PBP: Other Leagues/Tournaments Catch-All Thread

The Melbourne Test Match between England and Australia is a financial disaster for the Aussie cricket association, which lost AU$5 million last year.

A 5 day game ended in 2.

It's estimated they'll lose at least $3 million in ticket sales/refunds and whatever concessions revenue you get from 80,000+ people a day eating and drinking over an 8 hour period.

Then there's all that presold TV advertising companies will want refunds for, which will affect Channel 7 and all those local businesses that will suffer. Hopefully for them the tourists will stick around.

I can't imagine any other sport where this can happen. Even if there's a golf or tennis rainout the event will continue albeit with a delay and potentially smaller attendances.

 

And it’s the second of the Ashes tests that has ended in two days after the Aussies rolled over England in the first test in Perth.

 

Julian Araujo has joined Wilfred Nancy at Celtic on loan until the end of the season.

 

The last 10 minutes of this Steelers / Ravens game has been absolute insanity.

 

An English commentator using the Castilian pronunciation of Castellanos is bugging me. He's not Spanish.

 

With an English announcer, you’re lucky he isn’t pronouncing it Castle-Anus.

 

I know the World Cup is the World Cup but ahhh....

Who are the weirdos that pay this much for this, but balk at $150 for say a qualifying match? Or Copa America? Or any match where the USMNT didn't come close to selling out for ~10x less money...

 

Your answer is in the first sentence but…. well said.

 

10x though. Not 2x, not 5x.

 

If FIFA wanted to sell ten dollar tickets they would have held the games in Russia or Qatar again.

Either the autocrats bribe them or the prices are high

 

Ticket revenue is pocket change compared to TV money. Plus we did bribe them - by dropping charges, heh.

Anyway, either the games will sell out or the deals will be on Stubhub on gameday. I am guessing both will happen - depends on the game. The thing is the USMNT is maybe the 10th most popular team in this tournament, so their prices might drop.

 

I hope so.

 

A win over Crystal Palace makes 5 year old Macclesfield FC the first "non-league" team to beat the FA Cup holders since 1909.

The last team to do it were...Crystal Palace.

 

The two 6th level sides (National League North/South) had a GD of 0 in this round, with Macclesfield winning by 1 and Weston-super-Mare losing by 1 to League Two (4th level) Grimsby.

Meanwhile the one 5th level side (National League) left, Boreham Wood, had a GD of -5 in their game against League One (3rd level) Burton Albion.

And that all pales alongside Man City beating League One side Exeter City 10-1.

 

I dunno...... not sure how you can be the CEO and the head coach at the same time. I don't care if it's "just USL" either. If you claim to have the ambitions that USL claims to have.... this isn't a good look IMO:

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Aw, that’s nothin’. George Halas and Paul Brown were simultaneously coaches, executives, and owners of teams. Hell, Halas was a player-coach-executive-owner!
Jay’s just taking a page out of their playbooks to win over all the gridiron football fans down in Alabama.

 

They can't do worse than last season.

Well actually they can, once they introduce pro-rel.

 

So what does the PA want exactly then>

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BREAKING: The NWSLPA has filed a grievance against the NWSL over the "unilateral implementation" of the High Impact Player rule, saying HIP violates CBA + federal labor law. The PA calls for the "immediate rescission" of the HIP rule.

 

Call Jeffrey Kessler!

 

US labor law requires bargaining on certain topics that are covered by a labor agreement. The union is saying that the league implemented a change to pay and working conditions that is so significant that it is a mandatory bargaining item, without asking them about it first and that they can't do that.

The CBA sets the grievance process but the only reasonable relief to this complaint is to open bargaining on the topic. Most likely an arbitrator will determine whether there was a violation or not.

 

Well, in this case, they want HIP to be negotiated with the PA rather than just implemented by the league.

Beyond the grievance, from what I've seen, the players and PA aren't happy with the fact that NWSL is creating HIP rather than bumping up the cap and letting the teams decide on pay. Additionally, even if HIP gets implemented, they don't like the various rules about who can be a HIP. The PAs want that to be left up to the teams.

 

Bodø/Glimt are trolling Man City. 2-0 approaching half-time.

 

They’ve played 1 competitive match since the start of December.

Anyway, MLS teams can’t compete in CCL because of the schedule or something.

 

Am I alone in finding that I rarely watch the games with the new league format for the Champion's league? I wasn't intellectually against it when introduced, but I find I have no idea what matches are important. There isn't a group where you think "that's the group to watch because the big team in jeopardy." Now that the format's 2nd year is winding up, are people watching more or less of it?

I like the Golazzo show on occasion. But I liked that before too.

 

If the half-time scores don't change then come game 8 Napoli, Monaco, Marseille, Barcelona and Dortmund are all in danger of being eliminated.