Craig Hutchison

You've always got a line of sight on most things these days.

But

To watch him, and on the run, I think, get himself stirred up and the passion with which he spoke.

I don't often have this reaction when I watch anything on TV these days, but I was riveted to that particular part of it.

And again, that's with my history and background with James Heard being factored in as well.

In the space of half an hour, I had come around to his at least being able to see where he was coming from.

Okay.

Line on Hurd, line on Essendon at least for a week.

Let's get to something that has now evolved even in the past 24 hours, Hutchie, maybe even 15, 18 hours.

The confirmation that the Cricket Victoria ownership of Melbourne Renegades and Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash franchise will now be very different.

Those two clubs are going to merge.

The other license, as far as I could tell in my... Let's go with brief reading of reports last night, will be sold off, which has been the narrative around the Big Bash League for some time.

It's the first...

official and meaningful move in this space.

I'd imagine you'd have a greater and more detailed line of sight on what this means and how it then looks for the other clubs in the competition in the Big Bash.

Yeah, my views won't change too much, actually.

Whatever you want to say about the Renegades, yes, they were the younger brother to the Stars in terms of how they were positioned in the marketplace and how they carried their business and how they even carried their teams.

But they still had a standing in – and I'm just talking from a Melbourne perspective here.

I know Sydney's got two teams as well –

From a standing perspective, what do those supporters do?