Adelaide and Suburban Cricket Association 2010/11

[CoverKing]

Although early, bad start to the season for WYC with Benny Mac looking very unlikely to take part with arthroscopy on his knee on 15th June. Suregons pretty sure it will also require a full knee reconstrunction. Will be Ben's third i think (unsure if its all on the same knee). Massive loss for us. His semi final performance against the Ramblers was huge.

[bazza1]

Bad luck for Benny, Does that mean you will take the gloves CK?

[caleb777]

Unlucky for ben, took the game away from us in the semi, hit me for the biggest six in my life into another suburb (a fact i was reminded of constantly at presos)

On another note personally im hoping JC does come back to cricket now hes cleaned his hands of plympton footy club. If i was in the same position as he was i would have quit as well, most blokes would.

[CoverKing]

Bad luck for Benny, Does that mean you will take the gloves CK?

I think so. We got a young fella who can bat and is a keeper and is finished first 11 duties from school. I guess it will be a team balance thing mate. Would rather not keep but may have to

[Westsider]

Brad Christie can keep.

[wycbloods]

Brad Christie can keep.

he can and the b's need a keeper.













Jokes
Just hoping he reads this.

[Westsider]

Brad Christie can keep.

he can and the b's need a keeper.

Jokes
Just hoping he reads this.

He needs a way to keep his spot in the A's somehow.

Anyway, this time 12 months ago he was saying he was going to WYC for a season, then off to Port's to have a crack at district.

[CoverKing]

Brad Christie can keep.

he can and the b's need a keeper.

Jokes
Just hoping he reads this.

He needs a way to keep his spot in the A's somehow.

Anyway, this time 12 months ago he was saying he was going to WYC for a season, then off to Port's to have a crack at district.

Yeah i do believe that was the case, but premiership success is very hard to leave

[bazza1]

Brad who?

[JWKDD]

Yeah im with bazza...

Brad who???

[bazza1]

Not sure if it has been mentioned but I have heard that Westminster players have been talking to ANA as a possible merge scenario with ANA using Westminster as a home ground and a section 2 side with what have been Westminsters A grade after being relegated.

[Jabber]

Not sure if it has been mentioned but I have heard that Westminster players have been talking to ANA as a possible merge scenario with ANA using Westminster as a home ground and a section 2 side with what have been Westminsters A grade after being relegated.

The big JABBER broke that story April 28 at approx 1:25pm on page 93, 'twas a cloudy thursday afternoon if I recall.

[bazza1]

Not sure if it has been mentioned but I have heard that Westminster players have been talking to ANA as a possible merge scenario with ANA using Westminster as a home ground and a section 2 side with what have been Westminsters A grade after being relegated.

The big JABBER broke that story April 28 at approx 1:25pm on page 93, 'twas a cloudy thursday afternoon if I recall.

Sorry to steal your thunder mate.

[Jabber]

Not sure if it has been mentioned but I have heard that Westminster players have been talking to ANA as a possible merge scenario with ANA using Westminster as a home ground and a section 2 side with what have been Westminsters A grade after being relegated.

The big JABBER broke that story April 28 at approx 1:25pm on page 93, 'twas a cloudy thursday afternoon if I recall.

Sorry to steal your thunder mate.

Steal away, you've got more details than me by the looks of it.

[Gowser]

More premierships will be on offer, which makes it easier to win, which makes it mickey mouse.

Finals are played over 2 days, yet you want to play 7 1dayers, which makes it mickey mouse.

You cry foul that there are too many 2 dayers and can't get enough players, yet there will only be a reduction of only three 2 dayers, only three! which means your apparent problems at keswick of not being able to fill sides will i'm sure not be rectified, which makes it mickey mouse.

More 1dayers means in times of inclement weather entire games will be washed out instead of only a days play, which means more no results, which means mickey mouse.

The more I read into it, the more it seems like a system designed only to apease Keswick, a club that has no junior program that I'm aware of. It seems to me as if Keswick are simply trying to take the easy road instead of creating a junior program to help build your senior stocks.

More premierships does not equate to being easier to win. That is a simpletons logic, much like some ugly guy going to a party full of supermodels and believing he has a better chance of picking up a hotty.

We havent cried foul about anything. This is not just about Keswick being unable to fill sides, this is about a decline in participation common to many clubs.

You suggest Keswick are trying to take an easy road? Clearly you are being ignorant or just naive. Keswick have, in recent years busted their balls to keep the 5th side going. You are also hypocritical, in a previous post you suggest we 'drop' a side, dropping a side is what i would call 'taking the easy road' as opposed to doing your best at keeping it going and taking steps to encourage more people to participate. What is your end game? Clubs to keep dropping sides as they become harder to fill? Follow your logic to completion and you will and up with a comp full of one team clubs.

No results due to inclement weather is something you can not do anything about, hardly mickey mouse. I would suggest games with no result due to the oval being unfit for play, say, as a consequence of too much dirt being dumped on it mid-week is far more compelling evidence of the competition being 'mickey mouse'.

If you do not like the proposal, that is fine, but do not smear a club with your unfounded crap because you disagree.

For the record, you scream 'mickey mouse', you do realise you are playing social, suburban cricket with a 2-piece ball on hard wickets? Many, including myself, would suggest the competition is mickey mouse by default and if you want to be playing 'serious' cricket you should look to district or premier league.

This proposal is not designed to 'appease' Keswick, this is a long term vision for the competition made in what we believe are its best interests. For the record, this is not a Keswick idea, the original concept was suggested a couple of years ago by an executive member on the A&SCA committee.

[Gowser]

If the rumours are true...Keswick are splashing around plenty of money so they will have a lot of players...Is this true Gowser? And will they have the same captain or looking for a new one with the money they are spending?

D Sampson, S McRae and R Hopkins are just some of the names i have heard they have contacted.

Which other clubs are active in the recruiting game at the moment?

Define 'plenty' and define 'splashing'. But yes, we are looking to entice some quality stock to our club, cash payment may or may not be required to achieve this.

There is no way known we would waste our time trying to R. Hopkins.

[Gowser]

Although, if the keswick law gets up then it will just be another mickey mouse comp no matter what section your in.

How so? Playing more games against high quality opposition?

Morphie Patks have some questions on the format.
1. How will it be played? 7 one dayers, then 7 2 Dayers? Alternate both? If a team wins all one dayers & only 1 2 dayer but scrapes into finals, would they not prefer finals to be one dayers, and vice versa. (Even tho I know the finals will be 2 dayers).
2. How many sections will this be in?
3. If all sections, then how many sections will we have, and will clubs have 2 teams in one section in the lower grades?

We have our new committee now & will be voting on it soon, yet there are alot of ???? hanging over this proposal. I am against it, yet I don't play anymore ( I can hear the tears ), and as most of our committee are players, I will go with them on the decision.
Which ever way we go we will be using up our full 8 votes.

1. Fixtures would be determined by the ASCA committee. Finals would remain 2 day games.
2. All of them AFAIK.
3. That would be worked out after all clubs nominating the number of teams they intend to field and allowing for the introduction of new clubs in to the comp. I would speculate that if the proposal was to get up it would result in 2-4 new sections.

[Jabber]

More premierships will be on offer, which makes it easier to win, which makes it mickey mouse.

Finals are played over 2 days, yet you want to play 7 1dayers, which makes it mickey mouse.

You cry foul that there are too many 2 dayers and can't get enough players, yet there will only be a reduction of only three 2 dayers, only three! which means your apparent problems at keswick of not being able to fill sides will i'm sure not be rectified, which makes it mickey mouse.

More 1dayers means in times of inclement weather entire games will be washed out instead of only a days play, which means more no results, which means mickey mouse.

The more I read into it, the more it seems like a system designed only to apease Keswick, a club that has no junior program that I'm aware of. It seems to me as if Keswick are simply trying to take the easy road instead of creating a junior program to help build your senior stocks.

More premierships does not equate to being easier to win. That is a simpletons logic, much like some ugly guy going to a party full of supermodels and believing he has a better chance of picking up a hotty.

We havent cried foul about anything. This is not just about Keswick being unable to fill sides, this is about a decline in participation common to many clubs.

You suggest Keswick are trying to take an easy road? Clearly you are being ignorant or just naive. Keswick have, in recent years busted their balls to keep the 5th side going. You are also hypocritical, in a previous post you suggest we 'drop' a side, dropping a side is what i would call 'taking the easy road' as opposed to doing your best at keeping it going and taking steps to encourage more people to participate. What is your end game? Clubs to keep dropping sides as they become harder to fill? Follow your logic to completion and you will and up with a comp full of one team clubs.

No results due to inclement weather is something you can not do anything about, hardly mickey mouse. I would suggest games with no result due to the oval being unfit for play, say, as a consequence of too much dirt being dumped on it mid-week is far more compelling evidence of the competition being 'mickey mouse'.

If you do not like the proposal, that is fine, but do not smear a club with your unfounded crap because you disagree.

For the record, you scream 'mickey mouse', you do realise you are playing social, suburban cricket with a 2-piece ball on hard wickets? Many, including myself, would suggest the competition is mickey mouse by default and if you want to be playing 'serious' cricket you should look to district or premier league.

This proposal is not designed to 'appease' Keswick, this is a long term vision for the competition made in what we believe are its best interests. For the record, this is not a Keswick idea, the original concept was suggested a couple of years ago by an executive member on the A&SCA committee.

You guys should spend less time trying to change the rules and more time investing in a junior program, thats how the rest of the clubs are managing the problem - not by changing the rules.

[Gowser]

Changing the fixture is not changing the rules. That is an absurd assertion. Keswick will (and has in the past) explore other options to get new players to the club. To believe a junior program will be the magic cure is retarded.

A junior program is not suitable for many clubs in the competition as many do not have appropriate facilities. And, no, this is not what all the other clubs are doing, just those is a position to do so, are. We have had a junior program previously which resulted in zero new members to our club, if you believe this will solve the problems you believe Keswick are having, then, the Hartlett boys would both be wearing maroon caps when they take the field on a saturday.

Please stop trying to find solutions to another club's perceived problems that you know less than zero about.

[Jabber]

Changing the fixture is not changing the rules. That is an absurd assertion. Keswick will (and has in the past) explore other options to get new players to the club. To believe a junior program will be the magic cure is retarded.

A junior program is not suitable for many clubs in the competition as many do not have appropriate facilities. And, no, this is not what all the other clubs are doing, just those is a position to do so, are. We have had a junior program previously which resulted in zero new members to our club, if you believe this will solve the problems you believe Keswick are having, then, the Hartlett boys would both be wearing maroon caps when they take the field on a saturday.

Please stop trying to find solutions to another club's perceived problems that you know less than zero about.

Its impossible to know minus about something.

So let me get this straight, you are saying on here that getting juniors will not help keswick at all? or as you put it, is 'retarted'?

And not having appropriate facilities is a joke of an excuse - sheidow park has a tin shed, and coro ramblers has nothing more than a few trees that you can piss behind! They both have juniors.

This is a lazy solution for a club that doesnt want to do the hard work.