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First Test of the ashes tickets secured, we will get a battering but been top of my bucket list for years to go down under and see it

Trip of a lifetime, cannot wait

tisza said:

Been disappointing to see the number of empty seats for the ODIs. Always a shame that the level of support for West Indies has diminished so much. Remembr the games I was a kid and the large numbers of boisterous West Indies fans that would be at games. Remember being at a game at Edgbaston when it seemed like they easily outnumbered the England fans

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Probably a generational thing.

Back then a lot would have been Windrush or other immigrants that had grown up immersed in cricket in the West Indies before coming here.

Now immigration is more diversified there won't be the same concentration of West Indians and second/third generation West Indians brought up here haven't grown up with the fanaticism of cricket in quite the same way.

tisza said:

Been disappointing to see the number of empty seats for the ODIs. Always a shame that the level of support for West Indies has diminished so much. Remember the games I was a kid and the large numbers of boisterous West Indies fans that would be at games. Remember being at a game at Edgbaston when it seemed like they easily outnumbered the England fans

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There's a real problem coming down the line and there seems to be a head in the sand attitude to it. We're rapidly reaching a point where nobody gives a shit about games unless they are between the big 3, England, Australia and India.

Worldwide now you see row after row of empty seats at games that would have previously been guaranteed sell outs. But as with everything in cricket those in charge are more concerned with empire building than ensuring the health of the game worldwide.

Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:

Probably a generational thing.

Back then a lot would have been Windrush or other immigrants that had grown up immersed in cricket in the West Indies before coming here.

Now immigration is more diversified there won't be the same concentration of West Indians and second/third generation West Indians brought up here haven't grown up with the fanaticism of cricket in quite the same way.

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Its more they are not competitive anymore.

West Indies were THE team to watch when i was a teenager. Exciting fast bowling and amazing batting. I went to test matches just to see them. I travelled to Taunton a couple of times to see Richards and Garner in action.

Ironically Australia had declined and were poor.

Now the West Indies are just rank bad.

I wouldn’t imagine the pricing helps much.

Terry Gibson's perm said:

I wouldn’t imagine the pricing helps much.

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This, definitely.

I went to watch the 2nd day of the Zimbabwe match with my Dad at Trent Bridge and paid £50. Fair amount, I reckon. But, we had a great day weather-wise and saw some good cricket.

The ODIs are far more expensive and, dare I say it, less competitive.

Sky Blue Wozza said:

This, definitely.

I went to watch the 2nd day of the Zimbabwe match with my Dad at Trent Bridge and paid £50. Fair amount, I reckon. But, we had a great day weather-wise and saw some good cricket.

The ODIs are far more expensive and, dare I say it, less competitive.

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I’ve paid 80aud (roughly about £40) to be 9 rows from the front in Perth in November… Makes our pricing over here look disgusting

alexccfc99 said:

I’ve paid 80aud (roughly about £40) to be 9 rows from the front in Perth in November… Makes our pricing over here look disgusting

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Not jealous in the slightest!

The whole experience of going to Edgbaston is increasingly shit IMO. When I started going you could park right next to the ground for next to nothing and getting a ticket for even the most popular Ashes games was a case of wandering round to the ticket office in the lunch interval.

Then they moved the parking to Calthorpe Park which was a less than 5 minute walk and pretty easy to get away from with traffic management in place.

Now its a mad scramble for international tickets, parking miles away that costs a small fortune, parking has to be booked in advance with no refunds if it pisses down all day, absolute gridlock around the ground.

Not to mention the new stand seems to have less members facilities than the old one did. Get the feeling they're laying plans to turf members out completely and send them to the other side of the ground.

First time in a while I've not got tickets or plans for a single days cricket at Edgbaston this summer.

Agree on the parking being a nightmare, I've been to a game in the Hundred two years running, and taken the kids. They've both loved it, but parking 20/30 mins away and walking back to the car with little legs, through a very poorly lit park is a nightmare.

Went to the test match there last year too, and the train from Cov was ridiculously full, ended up getting off a stop earlier than New Street and getting an uber to the ground, its a bloody free for all getting back to Brum on the shuttle buses afterwards though

Bertola said:

Agree on the parking being a nightmare, I've been to a game in the Hundred two years running, and taken the kids. They've both loved it, but parking 20/30 mins away and walking back to the car with little legs, through a very poorly lit park is a nightmare.

Went to the test match there last year too, and the train from Cov was ridiculously full, ended up getting off a stop earlier than New Street and getting an uber to the ground, its a bloody free for all getting back to Brum on the shuttle buses afterwards though

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It also makes it very time consuming. For a Blast game I used to be able to finish work, drive to the ground and not miss the start. Stay till the end and get home early enough that I wasn't half asleep at work the next day.

Now I need to take an afternoon off work to get there without missing half the game and walk miles back to the car to then sit in traffic and get home late. Just had a look and for a ticket in the south stand and parking going to the next blast game would cost me £57. No wonder its half empty all the time.

The train and shuttle bus is a good idea but it takes forever. Mental that the tram doesn't run to an international venue but they're happily spending hundreds of millions to run it to Birminghams proposed new football stadium.

Tragic. A lot of questions being asked about if there should have been a parade and if so the route it took