Sam McClure

a strong agreement on what the set of circumstances are and what the solutions are.

seem underprepared about this and other people seem to be rushing it and nobody is in agreement about it i can't get to the bottom of that i i truly can't i'm trying that's the one thing i've tried to understand in this and i can't get to the bottom of how the viewpoints of various people and and one state and another state are so far apart on this i don't understand how

you can be poles apart.

Like there's degrees within the two positions that should also be found and they're not.

Yeah, it's hard to wrap your head around where it's at other than to think,

More broadly in Australian cricket, particularly amongst the fans, there's always going to be this view amongst our generation and older in particular that Australian cricket has a right to have a big seat at the table globally.

And you and I have talked about this and you've talked about this on the show, that wrapping your head around the fact that we are actually a small player, we are a big nation in land size, we're a small population in a small economic market,

Our greatest assets are that we have a strong cricket team and we have strong cricketers, but as we just spoke about, that may not... The production line of those may not be as strong as they once were.

And, yeah, the...

trying to wrap your head around those things and your place in the world as a cricketing nation and then how to sustain your cricket both from a community participation standpoint and then a high performance standpoint and a competition that's vibrant has best players in it that yields the appropriate amount of revenue from broadcast rights that's all part of it it

It's a question of whether those that are in the decision-making chairs are actually taking a 10,000-foot view of this or whether they're looking after their own patch.

That's the debate, right?

And to be fair to the state boards and the execs, their mandate and they're put in the positions that they are to look after their patch.

That's probably the exact way to phrase it.

I don't think it's all of it, but I think there's definitely an undercurrent of it.

It's not said out loud, but there's definitely an undercurrent of that.

And there, to be fair, again, back to the decision makers, to be fair, they're speaking for the fan base who –

who sit in that space, don't they?

Your fans, the guys that I speak to.

It looks like the Stars will play as the Stars this year, yeah.