Lock in b please!
Well they are both you, both suggested as factâŚ
Yeah 40k at Adelaide oval. But this was a derby. Both Melbourne sides. No excuses in my opinion. Itâs not a good figure. Great match though.
I donât think that will factor in to anyoneâs consideration at all. The Womenâs World Cup is mostly at smaller venues - only the finals will be âbigâ events, and hardly take away from the rest of the summer.
If anything, it will be the 2020-21 season impacted by the summer of cricket feeling extremely long by having the Menâs tournament in October/November.
To me, if they want to help address crowd sizes - they need to make the salary cap more flexible and get some money into the teams - there need to be some big name overseas signings, and not losing players to play in the Bangladesh Premier League instead of the BBL.
Youâll have the mcg thatâs hosts a few games + final, scg and the waca.
The MCG only hosts the final, all other Melbourne games are at Junction Oval. The SCG only hosts the semi-finals, and the WACA is a small ground.
Also Manuka oval, Canberra and spotless stadium and junction oval hosts a feel matches. The final will be played on 8 mar 2020 at mcg so the staff at MCG will have to paint out the final a day before the match begins. I feel crowd number will be low
So why would you think it would make a difference to BBL crowds?
They will play at smaller grounds during the tournament season. The semi finals and the finals will probably get higher numbers.
I was quite impressed with the crowd size.
40,816 is pretty impressive.
Itâs domestic cricket and if we take two steps back and just look at it from a broad perspective - no international superstars⌠just local up and comers and old grey haired Christians⌠we should be impressed⌠10 years ago I would have been impressed with a crowd this size at any domestic game.
But only a few years ago a derby was getting 70-80k. Itâs a massive drop for an all melbourne final. I find it astonishing how some can say itâs impressive. Itâs just not. Cricket has failed this year for Cricket Australia in all aspects and formats and platforms.
I meant from previous derbies.
Game 16 got 46k at the same venue this year. Last year crowds of over 45k saw the derbies as well. It is a low figure and proves CA has failed this year.
Itâs also the second highest BBL final crowd, just short of a 47k crowd at the MCG for Stars v Thunder in BBL05. A final that certainly was helped by being scheduled during the school holidays.
I think it was a good crowd in the context of the bad finals system after a tournament that dragged heavily, which is even more evident with the disastrous crowd figures for the semi-finals. When you consider the Friday night semi-final got 15k, then the result for the final isnât not bad at all by comparison.
Famlies canât really budget for getting tickets to a final they donât know will happen - and Renegades fans were asked to go to two finals in three days - with all the money out of pocket.
I agree.
Thereâs really two arguments here.
This game in the context of finals.
And this game in the context of games between these two franchises.
Funny thing, and just an aside⌠my favorite game of the football season was the Chiefs v Rams. Epic game. But everyone knew that had these two teams met in the Superbowl - that was in no way going to compare to the fabulous game played during the season.
The BBL finals seemed to be nothing more than a âformalityâ just to âtick offâ what promised to be a great season, that merely panned out to be a long, arduous tournament of one-sided contests lacking in big names.
I get your points? But its still a fail by CA. They should address these issues.
I think the finals system might be better with the following schedule:
Thursday - 1 v 2
Friday - 3 v 4
Sunday - Loser of 1v2 v Winner of 3v4
And then have the final the following Saturday night.
I like that idea. However, it is dragging it out more.
My BBL finals schedule looks like this:
Friday - 1 v 2
Saturday - 3 v 4
Wednesday - loser of 1 v 2 v winner of 3 v 4
Friday / Saturday - grand final
Both semi finals can also be played on the same day (Saturday).
Even though I have zero interest in 20 over cricket, perhaps they should make it 1 vs 2 in a best of 3 series with no semi finalsâŚ