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Whether you agree with it or not!

What a fantastic vocation, for some very fortunate individual to be offered the chance of a 'job' as a player/coach for a premier league cricket club (or any cricket club for that matter) and to be paid for the priviledge of doing something we all are passionate about and particapate in, within our own time throughout the cricket season, is really an opportunity not to be missed !

To C.I.Y.M.S. C.C.

I know this isn't the correct protocol, but I once applied for a similiar position and didn't even get a reply ! ( but I'm wiser now).. So as not to waste a stamp, paper or time:

1. I have 1 x O-level passed in 1982/83 in English.. hence the good spelling you may care to note !)
2. I passed my umpire's exam last year and am the proud holder of an ECB certificate level 1 .
3. I also successfully completed an ICC introduction to cricket course last year..(certificate to prove it).

Further to the above...I am a good cricket all-rounder and once took 6 for 20 odd against Indian Gymghana in the old NCU section 4 around the 1998... I think? (although I never recieved my Ulster-Bank engraved cut-glass vase for doing so?
Haven't quite ever got a fifty yet but still trying hard !!

ANY CHANCE ??

Ps. I'm also a good catcher !

why is this even a debate - who cares how a club recruits. Having stood 22 yards away - well in most cases about 30 yards away for fear of my life - i can say that mcmillian and the likes of pinear have had a positive effect on our local game in publicity, profile, spectator attendance and youth uptake.

-All views my own-

How another club spends their money is up to them as long as everything is within the rules. But that shouldn't stop people expressing an opinion on it.My view is that clubs should adopt a long term approach and guarantee themselves stability long after the money runs out.

That means investing in youth systems to attract as many kids as possible to your club and providing them with top quality coaching but also the opportunities to prove themselves. Clearly some clubs are going to have to increasing spending on players if they want to stay or become part of the 8 club elite but I think there is a danger that some may become short-sighted.

To those going on about spelling and grammar grow up, this isn't the playground.

RE:Roy Young

The Player Coach will indeed only have to coach our kids one night a week but you will also see that the role involves playing for the 1st XI so in turn this will involve training with the team on a training night.

Roy, you are more than welcome to apply if you hectic social life allows the time.

The jealousy out there towards CIYMS is shocking.

McMillan brought a lot to NCU cricket never mind the 'Premmier' League and can hardly be called an 'obscene fiasco'?

Surely CI are to commended for trying to recruit locally and putting the interests of their kids and coaching to the fore front of their plans?

PS - with all this terrible grammar it must be old campbellians having a go.....

I play for a Belfast Club and last year we had several attempts from a "Club" who shall remain nameless to poach our best schoolboys...!
If it can be believed, they were also "incentivised" to defect...!

I presume my club was not on it's own ?
Can anyone give examples, as I was under the impression this sort practice was a flagrent abuse of the NCU rules...

Maybe someone can confirm this ?

RE, Paul Russell

Do you really think McMillan brought anything to the premmier league when he was here last...?

Personally I thought the whole thing was an obscene fiasco

Re - Andy McMichael

Just wanted to agree with Roy Young...

Spot on mate - don't think many would argue...

ps, hope my grammar passes - I don't want to seem foolish and therefore render my posting beyond worth...!

Re Roy Young.
"were" did you go to school Roy? The same place as NCU supporter, or maybe you are him. Thanks for all your concerns and interest in our player coach position but don't worry about CI affairs, our club will do that.

Ref NCU supporter

I agree entirely with your comments - the ad looks like another opportunity to hide behind in order to bring in another 'hired gun'! Player/coach who is expected to do 1 (yes thats 1!) nights coaching with the young guys.

Were CI differ from most other clubs in the top flight is that they don't have any club men who could call themselves Premier league players - a couple of local players who help make up a first eleven made up of acquisitions from other sources might not be the strongest way to build a club - time will tell !

re NCU supporter. As member of another premier league team it is obviously going to become more important to spend money in this next season whether that is on facilities, youth structure or professionals given the fact that teams want to play in the 8 team premier league. We're also in advanced talks with a big name.
By the way, did you attend English classes?

RE:NCU Supporter

I have heard from a reliable source that CIYMS are at advanced stage of negotiations with Craig McMillan to come back for 2012 season.

I for one would welcome this signing, as surely it can only be good for the league even it is does buy them success - fair play to them.

NCU supporter,

as a player in the lower divisions just looking in at the premier league i personally dont see what CI are doing different to anyone else in that league? They seem to get a lot of flack for a developing club with a booming youth structure. I dont think in the context of the league, paying 3 players is attempting to buy a top 4 finish???

No, this is not the start of 'there' spending. We've spent loads and loads already on developing our youth structure.
Time to sort out your grammar, be a man and identify yourself NCU supporter.

I see CI are looking for a player/coach - is this the start of there spending? - with a player/coach and then 2 pros and Connell on top like last season and they will have bought a top 4 finish?

Any other transfer rumours or pros confirmed for next season in Premier League?