Notts CCC 2025 AGM

25/02

Read the annual report, they all read almost word for word from it.

Mick Newell went off piste in what was all part of the hard sell for the women's game, which was the theme for the evening.

If you believe that the most momentous event in Mick Newell's cricketing life, of recent years, was when The Blaze won the Charlotte Edwards Trophy at a deserted County Ground Derby, then you've had too much coffee this morning already - total flannel and I don't believe him. If he's being honest, then he's in the wrong job.

Lisa (it may have been) made the slip saying that The Blaze represented Nottinghamshire, when in actuality Nottinghamshire can't commit fully to the East Midlands side and haven't and nor have The Blaze committed fully to Nottinghamshire and remain the only former regional side not to have made a county commitment. There still remains a Nottinghamshire Girls u18s, seperate to the Blaze Academy side, talk about making it unnecessarily complicated to any aspiring young woman cricketer. Don't forget Nottinghamshire hosts that other elite women's franchise. 

The spin had us told that nearly five thousand attended one women's match last season, but it did fail to mention that there was a street food festival happening at the same venue at the same time. The Blaze are lucky if they get a thousand spectators in stand alone fixtures at any of their home grounds across the East Midlands but Rome wasn't built in a season.

Lisa, suffering from some kind of ailment, and had a demeanour that suited the front stage's green hue.

Answers to any questions were vague, defensive and largely deflected...

Questions with regards to the Hundred sell-off were fobbed off but (now a top table cheerleader) Diana PC , says "they've been working very hard" negotiating with potential partners. No hint of any details were forthcoming or even what the club's lines in the sand were. 

A question from the floor asked why there hadn't been any updates about the pavilion project, which incidentally doesn't have any provision for a museum (surprisingly) - the reply was just a fob-off "contracts were under confidential discussions blah blah - "shut up chidren!" 

We should be getting used to being informed after each event has taken place, this done deal or that done deal...

Two lads with a big hammer could have made more progress, I heard said outside Dixon gates last night. 

Apparently a museum might be included in a phase two of work, in the squash court area.

Electoral Matters:

Graeme Swann, Sue Storey and Andy Afford have been voted on to the GC by the members.

The Nominations Panel recommended a female solicitor for the police, Catherine Hammond.

For fans of Restaurant Six, Lisa's co-conspirator in that Grand Design or should it be Grand Delusion, the then Chair, Richard Tennant, who also was her partner in crime with the whole deception of the what is now called the H*ndred, has been rewarded by the General Committee by being honoured, made President of the club.

Whole evening was beyond redemption from it's self congratulating blandness, but dear old Bill Russell did some degree of salvaging the evening with just two words, "Lady Bay". Will the windfall payments, from those buying into H*ndred stakes, be used in anyway to improve facilities at Lady Bay?

The short answer was yes.

General Committee Election There are four vacancies on the General Committee this year; three will be elected by the membership and one will be appointed upon the recommendation of the Nominations Panel. Voting forms and details of the candidates standing for election have been circulated by post to members in adult categories who are eligible to vote. If you haven't received the postal mailing but you are eligible and wish to vote, please contact the club. The results of the election, together with the identity of the individual appointed by the Nominations Panel, will be announced at the AGM. Changes to the Constitution The General Committee have proposed a set of changes to the Constitution of the Club (known as ‘the Rules’). The changes concern:   proposals relating to the Nominations Panel, arising as a result of lessons learned during four years of running the panel; and other areas where changes in wording are proposed for consistency with the rest of the Rules, or to make their wording easier to understand and interpret. please go to the link that you were given in your own email and read the proposed amendments and to vote if you will not be going to the AGM in person or by Zoom. No double voting or standards at Trent Bridge ltd Please register your vote no later than 5pm on Friday 21 February if you're not going to the AGM. Nottsview comment: The first proposal of rule changes concerns the Chair sitting on the Nominations Panel and the wish to avoid that particular possible conflict of interest, as they put it: The General Committee propose to remove the requirement for the Chair to sit on the Panel by amending 6.3.1. This allows for greater flexibility when making Nominations Panel appointments (and appointments to other sub-committees). It was important, when the Panel was new, to have the Club Chair as a member especially as Richard Tennant, then our Chair, had led on the modernisation of our constitution and therefore understood the rationale behind and the purpose of the Nominations Panel. Now the Panel is well established and its raison d’etre well understood, we can change this requirement to an option. This will also assist in situations where the Chair is conflicted due to being up for re-election/ re-appointment.  Just to remind you, the current Chair has only reached the General Committee via the Nominations Panel route and now currently sits on the Nominations Panel. It shouldn't take a genius to work out that that isn't how it ought to be.