HUW TURBERVILL: The Old Trafford club have been accused of applying strict criteria to limit member appointments to the board. But discontent among supporters runs much deeper
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Posted by JOHN GIBBON on 26/01/2025 at 21:08
Agree with all this. The Club has been very badly and arrogantly run for a number of years. Surrey is the top county but given resouces we ought to be second. Instead we were relegated with some appalling results. Mixed views about Old Trafford. Historic - I saw most of Laker's 19 wickets and Warne's ball of the century. However I prefer the outgrounds, especially Southport. When we last won the Championship most of the home games were at Liverpool. I'm also a member of Middx. Despite recent financial problems I think Middx is now much better run than Lancs, despite not having a home ground.
Posted by Lloyd Birch on 24/01/2025 at 22:25
The ground looks like a Corporate concrete mess. The soul has gone. We hire a coach that nobody wanted. Get relegated (no surprise). Senior local players leave Membership increases. Madness. Seriously considered my membership this year. Must improve on the field. .
Posted by Andrew Frank on 24/01/2025 at 20:18
Sounds very similar to what's happening at Edgbaston. Chief Executive Stuart Cain thinks he works for MI5.
Posted by Accylad on 22/01/2025 at 23:19
I've been a Lanky supporter for nearly 70 years and a member since 1994. Sometime between 2010 and 2015 I and the other members, had our club stolen from us. I'm not sure exactly when, it was spread out over several years, and maybe I should have paid more attention at the time, but that's what happened. There were good reasons for some of the changes: the dilapidation of OT, the legal challenges from Peel Holdings that could have bankrupted us etc but what we've had for some time now is a self-perpetuating oligarchy that feels it doesn't have to answer to anyone, least of all the members. It's summed up by the way the ground looks: it's ugly in the way only corporate architecture can be while the corporate elite Club squats on top of the one bit of the Pavilion we can still enter. They have chosen their servants well: Gidney, a man without any proper cricket background, is the perfect corporate operator, Chilton and Benkenstein masters of the kind of obedience that comes from knowing nowhere else would have them. An exodus of senior players who were Lanky through and through. And every year renewal gets just that bit harder.
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