AndyinLiverpool Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Your plan is to make them disappear. How can they not if you regionalise cricket?County championship games are badly attended, but Test matches will continue to thrive, Especially in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 That's ONLY in England.Why does regionalisation mean clubs will disappear? Virtually nobody watches them as it is. How could it be worse?I don't need to make them disappear. They are already doing it before our very eyes.People can stop it by going to watch first class cricket. Except they won't because first class cricket is anything but. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Regionalistion would literally make them disappear. Derbyshire made a small profit last year and have spent £700k on a ground upgrade. Hardly disappearing in their own rights.I've watched England play Test matches in India, South Africa and Australia and the average crowd was around 25,000 for those games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Is the profit before or after the test match money is divvied out? The massive subsidisation of county cricket produces what? Teams that rarely feature England test players; overseas players here one moment, gone the next (I can no longer name with any certainty any county's overseas players). A lack of identity and dynamism? Mediocrity.How would regionalisation make Derbyshire disappear if they were grouped with Notts, Yorkshire, Lancs etc for example?I would be interested to know what percentage of those 25,000 crowds were following England. How do attendances for India v England compare with India v New Zealand or West Indies v Sri Lanka? I'm not even sure the last two could get their best players to turn up, let alone spectators in their droves. The iconic Boxing Day test in Australia is attended by significantly higher numbers when the English are in town. Even in England, tests against the likes of Sri Lanka and even India draw pretty sparse crowds.Do we want a sport for the 21st century or sentimental museum piece? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Simply not true. The first 3 days are sell outs. What do you mean by regionalisation? A team to represent a region? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 38,000 watched the test match between Sri Lanka and England at Headingley last year. In 5 days. That's enough for a sell-out on one of the days and almost on another.As for regionalisation, this is what I wrote in the post above:If you split it into 3 groups of 6, you have 10 first class games for each county; the top one of each group can play off in a round robin of 2 games each. Maximum of 12 games a season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 How will that improve things? Regionalising in that sense works for 1 day games not 4 day games. Surely the current divisional split will improve competitiveness more. More chances of having games that matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 http://hereisthecity.com/en-gb/2015/03/28/rc-finally-the-final/my last but one article on the World Cup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggg Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 http://hereisthecity.com/en-gb/2015/03/28/rc-finally-the-final/my last but one article on the World Cup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 I'm hoping NZ spank em......but I'm not holding me breath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggg Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Did you enjoy my discreet convict joke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 twas not THAT discreet..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggg Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Wish I could stay up to watch it, but on 0700 till 2100 tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daaave Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Starc is far too good, got it going round corners At nearly 150kph... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Starc is far too good, got it going round corners At nearly 150kph... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daaave Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Our top order won't relish facing him in English conditions with the red Duke this summer, that's for sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Our top order won't relish facing him in English conditions with the red Duke this summer, that's for sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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