*Official* Big Bash League 2018-19

[stephen]

Haha go Renners. Hopefully he can carry that form into the back half of the shield season.

 

[mr_mister]

What do we think of Hobson literally saying the catch didn't carry, then Bancroft demanded they check it upstairs anyway and then on blurry evidence the fielders word got overruled? Actually ridiculous imo

 

[Shady Slim]

yeah i didn’t expect it from known non-cheater who’s never done wrong on a cricket field cam bancroft

 

[Spikey]

a fun little thing about this new world order for the bbl is that during the toughest sell, the extended period of H&A from late Jan onwards, C7 are only showing games on Thursday, Friday and Sunday because Foxtel has claim to Saturday games and My Kitchen Rules has claim to Monday to Wednesday nights on C7

hahahaha there's no bbl games until thursday because of this

 

[NUFAN]

hahahaha there's no bbl games until thursday because of this

Yeah but the Peru couple had to cook and we cant forgot the home schooled guys in their 20s what schooling are they doing anyway?

Not sure BBL/7 did the MAFS.

 

[Dan]

I hope that the Sydney Sixers call up Cam Merchant as a **** you to Channel 7.

 

[Spikey]

at least C7 gave us a 10pm rehashing of how underarm was really not greg chappell's fault if you think about it

 

[the big bambino]

"man playing within rules causes international incident"

 

[Burgey]

Yeah, if he’d gone to Oxford or wore a Harlequin cap he’d be lauded as one of the great tactical hard men in cricket history.

 

[Burgey]

Always liked the angle on the underarm story of the dressing room being stony silent and Sam Loxton walking in in tears, telling the team they’d lost the support of the country, only to have DK tell him to **** off because it was in the rules, which apparently broke the ice.

 

[the big bambino]

Next we'll hear from people who've cynically referred to "the spirit of cricket" or "crossing the line" whinging about Australia not adhering to the "spirit of cricket" and "crossing the line".

 

[social]

It’s absolutely ridiculous that the BBL is still going

The whole thing should be done & dusted during the school holidays instead we’re going days with no matches

 

[Crazy Sam]

Agreed. Crazy that there haven't been games on last night and tonight (even Monday night).

 

[morgieb]

Agreed. Crazy that there haven't been games on last night and tonight (even Monday night).

TBF in the midweek games last week the attendances were diabolical.

 

[Prince EWS]

It really needs to be a novelty carnival type event to work, rather than the summer football season they so desperately want it to be.

 

[morgieb]

It really needs to be a novelty carnival type event to work, rather than the summer football season they so desperately want it to be.

Yeah I think they have to cut it back to 7/8 games for it to work. I get why they want a full H&A fixture but the problem with that is no-one over the age of 10 takes it at all seriously.

 

[Prince EWS]

Yeah I think they have to cut it back to 7/8 games for it to work. I get why they want a full H&A fixture but the problem with that is no-one over the age of 10 takes it at all seriously.

They could have just about got away with a full home and away season in an alternate reality where they never decided to give Melbourne and Sydney two teams each. That'd just be 30 games plus finals, and we had the 30th match finish back on January 13th. That would've been fine. As it stands they need to either cut a couple of teams or just ditch the insistence on a full home and away schedule.

 

[the big bambino]

2 conferences that conveniently maximise local derbies. Play teams in your conference twice and outside once. Thats 10 qualifying games each side before the semis. Hopefully get it over before MKR season starts.

 

[Spark]

TBF in the midweek games last week the attendances were diabolical.

That's because everyone is dog tired of this competition

 

[Top_Cat]

Always liked the angle on the underarm story of the dressing room being stony silent and Sam Loxton walking in in tears, telling the team they’d lost the support of the country, only to have DK tell him to **** off because it was in the rules, which apparently broke the ice.

Never believed this actually occurred tbh.