S.Kennedy
International Vice-Captain
They get poached!That makes absolutely no sense. Unless I'm mistaken, players don't get promoted to division 1 teams when they start performing. You can have strong and weak players in each time in either division. Division 1 might be slightly higher standard but it's not like every single player in Division 1 is better than every single player in division 2.
Witness the exodus from Durham moving from division one to division two, Stoneman and Borthwick (to Surrey), Onions and Jennings (to Lancashire) Paul Coughlin (to Notts).
Sam Northeast recently (Kent to Hampshire). You go back into history and there was Notts poaching everybody from all of the division two Midlander sides, Stuart Broad, James Taylor and Graeme Swann.