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The Hundred 2023


FatCat2402 said:
I've just had 5live sports extra on the radio and what naffs me off more than anything is the constant lies and hyperbole about the hundred.

Some woman on (not a clue who it was) saying that the Hundred has meant that many of the players are now household names. Speaking almost as much shite as Rees Mogg.
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This. The propaganda would make Josef Goebbels proud.
Joey knars the crack, MLF too :cool:

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Fleagle said:
No but there are 44 traditional counties in England and Wales. 18 have a first clsss and Blast gig. Eight get to host the you know what. Each number is an arbitrary minority of the total. No magic in the 18. It wasn’t “and the Lord said unto Moses, and another thing, eighteen first class counties shalt thou have”. You pick a number that works. And I’m not convinced that number is 18 any more.
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Well there are 18 clubs, with (at least) 18 grounds and 18 playing staffs who are supplying 8 franchises with contracted players …..and The 100 is only played at 8 venues.

Meanwhile, the aforementioned 18 counties have to muddle on in a downgraded One Day cup with a mixture of leftovers and youngsters.

Yorkshire have to use Scarborough while Leeds Losers are at Headingley, but top players Root and Bairstow are in Nottingham and Cardiff.

It’s a parcel of shite
 
Liverpool Beachball said:
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Interesting from the comments that Notts had higher attendances for 3 of their 7 Blast home games and that’s without adding the two other counties that the 16.4 team apparently includes…
Aidan11 said:
If the weather continues all week like it has today rhe ECB will be bricking it.
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I hope their next shite is a hedgehog. Although in saying that, Thompson and Gould know the crack :cool:
 
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It’s true men’s crowd nothing special there. 8800 is a canny crowd for a women’s game though. They’d not have got that with the lip service the counties paid in the past. You can see why they see it as a positive.
 
MagCat said:
Haha. You think the ashes would have the same pull if it was on a yearly basis? Regardless, I believe a very small margin of those watching the ashes are new to cricket, the hundred is however will be seen by many more with no experience of cricket. Not everyone wants to watch red ball, especially when new to the sport
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Where did I say the Ashes would have the same pull if it was on a yearly basis? Why is that even relevant?

Three work colleagues who had zero interest in cricket before this summer got right into the Ashes, to the point where they were asking and telling me things about the game that clearly proved they were invested in it.
Sillypoint said:
aye its accessible but theres sod all there, Chester le street the town itself is a bit of a shithole nowadays
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How is that relevant to anything?
 
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GordonMuchallNo1Fan said:
I would for Durham no problem. I sat around hours on Thursday and Friday and didn't see a ball bowled as well as travel about 170 miles for the pleasure
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Im Assuming that wasn’t with any kids in tow then, so you either don’t have any or they are old enough to leave, then I’d suggest the hundred isn’t really aimed at you anyway,

but not sure why you can’t let those who do enjoy it do so in peace without the constant comments, the laughing at games being called off is pathetic, there will be kids who will have been looking forward to going to this for weeks
 
Sillypoint said:
Is it not already on life support, that life support being handouts from the ECB, without short format cricket and TV money most would be long gone
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The international side is an extension of the county game, without the county game there is no international team.

So lets stop calling them handouts and start calling them what they are: Payments for developing the players and maintaining the grounds which the international sides need to survive.

Bankrupting the game and marginalising more than half the teams for this farcical power grab needs to be stopped as soon as possible.

FTECB and FT16.4.
 
Fleagle said:
It’s true men’s crowd nothing special there. 8800 is a canny crowd for a women’s game though. They’d not have got that with the lip service the counties paid in the past. You can see why they see it as a positive.
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They wouldn’t have got that if it wasn’t piggybacking on the men’s game. Perspective needed.
 
Steak Pie said:
The international side is an extension of the county game, without the county game there is no international team.

So lets stop calling them handouts and start calling them what they are: Payments for developing the players and maintaining the grounds which the international sides need to survive.

Bankrupting the game and marginalising more than half the teams for this farcical power grab needs to be stopped as soon as possible.

FTECB and FT16.4.
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I wish I could’ve liked this post twice…
Bamber said:
Rossington could have knacked Andre The Giant
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He might’ve eaten him.
Hettonlass said:
A lovely sunny evening at the cricket
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You there like?
 
Sillypoint said:
Im Assuming that wasn’t with any kids in tow then, so you either don’t have any or they are old enough to leave, then I’d suggest the hundred isn’t really aimed at you anyway,

but not sure why you can’t let those who do enjoy it do so in peace without the constant comments, the laughing at games being called off is pathetic, there will be kids who will have been looking forward to going to this for weeks
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Stop sucking every penny out of the game and into this farce (What are we up to now, £50m? £75m?) then we'll stop. Promise.
 
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