GordonMuchallNo1Fan
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Ah that's ok as long as I have cricket to attend at home.It's intended to still run ..... but if the T20 franchise thing works it will undoubtedly take the lustre and maybe the TV money form the current comp.
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Ah that's ok as long as I have cricket to attend at home.It's intended to still run ..... but if the T20 franchise thing works it will undoubtedly take the lustre and maybe the TV money form the current comp.
Both London grounds being used, which is intriguing. Be interested to see how it works.
Agree with @brandon about watching it fall from the outside mind. Would be much happier if SCCC and the Oval weren't a part of that, but ho hum.
Looking forward to a comp that draws public attention again.
Do you think this franchise competition will do that?
FTA in the height of summer, yes. The current system is killing cricket and if you listen to the likes of Simon Hughes the BBC would only go with it if it was a new super league.
In terms of identities it's plastic as fuck but cricket needs to pitch itself at a 10 year old lad, not me or you. The identities grow with time too, e.g. nowadays people properly support the likes of Melbourne Stars and Chennai Super Kings whereas at the start there was no real feeling.
I'd rather watch Durham of course but unless cricket stops contracting its fan base there'll be no Durham in 40 years' time anyway imo.
Except it isn't going to be FTA - only part of it is.
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Again, parallels with Australian and IPL franchises are a waste of time. You just can't do it. To take the Aussie model, no state misses out, in FTECB's model, over half the counties will miss out. Chalk and cheese.
Not looking for bites but in terms of franchises they were the only choices they could have made.
Wouldn't be surprised if they farmed out the odd fixture to the smaller grounds e.g. Bristol get one from the Swalec, Sussex from Hants etc.
Looking forward to a comp that draws public attention again.
never mind Counties it's the NE entire region
Somerset must be miffed, they get good crowds at Taunton.
Ah well. Pretty sure all's already been said on this topic that could be said.
So a city based franchise that spreads the games outside of the cities?
Tell me the point again?
Yeah we were, but i wasnt sure on the time frame we were penalised forWere we not stripped of test hosting status by the ECB?
100k county members out of a 65 million population. Hardly filling the nation with excitement at present though is it?
100k county members out of a 65 million population. Hardly filling the nation with excitement at present though is it?
@brandon I guess where we differ is believing Hughes. I do, although perhaps he's talking about getting on BBC1 rather than the red button or something daft.
100k is a decent starting base, rather than pissing more that half of them off at the outset. Do everything they are proposing for the franchise system with the T20 Blast and see what happens, it's not that difficult.
One other thing I've been contemplating since they announced the format... Having only one game a night is going to mean quite a few nights where there is no game due to weather. Lots and lots of dead air is not good look.
But the point is (if you believe it) that the current Blast wouldn't get a prime FTA channel.
What I found interesting was that they're going for an 'IPL style play off system'. So no more finals day.
Not for a second, not even half a second.
And for my evidence, I'll submit that the IPL, Big Bash and CPL have all been on free TV when the opportunity arose. You trying to tell me that they wouldn't clear ITV2 or E4 every night for T20 cricket? Bollocks.
I agree, but those channels don't have the prestige or real reach of BBC1 which is where the ECB wanted to be. That's why the big horse races going from BBC to even C4 was a big blow for that sport (as illogical as it seems).