Comments on: Twenty20 Finals Day match report

By: SimonC

SimonC — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:46:36 +0000

Today I learned that “onomastic” is a real word, and not a misspelled version of “onanistic”. What a match report this has been.

By: String

String — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:07:17 +0000

Despite my onomastic relationship with the late night “entertainment” venue mentioned above, I have never tried to hand out flyers while clad in a body hugging/exposing outfit outside a cricket ground.
Top reportage LB. Maybe it is The Edgbaston Anger that makes Ian Bell produce that awful sneer?

By: Eva

Eva — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:29:10 +0000

i just can’t believe they’d make such an ignorant assumption. as if it’s just women that like spas!
I go to uni just around the corner from the ground, and last year we made a mint enticing cricket spectators from their thieving car park into our empty, reasonably priced student car park.

By: Lemon Bella

Lemon Bella — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:46:41 +0000

No, I didn’t get a reply. This made me more Angry.

By: Bert

Bert — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:31:00 +0000

Yes, Ceci. That’s just the sort of thing I was looking for. Thanks.

By: Ceci

Ceci — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:00:26 +0000

I can’t help Bert in his search for Stringfellow girls – but hope this will do as it has a Stringfellow connection (with a Mongoose to spare Bert’s blushes)

http://tinyurl.com/berts-stringfellow

By: IndianSkimmer

IndianSkimmer — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:17:28 +0000

There was sadly no reply to either lemonbella’s or my own emails (and in my case some actual post). I did however bring this up ona customer service course I was forced to attend and am told they regularly use it as an example of how not to approach a marketing campaign, so that makes me feel better.

Not as much better as if they’d given me my £20 back (they didn’t reply to that email either btw) but better nontheless.

And it’s entirely possible that the reason cricket audiences are predominantly male is precisely because of this kind of campaign, and because of the women in tiny clothes.

If they used Justin Kemp in their marketing there’d be much more of a female audience.

By: D Charlton

D Charlton — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:52:32 +0000

Amazing letter of complaint – top work. And great match report, your miserable time has kept me (and my office) royally entertained. So thanks for enduring it.

But… did you get a reply?!

By: Mahinda

Mahinda — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:16:01 +0000

Mims, but cricket audiences are predominantly male…aren’t they? Not that I’m against your point, mind, but I can’t think of a cricket match I’ve attended where it’s been anything like a 50:50 crowd.

I’ve just started going out with a cricket-following lass, as it happens. I would have put “cricket-loving”, but she’s not that involved. Yet. Unfortunately, she supports South Africa.

(P.S. Shouldn’t you be off on honeymoon or something?)

By: Tybalt

Tybalt — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:36:29 +0000

Warwickshire and Edgbaston, thankfully, have already been punished for all eternity by being associated with Ian Bell. I interpret this as God has punished them for their grasping, their sexism, and their stinginess with coffee.