I agree. I went to 20/20 cricket game at Trent Bridge this week. The ground was pretty much full, it was full of families and folk of all ages groups. The pre match was busy with lots to watch on the pitch, with lots of music, pre recored interviews with the captains on the big screen and other cricket news (the day India were bowled out for 7icon_cool.gif. Surely there is a media group that could produce similar short 'programmes' that could be put out at every game, prior to kickoff.

During the game there was lots of entertainment in the form of short bursts of music and replays on the screen. They had the 'flex (muscleman) cam, the dance cam, the bongo (drums) cam etc, where the crowd can interact with the entertainment. It was slick and fun. Again, the ground was nearly full.
I appreciate that cricket is not RL, but there is lots to learn in order to boost crowds and the sport as a whole. It reminded me of the Bulls (Bullmania) at the start of SL and that, in addition to the rugby our sport must be entertaining in order to bring families in. Lots of work to be done. The sport need to be focussed on being more professional and much more entertaining.

3 Game series played Wednesday night, FTA TV, almost free tickets to start with, a must have replica jersey.........if only we could come up with a catchy name for it........something ORIGINal.

Clubs would never allow it. SKY would drown it at birth unless they were given control and fans would whine about getting up for work the next day...best create it and put it straight on the X-Box

I'm game

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then maybe...just maybe, we'd try it for a year before caving in and reverting to Magic as a pseudo way to grow the games exposure