Fred Tetanus
Banned
Boring game except for an over or two at the end. Just served to prove my thread about changes needed to T20 is 100% correct.
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***OFFICIAL*** BBL | 06 Thread
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Noble One
International Vice-Captain
Tonight's game hardly matches your theory on the script for T20.
Fred Tetanus
Banned
Who said anything about the script? It was as boring as bat droppings. Proved I'm correct that changes are needed.
Noble One
International Vice-Captain
I look forward to Finch having two overs every night. Crowds will come flocking in.
Zinzan
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I agree, although it's so much more than just marketing.
Yeah, scripting it certainly helps with the entertainment value.
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I know having a NZ team in the BBL is a long way off, but I wonder if we could introduce a "Trans-Tasman Round" or something, since the two tournaments run concurrently. I think that might give our ailing comp a big boost, although it probably wouldn't do much for the BBL.
It's a significantly bigger market, I don't think you can compare the two. Channel Ten and Cricket Australia have a vastly bigger budget than their counterparts over here. No way in the wide world you could run our competition every night over here, it wouldn't rate. Australian viewing market much, much bigger. Plus their budget for OS players is larger I imagine. It's economies of scale at work.
Having said that, there's things we could do much better. Their commentators **** on ours. Could we schedule ours better in holiday destinations and better time slots for viewership? Dunno. I know I say Australia has major size of market advantages but there's definitely ways we can catch up. One also would be to have a finals day/weekend like the English T20 has, not the absolute abortion that was having the finals at Yarrow Stadium last year. Bugger me.
Zinzan
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There's nothing I'd like to see more than North and South Island NZ sides in the BBL, I see Fleming recently floated the concept of Northern, Central and Southern sides, but I'd be stoked with just one or two.
The sad reality for us Kiwis is, they just don't need us, they do fantastically as it is... and unlike the NZ breakers, Warriors and Phoenix where it was important for those sports to expand, looking at bringing in NZ sides really wouldn't be attractive for Australians, especially the pathetic crowds of 800 people turning up to watch our McDonalds cup games, they're sadly a non-event,
The sad part is in terms of actual ability, NZ are stronger in T20 than any other form of cricket, in fact I think we're currently the no.1 ranked team in the world, so I do genuinely think a north and south side would compete well, even in the games in Australia, but again, they just don't need us.
Spark
Global Moderator
The biggest complement I can give about the marketing and coverage is that it genuinely feels like part of the summer furniture already, just as something to put on in the background as a default.
Spark
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No way Ten is letting go of this.
Spark
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And CA will lap it up, but you'd have to think that the BBL is the product with way more growth potential and CA will know it's in safe hands already. Ten will bid the whole house to keep it.
Spark
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Yeah Ten pushed hard for the whole lot. No one seriously thought they were gonna get it, but CA wasn't complaining.