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If it doesn't, this isn't resolved by then, then the renegades will still exist and they will play against themselves.

I have some concerns.

This is very early stages of what this merger means and what it will look like in the future, right, because, I mean, we really don't know when things can change.

Pretty quickly, but I have a concern until the games start that one team that is essentially representing themselves as Victoria with its history and whatever, and another license being sold to essentially India,

that that's going to feel ugly.

And it's going to like all of this, all this reckoning is about Indian control over cricket in Australia, as it was with the hundred and Indian control over the counties and England, just being a little bit ahead of that.

But until the game start, when I say until the game start, because when, once the game start and players play for those teams play fans, just like the players and the games will start and they like, like seeing a six and you put a buck on your head and you feel good and it's all good.

it's on it's blobby Christmas around the corner and you're fucking good to go

But until then, there's going to be a Victorian team and there's going to be an Indian team.

Or in other words, like one team is us.

And when you have an us, it's quite logical what the other team is.

I mean, I say this with a bit of trepidation because maybe that won't be the case and, you know, we don't know.

But it does have some hallmarks of that feeling.

And I think once the games start, I think that'll go away and people will just like the teams that represent, you know, their community or whatever.

Yeah.

but the us V them thing is like, it's, it's already, it's already a bit like people are nervous about what it means for Australian cricket to lose a bit of its control, especially to overseas power.

And, and this feels like that could get ugly.

They play the MCG and you pack it out and it's like, oh, this is actually way better.

And that probably is where this gets to.

Like the privatisation means that the good players will be playing in it and we are going to get there eventually, but we're going through some trauma with it.