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The Hundred - Free tickets

Bukowski said:
I reckon they're bending the truth more than a wee bit about the number of tickets "sold" - counting freebies taken up as part of that 350k.

The £50 million revenue might be right like. The TV deals with Sky and the Beeb are probably worth a quid or two. And with international talent not taking part, the expected costs of wages into players hands has likely dropped a fair bit, lending itself to a decent profit. £10m doesn't seem out of the question. Semantics, mind. Be nice to see someone digging a bit deeper into those claims.
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I think they’ll have excluded the £1.3m county bribes from those profit claims, so it’ll be a rosy slant on it I reckon.

Not that making a loss initially is unusual for such a thing, it takes investment to build them up.
 

NorthCountryBoy said:
I think they’ll have excluded the £1.3m county bribes from those profit claims, so it’ll be a rosy slant on it I reckon.

Not that making a loss initially is unusual for such a thing, it takes investment to build them up.
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Indeed

Not sure what the barometer for success is here tbh and there's a fair amount at stake for the future of the game. I don't think the ECB making a profit is it... needs to be a rather quick trickle down effect bolstering the other county formats / grassroots. If the goal is simply to make the Hundred the premier domestic competition, there'll be a mutiny.
 
Bukowski said:
Indeed

Not sure what the barometer for success is here tbh and there's a fair amount at stake for the future of the game. I don't think the ECB making a profit is it... needs to be a rather quick trickle down effect bolstering the other county formats / grassroots. If the goal is simply to make the Hundred the premier domestic competition, there'll be a mutiny.
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you appear to have faith in FTECB.

:eek:
 
Bukowski said:
Yeah right! :lol: :lol: :lol:

I can't be arsed to look through the entire thread - anyone actually been supportive of the Hundred, or is it universally despised?
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it's about 90% against 10% think it'll be good for club cricket and are willing to sacrifice durham ccc for that cause
 
Parkside said:
true but the fact is all reserves have been blown on it so we've no alternative but to hope it succeeds.
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i get your argument, but to be honest if it fail it destroys cricket as we know it. if it suceeds it destroys cricket as we know it.

there's alot of people who want it to fail out of spite give the above, and i can't really fault anyone taking that line.
 
Twisted said:
i get your argument, but to be honest if it fail it destroys cricket as we know it. if it suceeds it destroys cricket as we know it.

there's alot of people who want it to fail out of spite give the above, and i can't really fault anyone taking that line.
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It's the counties own fault. They should have stood up to FTECB years ago. They're supposed to administer the game as the counties instruct, not vice versa.
 
Darlo1973 said:
I'm one of those who is willing to give it a chance with an open mind rather than hoping it fails before a ball has been bowled.
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So I am I mate, let’s just see how it goes, not necessarily a big fan of the hundred or a big critic for the simple reason as you have stated a ball has not even been bowled yet!

Interested to see if it filters down to more people taking up the game, it’s a hard job to achieve that mind with all other distractions these days.
 
I wonder if the commentators will be told to do football style commentary where they get over excited when a wicket falls.

I can see Michael Vaughan being up for that.
 
If the miracle happens and some how increases participation at club level, they would be fans of the 100 and want to play that not other forms. The whole point of the 100 is style over substance, and to make it accessible to people with no attention span. They aren't going to then say let me play 50 overs or 4 days of it.
 
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