it really difficult just to get going.”
It was a similar story at Easingwold,
where secretary John Redshaw added: “We lost ten fixtures which, financially, meant around £5,000 to £6,000 lost. The bar is our biggest bringer of income - we would normally take £500 to £600 on each matchday.” “We’ve made some extra money
through fundraising, doing things like a golf day, and have made back about half the losses, but we are only okay because of this.” At Sessay, secretary Keith Houlston
said: “The weather has had a massive effect on us. Our first team only played eleven out of its twenty-two matches, which is a few fewer than
most, and we were relegated by a few points because of it. There’s been no- one in our club on Saturday evenings. We’re very much down financially because of it.”
Even at those clubs who are financially secure, the weather has still taken its toll. Clifton Park-based York have resigned their fifth team from the Vale League because of a lack of players. Secretary Nick Kay believes the dearth of cricket has contributed to club members finding other things to do.
“It has had a horrible, massive effect on us,” he said. “Yes, we lose out revenue-wise, but we have also lost out player-wise. We try to field five teams every week and, when you have two or three weeks where it is rained off, parents, players and juniors make other plans.” “People in the Vale League will think we have been a complete rabble this year because we have conceded six fixtures and had six rained off. We have resigned from the Vale League. It is not a case of wanting to do it, but we felt we were becoming a bit of an embarrassment.” Stillingfleet Cricket Club, Vale League founder members, have told their players to consider the possibility of folding after a miserable campaign left them with a shortfall of around £1,000.
The club, formed early in the 20th
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