[themaclad]

The trouble with the game is at the top most County Chairman or CEO's who are now in the main businessmen who are interested in making money rather than the long term future of the game.
I get literature from OT and each year they state their core ambitions which is to produce excellence on and off the field. you go to Old Trafford these days you have the Point which is basically for generating revenue, the new hotel which has beeb rebuilt and now has the name Hilton in front of it, so you can bet your life prices have gone up.
It doesn't look like a cricket ground to me these days more a coporate empire. At one time you could use all levels of the Pavilion not any more.
I'm at Blackpool this Friday for all it's faults it is a proper cricket ground you are close to the action and feel a part of the game.
As for the cricket personal view they should play all County four day games on outgrounds and play the one day stuff on the main ground however in respects of the four day game relegating it to the edges of the season isn't going to help improve the test side, although these days whacking the ball around for 20 overs seems to get you a Test place farcical.