hopeforthebest wrote:Will the counties really benefit from a franchised T20, I can't see how? Surely that's one reason why the Counties are against the idea, except the big businessmen who run various counties in big Cities i.e. Leeds.
I think that is the main concern. Without a direct link to a county, a city based Franchise system will suck all the profitability out the system, while expecting the county in question to suffer the after effect by having to loan their players for it, and free space up for less matches for them to make money. The counties will get financial reward for it, but only as a token payment for their "services rendered" and not as a major stakeholder of the project. So a T20 entity in complete reliance to the county system to provide its talent will make millions, but the system that feeds into it will be barely kept alive.
This is the problem I have with the IPL. The BCCI and its franchise owners need foreign talent, guys who are trained outside India and use other systems to display their talent int he first place; but IPL becomes so powerful, it takes over and dictates to everything.
Something eventually has to give. Until these "super leagues" are forced to invest adequate and fair money into the track systems that lead to them, all they are doing is stripping the resources that feed them and spit them out the other end. There is no long term sustainability plan to them.
As a continued member of Sussex, I will vote down any measure towards it if my voice is sought in the matter.