Martin Dean

Rhinos Cricket & stuff. Bloke with own views

[Martin Dean @MartinDDean]

@implausibleblog They do not look a patch on @LeedsBreadCoop

[Sarah Lancashire @SarahLancsUK]

According to Facebook… #HappyValley is in talks to return. Don’t know how true that is but would be fantastic!

[Martin Dean @MartinDDean]

@realRLJ @cameronponsonby No it's not. It's shocking

[Martin Dean @MartinDDean]

@sportOTfuture @cameronponsonby Are you rally that daft

[Martin Dean @MartinDDean]

@cameronponsonby Complete garbage. Letting Talk Shite in will be a Trojan horse to commercial only deals.
No cricket fans want it. There dire coverage is detested

[Tides of History @labour_history]

PMQs tribute to John Kear today 💕🏉

[Yorkshire CCC @YorkshireCCC]

You heard it from Moeen 😏

Get your tickets for the biggest domestic game in the country this Friday.

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[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Hope Makerfield are watching - this is the reality of Reform

[Martin Dean @MartinDDean]

@thervd @TheBarmyArmy Obviously @ECB_cricket will do nothing to ensure supporters get the overs paid for.

[Martin Dean @MartinDDean]

@bbctms @thehundred and we did not think it could get worse

[Martin Dean @MartinDDean]

@LEGGYBL0NDE Give that person some Opel Fruits and a Marathon

[Martin Dean @MartinDDean]

@TheCricketerMag @oscarress05 No its not

[Lancashire County Cricket Members Group @LancsCCMG]

Open letter to members from Jim Pickup, one of the petitioners of the SGM on Sunday 9th June, providing background to resolution of no confidence in the Board.

Dear Member,

Can I join with the Club in encouraging you all to vote in (and better still if you can attend) the forthcoming SGM on Sunday at 9.30am. Whether or not you have confidence in the Board of Lancashire CCC is critical to the Club’s future wellbeing.

I am writing as one of the petitioning members for the SGM and the proposer of the motion of no confidence. In their latest communication of 29 May the Club have suggested that it would be in some way “unfair to pass this motion before the work of the “new” board has properly started”. It is therefore necessary to understand the motion in its true context.

We, the petitioning members, lodged our petition moving a vote of no confidence in the Board on 27 April following the chaotic SGM on 9 April when the Board halted debate of their seven proposed Rule changes and adjourned the meeting, and their later concession of 23 April that the governance structure of the Club was “inappropriate for a club the size of Lancashire”. At that time, it was widely believed that the AGM would be held on 29 May. It made sense and it was our intention for the no confidence resolution to be heard before the AGM.

We heard nothing from the Club in response to our petition, not even an acknowledgement. Then on 7 May we were told that the petition had been rejected as it did not contain “wet” signatures as required by the Rules. In fact, the Rules merely require that a petition calling for an SGM is “signed” by not less than 100 Members (Rule 11.2.3). Since the AGM in 2023, when Members were told that Lancashire had moved into the digital age, the Board has accepted petitions, resolutions “signed” in the manner we adopted, giving names, membership numbers and email addresses. That was how we showed the necessary support for the April SGM. There was no complaint nor was the petition rejected.

On 9 May the Club gave Notice of the AGM to be held on 25 May, Bank Holiday Monday between two T20 matches. They gave the minimal permitted period of notice to the membership, namely 14 days.

We obtained the requisite “wet” or digital signatures and resubmitted on 10 May (whilst challenging the rejection of our initial petition).

However, the Board’s rejection of our initial petition meant that the no confidence vote was put back 10 days, allowing the Board to squeeze in the AGM and the purported “elections” of the new Board members.

On 19 May we emailed the Board secretary (Mr Morris) asking through him that the Board adjourn the AGM until after the SGM and the no confidence vote, failing which we would apply at the meeting to adjourn. Again, we received no response. At the meeting I attempted to make the application to adjourn (on notice) and for the reasons outlined in this letter but was prevented from doing so. The Interim Chair, Dame Sarah Storey argued that notice had not been given. It had, by email to the Secretary on 19 May.

Finally on 22 May the Club called the SGM on our revised petition for Sunday morning 7 June commencing at 9.30am.

It follows that the situation we are now in, whereby the vote of no confidence is moved and debated (as it must be) hot on the heels of the AGM and with some new Board members in post, has been engineered by the unilateral and irregular procedural machinations of the Board, not the petitioner members.

Since the new Rule 12.7 passed at the AGM requires communications by the Club to the members to be fair and balanced and that petitioner members should be allowed an equal opportunity to explain the rationale for their resolution, you should by now have received a copy of our petition. If you have not, then please contact the Secretary on [email protected] and a copy will be provided.

Look forward to seeing you on Sunday.

Jim Pickup [6438] for the petitioner members.

[Martin Dean @MartinDDean]

@QuibbleUK Blocking cookies is important

[Waqas🔶️ @m0w4q45]

I was a prison officer, Nick. You can't preach "tough on crime." Your lot cut nearly 7,000 prison officers since 2010 and handed our jails to G4S and Serco. You broke the system, then act shocked it doesn't work.

You know what actually works? Lads out on licence getting their track tickets, learning a trade, coming home as taxpayers instead of reoffenders. That's using human capital, not warehousing it. A lad sat in a cell doing nothing helps nobody.

And funny how quiet you all go on the tax dodgers and the oligarchs bankrolling Putin's war. Boris took a Russian ex-KGB man's hospitality at his Italian villa, dodged his own officials, then made the son a Lord. Where's your "lock them up" energy for that?

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

@SRFielding72 @DailyMail Cheers Stephen. Here it is 👇🏻

https://t.co/v7XOutyK3s

[Martin Dean @MartinDDean]

@Ed_Miliband Terribly sad news. May she rest in peace

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

Australian households are seeing bills fall by as much as 10% as renewables and batteries take a bigger share of the system. In Spain, where there’s a high share of wind and solar, power prices are consistently lower because they’re not as tied to global gas markets.
https://t.co/o1gb2b3fwH

[Yorkshire CCC @YorkshireCCC]

A SERIOUS innings from Moeen Ali to help us to that stunning victory last weekend 🤯

Grab your tickets for Sunday's game v Gloucestershire now! https://t.co/4Fms0bNrBR

[Paul Hudson @Hudsonweather]

EVERY weather station, both rural & urban, in Yorkshire & Lincolnshire, set a new May temperature record yesterday.
Unprecedented.
For the climate sceptics out there, the game is up. Go and bore someone else with your nonsense.