Would still like to see BBL reduced a bit more, down to 7 games per team, but I suppose this is a start. Need to also get rid of a few gimmicky things to help regain real traction, but every little bit helps.
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LukeParkerno1
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Getting rid of Howard would be a start
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Would need a team of all black front rowers to extract his tongue from Ricky 'Rick' Ponting's sphincter
LukeParkerno1
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Hahahaha yep
You're not really comparing Port Adelaide vs Gold Coast being paywalled with Australia vs England at the MCG being paywalled, are you?
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Also, the AFL play nine matches a week for 22 weeks. The Australian cricket team play for about 30-35 days a season.
I am not against it but I don't think reducing the BBL comp is actually going to make much difference. Overall there will be significantly less people attending the sport live and less on TV. Reducing it doesn't make it a premium product as much as guys like Andy Maher think it will.
It won't significantly improve the quality of players either given other comps and International duties. In fact the smaller windows will make it harder.
Plenty of improvements needed but I don't think reducing the games will make a huge difference but at least it will stop people complaining about it.
It won't significantly improve the quality of players either given other comps and International duties. In fact the smaller windows will make it harder.
Plenty of improvements needed but I don't think reducing the games will make a huge difference but at least it will stop people complaining about it.
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Port Adelaide vs Gold Coast isn't paywalled (for people in SA and QLD, i.e. 99% of their teams' supporters).
For me, paywalled North Melbourne v Whoever at Marvel Stadium is totally a fair comparison with paywalled Aus v England ODI/T20I at the MCG.
The difference is, I'll rarely get the chance to see my AFL team play if I don't attend or get Fox/Kayo, whereas my cricket team will be on FTA plenty of times throughout the season.
LukeParkerno1
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Just having it in better times will help. The more games in holidays the better. That’s the big thing and can we go the way the Hundred does it’s finals. 2 days done. Finals shouldn’t be going over a week!
Maybe BBL could become a regional competition in Victoria and NSW where Melbourne and Sydney crowds are poor? There's enough going on in those cities to make BBL a lesser option for entertainment. Perhaps move games to Geelong, Newcastle, Wollongong etc.
The only thing directly comparable as you have above is (the advertising & subscription) dollars that underwrite the bids.
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Paramount, which was widely considered the preferred bidder early in the negotiations, said it never made a “formal bid” and had not actively pursued the rights in recent weeks. This decision coincided with the appearance of CA board director Richard Freudenstein, Foxtel boss Patrick Delany and Seven director Ryan Stokes and Lachlan Murdoch’s Christmas party. Sources close to the process said Paramount had asked the process to be put on pause until mid-January when executives returned from leave, and had put in a non-binding indicative offer.
Others close to the deal said it wasn’t this simple. CA and Foxtel executives continued to pursue a partnership with Paramount’s free-to-air partner Network 10 over concerns it could not work with Seven. Paramount refused to do a deal that did not include its streaming service, Paramount+ because it believed it would lose tens of millions of dollars if it did not share the rights across its platforms.
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Rival broadcaster Paramount has declared its values were “not aligned” with CA as Foxtel and Seven revealed a new seven-year deal.
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oh the CA spin! "“Our priority was to run a fair process and all the major networks took part. We wouldn’t have engaged unless we were kind of serious about giving everybody the opportunity. But ultimately, we’re just delighted to be extending our partnership.”
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A 4 game finals series would be better than 3 teams
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Imagine being so bad at streaming that 2 major sports flatly refused to accept your financially superior offer.
This year there is a 56 game season, where everyone plays everyone twice, with 7 home games. With finals on top.
They are proposing to go to a 40 game season, where everyone will play 3 teams twice and 4 teams once, with 5 home games.
If everyone plays everyone once, that means a 28 game season with 4 teams having 4 home games, and 4 teams having 3 home games.
So what if we add a 9th team, so everyone gets 4 home games a year.
Make it a 36 game season. With finals on top.
It seems like a good middle ground.
The 9th team could be Auckland or Canberra or regional QLD (Mackay, Rockhampton, Townsville, Cairns get one game each).
I'd certainly be more interested in watching International level white ball cricket on FTA than I would be BBL, but alas.
No was there will be a BBL team in Auckland. Also the time for expansion is not now. The standard is horrific
Any call for another team always begs the question why not one less.
Or why not two less.
Drop the second Sydney and Melbourne teams.
Try and consolidate those crowds.
Play everyone once at home and once away.
30 game season. 5 home and 5 away games per team.
When the two Sydney and two Melbourne teams play each other, its the only occassions in the BBL that remotely resemble a rivalry. Wouldn't get rid of them due to that basis alone.
Does it? I don’t know anyone who cares about the Stars Gades rivalry
And yet the Stars vs Renegades games at the MCG usually have the highest attendance for BBL home and away games each year.
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Or Sixers/Thunder. Sure, the commentators try to imply there's one, but there really isn't.
Maybe 10 years ago
I'll leave the last two seasons out of it, COVID and all that.
But then:
In 2019/20, Stars vs Renegades drew 54,478, the highest crowd all season. The next highest were the NYE game at Adelaide (41,414), then 35,296 for Thunder vs Sixers at the SCG and 30,388 for Stars and Renegades at Marvel.
And in 2018/19, the leading crowds were:
46,418 - Stars vs Renegades, MCG
41,987 - Adelaide NYE
40,816 - Stars vs Renegades, Marvel (The Grand Final)
40,646 - Scorchers, Optus Boxing Day
40,511 - Scorchers vs Heat
38,117 - Stars vs Renegades, Marvel (H & A)
36,612 - Scorchers vs Hurricanes
34,385 - Thunder vs Sixers, SCG
So in 19/20, three of the top four games were derbies.
And in 18/19, four of the top 8 games were derbies.
And so far this season, it drew the second-highest crowd, only 1,800 behind NYE.
Two teams in Sydney and Melbourne is good for the BBL.
