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rf_fozzy 23 Sep 3:33pm, 23 Sep 2024 23,090 posts	0 rf_fozzy Surrey Phil wrote:I personally would get rid of The Hundred saying this puts you on a watchlist...
GregP 23 Sep 4:31pm, 23 Sep 2024 153,529 posts	0 GregP I'd get rid of it and the One Day Cup. 50 over cricket is dead.
GregP 23 Sep 4:32pm, 23 Sep 2024 153,530 posts	0 GregP @Surrey Phil - presumably the route hasn't changed and you come out to God's own earth and the fair land of Chelmer Village?
Ocelot Spleens 23 Sep 4:48pm, 23 Sep 2024 39,596 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens I am sitting here reading my copy of the Cricketer. In the editorial there's a little paragraph that reads as follows. The men's TV audience on BBC and Sky was down 43%, purely Sky 54%. Women's down 33% on both. That is trouble for the sale, trouble for everything. Not only are they messing about with the game, it'll be worth bog all if nobody watches.
rf_fozzy 23 Sep 4:57pm, 23 Sep 2024 23,091 posts	0 rf_fozzy GregP wrote:50 over cricket is dead. Not for the ICC. The World cup pays the bills. Literally. Hence why the ICC trophy is being resurrected like like an unwanted zombie from a D movie.
rf_fozzy 23 Sep 5:04pm, 23 Sep 2024 23,092 posts	0 rf_fozzy Ocelot Spleens wrote:I am sitting here reading my copy of the Cricketer. In the editorial there's a little paragraph that reads as follows. The men's TV audience on BBC and Sky was down 43%, purely Sky 54%. Women's down 33% on both. That is trouble for the sale, trouble for everything. Not only are they messing about with the game, it'll be worth bog all if nobody watches. This for the C? It was predictable and some said so at the time. I fear that the real benefits to the women's game might be lost if the ECB isn't careful, because it was never going to be a sustainable competition when noone else plays a silly format. <puts myself on the watchlist for the 4th time>
SPR 23 Sep 5:52pm, 23 Sep 2024 46,216 posts	0 SPR Olympics clash will explain some of that. A Google search has a telegraph article saying women's viewing figures didn't change on the BBC? web.archive.org
Surrey Phil 23 Sep 6:32pm, 23 Sep 2024 10,695 posts	0 Surrey Phil GregP I think the marathon is all west of Chelmsford now and that early loop around Chelmer got dropped last year. I quite liked it personally but it probably had something to do with road closures.
GregP 23 Sep 9:42pm, 23 Sep 2024 153,533 posts	0 GregP It used to be all west of Chelmsford back in the early days I think. I remember marshalling out Newney Green way. This was before The Great Kerfuffle, when Striders stopped providing volunteers. I had and still have no idea what it was about. Running club politics is something I manage to be reasonably blind to.
GregP 24 Sep 9:06am, 24 Sep 2024 153,540 posts	0 GregP