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Team(s): Arkholme Bees, Hackney Grasshoppers, Holy Cross Academicals
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#222 | |
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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
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Maybe with the sport at this level still being just 14 years old, teams are still some way off figuring out what is really required to outplay the opposition? |
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#223 |
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: In a class 101 Met Cam time machine to the past
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Surrey's home quarter-final on Friday is currently being soured by what appears to be justified discontent from members over ticketing arrangements.
Apparently it was clearly stated by the club, including on the website, that membership packages including T20 games included admission to all T20 home matches. The club have since amended that wording, saying it was written in errror, and are charging the members admission. At present it all looks rather badly handled. |
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#224 | |
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Join Date: Sep 2015
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The only precedent I can recall is what Warwickshire did for the RLC semi-final v Kent at Edgbaston in 2014, when in a bid to boost the gate in a poorly-attended comp they decided to admit members and under-16s free and to charge all other spectators just £10 per head. This evoked a furious complaint to the ECB from Kent, who only a few days earlier had charged their own members £25 to attend the quarter-final of the same comp at Canterbury. "As a game we must be mad. It is short-sighted and has the potential to be deeply damaging to county cricket’s ability to justify ticket prices for matches like these in the future,” Kent's CEO railed with mind-bogglingly pompous indignation. "We shouldn’t be giving away our product. Warwickshire’s decision sends out appalling messages about an important one-day competition." In turn, Kent's travelling supporters were righteously ****ed off with the bizarre antics of their own CEO in trying to stop them getting cheap £10 admission. It makes embarrassing reading for any Kent supporter, but the full story of Kent's complaint about Warwickshire's policy, which three years on is still the source of bad-blood between the two counties, is here:- https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/k...al-bmj73tcltfc Last edited by WeAreKent : 20th August 2017 at 14:40. |
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#225 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: London-Essex
Team(s): Kent, Essex, Surrey Stars
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Kent members were admitted for free too. It didn't surprise me that Warks went for the low cost option. A constant misunderstanding about the pricing of events is that if you lower the prices, more people will come. However, what usually happens with niche events is that the same old crowd as always turns up and the promoter loses a substantial amount of income. I was at Edgbaston that night and the crowd size was almost identical to those of the various quarter-finals. It's impossible to say how many bodies were enticed along purely by the favourable prices but I suspect it was very few. I was very happy to get in for nowt but, equally, I'd have still gone along if it was £25. |
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#226 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: In a class 101 Met Cam time machine to the past
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Anyway, just since I wrote last it has been resolved and Surrey have in fact said they will refund the purchase price for T20 members. A very sensible solution. |
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#227 |
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Join Date: Sep 2015
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Yes, I recall it was poorly attended and as you say, we can never know how much poorer the crowd might have been if Warwicks had charged everyone £25 as Kent had done for the q/f.
Warwicks anticipated a poor crowd and so took what was a bold initiaitve to try to increase the numbers. Was the initiative "mad", "short-sighted", "deeply-damaging" and sending out "appalling messages" as the Kent CEO said? I've never understood why Kent seem to go out of their way to cause unnecessary animosity with other counties.They've done it with Warwicks, Worcs, Lancashire and Hampshire - and that's just in the last three seasons... |
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#228 |
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Join Date: Sep 2015
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Good thing Surrey are not playing Kent. Jamie Clifford would denounce it as "mad", "short-sighted", "deeply-damaging" and "sending out appalling messages" !!!
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#229 |
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: London-Essex
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I doubt they had any choice. I can imagine a membership such as Surrey's has more than one or two big company lawyers on their membership roster only too happy to point out their obligations.
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#230 | |
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#231 | |
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I'd like to see more counties showing a flexibility based on supply and demand to use adventurous pricing in a bid to attract more spectators. Nothing ventured, nothing gained and all that... |
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#232 | |
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#233 |
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 1,580
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I'd advise either one or the other. Getting the train to Trent Bridge for the former has been made impossible due to the ASBO received for indulging in the latter.
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#234 |
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Cambridge
Team(s): England
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Afridi making a brisk start in the first 1/4 final.
50 off 21.
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#235 |
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Derbyshire need to learn how to catch.
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#236 |
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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I think the decision to promote Afridi has paid off.
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#237 |
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How did Derbyshire qualify in second place? There just seems to be a huge gulf between Hampshire and Derbyshire in all disciplines.
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#238 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2013
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It levels the playing field in giving unheralded teams a better opportunity of winning but can also produce some massive anti-climaxes.
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#239 |
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Join Date: Aug 2016
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Afridi's innings was awesome. Should be interesting to see how the semis pan out.
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#240 |
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Just a bad day at the office at the worst time, as has been said Twenty20 does at times have the habit of making teams look very bad very quickly - let's not forget it was only Friday night that Hampshire got a pumelling themselves. Generally over the course of a twenty20 campaign your going to take one, unfortunately for the club, the plans and the players ours was tonight.
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