Brodie
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They've tried now doing the practices and now two 25-minute practices with a 15-minute break between, is it?
And the reason they're doing this, it started at around 2 o'clock on Friday, is that they want to give the teams, I think it's something like eight hours they need of set-up time, but they give them that between the two days.
They give that between Thursday afternoon set-up and Friday morning.
They've gone to this to try and reduce travel expenses and get the teams to fly in later because if we can set up at 8 a.m.
Thursday morning for an early Friday practice and Friday afternoon practice like we used to have, the teams have to fly Wednesday.
So their plan is to now get teams to fly Thursday and,
give them a few, what was it, two hours they had on Thursday?
Two hours Thursday afternoon to set up and then it's like five or six hours they get on Friday morning before the practice sessions, which I kind of get.
I think they were saying with, with accommodation, you know, I'm sure they charge out the staff.
It's about 30 grand, the team's budget per day.
It is for, you know, each, each extra day is 30 grand to have the personnel away.
So if you can reduce not flying Wednesday and go on Thursday, it's a fair bit of a cost saving, but it kind of then makes the practices a bit average, but also I think,
I get if you've got to cut costs, we've got to do these sort of things.
But, yeah, Friday's just such a short β like, you know what I mean?