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**Official** Australian Domestic Season 2013/14

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Dan

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FFS why is the final at Manuka? Give it to Bankstown or something; at least you might have half a chance of a crowd then.
 
andyc

andyc

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****ing ridiculous that the final isn't at the SCG because of a ****ing baseball game. At the Sydney Cricket Ground. What is the world coming to.
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

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It's getting to the point where they might as well just schedule the final for Manuka every year. Neutral venue and they can lock it in well in advance to avoid a clash. It's not like they're going to lose out a crowd a proper home final brings; no-one goes anyway.
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

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Riggins said:
how does one do this?
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Internet Download Manager automatically gets the url for me when I visit the live stream page (because it thinks I want to save it basically, which could also come in handy if I wanted to record part of a game), but I'm sure there are other, possibly easier ways to do that as well. Once you get the url that starts with something like rtmp:// then you can just go into VLC, going into "Open Stream" and paste that url in.
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

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brockley said:
CA Board outcomes March 2014
CA changes in Sheild and Grade.
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Yeah I must say, this has been a massive success:

The points system review complements a move made ahead of this season’s Bupa Sheffield Shield to ensure domestic pitches better reflect Test match conditions. That move has seen the average duration of Shield matches increase from 289 overs to 338 overs per game. It has also resulted in more than 1000 extra overs of spin bowling and more than 100 extra spin wickets this year compared with last season. The change has also resulted in a 20 per cent increase in hundreds scored.
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That's been great. What I don't like the sound of is this:

Directors endorsed a recommendation to adopt a new points system for future seasons of the Bupa Sheffield Shield, subject to further consultation with State Associations. This involves considering a range of options to better reward positive, attacking cricket. Further discussion on this issue will be held at CA’s May Board Meeting.
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The points system is already massively biased towards outright results in that it doesn't offer teams who deny the opposition any points at all. This is what created the situation we had whereby state teams were preparing green tops that didn't mirror Test wickets in order to ensure results in the first place. Making it even more outright orientated would be complete madness; as far as I'm concerned the same amount of total points should be allocated to each match. Having contrived results with teams declaring twice and losing or offering up declaration bowling is in no way good for the game. The fact that these games only go for four days and the fact that there's already a massive outright win incentive is enough.
 
Spikey

Spikey

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yeah that's 100% just a PR thing. Any likely reform to the points structure would be along the lines of the county system imo ie big scoring draws have a good place


anyway dickhead australia selectors are taking dougeh out of the shield final
 
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