Sub-10,000 crowds for ODIs against anyone other than India/England are about to become the norm one feels. Outside Sydney anyway, for some reason they still manage to get fairly full houses for ODIs at the SCG.
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Sub-10,000 crowds for ODIs against anyone other than India/England are about to become the norm one feels. Outside Sydney anyway, for some reason they still manage to get fairly full houses for ODIs at the SCG.
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ODIs are toast. Can't see them surviving more than 5 years.
Anyone else reckon Fox's graphics just look a bit old? Feels like something from 10-15 years ago to me.
We’ll keep playing them because they’re still a big money spinner in terms of overseas TV rights, but the interest in Australia itself will nosedive.
Interest in the ODI format in Australia nosedived nearly 20 years ago.
Still comfortably outrates T20s - international or BBL - on TV in Australia.
I thought he would end up at Fox because he already does Super Coach stuff for them
That's channel 7's fault.
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CA’s fault; chased the short term cash over the long term wellbeing of the team.
Crowds in most of the country dropped off 10 years ago (and you could argue this was more to do with fun police killing the atmosphere that made places like the hill and bay 13 famous) but TV ratings remained quite high. Like others have said the fact that most people won’t be able to watch ODIs anymore will swallow any remaining interest in the format.
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The ODIs lost relevance when they stopped doing the tri-series. They just come across as exhibition games now. They should never have robbed us of our net run rates, bonus points and third finals if required, the bastards
Yep, the excessive crowd policing and the phasing out of the tri-series came around the same time I think.
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They were forever fearful of Australia missing out on the finals, but tri-series were always more gun than exhibition series. I liked the T20 Tri Series idea they tried last year (then forgot to broadcast the final, the *ers). Would like to see them do that with ODIs or T20 with New Zealand most years.
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Didn't Fox broadcast the NZ games, which included the final?
Yep any cricket fan not a tightwad was able to watch it.
Unless you are unfortunately out of work and on the dole or something 99% of the population should be able to work out how to budget for $10 a week if they could be bothered.
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Up until recently when they made the streaming service (which is still a second preference where you're basically paying the same amount for worse quality) those renting with Landlords unwilling to install Foxtel would've had no choice. So it's a tad rich to be that dismissive.
Also those who don't want to give the Murdoch's money would also have a fair gripe that something that should be free isn't.
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Wow, so the same per week for what platforms like Netflix charge monthly?
It's a rip-off, still charging legacy prices.
What sports that cost a large amount of money for the rights is available on Netflix?
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