🟣 T20 crowds well down 🟢 Counties 'must apply' for H*ndred cash 🟠 Bashir set to leave Somerset 🔴 Cheltenham festival under threat 🔵 The story of Bethell's England switch 🟡 Blast prices too high?
Excellent stuff , good to see you back on angry form. I did wonder about the source for the attendance figures. Surrey do a very good set of accounts for members with some of the financial disclosure replaced with things more likely to interest members - like attendance figures. These show 100 attendance at the Oval in 2024 of 105k compared to the 128k on the chart so over 20 percent lower. It would be good to say it shows Hundred crowds are overstated and the ECB is capable of that but Surrey also report lower Blast attendances than shown in the table so perhaps two sets of figures.
David said he used Wisden figures which are reliable. Might the discrepancy be around the inclusion of only group games or all games (incl a qf). The Oval held one that year.
I don't think it is that as the Surrey accounts break down attendance by game and the 105k figure includes the eliminator, or is there an eliminator and a quarter final? Also Surrey figures include members so it's not the difference between attendance and those who paid for that specific game. I added up the numbers again (just in case) and I'm still coming up with 105k - very odd. I did see something about county championship attendances for 2024 broken down by county where the Lancashire figure was, apparently, way overstated.
As a Somerset supporter, I wonder if the number of supporters at the County Championship falling might be due to the excellent live stream coverage. The List A values are interesting - they have increased, probably due to more games in 2024, but we shouldn't forget that in 2019 the club won the last "List A" final. I wonder how having double headers at Taunton is influencing the T20 figures.
Personally, I think the opposite. The streams keep me interested and more likely to go. Look at the Premier League, more coverage and not affected attendance and prices have gone through the roof in last 30 years.
Excellent stuff , good to see you back on angry form. I did wonder about the source for the attendance figures. Surrey do a very good set of accounts for members with some of the financial disclosure replaced with things more likely to interest members - like attendance figures. These show 100 attendance at the Oval in 2024 of 105k compared to the 128k on the chart so over 20 percent lower. It would be good to say it shows Hundred crowds are overstated and the ECB is capable of that but Surrey also report lower Blast attendances than shown in the table so perhaps two sets of figures.
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David said he used Wisden figures which are reliable. Might the discrepancy be around the inclusion of only group games or all games (incl a qf). The Oval held one that year.
I don't think it is that as the Surrey accounts break down attendance by game and the 105k figure includes the eliminator, or is there an eliminator and a quarter final? Also Surrey figures include members so it's not the difference between attendance and those who paid for that specific game. I added up the numbers again (just in case) and I'm still coming up with 105k - very odd. I did see something about county championship attendances for 2024 broken down by county where the Lancashire figure was, apparently, way overstated.
As a Somerset supporter, I wonder if the number of supporters at the County Championship falling might be due to the excellent live stream coverage. The List A values are interesting - they have increased, probably due to more games in 2024, but we shouldn't forget that in 2019 the club won the last "List A" final. I wonder how having double headers at Taunton is influencing the T20 figures.
Personally, I think the opposite. The streams keep me interested and more likely to go. Look at the Premier League, more coverage and not affected attendance and prices have gone through the roof in last 30 years.
Hard to prove either way