{"id":446634,"date":"2026-02-26T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446634\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:27:11","slug":"sussex-county-cricket-club-reports-operating-loss-of-1-33-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446634\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussex County Cricket Club reports operating loss of \u00a31.33 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West, who took on his interim role at the end of last season, said the losses carried a &#8220;massive impact&#8221; which had been felt by everyone at the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he admitted it was &#8220;good for members to see in more detail exactly what has been talked about in the headlines over last few weeks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked if there had been an overly optimistic approach to the initial budgets set by the club, West said that &#8220;the ideas put forward last year &#8211; along with growth strategy pursued &#8211; were good, but didn&#8217;t land&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They weren&#8217;t anchored to a realistic cost base, which we were then stuck with despite the income subsequently failing to materialise,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West, who took on his interim role at the end of last season, said the losses carried a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-446634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}