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#161 |
International Material
Join Date: Sep 2008
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I'm glad you came up with this. I had one of those sinclair portable TVs in the mid 80s and I have vague memories of watching it live under the desk during a maths lesson. With all this talk of no foreign test ever having been shown live I thought I must be going a little potty in middle age.
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#162 | |
Self Confessed Mentalist
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Hitchin
Team(s): England and Liverpool
Age: 42
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#163 |
Club Cricketer
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 151
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Yes it was 1984 the Sinclair tv came out. How things have changed. See here
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/ht...alculator.html |
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#164 |
International Material
Join Date: Sep 2008
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#165 |
World Class
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: In a class 101 Met Cam time machine to the past
Team(s): Stockholm Taverners CC, Farsta BCCE, County cricket, MCCU cricket, England, Scarborough CC
Posts: 6,252
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I reckon we won't see any changes to the domestic structure and competition scheduling in 2016.
An Ashes win of course does absolute wonders for dampening demands for domestic overhaul. Add to that what seems to have been a successful t20 Cup and generally a successful summer for county cricket. Then throw in existing agreements with Sky, sponsors, outgrounds etc. Plus a general resistance to change. Despite the many scare stories there doesn't seem to have been any actual formal proposal from the ECB to the counties for an upheaval. It was actually stated in 2012 that the formats would remain the same for at least 2013-2016. |
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#166 |
Club Cricketer
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 151
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I watched Cricket Writers on Tv on Sunday. I thought they all have a rather one sided view of the propsed changed. Effectively they said tthat it would be the counties fault if the changes did not happen. Plus they tried to argue it would be aagainst the games interests not to change bit it was vested interests that was holding them back. I thought it was all rather one sided
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#167 | |
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Somewhere cold and wet
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#168 |
World Class
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: In a class 101 Met Cam time machine to the past
Team(s): Stockholm Taverners CC, Farsta BCCE, County cricket, MCCU cricket, England, Scarborough CC
Posts: 6,252
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Surrey are already selling memberships for 2016.
http://www.kiaoval.com/membership/be...surrey-member/ Given that, surely one can conclude that next year's fixtures structure will be basically be the same. |
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#169 |
Club Cricketer
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Oxfordshire
Team(s): Surrey CCC, Tooting & Mitcham Utd FC, Northern Ireland
Age: 37
Posts: 196
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Middlesex are as well, at 2015 prices, and free admission to the last two games of 2015.
I'm thinking of getting a country membership next year- I live 50 miles away from Lord's but work just down the road. If we're going to be in the same division, then it doesn't work out that much more than 4 days' of Championship plus a T20, plus possibly a 50 over game- and then I have an excuse to pop down for any more days as a neutral, and don't have to worry about being signed in to members areas for the T20. I wouldn't pay the full membership (or even want to be a full member- can't have people doubting my allegiances!). And of course I'll wear my Surrey members' tie any time I popped down there. |
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#170 | |
Legendary
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: London-Essex
Team(s): Kent, Essex, Surrey Stars
Posts: 9,401
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"Members can gain free admission... when the Surrey Team are playing one of the following matches: LV= County Championship (4 day game) NatWest T20 Blast (1 day, 20 overs per side) Royal London One Day Cup (1 day, 50 overs per side)" So, one or more of those competitions could yet be shrunk without Surrey laying themselves open to a charge of misleading potential subscribers. But the fallout would nevertheless be considerable. |
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#171 |
Legendary
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: London-Essex
Team(s): Kent, Essex, Surrey Stars
Posts: 9,401
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Just noticed that Middlesex's new 'County Membership' category offers free admission to all home LVCC and RLC matches under the heading "Over 35 Days of Action".
Now that IS a statement of clearly defined entitlement, from a county based just a cover drive's distance from the ECB head office. |
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#172 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Castleford
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#173 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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#174 |
World Class
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Well I agree, but for some reason over the past few weeks a rumour snowballed that the number of Championship matches was going to be cut next season. I don't know where it originated from.
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#175 | |
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#177 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Castleford
Team(s): Yorkshire
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Unlike a lot of county fans, I'm not dead set against a reduction in four-day cricket, as long as it isn't done in a cack-handed way.
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#178 | |
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 986
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Would the economics even stack up? Salaries for squad (approx. 16) etc. How many do "star" names really put onto an audience? How many more watched the Bears because McCullum was playing? And he had a big media profile post WC and Test series. The likes of Finch & Faulkner are good players, not cheap and would not put an extra bum on a seat! Might get some more through the gate at some venues (Bristol, Nottingham, Cardiff, Birmingham) but both London teams do well anyway, also the Roses matches were pretty full. Would lose at least one and probably two summer Tests to accommodate - my ticket for Trent Bridge was £85 (if average price) that is £1.4M in gate receipts a day lost - so if we lose 8 days of Test Cricket that is +£11M (more for bigger capacity grounds such as Oval, Lords & Edgbaston) before you start on corporate. If India are touring I would hazard the guess that their TV rights would be more than our domestic T20? |
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#179 | |
Club Cricketer
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 151
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Interesting to hear what Tom Harrison said on TMS Special
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/34007395 Quote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p030701c |
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#180 |
Not Lara or Chanderpaul but the best you've got
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Glasgow
Team(s): AFC Hornchurch, Essex, England
Age: 34
Posts: 18,509
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Sounds ******** to me. They've put the T20 in the wrong place and the Fifty over games should be spread out a little bit more. That's it.
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