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Ground Watch
- Thread starter Athlai
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Good thread.
Can anyone from India, or PEWS who knows everything about everywhere, explain to me how we get to a situation where a cricketing-mad country builds a 130,000 seat stadium, hosts a World Cup for the first time in 12 years, and no one turns up? Is it price? Location? Apathy? What the **** is going on? Because there's not another sport in the world where you'd have a World Cup and a crowd that **** turns up, let alone in a stadium that size. I know it doesn't involve the home team, but that wouldn't be relevant in a football, rugby World Cup, whatever it is. And no one can tell me it's the format, either - I doubt 20,000 more turn up if it was T20.
Can anyone from India, or PEWS who knows everything about everywhere, explain to me how we get to a situation where a cricketing-mad country builds a 130,000 seat stadium, hosts a World Cup for the first time in 12 years, and no one turns up? Is it price? Location? Apathy? What the **** is going on? Because there's not another sport in the world where you'd have a World Cup and a crowd that **** turns up, let alone in a stadium that size. I know it doesn't involve the home team, but that wouldn't be relevant in a football, rugby World Cup, whatever it is. And no one can tell me it's the format, either - I doubt 20,000 more turn up if it was T20.
SillyCowCorner1
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perhaps they all arrived late. Like that mcg game decades ago when Shane Warne in a helmet had to calm an angry crowd that had skipped the first six hours of boredom before arriving for a chase that then didnt happen.
Prince EWS
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RossTaylorsBox
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The numbers are made up like in WWE.
Prince EWS
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Yeah and speed guns.
Athlai
Not Terrible
I thought the speed guns looked surprisingly accurate for once.
straw man
Hall of Fame Member
I think there is some truth to suggestion that people earlier in the day were sitting further back (in the shade in the blue seats, which they blend into) rather than in the orange seats in the front half. And that more people arrived as the match went on.
Still, the organisation sounds terrible and it's a dreadful look to have all those orange seats so obviously empty for most of the match.
Still, the organisation sounds terrible and it's a dreadful look to have all those orange seats so obviously empty for most of the match.
Athlai
Not Terrible
I dont think 15-25k is that bad a turnout in isolation but the whole organisation was a **** up
ataraxia
International Coach
Yeah there was a Wood bouncer which beat Conway, according to the commentators, for pace. The speedo recorded 129.6kph lol, so I figured the option-choosing interns went for the lowest value to reflect the game momentum. Or, like, they're actually accurate.
Shady Slim
International Coach
so this is just flagrant and unacceptable racism (nonflagrant racism is also unacceptable so take this as a hendiadys) but what's this stadium meme going around the traps? i was out at dinner last night and haven't really been following the politics of stadia in the lead up so would appreciate tldr