Bailey's Bay veteran Corey Hill has jumped to the defence of skipper Stephen Outerbrige who he says is hurting after the events of the last week.

Hill praised Outerbridge as the man, alongside Irving Romaine, who had turned the club around after 15 years of bickering and infighting had previously stopped the team from fulfilling its true potential.

And he warned Bay they might be in danger of losing one of their greatest assets, who he said 'bled red', if they didn't start supporting a captain he credited with turning the team into title contenders.

"We need him at Bay, Bermuda need him, the guy is doing some good things," said Hill. "We haven't been in this position for 15 years. You can't let a guy like him go, what club around here wouldn't take Stephen Outerbridge in a minute. And would you blame him for leaving? I might go with him. I see what he's bringing to the table and everybody wants to be a part of that."

Outerbridge has been widely criticised by Bailey's Bay officials after trying to find a solution to the controversy that saw St David's pull out of this year's Eastern Counties competition.

And while the Bay captain has been portrayed as a lone renegade, working outside the authority of the club, Hill accused the executive of double standards, happy to allow Outerbridge to speak for them when he was bringing in thousands of dollars of sponsorship in pre-season.

"Stephen has brought in thousands of dollars sponsorship, he's been to executive meetings on behalf of the club, when he was doing all that it was fine, nobody wasn't saying anything," said Hill.

"Now all of a sudden he's not got the right to go and address this issue. Everyone's talking about what this guy done bad, nobody is mentioning about what he has done good for the team. The bad thing he's done is tried to get a game played. How bad is that?"

Once it became apparent that the Eastern Counties situation could not be resolved, a family fun day was hastily arranged with a Twenty20 contest between Flatts, Cleveland and Bay. Outerbridge decided not to play, believing the team should be fully focused on their Premier Division game on the Sunday.

And according to Hill, Outerbridge has been left wondering who he can trust after most of the rest of the team opted to take part. That participation came at a heavy price for Bay, who lost Jim West to injury and whose players were visibly tired during their 21-run defeat at the hands of PHC the next day.

However, Hill said that the team were 100 percent behind Outerbridge and players had only taken part after being left with the impression by club officials that they would be suspended if they did not do so.

"I think the team are 100 percent behind Stephen and in all fairness to them I think some of them were pressured behind the scenes. Now in terms of Stephen I don't know if he feels that way. You can only judge people by their actions."

And with the club suffering only their second league defeat of the season against PHC, the urban planner said the only people to come out of the weekend happy would be the Eastern Counties committee.

"You had guys playing in that Twenty20 that's not even eligible for County Cup, you think about that. The only people that suffer from this is Bay.

"The Twenty20 thing was to make a couple of people that are running the ECCA happy. That's all they were concerned about, now, Monday morning, we're crying."

While keen to stress his support for a club for whom he has played for some 20 years, and backing his team-mates, who he said had had their arms twisted into playing, Hill questioned exactly what the club were trying to achieve.

And he also revealed the contents of a discussion with a club executive, who stubbornly refused to acknowledge his mistakes and suggested that giving Hill the boot would be a good place to start in cleaning up the club.

"I sent an executive member a text that said 'Team morale is low, we've got issues, how do you want to fix this?'. Do you know what that executive member phoned me and told me? He said 'I'll fix it by getting rid of you'. I couldn't believe it when he told me I was part of the problem.

"What chance does Stephen have, man? I've been playing for Bay for 20 years, I've seen captains come and captains go, and the executive has never been on the same page as the team."