What have we done?

[MSIH]

*Pattinson, but yes, not creating great cricketers.

The issue is it's a 31 game season played over 6 weeks. The county season has a month in the middle of T20 but they play alot more games in that time. We could easily have it if we simply played it over a shorter time period, works better that way as well (rather than dragging out).

The most ridiculous thing is that there is a week between the semi finals and the final, why? Absolute joke.

The poms manage to fit in 16 first class matches, a big T20 comp and a one day comp in their season yet over a similar time we have 6 weeks off first class cricket. Joke. You drop players and they have no where to find form, injured players have no where to come back through (eg Cutting) etc.

** Patterson

 

[hineyrulz]

And this is sums up everything wrong with the Big Bucket Beat-off — trying to create franchises without any notion of history/tradition and forcing them upon the public. Plonking teams in the middle of nowhere and giving them 'catchy' names and 'wacky', non-state based colours is quite clearly the work of some square-framed glass wearing, buzz-word generating marketing genius.

Sydney Sixers
If you love the glitz and glamour of the harbour city, then the Sixers are the team for you. They don’t shy away from aiming to be the team that everyone else wants to be. Their uniforms are bright but that’s the way they want it. They’ll be loud and proud on and off the field.

Sydney Thunder
The Thunder are the real Sydney and will represent the hard-working families from the heartland of Australia. They’ll play with the same spirit as their local community – determined and hard-working with a never give in attitude.

Melbourne Renegades
The Melbourne Renegades represent modern Melbourne – vibrant, diverse and progressive. They have a healthy streak of anti-establishment and will play out of a non-traditional cricket venue, Etihad Stadium. The Renegades will deliver entertaining, bold cricket in this world-class facility, where the rafters will shake with the noise and passion of the fans. T20 was made for the Renegades.

f**k off.

Plonking teams teams in areas with no tradition or history with tacky gimmicks and names, mmmmm did Vlad and AFL house help cricket Australia with setting this up???

 

[Patorick]

When I think anti-establishment, the first person I think of is James Brayshaw.

Or Andrew McDonald.

Or anyone involved with that Renegades team really.

 

[franklin2323]

It should be when the international T20's & ODI are. If we need to have it. It's shameful we have a useless batting lineup and they are meant to get form playing on roads and facing only 120 balls. Yeah that will work

 

[yappy]

They could just give February over to it. I know they want it on when the kids are on holidays, but they play them at night any way.

That way you could get the Test and even the Shield all done and dusted by the Australia Day long weekend and there'd be no conflict. Mix in the international one dayers and you've got a summer that makes some sense.

 

[Red Bear]

** Patterson

***facepalm

 

[undertaker]

Plonking teams teams in areas with no tradition or history with tacky gimmicks and names, mmmmm did Vlad and AFL house help cricket Australia with setting this up???

Well, the CEO of both Melbourne franchises are ppl who have very high positions within the AFL media and organisation (James Brayshaw and Eddie McGuire). No surprise that Eddie, being a close friend of Warnie (as Warnie has close connections with all the top honchos at Ch9), must've offered him a crapload of money + other bonuses in order to get him to come out of retirement at 42.

And on the topic of "tacky" (since that word has been thrown around a fair bit in this thread), have a look at this:

http://www.melbournestars.com.au/team/presidents-message

 

[undertaker]

When I think anti-establishment, the first person I think of is James Brayshaw.

Or Andrew McDonald.

Or anyone involved with that Renegades team really.

James Brayshaw... must have brownosed a lot of ppl at the top in order to get to where he is today. I will never understand how someone like him, who came from a cricketing background (and only got to Sheffield Shield level), got such a high prominent position in the AFL within an extremely short time constraint. His dramatic rise to the top over the last few years since he got the Footy Show co-host role in 2006 is unbelievable, since he was literally unheard of before then (I vaguely remember he anchored the Ch7 coverage of the 2001 Ashes tour with Jeff Thomson. Someone maybe able to confirm this).

He now has the same level of media exposure to what Eddie McGuire had around the late 90s/early-mid '00s (when he acquired the nickname "Eddie everywhere") - chairman of an AFL club (Kangaroos), AFL commentator (Triple M. He also called games for Ch9 when they had the AFL rights), host of the Thursday night Footy Show (alongside Gary Lyon) and Sunday footy show, chairman of a team in the BBL (Renegades), and cricket commentator for Ch9 in the T20 and ODIs.

 

[Mr Saab]

** Patterson

Who is Patterson?

 

[MSIH]

Who is Patterson?

18 year old who got 150 on debut a few weeks ago for NSW.

 

[Fast Eddie]

and this is sums up everything wrong with the big bucket beat-off — trying to create franchises without any notion of history/tradition and forcing them upon the public. Plonking teams in the middle of nowhere and giving them 'catchy' names and 'wacky', non-state based colours is quite clearly the work of some square-framed glass wearing, buzz-word generating marketing genius.

sydney sixers
if you love the glitz and glamour of the harbour city, then the sixers are the team for you. They don’t shy away from aiming to be the team that everyone else wants to be. Their uniforms are bright but that’s the way they want it. They’ll be loud and proud on and off the field.

sydney thunder
the thunder are the real sydney and will represent the hard-working families from the heartland of australia. They’ll play with the same spirit as their local community – determined and hard-working with a never give in attitude.

melbourne renegades
the melbourne renegades represent modern melbourne – vibrant, diverse and progressive. They have a healthy streak of anti-establishment and will play out of a non-traditional cricket venue, etihad stadium. The renegades will deliver entertaining, bold cricket in this world-class facility, where the rafters will shake with the noise and passion of the fans. T20 was made for the renegades.

F**k off.

lol

 

[skeepe]

The BBL has been a fiasco from the beginning. No teams outside the existing areas was a huge missed opportunity. No Shield cricket while it's on - disastrous.

And now they've released Cowan from the Chairman's XI game against India - an ideal chance to try out a Test hopeful against good opposition - so that he can play in the opening BBL match.

Ridiculous.

 

[Twizzle]

***facepalm

closer than my effort

 

[Twizzle]

The BBL has been a fiasco from the beginning. No teams outside the existing areas was a huge missed opportunity. No Shield cricket while it's on - disastrous.

And now they've released Cowan from the Chairman's XI game against India - an ideal chance to try out a Test hopeful against good opposition - so that he can play in the opening BBL match.

Ridiculous.

Cowan was released from the first chairman's 2 day game to play in the second 3 day game, its sort of a promotion, they are obviously having a serious look at him for an opening spot in the boxing day test match