Well done to West Torrens for Winning the double. Agree with everyone on here, especially Eagles as you put it you guys weren’t the best team all year and in fact very fortunate to make it into the 4 at the end of the season. Came out on top in the Final with all the 50/50 decisions going their way. Gutsy for Gibson to come back out, More grit than quality but earned himself and his team the win. Spenser showed why he doesn’t get a crack at the next level, flat pitch and never looked threatening at all, 2 out of his 3 were incorrectly given out. Then was made to look like he was bowling pedestrian on the Sunday, cleaning up the tail should of been his bread and butter. Buckingham unfortunately another poor case of Redbacks High Performance gone wrong. Poor kid is getting thrown to the wolves, a taller poor man’s Chadd Sayers with less quarter of the skill.
Shame about the Somerfield dismissal, half an appeal more so in desperation than for anything, replay suggests outside the line plus clearly two noises. West Torrens thankful again like they were against us in the One Day Final. Would have liked to see how much more complaining they would of done after the Tea Break when TTG pushed closer and closer. Wasn’t to be.
West Torrens behaviour was Embarrassing to say the least. A friend of mine who hasn’t been to a Grade game in a while said it was unbelievable to see and hear how they were going about their cricket, let alone it was those players who are in our high performance squad carrying on like children. Very disappointing from the WT group and they all need to have a real good look at themselves.
Very good season by TTG, given they have only Oakley, and Head (faced 6 balls one Game) and all the other teams in the top 7 collectively make up the entire Redbacks squad that needs to be applauded. Professional Cricketers versus average joe blow who works Mon-Fri to rock up on a Saturday and compete. Hats off to Gatting and Co. You really shouldn’t have competed, and before someone jumps up and down and says it’s because they cheat etc etc get your facts right before making accusations! Funnily enough WT have a larger reputation of cheating than TTG.
Bring on the Footy Season, Go you Bays
Can't say I agree with too much old Bob has to say here but it is rather humouros that WT were complaining about TTGs ball management when it was pretty obvious they were doing the same thing in the one day final until it was brought to the umpires attention by the glenelg captian short memories
Also the criticism around Buckingham is unjustifyied he's pretty good for a 19 year old kid bowls decent pace outswing better bowler than Joe Mennie at the same age and he turned out alright give the kid a chance hes bowled his team to 2 premierships