I'd say you're wrong, unless you're **** or in a tough league I'd say you'll be better off. My match only lasted 2 days, got 6k and 7k into the ground each day and notched basically exactly the subsidy. Once I build some morale I'll rake that **** in, easy as pie.
I'm a decent to high England Div V side, so probably at the top of the bottom third of BT teams or thereabouts (if you see what I mean). I'm pretty sure I've reached the soft cap for div V members, at any rate, since despite winning much more than I used to, they're climbing much more slowly. If this week's match is a guide, I'll beat the subsidy by about 10k over two weeks with 3-day matches, and lose out to the tune of about 30k with a 2-dayer. So I'm more or less at the equivalence point, but there'll be a
lot of people who aren't (not "most", granted, but a lot). What you guys might have to remember is that the teams on here are typically quite a lot older and waaaay better than average.
Regardless of the break-even point with respect to the FC subsidy, it's clearly in everyone's interests to have three days' play, crap team or not. Assuming you can take the PFL hit, who
wouldn't choose to increase their revenues by 50%? I'll be amazed if we don't see a wholesale move to flatter pitches as a result, since evenly-matched games on bowling pitches seem to be over rather quickly.
We should be pleased, of course; Battrick is starting to reflect real life!
Just won my first match, anyway. Slightly bizarrely, Bromby hit the winning runs, and then nobody bowled a ball to nobody in the next over before the game ended:
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And that's the end of the match. Beard XI won by 9 wickets.
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Good length fullish ball angling away just outside off stump, shuffles well forward before shouldering arms.
End of Over 18 (4 runs). Beard XI: 60-1, runrate=3.33 (1st Inn: 126-10)
Lead by 2 runs. (Amager County 56-10 & 128-10)
Smyth 9-1-27-1
Bromby* 26 (55 balls)
Janes 27 (34 balls)
Last Wicket: Platt b. Smyth 3 (FOW: 17/1)
17.6 3 Smyth to Bromby
A nice shot by Bromby into the vacant outfield, Bristow chases hard and hauls it in just before the rope as the batsmen run three.
