st_brendy wrote:Aidan11 wrote:st_brendy wrote:In my view, it is very easy for county fans whose team is regularly in D1 to be fully supportive of the current LVCC structure. I don't think they necessarily realise just how poor the bottom end of D2 is. You need to be down there, in D2, to really realise it.
Just look at the list of sides who have struggled in D1 after being promoted form D2 in very recent history. Worcs, Hants, Lancs, Surrey, Derby and Northants. Yorkshire are the only side in the last four years who I can think of that have managed to adequately cope with D1, but they're an anomaly given that a county of their size should never really have been in D2 in the first place. (Plus it makes it quite easy for them to attract players since being promoted).
These sides have been the best D2 can offer in the recent years, and yet have failed to cope with D1. So just think how poor the other sides in D2 are, the ones who can't even get promoted from D2.
It is absolutely not the case that a change to the structure should not, at the very least, be considered.
And how does cutting a couple of games a season give the poorer teams a better chance?
Where on earth in this post have I said anything about cutting a couple of games?
My post was simply to point out it's very easy the people at the top end of D1 to sit back and say that there is nothing wrong. And in their defence, they probably honestly think that is the case.
(My second post, following my above one here, was simply me passing an option which I have heard one or two give in the media).
It is the ECB who want to cut the games so any change will reflect that whether they have two or three divisions. As I said previously, that wont help any team, let alone the ones at the bottom.
