What a great sight...

...shame those useless bloody Saffers deprived us of the opportunity to see the stands full under the lights on Tuesday.







Frankly, impressive as the huge Ozzie sporting stadia might be in their own way, you can't beat this.

This is how a cricket ground should look.

Beautiful...and all within a 10 minute stroll of my front door.

Aye - I prefer my cricket grounds to look like cricket grounds rather than bowls.

Hence why the rose bowl & chester-le-street leave me a bit cold.

Nice one!
Impressive lights and new stand.

Does TB have an Ashes gig next year?

JKLever wrote:Aye - I prefer my cricket grounds to look like cricket grounds rather than bowls.

Hence why the rose bowl & chester-le-street leave me a bit cold.

It's proximity to the North-East coast probably had something to do with it having the same effect on me when I went up there for a game a few years ago!

Merlin wrote:Nice one!
Impressive lights and new stand.

Does TB have an Ashes gig next year?

No Test match.

Dumbass ECB.

Deprived the side of their best opportunity for a win as much as anything else.

However, they've sweetened the bitter pill by making us the only venue outside of London to be hosting the World T20, including one of the Semi-Finals, and we also get two of the Oz JAMODI's back-to-back on a Tuesday and Thursday under the lights in September.

Shame ... yet glorious Cardiff get the first Test!
Way to go, eh ....

Think those lights prolly worked in TB's favour ...
Lord's (MCC) now agreed on installing retractable lights - to 20M - (serious opposition
from local residents to the full monty) in time for next years T20.
Just waiting to see how it hits the pocket!

Aye, don't get me started on that decision!

Expect a hike in everything next season to pay for that, Merls if our experience has been anything to go by!

Still - well worth it I reckons.

Discounting all the other benefits of having such a top class venue on my doorstep, there should be a great deal more floodlit cricket at TB from next season, which means I get better value for my membership as I get to see more of it after work.

The new scoreboard now officially puts it light years ahead of Lords.

spangler wrote:The new scoreboard now officially puts it light years ahead of Lords.

Multi-functional scoreboard too.

Displays stunningly high definition stills (of players and so on) when the TV cameras aren't there, and is also the replay screen when they are - again in HD.

Impressive bit of kit.

JKLever wrote:Aye - I prefer my cricket grounds to look like cricket grounds rather than bowls.

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Sage. Although it is ferkin comfortable there is something sterile about watching cricket at the Gabba. It's not that different from watching it in your living room

G.Wood wrote:

JKLever wrote:Aye - I prefer my cricket grounds to look like cricket grounds rather than bowls.

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Sage. Although it is ferkin comfortable there is something sterile about watching cricket at the Gabba. It's not that different from watching it in your living room

Yep - much prefer Sydney & Adelaide to Melbourne & Brisbane - impressive though the stadiums are...

I've been to the Gabba and the MCG, and my Spiv bias says that the SCG sh!ts on both of them for character, charm and history. [awaits howls of indignation from the Viles]

And thanks for the pics BBB. Trent Bridge looks a right picture under lights.

skully wrote:I've been to the Gabba and the MCG, and my Spiv bias says that the SCG sh!ts on both of them for character, charm and history. [awaits howls of indignation from the Viles]

Aye.

The MCG was pretty impressive with the best part of 90,000 shivering inside it on Boxing Day 2006, but when I actually think of the cricket I saw in the last Ashes series, my mind wanders to sitting in Block 15 at the SCG and directly across the square and the action in the middle in front of me to the pavilion at the other side.

Felt like a cricket ground, whereas the MCG was a stadium.

In fact, here's one that I took from my seat.



Had that as my wallpaper on my PC for a good year after we got back.

Great pic of the SCG - I'm pretty sure I am one of those specks in the Ladies stand concourse.

skully wrote:I've been to the Gabba and the MCG, and my Spiv bias says that the SCG sh!ts on both of them for character, charm and history. [awaits howls of indignation from the Viles]

But...er the MCG is bigger...... When the MCG is full there is nothing like it, but when it's empty it is very sterile.

Shits all over for 'history'?.... I seriously doubt that. First ever Test, cuuuuumon!!!!

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:...

This is how a cricket ground should look.

The ICC thought so at the end of the Gilly Final...Did they run out of candles?

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:...shame those useless bloody Saffers deprived us of the opportunity to see the stands full under the lights on Tuesday.







Frankly, impressive as the huge Ozzie sporting stadia might be in their own way, you can't beat this.

This is how a cricket ground should look.

Beautiful...and all within a 10 minute stroll of my front door.

Those skies are boring, they lack the depth and colour of the southern hemisphere.

That WU is boring , it lacks the depth and colour of Smith is a fat homosexual

PearlJ wrote:

skully wrote:I've been to the Gabba and the MCG, and my Spiv bias says that the SCG sh!ts on both of them for character, charm and history. [awaits howls of indignation from the Viles]

But...er the MCG is bigger...... When the MCG is full there is nothing like it, but when it's empty it is very sterile.

Shits all over for 'history'?.... I seriously doubt that. First ever Test, cuuuuumon!!!!

First howls coming through, from a Maggies supporter no less. Surprise, surprise.

It was MHO, PJ. Have you been to the SCG?

skully wrote:

PearlJ wrote:

skully wrote:I've been to the Gabba and the MCG, and my Spiv bias says that the SCG sh!ts on both of them for character, charm and history. [awaits howls of indignation from the Viles]

But...er the MCG is bigger...... When the MCG is full there is nothing like it, but when it's empty it is very sterile.

Shits all over for 'history'?.... I seriously doubt that. First ever Test, cuuuuumon!!!!

First howls coming through, from a Maggies supporter no less. Surprise, surprise.

It was MHO, PJ. Have you been to the SCG?

Howls? Hardly

Yeah, I have been to the SCG. It's a great ground. Perfect place to watch cricket. And I would probably agree with it having a lot more character and charm. But I think your claim that it 'shits all over the MCG for history' is a bit silly. The MCG is bathed in history.

It was the combo PJ - character, charm and history. I am not dissing the G, and would love to return there sometime.

depends on the success of your visa application.

Is Victoria seceding from Australia? Huzzah, about time you mutants set up your own country.

skully wrote:Is Victoria seceding from Australia? Huzzah, about time you mutants set up your own country.

SGDT ...Oz has seceded from Vomitia ...with TGM retired we have no use for them any longer