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Off-Topic => 100 Ball Franchise => Topic started by: Captain Slaphead on November 19, 2019, 05:25:06 PM
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(*For the unaware, a womens team in The 16.4 & based for some reason in Chelmsford)
Are Essex CCC under commercial pressure from ECB to publish so-called 'news' about this franchise on the Essex website?
If not, what percentage of essexcricket.org readers do the web editors think have any interest in this?
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I think we all know the answer to Q1.
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(*For the unaware, a womens team in The 16.4 & based for some reason in Chelmsford)
A bit similar to London Southend Airport, then.
Still think it sounds like a gin.
Lynda
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Why not call them the London Seaxes? No one knows what they are, but the downmarket tabloids would have a field day.
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(*For the unaware, a womens team in The 16.4 & based for some reason in Chelmsford)
A bit similar to London Southend Airport, then.
Still think it sounds like a gin.
Lynda
Back to Hogarth's time* then, when the streets of London were notorious for gin-shops
18th Century.
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Not a ghost of a chance I will attend.
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London Liquor.
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https://www.essexcricket.org.uk/2020/01/09/early-bird-ticket-prices-revealed-for-the-hundred/
So they actually cost more than the Womens International matches we had at Chelmsford last year. £5 to watch England v Australia for members last year. Atleast £8 this year.
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"The Hundred offers brilliant entertainment"
How does anyone know? Nothing has happened on the field yet!
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It’s only an offer you don’t have to accept.
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If I read & understood correctly then Lords & The Oval are likely to be more expensive than the others, also some days it will cost more to watch than others (at all venues?), so Tues, Thurs for example will presumably cost less than Fri, Sun - hardly fair on the spectators!!
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The BBC Text service (which we shall miss, used to have the scorecards on all day when we're home) said the top ticket price would be £35 for the men's games. I remarked that we could watch two days, rather than two hours, of cricket for that.
Lynda
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The marketing of this thing saying it is "brilliant entertainment etc" really annoys me. I have read several quotes where people have already claimed that it is a success months before a ball is bowled. We really are in an era of fake news. Whatever the truth this tournament will be declared an overwhelming success.
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For all the lack of love of this, no one is forcing you to go/watch. If you dont like it, ignore it.
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For all the lack of love of this, no one is forcing you to go/watch. If you dont like it, ignore it.
The point is even if we don't want to watch it, this 16.4 nonsense will impact on proper cricket. To pretend otherwise is foolish - players may get injured and will, no doubt, be offered all sorts of 'offers' to leave Essex.
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Not sure I follow with the offers to leave Essex part??
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Not sure I follow with the offers to leave Essex part??
I think that there is a concern/fear that the 100 teams will have the finances/allure to tempt players away from the non 100 teams. That doesn't look like much of an issue for Essex (at the moment anyway) as most of our big players are contracted until at least 2021.
I guess it also underlines that bringing our own players through is still going to be the best plan for us.
I get the reasons for the negativity about the 100 but I tend to believe it's worth seeing how things pan out. I certainly can't get worked up about the advertising "hype". Happens all the time - best ignored
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I think that, unlike the T20 Blast and other innovations over the past 50 years, there was a clear understanding that these would support the county game. Even the coloured clothing, mascots etc associated with them do try to develop an identity that appeals to supporters beyond the county stalwarts.
Whilst The Hundred is also justified in the same way, the plain fact is that the noticeably smaller number of teams taking players away from the county circuit is bad because of the moronic idea that non-cricket people are more likely to identify with a city rather than a county.
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Not sure I follow with the offers to leave Essex part??
I think that there is a concern/fear that the 100 teams will have the finances/allure to tempt players away from the non 100 teams. That doesn't look like much of an issue for Essex (at the moment anyway) as most of our big players are contracted until at least 2021.
I guess it also underlines that bringing our own players through is still going to be the best plan for us.
I get the reasons for the negativity about the 100 but I tend to believe it's worth seeing how things pan out. I certainly can't get worked up about the advertising "hype". Happens all the time - best ignored
But there are no Hundred teams, all the counties get a fair share of the cash?? (Well thats the way I understood it??)
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Not sure I follow with the offers to leave Essex part??
I think that there is a concern/fear that the 100 teams will have the finances/allure to tempt players away from the non 100 teams. That doesn't look like much of an issue for Essex (at the moment anyway) as most of our big players are contracted until at least 2021.
I guess it also underlines that bringing our own players through is still going to be the best plan for us.
I get the reasons for the negativity about the 100 but I tend to believe it's worth seeing how things pan out. I certainly can't get worked up about the advertising "hype". Happens all the time - best ignored
But there are no Hundred teams, all the counties get a fair share of the cash?? (Well thats the way I understood it??)
I was thinking more of this
https://inews.co.uk/sport/cricket/the-hundred-t20-cricket-competition-wages-pay-rise-504021
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But there are no Hundred teams, all the counties get a fair share of the cash?? (Well thats the way I understood it??)
Look at the players selected - many of them are from the county hosting the fixtures. 'Imports' [ie players from other counties] may well be approached by the local players/ management.