Leicestershire are right royally fooked!

holcs wrote:

tac wrote:

holcs wrote:

tac wrote:County players getting 40-60K have jobs as well, no?

Off season yeah some of them!

Thats only for an 8 month contract normally, well depending on how they want it done.

And there is some local sponsorship on top? It just doesn't seem very much . . .

Bat sponsors can be about 5-10k a year for a decent Pro!

You then have expenses on top of that, as well as all meals paid for etc...

So basically for 8 months they have no outgoings really, that a nnormal working person would have!

Fair enough . . . I never worked while I was in England so I'm not very well up on salaries . . .

taipan wrote:

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:Saffies get paid less because they know they're lucky to be here at all. Pretty simple.

In the midst of a serious discussion.......

It's true.

I mean, just look at it:

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  Bowler    O M R  W
  J Louw    6 3 5  0
  DS Lucas  7 1 21 0
  RJ Logan  4 0 33 0
  DH Wigley 7 0 39 0
  JF Brown  6 5 4  0
  GG White  1 0 1  0


The triumverate of gash... why would you want to? The Kolpak, the one who should've played for England and the one that might are doing OK.

tac wrote:

holcs wrote:

tac wrote:County players getting 40-60K have jobs as well, no?

Off season yeah some of them!

Thats only for an 8 month contract normally, well depending on how they want it done.

And there is some local sponsorship on top? It just doesn't seem very much . . .

Sponsorship has been pared down over the years.
A top pro can expect a car, bats, kit, travel and a slice of the County sponsors package.

The journeyman cricketer much much less than that - kit and maybe some travel expenses, perhaps, if he's lucky,
a local businessman to pick up some of the costs.

Most of the loyal county boys wait patiently for their benefit years.
Shah's this year at Middlesex ought to bring him a decent 6 figure income, tax free.

tac wrote:
Fair enough . . . I never worked while I was in England so I'm not very well up on salaries . . .

Average salary is £18,000. That's taking into account the London mark-up. Some shitheap county like Derbyshire - they're probably on £12,000 on average. So, someone like a decent English player, Lungley or someone would be on about 4-5 times the wage.

Brass Monkey wrote:
Average salary is £18,000. That's taking into account the London mark-up. Some shitheap county like Derbyshire - they're probably on £12,000 on average. So, someone like a decent English player, Lungley or someone would be on about 4-5 times the wage.

By 'average salary' I was on about the national average including all jobs.

Henry wrote:Out of those three counties, Northants do appear to have the best junior syestem.

Which makes their obsession with Kolpaks all the more infuriating. Ah well, it's their funeral.

Poor Leastershire.

I think the ECB have been looking at this from the wrong angle all along. Instead of trying to impose limits on the number of overseas players counties recruit - they could just as easily have decreed that counties must play nine England qualified players at all times. No restraint of trade there surely, as it leaves counties free to recruit as many non-qualified players as they like.

Brass Monkey wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:
Average salary is £18,000. That's taking into account the London mark-up. Some shitheap county like Derbyshire - they're probably on £12,000 on average. So, someone like a decent English player, Lungley or someone would be on about 4-5 times the wage.

By 'average salary' I was on about the national average including all jobs.

Thanks. That seems low considering the farkin prices you pay . . . (not that living in Sydney was cheap . . . )

Not really, theres a huge difference between London salaries and the rest of the country.

and therefore, a huge difference in the cost of living too