1. We have had the annual farce of a 30,000 crowd at the MCG for a ODI. The days of the full house on the first ODI Sunday at the G have vanished. Why? Maybe not playing Johnson...maybe no ODI jingle...no advertising (outside of Brut, Com Bank, KFC and 'Plan B' Brad)...maybe no profile on the event and the refined view of the cricket viewer that if they are going to watch cricket that they cannot remember next week, they's rather watch T20 cricket. The greed of the ACB is coming back to bitee them...something repeated world wide.
2. The SCG are in on this too. They have recently sent to members about the ICC World Cup of cricket with extraordinary prices for the privilege of watching top line games like Bangladesh v England. They will be giving tickets away on radio shows before we know it. The fan is over it and the mass exodus to Stadium Australia memberships is well underway.
3. Really enjoying the quality of the Big Bash. Our best players are Daniel Christian, Chris Lynn, Ben Dunk (Billy), Aaron Finch, Mitchell Marsh, Michael Klinger, Ben Laughlin, Matthew Wade, Jackson Bird (plus Hussey, Katich, Hodge, Hogg, Lee, Nannes...). The nightly fix is becoming very suddenly the choice of viewing...not the ODI. Channel 9 were asleep when this was brokered.
4. EPL. High quality games as the season hots up. Such an open race - as it should be - and highly entertaining. Liking Man City and Chelsea..but that will shift no doubt.
5. Can anyone explain why you let Jamal Idris leave your club in exchange for Brad Tighe? That is like giving up Mayfair for Old Kent Road. John Cartwright wouldn't be thinking of coming back to Penrith any time soon to hook up with his former club and son, Bryce?
6. Russell Packer. The court got this right. Perhaps the NRL might learn a lesson here and do the same thing. This will set a better example about belting blokes than that from Paul Gallen (Origin 1 2013) or Tim Sheens' dumbarse defence of Billy Slater's niteclub behaviour in England. Did that enquiry ever get published?
7. Ben Mowen. Is this the greatest dummy spit in the history of Australian rugby? Skipper of the national team seems to be akin to captaining the lunchtime team in the school playground. Hand it around like it doesn't matter. They need to sort themselves out before this game becomes extinct. AFL is starting to eat it.
8. If you didn't catch it, have a look at the Charles Schwartzel's shot of the year off a road on Youtube. Something else.
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