5th Test Border Gavaskar Trophy January 3-7 1000hrs @ the SCG

[Coach_Required]

no, you get shit test crowds. If the MCG had 50k to Boxing day id say that was a shit crowd too. but it didnt. It sold out.

The fact you are bringing up big bash just proves my point lol. I didn't suggest relocating the Perth scorchers to Tassia did i rofl.

Anyways it is what it is as too much money from the TV deal will change it, hopefully Perth can sell out the Ashes next year.

You chop and change your argument, you were talking about atmosphere, now you're talking about capacity. Capacity isn't atmosphere.

2) We should sacrifice a good atmosphere just so you can build interest? lol?

4) The crowd atmosphere filters through the TV and adds to the specifical. Perth was rubbish.

The only thing keeping the test in Perth is the TV time for EST states, and even then, I'd rather it go to Tassie. It's far better a spectacle than Perth. The rest of that waffle you posted is complete hogwash.

 

[Gough]

That’s a fairly large amount of hyperbole even for this board.

Imagine this board in the mid 1980s when a draw against New Zealand was the highlight of the summer.

 

[Jim Prideaux]

The Konstas criticism is so annoying. As soon as someone shows some flair every single mistake they make is attributed to them being immature and reckless (even if they score better/more than pretty much any other opening bat of the series).

The rush to push any big personality down is so weird. It's like people don't actually want to be entertained. We want heroes but we also want them to stay inside very specific set of guidelines

Completely agree, although there’s a post right above this trying to compare Bumrahs ball bowled to a series in the 70’s, so it’s not just younger players the grumpy old men get grumpy about

 

[Coach_Required]

The match wasn't one sided for the entire 5 days. But the crowds were sh!t for the entire five days.

WTF are you talking about? The game didn't last 5 days and was all but decided by day 2.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

You chop and change your argument, you were talking about atmosphere, now you're talking about capacity. Capacity isn't atmosphere.

yes, it largely is.

The fuller the stadium the more the noise revibrates around, and how it also looks on TV.

I'd take a sold-out Bellerive at 20k over a half full Optus at 30k any day of the week.

anyways the fact you dont know this just further proves it.

Ill leave it there amigo.

 

[Coach_Required]

yes, it largely is.

The fuller the stadium the more the noise revibrates around, and how it also looks on TV.

I'd take a sold-out Bellerive at 20k over a half full Optus at 30k any day of the week

If India was 0/172 on day 2 in Tassie and lead by 218 runs, yep you're right that 20k would be rocking.

 

[The Lobbster]

yes, it largely is.

The fuller the stadium the more the noise revibrates around, and how it also looks on TV.

I'd take a sold-out Bellerive at [emoji638][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]]k over a half full Optus at [emoji639][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]]k any day of the week.

anyways the fact you dont know this just further proves it.

Ill leave it there amigo.

Yeah but thirty thousand is objectively more than twenty thousand. You’re basically telling ten thousand people to eat shit so you can have a more pleasant TV watching by experience.

 

[grumbleguts]

WTF are you talking about? The game didn't last 5 days and was all but decided by day 2.

And on day one? Are you that slow?

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Imagine this board in the mid 1980s when a draw against New Zealand was the highlight of the summer.

Ha ha probably true, although there’s a lot of rose glass in the rearview mirror for those days here.

 

[Coach_Required]

And on day one? Are you that slow?

Did you actually watch the match? when India was bowled out 1st innings the place was up and about even with just 31k. Easy to look back in hindsight and say the game lacked atmosphere when it had fizzled out by the 2nd day.

Yet, I'm the slow one? LOL

 

[Gough]

Ha ha probably true, although there’s a lot of rose glass in the rearview mirror for those days here.

Not from me, we were undeniably shit and it was terrible watching cricket for a while.

 

[JackOutback]

Did you actually watch the match? when India was bowled out 1st innings the place was up and about even with just 31k. Easy to look back in hindsight and say the game lacked atmosphere when it had fizzled out by the 2nd day.

Yet, I'm the slow one? LOL

They want to have a parochial moan, facts aren't important, best to simply ignore.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Warner is no brain surgeon, but Konstas is a snag short of a barbie if ever there was one. (Undisciplined) He's a long way from being Australia's opening batting answer and has a lot to learn, i was a fan until that 2nd innings. These two upcoming Tests against Sri Lanka can either make him or break him.

i highly doubt a 2 test series in Sri Lanka is going to make or break a 19 year old....

He is 19......do you want him to come in and be peak Matt Hayden or something?

it is highly irregular that a teenager is playing for a national test side. let the kid live, experience will only make him better.

 

[Silver Tongue]

Rubbish speculation. He is 19 years old, does that mean he stays in the side forever? No of course not. He will get dropped at some point just like the 100's of Aussie batsmen before him.

Also, you're comparing a 19 yo to a 31 yo cricketer who has been in the system a decade, so of course the mature player is going to have better technique FFS.

I actually compared him to Peter Toohey and David Hookes. Both were 21-22- ish. Do you know who Peter Toohey is?

Best to read my post prior to getting aggressive.

Webster is a separate discussion.

You keep doing you and I will post relevant comparisons.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Anyone else already suffering test cricket withdrawal symptoms?

 

[Mick F]

Completely agree, although there’s a post right above this trying to compare Bumrahs ball bowled to a series in the 70’s, so it’s not just younger players the grumpy old men get grumpy about

Gilchrist scored a century in 57 balls against England. Nothing wrong with calculated aggression, but coming up through the grades, he learnt you had to remain in the middle to score runs.

 

[JackOutback]

Anyone else already suffering test cricket withdrawal symptoms?

Sure, but watching 41-year-old Dan Christian make a comeback is also entertaining.

 

[MarcMaverick]

The one glaring -ve I have is, I have Test Cricket Withdrawal. Tried to watch the BBL, and it ain't it chief. Its like eating a insanely sugary doughnut after eating a juicy sirloin stake with an amazing salad.

 

[MarcMaverick]

Gilchrist scored a century in 57 balls against England. Nothing wrong with calculated aggression, but coming up through the grades, he learnt you had to remain in the middle to score runs.

At the WACA, god I miss that ground for Test Cricket. What was remarkable is that he had a run of really low scores before that and he was on a pair IIRC.

 

[Silver Tongue]

The one glaring -ve I have is, I have Test Cricket Withdrawal. Tried to watch the BBL, and it ain't it chief.

BBL is as boring as watching dog shit turn white.

Test cricket rules

 

[MarcMaverick]

I mean don't get me wrong, I like Perth Stadium but it doesn't replace the rawness of the WACA. And I wished that they had that Subiaco Oval Siren for PS.

 

[MarcMaverick]

BBL is as boring as watching dog shit turn white.

Test cricket rules

How the turn-tables, eh?

 

[PhatBoy]

Imagine this board in the mid 1980s when a draw against New Zealand was the highlight of the summer.

Or if the crowds were the same as the ones that turn out in Pakistan, the West Indies, Kandy, or the Sri Lankan series in SA

 

[Silver Tongue]

How the turn-tables, eh?

Qui? You mean table turns friendo?

 

[MarcMaverick]

Qui?

Its the inverse of how the tables have turned. Used to be that BBL was fun and Test Cricket was not as fun. Now its the other way.