RADLETT Cricket Club have hit back at suggestions that they are luring players to Cobden Hill with money.
Promoted to Division One of the Home Counties Premier League, Radlett have made a number of big signings already this winter, landing Kabir Toor, Gareth Berg and Tom Jenkins. But chairman Tony Johnson insists their decision to move to Cobden Hill has not been motivated by money.
"It makes me angry when I hear that people automatically think that we pay players," he fumed. "It simply isn't true, even though Home Counties League rules allow this.
"We do pay a senior professional coach, Shane Burger, and we recoup fees from schools in our area, but we do not give money incentives to talented amateurs for playing. We probably never will; there's no point. Certain clubs in Hertfordshire have done this, and one is openly trying to buy success with a special fund. This is not a route we are prepared to try."
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