Australian Off Season 2017

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If the numbers publicized in yesterday's Australian are correct, then the ACA have well and truly bent CA over and you have to wonder why the latter has allowed this thing to drag on for so long

 

[quincywagstaff]

https://twitter.com/ryanbroad/status/891594810074611712

A few Qlders in the likes too.

Yes, very interesting. Broad makes some other good tweets too, especially about Sutherland absurdly blaming the players last week for the talks dragging out this long when he wasn't even directly involved until the deadline actually passed. Sutherland tried to justify that in an interview over the weekend but it was pretty weak.

Meanwhile, Peter Lalor reporting the talks have stalled again. Bangladesh looking like a non-starter now.

 

[Gnske]

Stalled so much they actually agreed to some terrible compromise, yay.

 

[howardj]

Presser in an hour

Revenue-share retained

Back-pay

Bangladesh is on!!

Ashes is on!!

 

[Spikey]

wonder how CA try to spin this. I reckon they were always a bit quiet about the difference between Total Revenue and Cricket Revenue (players share in the later) so maybe they'll boost about some of the things that aren't included in the later

An example of grass roots expenditure from ACA - providing $10,000 per club to employ coaches at Premier cricket level, on the proviso that they were ex-members of the ACA.

All Australian premier clubs got access to at least one former state cricketer to help the current players at the level below state cricket, while retired players are able to get some money to subsidise their earning capacity after finishing a a cricketer.

This was during the last MOU - all players sacrificed money from their earnings in that period to go into a pool from which this was paid.

You might know this - ACA have mentioned a few times that they don't share in any the digital arm revenue. Was that just because that whole digital arm thing was basically being set up around the time the last CBA happened and it was excluded on that basis?

 

[Spikey]

Presser in an hour

Revenue-share retained

Back-pay

Bangladesh is on!!

Ashes is on!!

For real, why the **** did CA even do this

and also why did Sutherland play "good cop" (bar some public statements which I doubt anyone takes too seriously) if he's probably leaving soon?

 

[Spikey]

Cricket Australia and players sign peace deal to end pay war

The deal confirms an agreement for all male and female cricketers for the first time in Australia and the biggest pay rise in the history of women's sport in Australia.

The parties have agreed on a modified revenue-share model that gives players 30 per cent of agreed revenue, consisting of 27.5 per cent of forecast revenue streams. All male and female players will then receive a 27.5 per cent share of revenue that goes beyond forecasts.

In addition, a forecast amount of $25 million will go directly to grassroots investment via the ACA-CA grassroots investment fund. That contribution will be matched by the estimated $25m of CA savings on their current administration over the next five years. The fund is to be run by a committee involving CA and the ACA.

The players will also be back paid to July.

so basically they got the deal they probably would have got if they had just stayed behind closed doors in the first place. wow awesome job CA

 

[Spikey]

ahahahaha they've even keeping The Cricketer's Brand

 

[Spikey]

 

[Prince EWS]

muh ashes

 

[Spikey]

muh ashes

As annoying as the doom and gloom about a series months away was, the minute by minute updates over whether the talks have stalled or are ON over the past week was a thousand times worse

 

[Burgey]

TBF the Ashes is easily the most important series Australia plays. By a factor of about 20. Now I know some of you "look at me, I'm sooooo esoteric in my cricketing loves" types put as much store in the upcoming Bangladesh blockbuster or in the West Indies touring Zimbabwe, but ffs be realistic. The Ashes is it. If it wasn't for the Ashes there wouldn't be international cricket and we'd all be ****ed.

Get over it. Ashes uber alles.

 

[cnerd123]

TBF the Ashes is easily the most important series Australia plays. By a factor of about 20. Now I know some of you "look at me, I'm sooooo esoteric in my cricketing loves" types put as much store in the upcoming Bangladesh blockbuster or in the West Indies touring Zimbabwe, but ffs be realistic. The Ashes is it. If it wasn't for the Ashes there wouldn't be international cricket and we'd all be ****ed.

Get over it. Ashes uber alles.

This is good. Get your excuses in for losing early. "Oh we don't care about the stupid Bangladesh blowout because the real Test cricket is the Ashes. Who cares if we curb stomped on a Dhaka dustbowl by the next best nation in Asia when we've got a middleweight bought against a misfiring English side that consists of 12 players no even born in England, and whom happened to lose to Bangladesh as well"

That mentality fits the current mediocrity of Australian cricket perfectly.

 

[Starfighter]

So after for all this (correct me if I'm wrong) CA gets a smaller share? Tell us what was wrong with the previous agreement Peever...

 

[Burgey]

The mediocrity to which at least two of the many sides ***** supports aspire to.....

The Ashes is the most important series in and to Australian cricket. Just deal with it. It's as important to us as Bangladesh v Zimbabwe/ Ireland/ UAE/ Hong Kong or whoever is to you guys. Not because the two teams are always at the highest in the rankings, but because of the history and rivalry associated with it. If you gave a choice to an Australian cricket team between ****ing its collective leg and pissing all over every other side or winning an Ashes series 1-0 after four bore draws and winning the last match by an innings and 400 because the Poms suffered three injuries to their bowlers mid-match, they'd take the latter every time. Because it matters. It's mattered since 1882 and it will go on mattering long after Hong Kong has been subsumed into the Chinese Cricket Board which in turn goes on to dominate world cricket in the 2400s.

 

[Burgey]

CA will now cancel the Bangladesh tour so the players can "concentrate on the Ashes"

 

[Spikey]

only pommy ****s play cricket in august. tour cancelled.

 

[cnerd123]

The mediocrity to which at least two of the many sides ***** supports aspire to.....

The Ashes is the most important series in and to Australian cricket. Just deal with it. It's as important to us as Bangladesh v Zimbabwe/ Ireland/ UAE/ Hong Kong or whoever is to you guys. Not because the two teams are always at the highest in the rankings, but because of the history and rivalry associated with it. If you gave a choice to an Australian cricket team between ****ing its collective leg and pissing all over every other side or winning an Ashes series 1-0 after four bore draws and winning the last match by an innings and 400 because the Poms suffered three injuries to their bowlers mid-match, they'd take the latter every time. Because it matters. It's mattered since 1882 and it will go on mattering long after Hong Kong has been subsumed into the Chinese Cricket Board which in turn goes on to dominate world cricket in the 2400s.

Sounds like a bit of Border tbh

 

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And the point of CA's actions was .......

 

[Spikey]

this effort is probably the first good stonewalling effort from Australian players in the last decade tbh