The scoreboard
TEN SUGGESTIONS FOR WHAT WARWICKSHIRE MIGHT DO WITH THE SCOREBOARD AT THE PAVILION END.
1. Have it towed away for scrap. Must be worth at least a fiver.
2. Send it to a cricket museum. Visitors will marvel at how spectatators used to cope with such a hopeless, faltering piece of equipement.
3. Turn it round and hammer nails into the back from which numbers could be hung, thereby relating the score in old-fashioned but reliable style.
4. Make it a designated target for seagulls and other feathered creatures, thereby encouraging them to reduce the trail of devastation they habitually leave elsewhere, notably on silver Ford Fiestas.
5. Redevelop it as a luxury, character residence and rent it out to a bespectacled loss-adjuster called Norman.
6. Drape it in curtains and tassles and festoon it with hanging baskets so, like other essentially useless items, it at least has decorative value.
7. Send it to Zimbabwe so Robert Mugabe can use it as his election scoreboard.
8. Pack it up lock, stock and barrel, transport it to New Zealand and instal it in Mark Greatbatch's garden as a token of appreciation for all his good work for the club.
9. Recycle it into 26,736,812 bat handles.
10. Leave it just as it is and allow it to continue to regularly make the club a laughing stock.
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Brian Halford
Brian Halford’s look at Edgbaston.
Unless the old gal is actually a sentient being now, I don't think it was her fault that she reckoned Botha was long gone.
I was just thinking last night at the match, let me loose on it. I'd make the scores run on time. It surely just needs a slap and a professional geek to play about with it for a while.
But Chris theyve had five years to give it a slap and get geeks on it. And its still rubbish!
PLEASE GET THE SCOREBAORD RIGHT ! IS IT A MECHANICAL / SOFTWARE / OPERATOR PROBLEM ? ANYONE KNOW ?
................. and yes I am shouting !
As far as I understand, Warley, it is a combination of mechanical and software problems with the occasional bit of human error thrown in.
But the bottom line is it's as much use as a button on a sock. I am amazed that a club which so often claims to pursue excellence has foisted this piece of garbage on spectators for so long.
Well the scores are equally wrong on both scoreboards, so the bulk of it must be on the software side. Maybe they should try rebooting it. That always works.
If I had my way there would be a lovely curved screen right along where the temporary stand goes, 50ft long, that's be ace.
Its hard to comment but last night was beyond a joke. To actually have the game held up for several minutes at such a crucial stage because they forgot to add the the the first run when Parker was run out was rediculous. If its mechanical either fix it or get it replaced, if its software get some better software, if its the inability of the operator to use the software properly, give him some training so he can use it properly.
How about a billboard campaigning for Brian Halford to appear on Sky Sports?
Mr Halford just doesn't like WCCC, i'm sure he should accept an invitation from the club to operate the scoreboard for a frenetic Twenty20 game to see how easy it really is, instead of being a spod and criticising from afar.
Scott - thank you. Somebody wise once said that no day is wasted as long as you have learned at least one thing during it and I have just learned that a spod is "a sad person who is nearly always found slumped over a keyboard, usually from the minute they awaken (if they even slept at all) to the minute they pass-out on their keyboard."
Not guilty...I hope!
I agree with Talcum Malcolm.
Time to re-ignite the Halford for Sky debate.
As for Scott, I believe Brian is probably referring more to the technical problems with the scoreboard as opposed to those operating it.
I understand one of the operators quit the other night. Makes you think they are being asked to operate something that's just not up to the job.
Halford needs to get on Sky to highlight the scoreboard problem.
Sounds as if they could do with a spod....
Perhaps they could go to 'spod-u-like'.