I thought it would be a nice idea to form a collective of interested members to co-manage a Battrick team. Online cricket manager games are nice but it's a solitary persuit and would be much more fun to co-manage with some like-minded people on this board. We can discuss our team's fortunes and strategies on this forum.

Andy Mellon has a team and we found that multiple users can login with the same username and password. So, we can even look at our team details together while chatting in the chat room or posting on this forum. If you are interested please post your interest to this thread. Andy will give us a background on his team which will be co-managed by our new group.

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The team is called Connells Estates Cricket Club (don't ask why!!) who play at the 15,600 capacity Connells Estates Cricket Club (that's an obscene amount of capacity, don't you think)

Currently, CECC are in the grip of a financial crisis. An overdraft of £300k would see them go out of business, and they are currently £50k overdrawn and losing about £10k per week.

Recent results have seen them go up to joint 2nd in the league table (out of 10 teams) only 4 points behind current leaders Oldham Cricket Club. As its 4 points for a win, the upcoming Oldham vs CECC game could see Connells in line for promotion.

Connells are led by the exciting and experienced Richard Binnion, a 29 year old in the mould of Tatenda Taibu who has the ability to both bat and keep up to a decent level and can turn his arm over if necessary. He's currently averaging 77.00 this season, with a strike rate of 79.56.

With the able assistance of young starlet, 17 year old Graeme Adu to open with him, CECC have a strong top order. Unfortunately, the lack of bowling in the side sometimes lets them down, especially if Binnion and Adu have an off day.

Tomorrow, CECC play bottom of the league Scotland Cricket Club, starting at 10.30 am. If you log in, go to the CLUB column on the top toolbar, then click on FIXTURES and then on the match at 10.30 am tomorrow, you will be able to see Cricinfo style commentary on the game.

If YOU are interested in joining the Connells Estates Cricket Club board of directors, then either contact Club Chairman, Andy Mellon or Chief Executive Mike 'Admin' Dengler to gain access to the privaliged and hallowed corridors of the CECC board room!

Oh yes, and by the way - Zainub and Lemming already have teams, so unfortunately, due to stringent access rules on battrick, they cannot join the board of CECC

The website is www.battrick.org.uk

Happy cricketing!

Andy 'Chairman of Selectors' Mellon

I haven't checked this for ages...I'll have to peek in my inbox to find the login and password, good time pass before I start studying again! Hopefully I won't get addicted

Alright, sounds like a challenge, I'm up for that.

Looks like we need to stop losing money or lose a lot less than we are currently losing. The Finance section only shows two weeks of results in the balance sheet. Can we get any more results? Are we filling the ground? If not we should reduce the capacity to reduce the maintenance costs.

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Ive got a team too. Ive just challenged you as well, which should help your morale as Ive only won one game this year, basically because my side is hopelessy out of its depth in my current league, not that I'll be there much longer.

I am not sure I understand it all, but I will give it a go.

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Sounds good fun to me.I'm up for it.

The expenses column for last week is worrying - what went under Miscellaneous?

Is the tea lady bribing the treasurer for having an affair?