Arundel was always a good festival. It would have been nice to have seen the 50 over games v Herts there recently. The ground does host various matches like A team and MCC stuff, but I don't know why Sussex have stopped the festival.
I know this is true, to the extent that it's cheaper to have all the games in one place and lots of counties have made similar decisions. But it seems astonishingly short sighted to remove the most popular part of the season, aside from the emotional idea that a county club should make some effort to spread the game around, and that this can't have been any less true in the hundred plus years they managed to have games at Arundel, Eastbourne etc.
Crap, sorry. It doesn't cost money. It's that it doesn't raise as much. It IS not loss making.
I can assure you it costs money. Mainly due to the contract obligations with Sodexo. Arundel more so than Horsham (due to hospitality obligations and additional stewarding / logistics). Quite happily share more detail with you if you want to DM me.
You think all the hospitality obligations are ‘sponsored tents’ I’m afraid not.
End of story call it Hove CC then.
How can pulling 4000 at Arundel or Horsham for one day cost the club more than getting 1000 in at Hove?
Perhaps shit contracts. How the catering can determine where a game is played is beyond me. Taking the game around the county, playing to full crowds as opposed to a few old gits and a seagull must or rather should be a priority and it should easily make more money.
116/8 now.
The weather is a big factor. Suffer the cost of putting everything in place at Arundel and then it rains is very costly with insurance costs prohibitive.
I get that. But you could say that about literally any event and/or game of our ground cricket anywhere