The Ashes 25/26

[Jim05]

England have been given back the 'Carey review' for the rest of this innings due to the error

Moral victory

[Booney]

Get the feeling this morning goes a long way to finding out who England really are.

[wenchbarwer]

What have I said about kink shaming????

I'm only jealous.

I think we're all jealous of your adventures!

[Lightning McQueen]

I Couldn't disagree with you lot anymore if I tried.

The atmosphere is amazing, scenario second to none. You simply don't and cannot feel the raw emotion of True Blue, or the joy, euphoria, ecstasy and again raw emotion of Careys 100 sitting at home.

I'm assuming you guys aren't SACA members, it may be different out with them.... LOL

The difference is "You are the atmosphere".

The cricket goes to watch you.

[Lightning McQueen]

England have been given back the 'Carey review' for the rest of this innings due to the error

Wasn't very costly

[Brodlach]

Get the feeling this morning goes a long way to finding out who England really are.

Not that long

[Trader]

Apparently 56k there today which seems higher than official capacity

I’m a saca member and when I walked in this morning was definitely over 50k very few spare seats plus everyone out the back.

But surely capacity is capacity and they can’t just make extra seats appear from thin air.
The ones out the back still have to a seat don’t they?

SACA oversubscribe memberships because they know there will be a cohort that spend their time out back. It’s just easy $$$ for them, and why not when there’s plenty of takers to pay overs for what membership provides.

Massively oversubscribed. It was packed yesterday. Very hard to find a seat if you got there after 9:15am.

53,500 the official capacity for footy, and they take out roughly 3000 seats for sightscreens.

Yes there are some out the back but not that many for the first ball.

The one other difference between footy and cricket is people go to the whole game of footy.
There are some that go in for the first session or just the last etc when it comes to cricket.

But yes, it wasn't very comfortable yesterday, and I'd image today would be even worse.
Packing in for footy when its 15 degrees is fine. Having a fat slob half on top of you in 39 degrees isn't much fun.

[Brodlach]

My lad is there, he just messaged to say it’s almost unbearable already He is in the members so I said the afternoon shade would help otherwise I could see him leaving already

[wenchbarwer]

Massively oversubscribed. It was packed yesterday. Very hard to find a seat if you got there after 9:15am.

53,500 the official capacity for footy, and they take out roughly 3000 seats for sightscreens.

Yes there are some out the back but not that many for the first ball.

The one other difference between footy and cricket is people go to the whole game of footy.
There are some that go in for the first session or just the last etc when it comes to cricket.

But yes, it wasn't very comfortable yesterday, and I'd image today would be even worse.
Packing in for footy when its 15 degrees is fine. Having a fat slob half on top of you in 39 degrees isn't much fun.

Something something kink shaming

[Lightning McQueen]

Something something kink shaming

Took 6 seconds longer than I thought you'd take.....................and for the comment.

[wenchbarwer]

My lad is there, he just messaged to say it’s almost unbearable already He is in the members so I said the afternoon shade would help otherwise I could see him leaving already

My eldest just got back from site yesterday, bunch of his mates are going today.

He told them all he'd catch them after the day's play

[Trader]

lol

The operator of the Snicko technology being used in the Ashes has admitted a mistake led to Australia's Alex Carey wrongfully surviving an England review on the opening day of the third Test.

“Given that Alex Carey admitted he had hit the ball in question, the only conclusion that can be drawn from this, is that the Snicko operator at the time must have selected the incorrect stump mic for audio processing," BBG Sports said.

England have been given back the 'Carey review' for the rest of this innings due to the error

I'm fine with England being given the review back. I think everyone can agree Carey hit it and the technology got it wrong.

However, what I'm not happy with is the excuse we've been given.
They are saying the used the audio from the mic at the bowlers end, not the batsman's. Ok, possible I guess.
However, the spike that appeared was early, not late.
IF they used a mic that was 20m from the bat, rather than 2m, then the spike should have been several frames late, not early. The sound takes time to travel to the mic, that's why the spike is allowed to appear on or one frame late. If they've used audio from 20m away, the spike should be 5 or 6 frames late, not 3 frames early.

The explanation we, the public, has been given, doesn't cut it for mine.

[Booney]

Mitchell Starc this series …

WITH THE BAT:

12
77
54

143 runs at 47.7

WITH THE BALL:

7-58
3-55
6-75
2-58

18 wickets at 14.0

[dedja]

Too old, should retire.

[Armchair expert]

Mitchell Starc this series …

WITH THE BAT:

12
77
54

143 runs at 47.7

WITH THE BALL:

7-58
3-55
6-75
2-58

18 wickets at 14.0

mal was right about STARc all along

[dedja]

lol

The operator of the Snicko technology being used in the Ashes has admitted a mistake led to Australia's Alex Carey wrongfully surviving an England review on the opening day of the third Test.

“Given that Alex Carey admitted he had hit the ball in question, the only conclusion that can be drawn from this, is that the Snicko operator at the time must have selected the incorrect stump mic for audio processing," BBG Sports said.

England have been given back the 'Carey review' for the rest of this innings due to the error

I'm fine with England being given the review back. I think everyone can agree Carey hit it and the technology got it wrong.

However, what I'm not happy with is the excuse we've been given.
They are saying the used the audio from the mic at the bowlers end, not the batsman's. Ok, possible I guess.
However, the spike that appeared was early, not late.
IF they used a mic that was 20m from the bat, rather than 2m, then the spike should have been several frames late, not early. The sound takes time to travel to the mic, that's why the spike is allowed to appear on or one frame late. If they've used audio from 20m away, the spike should be 5 or 6 frames late, not 3 frames early.

The explanation we, the public, has been given, doesn't cut it for mine.

SET <broken record> = ON

I’ve been banging on about this for seemingly forever.

The technology is massively flawed as it needs heavy manual intervention each time to create the footage and sound for the review. The company that does it is a backyard operation with a handful of employees which has hit it big time because they got in first.

Piss is it off and leave it to the on-field umpires to adjudicate, they actually do a great job these days.

SET <broken record> = OFF

… as you were.

[Armchair expert]

That missing everything apart from middle stump 3/4 way up

edit ball tracking is bs

[Armchair expert]

Fair play to Jofra he bowled well 5/53

[dedja]

That missing everything apart from middle stump 3/4 way up

edit ball tracking is bs

Ball tracking is chapter 3 on my grievance list. Fortunately Festivus is nearly amongst us.

[Brodlach]

About a 100 short I reckon