Ridiculous World Cup Prices 2019

[S.Kennedy]

The thing is, if cricket was popular enough here there would probably be a valid argument for Jedi's suggestion, of building a massive stadia or two, but currently - as the situation stands - they struggle to fill up your 17,000ers, your Edgbastons, Trent Bridges and so forth. The two London ones are the only certainties selling out.

The game is just not that popular here.

 

[cnerd123]

The thing is, if cricket was popular enough here there would probably be a valid argument for Jedi's suggestion, of building a massive stadia or two, but currently - as the situation stands - they struggle to fill up your 17,000ers, your Edgbastons, Trent Bridges and so forth. The two London ones are the only certainties selling out.

The game is just not that popular here.

Do you think more people would attend if tickets were cheaper?

 

[Mr Miyagi]

Thanks S.Kennedy,

I now have the "locomotion" K Minogue version in my head.

Not even the best singer in her family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FjDPMife_Y

 

[Burgey]

Do you think more people would attend if tickets were cheaper?

***** demonstrating his profound knowledge of market economics here.

 

[cnerd123]

***** demonstrating his profound knowledge of market economics here.

go make your boss a cup of coffee and spit in it

 

[Burgey]

I don't have a boss.

- Burgey

 

[cnerd123]

Was speaking to your interns not you

My point being, if English cricket grounds don't sell out with cheap tickets, then ticket prices are not the primary reason for people not showing up.

 

[Borges]

Nobody likes cricket in England. We like football.

I think the domestic T20 tournament is doing quite well in terms of ticket sales. Clearly, The Hundred, played in front of massive crowds, is the indomitable way forward.
You will all be on your knees, thanking the ECB, once that futuristic tournament gets underway.

 

[Mr Miyagi]

I think the domestic T20 tournament is doing quite well in terms of ticket sales. Clearly, The Hundred, played in front of massive crowds, is the indomitable way forward.
You will all be on your knees, thanking the ECB, once that futuristic tournament gets underway.

Plus if the Hundred is a success and catches on, then the BCCI can keep the IPL and create a September/October version of the Hundred to replace the former and now non-existent Champions League hole and make some more moolah

 

[TheJediBrah]

The thing is, if cricket was popular enough here there would probably be a valid argument for Jedi's suggestion, of building a massive stadia or two, but currently - as the situation stands - they struggle to fill up your 17,000ers, your Edgbastons, Trent Bridges and so forth. The two London ones are the only certainties selling out.

The game is just not that popular here.

It's just as popular as it is in Australia, and you've got double the population. Maybe if they were cheaper they'd sell out more. Or if you had some genuine cricket stadiums with some atmosphere.

 

[Mr Miyagi]

It's just as popular as it is in Australia, and you've got double the population. Maybe if they were cheaper they'd sell out more. Or if you had some genuine cricket stadiums with some atmosphere.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/under-100-000-watching-bt-sports-ashes-coverage-daily-qf5mlrsxt

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2017/02/15/popular-sport-england/cricket/

15th on participation

 

[S.Kennedy]

It's just as popular as it is in Australia, and you've got double the population. Maybe if they were cheaper they'd sell out more. Or if you had some genuine cricket stadiums with some atmosphere.

You don't have any idea of how cricket operates in England. If hypothetically we built an Australian style monstrosity - or built up a present stadium to 80,000 - one of the counties would be located there. How much atmosphere can one get from 2,350 fans in an eighty thousand seater? It already looks bad enough with 2,350 fans in a 15-18,000 seater like Chetser-le or Edgbaston. It would look as bad as one of your Shield ''trial sessions for Australia'' games.

The bedrock of the English game is the beauty of the smaller grounds, many of them out-grounds. This is what the true aficionados of the English game actually prefer - most of them hate places like Edgbaston, Headingley and Chester-le-Street.

You once had nice grounds once - Adelaide for instance - before you destroyed them all, taking a dump on Bradman's grave, so perhaps there is a faint and distant memory of how lovely these type of grounds can be.

 

[S.Kennedy]

Where I live nobody gives a toss about cricket. It is ''some weird posh boys' sport played by people in whites, a bit like golf''.

Joe Root could walk through the entirety of the north east England and no one would recognise him.

Footy is king.

(Don't shoot the messenger but that is how everyone sees the sport. Australians cannot seem to fathom how unpopular cricket is here).

 

[Mr Miyagi]

Where I live nobody gives a toss about cricket. It is ''some weird posh boys' sport played by people in whites, a bit like golf''.

Joe Root could walk through the entirety of the north east England and no one would recognise him.

Footy is king.

(Don't shoot the messenger but that is how everyone sees the sport. Australians cannot seem to fathom how unpopular cricket is here).

Yeah, I suspect the refusal to accept how insignificant cricket is in England often boils down to two things, a victory against England in cricket is only meaningful if the English care about cricket, which is now comfortably below football, golf, tennis and rugby.

And the English invented it, so they must deeply and widely care about it, except the English invented football and rugby, the Scotts gave us golf making it British, and lawn tennis was an English (or Welsh) reinvention of a French racquet game also making it British, plus the English invented rounders which has gone nowhere (outside baseball in USA, Japan and Hispanic Americas).

This is actually why the Hundred is so important, to get popular cricket back on free to air tv at a good timeslot, to let the English public get exposed to it widely again and take an interest in the game when there is no football or rugby on, and avoid Wimbledon clashes.

 

[Starfighter]

This is actually why the Hundred is so important, to get popular cricket back on free to air tv at a good timeslot, to let the English public get exposed to it widely again and take an interest in the game when there is no football or rugby on, and avoid Wimbledon clashes.

The problem being that The Hundred, especially the way it could be structured, won't be a brilliant tool to get people into watching test cricket. I suppose you could say it's better than nothing.

 

[Mr Miyagi]

The problem being that The Hundred, especially the way it could be structured, won't be a brilliant tool to get people into watching test cricket. I suppose you could say it's better than nothing.

It is a gateway product from a pusher. First they give them a modified version with the "best" bits to seduce them before they risk killing them off with a pure product that they have to spend big to watch and that the people around them do not want to be involved with.

But in seriousness, they need to get the kids playing the game in backyards, parks and on the streets again, get them to demand or request cricket back in the schools, and have them developing cricketing heroes and watching the games, and developing a demand and liking for cricket again. Then they can follow all forms, and maybe if they're playing the game, start playing multi day formats themselves.

This quirky product on FTA TV at a good time slot, gives them a chance of doing this.

The Hundred isn't for existing cricket fans, which so many on here do not seem to get, it is to bring in new ones, and try to stop the decline of cricket in England and grow the game back up a bit (in popularity and participation)

 

[S.Kennedy]

Yeah, I suspect the refusal to accept how insignificant cricket is in England often boils down to two things, a victory against England in cricket is only meaningful if the English care about cricket, which is now comfortably below football, golf, tennis and rugby.

And the English invented it, so they must deeply and widely care about it, except the English invented football and rugby, the Scotts gave us golf making it British, and lawn tennis was an English (or Welsh) reinvention of a French racquet game also making it British, plus the English invented rounders which has gone nowhere (outside baseball in USA, Japan and Hispanic Americas).

This is actually why the Hundred is so important, to get popular cricket back on free to air tv at a good timeslot, to let the English public get exposed to it widely again and take an interest in the game when there is no football or rugby on, and avoid Wimbledon clashes.

It is more a case of football being about six million tiers above every other sport. Cricket is probably somewhere about par with rugby union and is above tennis, except during two weeks of the year when the country goes Wimbledon mad. It is just football is so far above these sports in popularity, media coverage, money, socio-cultural tribalism.

Or to put it another way, there are two sports in Britain: football and everything else.

 

[Starfighter]

If I go on the sports section of any UK newspaper it's football all the way down, even in the middle of the off season. It's ridiculous.

 

[Mr Miyagi]

It is more a case of football being about six million tiers above every other sport. Cricket is probably somewhere about par with rugby union and is above tennis, except during two weeks of the year when the country goes Wimbledon mad. It is just football is so far above these sports in popularity, media coverage, money, socio-cultural tribalism.

Or to put it another way, there are two sports in Britain: football and everything else.

Tennis has cricket whooped in English participation.

But NZ has the similar fault, here there is rugby and everything else, and summer football, rowing, basketball and sailing is eating into cricket's former space.

Winter sports just don't want to be involved with the rugby season here. Just like your rugby league gave up on the football season also.

 

[S.Kennedy]

If I go on the sports section of any UK newspaper it's football all the way down, even in the middle of the off season. It's ridiculous.

Yes, they've dumped all of the domestic stuff out now (except for a slither of county scores - if you're lucky). The ''cricket season'' is dominated by football transfer news and managerial sackings haha.

It pains me to say it as I'm a cricket tragic and only like football at international level, but that is how it is here.