Current BBL privatisation optics - Press conference reaction | The Wisdom & Experience of Robert Craddock (14.09.26)
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What did Robert Craddock think of Cricket Australia's press conference on BBL privatisation?
I've been looking forward to this conversation for a week, Robert Craddock. What did you make of Cricket Australia's press conference announcing the step toward privatisation, partial privatisation in the BBL?
Uh I I just thought it was lightweight a and achieved very little, Jared. I mean you made the point and it's true. It was outside the SCG and Sydney officials are so against the project that they got them to look away sorry, look towards the M S C so that the shots would not have the SCG in the background. That said it all really. And if you could sum it up in a couple of sentences where this is going, just remind yourself of This The yes vote for privatisation is being led by Tasmania, population 500,000 and influence very, very little. The no vote's been led by New South Wales, population eight million. Packed with influential officials and blokes who I must say, Jared, are very bad enemies. They really are.
So that's the fight that it has to overcome. And I just don't see how it wins it.
Why is Tasmania leading the ‘yes’ vote while New South Wales leads the ‘no’ vote?
I mean, even Lise Perry in that press conference, did you see her face? I was watching it closely. She must have been so conflicted because she's representing the Sydney Sixers who are so far against privatization, yet she was ordered to to to uh attend the press conference, which she did. I would have loved to have known her inner thoughts, what she was really thinking. And then of course, Jared, you've got the players who are saying we could we should actually be taking 27% of the sale. But but instead of that, no, you keep that and we'll take 33%. Now that's got to go to arbitration. So no one is agreeing with anything at the moment. The renegades are up for sale, but as someone said to me in the office
Office the uh the other day when when uh they were talking about it. Hang on, wasn't it the club that didn't exist a few months ago? You know, and and these are all fair questions. Your thoughts?
How are players and team officials reacting to the proposed franchise sale percentages?
It's a messy process and it it feels like the most difficult way to go about it. What I don't have a position on Crash and and I've said this repeatedly, uh I admire those who have taken their strident view, gathering whatever information they can, because I I it might take us twenty years to work out what the right decision is here. And either strategy could be disastrous. But to have the absolute conviction to go no no this this way is a disaster or this way is I I I I don't I can't come at it like that. Is the cricket world has changed so profoundly and rapidly is there's a risk in Australia, there's a conceit just to continue to view it in an old way. But the old way has charm and our attitudes don't match the attitudes of those around the world, particularly toward T twenty.
So I can't form I can't form a strong view on it right now as to what's right and wrong. And I do I feel like it'll take us twenty years to work out whether wherever we land up was uh where the wherever we end up was the right decision.
Mm-hmm. Yeah, and as you were saying those words, Jared, uh my mind floated back to when I first heard about the big bash. We had a little meeting with one of the executives and they said, Right, we're banning states from using their home colours. Like Queensland won't use marone. They might use blue, which is the s colour that Queensland has a raised to to to detest.
What are the financial concerns of different states like Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania?
And and also there'll be no animals as um mascots. And I said and to all these suggestions I said, I don't like that, I don't like that, I don't like that and they all worked. They all worked. So Y y you've just got to accept that i you're right, it is a fluent process. I don't mind privatization, but I tell you what I don't like, franchises being sold cheaply because you only get one go at it. And and that's the worry. I know in Queensland they got all their money men to have to to to go through the figures and be as forensic as they could and they came back and said that th this is just the proposed deals are not good enough. We would not be able to sustain ourselves. Tomorrow night they've got a AGM of people, they will declare a profit.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What did Robert Craddock think of Cricket Australia's press conference on BBL privatisation?
0:00–1:04
2
Why is Tasmania leading the ‘yes’ vote while New South Wales leads the ‘no’ vote?
1:04–1:52
3
How are players and team officials reacting to the proposed franchise sale percentages?
1:52–3:18
4
What are the financial concerns of different states like Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania?
3:18–4:16
5
Why does the press conference appear to have achieved little and what hurdles remain?
4:16–5:03
6
How might the lack of a unified public opinion affect the future of the BBL?
5:03–5:53
7
What impact could the current TV deal and funding issues have on the league’s next six years?
5:53–6:49
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