T20 Big Bash League (from 2011/12)

[Boba Fett]

Brisbane will be known as the "Heat"

http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/twen ... 6006001035

Some worrying signs....

The names and colours of all eight teams, including two from Sydney and Melbourne, will be released by Cricket Australia later this week and cricket fans may be shocked by the non-conventional colour choice.

In a bid to make the teams different from their state teams and also other sporting teams based in their city, CA had banned the new franchises from using traditional state colours.

So there will be no trace of maroon in the Brisbane strip, or red in the Adelaide colours.

The Heat was chosen as a name because of its link with Brisbane's hot climate and outdoor lifestyle.

Animal or historical names were deemed unsuitable.

There was a feeling the Heat was short, sharp and would have appeal to the teenage market in that it was modern and edgy.

So traditional state colours are banned? That means, red, blue (dark and light), maroon, green and yellow can't be used. So what colours can be used then? Perhaps they could all go back to using white? Now there's a revolutionary idea...

[Jeffles]

I think it means the state colours cannot be used by the teams in that state.

Does anyone else think CA is being really condescending to the yoof of today?

[bazza]

They didn't go for The Brisbane Floods

[Simmo79]

Brisbane will be known as the "Heat"

http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/twen ... 6006001035

Some worrying signs....

The names and colours of all eight teams, including two from Sydney and Melbourne, will be released by Cricket Australia later this week and cricket fans may be shocked by the non-conventional colour choice.

In a bid to make the teams different from their state teams and also other sporting teams based in their city, CA had banned the new franchises from using traditional state colours.

So there will be no trace of maroon in the Brisbane strip, or red in the Adelaide colours.

The Heat was chosen as a name because of its link with Brisbane's hot climate and outdoor lifestyle.

Animal or historical names were deemed unsuitable.

There was a feeling the Heat was short, sharp and would have appeal to the teenage market in that it was modern and edgy.

It's a worrying sign when Australian Cricket is ripping off Australian Baseball for identity.

[yob]

Brisbane will be known as the "Heat"

http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/twen ... 6006001035

Some worrying signs....

The names and colours of all eight teams, including two from Sydney and Melbourne, will be released by Cricket Australia later this week and cricket fans may be shocked by the non-conventional colour choice.

In a bid to make the teams different from their state teams and also other sporting teams based in their city, CA had banned the new franchises from using traditional state colours.

So there will be no trace of maroon in the Brisbane strip, or red in the Adelaide colours.

The Heat was chosen as a name because of its link with Brisbane's hot climate and outdoor lifestyle.

Animal or historical names were deemed unsuitable.

There was a feeling the Heat was short, sharp and would have appeal to the teenage market in that it was modern and edgy.

It's a worrying sign when Australian Cricket is ripping off Australian Baseball for identity.

It was worrying when Australian Cricket ripped off Australian Baseball for its sport. This is just finishing the job off.

[hot_dogma]

This has fail all over it.

[DAWSONMOX]

How stupid will CA look when no one bothers to go these games. BUSHRANGER for life!

[Jeffles]

But that won't happen. It will get crowds because people are interested in the T20 game. What will happen is that CA will see it as a win for them and this re-branding. To me, the only way it will be a win for rebranding re crowds, is if crowds are higher than the highest Big Bash crowds we've seen in the few short years it has been around.

[Boba Fett]

But that won't happen. It will get crowds because people are interested in the T20 game. What will happen is that CA will see it as a win for them and this re-branding. To me, the only way it will be a win for rebranding re crowds, is if crowds are higher than the highest Big Bash crowds we've seen in the few short years it has been around.

Yup.
I would be interested to understand why T20 crowds have started to drop off. CA is arguing it is because the state-based format is 'tired' and needs refreshing. If they're right then we can all eat humble pie and admit they took the correct course of action. Although how a format that's only been around for five years is 'tired' is beyond me, but anyway...

If however, it is simply that the public is bored with the T20 game itself, then CA could well have f*cked itself completely. Throwing together a few artifical franchises that nobody has any historical allegiance to isn't addressing that issue. Marketing departments are going to have to earn their money in that regard...

Only time will tell.

[Simmo79]

http://www.theroar.com.au/2011/02/14/bi ... unched-it/

Exclusive Roar guest column by Mike McKenna, of Cricket Australia, Big Bash League project owner. McKenna responds to The Roar to explain Cricket Australia’s concept and direction for the new domestic Twenty20 competition, which prompted strong debate on the site.

Highlights include:

Why franchise-based teams when there are well-established state teams?

For a couple of reasons. To reach kids, we need cricket that doesn’t look like the cricket they know. And the competition will possibly end up with ten or even more teams and we don’t have ten states.

faultless logic really

[Rob]

Yup.
I would be interested to understand why T20 crowds have started to drop off. CA is arguing it is because the state-based format is 'tired' and needs refreshing. If they're right then we can all eat humble pie and admit they took the correct course of action. Although how a format that's only been around for five years is 'tired' is beyond me, but anyway...

If however, it is simply that the public is bored with the T20 game itself, then CA could well have f*cked itself completely. Throwing together a few artifical franchises that nobody has any historical allegiance to isn't addressing that issue. Marketing departments are going to have to earn their money in that regard...

Only time will tell.

If people are bored with the T20 game, then cricket as a whole is f***ed. One day domestic games now get sheffield shield level crowds which are basically zero, and we can't play England every summer.

The problem CA have is that no-one really gives a sh*t whether their 'state team' wins or loses. People have loyalty to their state, but not their state team. As evidenced by said shithouse crowds to shield and OD games, and the big decline in crowds to T20. The new league is a potential solution to that. But I would have thought if they want evidence that ghey names appealing to fickle teenagers isn't going to attract loyal support, then look no further than the A-League. Hype can't keep you going forever.

[yob]

But I would have thought if they want evidence that ghey names appealing to fickle teenagers isn't going to attract loyal support, then look no further than the A-League.

Oh yes I see what you've done there.

[Rob]

But I would have thought if they want evidence that ghey names appealing to fickle teenagers isn't going to attract loyal support, then look no further than the A-League.

Oh yes I see what you've done there.

Still true though.

[DAWSONMOX]

Problem is Domestic cricket is always tacked onto the end of the sports bulletin, usually with scores only and no highlights. Summer is all about the Australian side and not Autralian cricket as a whole which should be based on the domestic season.

[Boba Fett]

Problem is Domestic cricket is always tacked onto the end of the sports bulletin, usually with scores only and no highlights. Summer is all about the Australian side and not Autralian cricket as a whole which should be based on the domestic season.

And that's the heart of the problem. Australians are interested in internaitonal cricket, not domestic. Cricket is actually one of the few sports which gets most of its attention and revenue from international competition, rather than via domestic competitions. The next version of the Big Bash is an attempt to rectify that problem (or at least balance the equation out a little).