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Freeze i wouldn't call the BBL irrelivent.
Crowds have allways been poor in Sydney+Melbourne.
Sporting attendances in Sydney are disappointing all year around.For both summer and winter sports.
Melbourne because both BBL team have been ordinary for a long time.
Tv ratings are excellent for 7,Fox+Kayo adding India and the Uk also.
Abc radio and Sen also have good ratings.With a lot of English players its also on BBC 5 Live.
The BBL is the largest global watched sport coming out of Australia.With the massive Tv and streaming ratings coming out of India.

Freezin wrote:

Good knock by young Connolly, showed a lot of maturity and of course talent.....the others....local and imported, were very disappointing to say the least.....The Scorchers did well to keep the game alive for so long....but those early wickets when batting definitely made things very hard.

Not sure what the fuss is all about the state of the ground....it's BBL, they arent out their long enough fir starters.....and TBH a paddock is probably the perfect place for the irrevelancy of this comp.

NY resolution tip for you BH.....let it go mate....this ingrained hate you have  for anything Victorian, is on par with the ingrained hate the Kiwi's have for anything Australian.....and we all know how insular the Kiwi's are.....let it go mate., it's not a good look.

Freeze if you want to tell anyone & everyone how you are the best and greatest at everything (especially sporting related) as the Vics love to do then fair game if someone wants to point out occasionally that hey maybe you arent as good as you lot think you are!
You obviously dont know or work with any Victorians mate......half your luck!

you would have to go back to the 1970's and early 1980's MCG to see that much vast dead dark grey grass on a venue
there was barely any solid areas of green grass on that surface - even the drop in pitch was half gone and in really poor shape
worst ground in Australia by far this season
 

That stadium is like that at the start of every year - maybe time to take renegades games to Geelong or the junction oval?

BH....there are plenty of those "Vic- centric' stereotypes you speak of everywhere mate.....met and know a fair few WA born n bred  folk of that same ilk growing up in WA.....met a fair few "like what they know- know what like' sorts living in Yorkshire and London mate.....and have met plenty living in NZ....they are every where.....just smile and wave mate....just smile n wave.

Lucky Hobson scored 46 runs of 19 balls.
To save another average Scorchers batting performance.
Great boxing day crowd over 41,000.Incredibly noisy crowd in the Heats, batting innings.
Long boxing day of cricket.Test day and two big bash matches.

GTR Allen, Jennings (dropped last night) & Hurst have been terrible recruits so far.
Allen hasnt made it past the 5th ball of the innings in any of the 4 games.
Hurst dropped 2 catches last night, surely Curtis or Holt or a number of other WA based keepers have him covered?
These 3 continue the list of failed overseas recruits like Crawley, Roy, DuPlessis, Lyth etc this decade with only Laurie Evans the only shining light.
Probably better off spending that money on keeping WA locals here!

Whats even more weird BH.
Is that English players  are dominating BBL 14.For ever other franchise team.Apart from Perth.
It has the feeling of Soccer players at the Scorchers.Who just float around clubs, .Playing all over the world for $$$.

gtrxuone wrote:

Whats even more weird BH.
Is that English players  are dominating BBL 14.For ever other franchise team.Apart from Perth.
It has the feeling of Soccer players at the Scorchers.Who just float around clubs, .Playing all over the world for $$$.

I love the BBL, but it’s hard to get parochial with these ‘mercenaries’ pulling on a Scorchers shirt.  The ideal thing would be to have the team filled with WA players.  Maybe one spot for an international in case they could pick up someone special.  I can’t think of one international that was the main reason we won the comp throughout the years.

Shark, apart from the 3 imports, I am almost 100% certain that all the current Perth Scorchers ARE WA based cricketers. There are a couple of Eastern Staters in the squad (Agar and Fanning), but they have played all of their senior careers in WA.

Unlike the women Scorchers. Apart from the imports, there are only three WA based players. Chloe Piparo, Piepa Cleary and Chloe Ainsworth. All the rest are Eastern Staters.