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stephen cartwright
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thing is, you grew up in age where there were four tv channels only. Basic computer games and so on. There was nowt else to watchGetting inspired was all about watching on TV for me, a few hundred kids not going to Durham is nowt on the grand scheme of things.
The weekly attendances you point to are about 100k. Plus say another 200k watching on SKY. Of which the demographic will be overwhelmingly white, middle class and middle aged. That's out of a population of 65 million.
Those are the key reasons change is needed and cricket is dying, Chelmsford selling out 6,000 seats doesn't change that.
We’ve discussed this before. I do not, nor never will think the game will be expanded by only playing at 8 grounds
It really is a straightforward as that. Kids in Kent, Essex, Somerset, Derbyshire, Durham, and so on, will watch on tv, then if the purpose is to inspire them to the ground, turn round to their parents and ask to go, to then be told, sorry it’s too far away
How is it going to grow, when no england player will be participating? Root, stokes, archer, buttler all possible inspirational players won’t be playing whilst Gayle, narine, Dre russ etc will be filling their bellies and wallets. Also no Indians will be involved.
The money spent on this could have been spent to reinvigorate the current t20 especially with the marketing as the year would be 2020. Put the games from the likes of Durham, Essex, Somerset, Kent, Leicestershire on bbc tv, and it would lead to more interest from NEW POSSIBLE CUSTOMERS
All they’ve done is to play it where interest was already oversubscribed and belittled the unwanted counties out of being visited by the mythical new customers
Do you think the 100 will be such a success that the world will follow?
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