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  1. The County Cricket Thread

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    1 hour ago, Robin101 said:

    Any speculation as to who the 8 teams will be? I'm thinking Bristol, surely, but Taunton probably not?

    Bristol, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Cardiff, Brighton perhaps?

    No north-east representative in that case though. 

    Edit: Just read an article suggesting broadly a north west team, Yorkshire/north-east team, Birmingham, Nottingham, North London, South London, West-Country (that's us, folks!) and a 'South' team i.e. Hampshire, Sussex, Kent.

    North London

    South London

    West (Cardiff, Bristol, and possibly Taunton)

    Red Rose (Old Trafford)

    White Rose (Headingley)

    Birmingham

    Trent Bridge

    South (Ageas Bowl)

  2. The County Cricket Thread

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    1 hour ago, Bristol Rob said:

    It would make sense.

    Not sure if the appetite is there for it to be worthwhile, given people are pretty loyal to their county sides.

    NEVER going to happen - things like this are much bigger than Bristol Sport 

    Somerset / Glos / Glamorgan are likely to be merged for this region - won't have any connection to Bristol sport

  3. The County Cricket Thread

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    On 3/23/2017 at 07:10, 22A said:

    One of the stands at Headingley needs replacing. Leeds City Council was going to donate £4 million, but cannot now afford to do so. If the money cannot be found elsewhere, Headingley will not be able to host any games in the 2019 world cup.

    They have just posted debts of £15m and the new stand will add another £25m to their losses !!

  4. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    55 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

    Especially enjoyable at a game you're almost certain to win as well. 

    Maybe not - with a Wembley final next weekend they will be playing for places

    A Cov supporting mate of mine said they played out of their skins Tuesday night against Port Vale 

  5. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    9 minutes ago, Seventeen said:

    Didn't you average 11K and 12K when you were last in League 1? - Just checked, and yep, In fact your average for the past 7 seasons has been 11.5K but here you are beating on like you get 27K every week. 

    If we had a shiny new stadium like you, and were playing in the Championship we would get crowds just as "high" as yours.

    Congratulations on spending millions upon millions, on players, the stadium and god knows what else, and still being shit.

     

    4 minutes ago, View from the Dolman said:

    Might be a bit relevant that for one of those seasons in L1 we only had 3 stands. And Bristol Sport didn't even provide us with a replacement tent.

    And that "average" for the last 7 seasons appears to be made up. For the last 7 seasons, we've not had a seasonal average below 11,929 so 11.5k is impossible.

    Don't let facts ruin let another disalusional sag head

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  6. The County Cricket Thread

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    17 hours ago, 22A said:

    Two items on SSN today.

    1; England is the only nation which still attracts large attendances to Test Matches. Everywhere else spectators prefer the shorter versions of the game.

    2. Australia's authorities announced pay rises today. Their women's team are receiving a £49,000 increase bringing the average salary to £111,000. Their male counterparts will now be on an average of £half a million pa. 

    Surely Australia still get decent crowds ?

    Certainly bigger than ours for the Ashes tour

  8. Bristol R*vers dustbin thread

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    46 minutes ago, 8menhadadream said:

    On one of the gas forums, posters have said that one of the stewards couldn't speak English. Surely that would be a pre-requisite for a safety steward at a football match? Not that it has anything to do with the issues on Saturday but I find this hard to believe.

    Certainly not many English speakers at QPR

  10. All things Bristol Bears

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    Notice the club are pushing the ticket sales of the Bristol Vs Bath game - just wondering why BT sport would want this fixture moved from the Friday night to the Sunday when England are playing Italy - this will surely affect not just the crowd in the ground but also the TV viewing audience at home

  11. All things Bristol Bears

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    13 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

    The rumours of expansion went away back in 2015. I thought the only slight chance of Bristol staying up no matter what was that none of the sides competing at the top end of the C'ship have good enough grounds to be promoted?

    Or financially screwed

    With many at the top are, with London Irish currently one of the worst off

  13. All things Bristol Bears

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    Can't read the twitter link above - assume it is similar to this?

    Sacked Sale Sharks winger Tom Arscott has been found guilty of passing on confidential team information to Bristol by the Rugby Football Union.

    The 29-year-old was suspended by Sale on 4 January and then sacked 16 days later after an internal investigation by the Premiership club.

    The RFU investigation concluded Bristol were aware of Sale's line-out set up and their defensive pattern.

    The West Country side won 24-23 in Manchester on New Year's Day.

  18. The County Cricket Thread

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    20 hours ago, Tomarse said:

    What are they putting there? Just more temp stands for time being?

     

    14 hours ago, hodge said:

    New scoreboard going up and I think there is plans for a new stand as well.

    The corner is being re-shaped to it is more of a circular shape rather than the hideous mis-shape it used to be

    Goodness knows why they wait until Janaury to start the work though

    Yeah new scoreboard - which going on current form will probably break down - fully expect temporary stands for the rest of the space with the T20 international this summer

    Interestingly Somerset have never released any artwork of what it will look like when finished

  20. The County Cricket Thread

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    Detailed plans for the England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) new Twenty20 competition can be revealed today after a briefing memo sent to county executives was seen by 'The Times'.  The revolutionary tournament, set to start in 2020, aims to create an English league that will rival the Indian Premier League and Australia’s Big Bash League (BBL), but has caused controversy among the counties (PTG 2030-10274, 25 January 2017). 
     
    The eight-page memo confirms that the eight teams involved will have 15-man squads that include three overseas players, with 13 of those players picked during a draft that the ECB hopes will be televised. The two other players in each squad will be picked as “wild cards” after the NatWest T20 Blast has been played. All county cricketers, plus overseas players who enter themselves, will be put into the draft unless they request not to be. They will be placed into different salary bands. The tournament will run from mid-July, after the conclusion of the ECB’s 18 county T20 ‘Blast' and alongside a 50-over format competition (PTG 1950-9813, 18 October 2016).
     
    Despite the memo outlining the basics of the T20 series, there is no mention of where the eight teams might be based, an issue that is likely to cause ructions as some counties will miss out on hosting matches. Hosting decisions will not be taken until at least the end of March (PTG 2001-10115, 10 December 2016).
     
    A number of county chiefs had expressed concern over the original proposal that the eight teams would be solely owned by the ECB (PTG 1987-10019, 26 November 2016). In an effort to alleviate some of those worries, the latest proposal about the governance of the competition is that the eight sides would be separate legal entities, but each will be controlled by two to three first-class counties. So for example, a team based in Nottingham may be controlled by Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire.
     
    Head coaches and directors of cricket from counties who work in the new tournament will not be permitted to coach at their local county venue. The memo explains that this is borne out of a desire that the proposed competition is not a facilitator for player movement from smaller counties to the larger Test-venue counties.  Coaches and support staff from county cricket will be eligible to work in the new competition should their counties be happy to release them.
     
    Each of the eight teams will be allocated the same fixed budget for players, a separate budget to cover coaching costs and a salary cap similar to the one in place in the BBL.  Originally the ECB had hoped that players would not play for the team at their “home” club so that each new team would have a totally separate identity from the county side based at that venue. However, this was a bone of contention among some of the larger counties, who did not wish to see all their best players based at other venues, so the ECB has rowed back on this proposal.
     
    Teams will be able to call up players from the county 50-over competition in case of injuries and, similarly, players can be released back to the county 50-over competition should their coaches in the new T20 competition want them to play competitive cricket. It is anticipated that players would be released by their counties to join the new team squad not more than a week before the T20 competition begins and would be given back to their counties as soon as their team are eliminated.
     
    Players will be signed on an initial one-year contract with an option to extend for a second year. A proportion of a player’s existing county salary will be deducted if he plays in the new competition and it is anticipated that the salary from taking part will more than make up for any shortfall in his county pay.
     
    The new competition will be played over 38 days — England players will not be available, as Tests will be played at the same time. There will be 36 games, rather than the 35 expected initially. This is because there will not be semi- finals. The finalists will be decided on the results of three play-off games. The team who finish top of the table will play against the second-placed team in “the qualifier” for a place in the final. The third and fourth-placed teams will play each other in “the eliminator”. The winner of the eliminator and loser of the qualifier will then go head to head for the other spot in the final.
     
    The memo sets out that each team will be run by an operations board comprising an independent chairman and chief executives from the two or three counties who control the team. The board will be in charge of appointing a general manager and coaches.
     
    It is believed that the consultancy firm tasked with coming up with the venue options is not just looking at Test grounds for hosting and there is a potential move away from the competition being purely city-based, with some host teams having one or more of their four home group games at a second or third venue. Each first-class county will also receive a guaranteed minimum amount of revenue from the proceeds of the competition.
     
    While the tournament is three years away, the ECB needs the details signed off before it puts the broadcast rights for this, international cricket and the other domestic competitions from 2020 onwards out to tender, which it wants to do at the end of next month (PTG 1936-9729, 1 October 2016).  The broadcast tender document will specify that a certain number of the matches — possibly ten — must be shown live on free-to-air television and that highlights and clips should be available on other digital outlets such as ‘YouTube' or 'Amazon Prime’.
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