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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Tony Clifton » Sun Feb 03, 2019 3:59 pm

Lightning McQueen wrote:I’m not sure how you think throwing money at a junior program is going to help them, they’re junior training structure is excellent and A Graders don’t mind going out and helping with one on ones.
They’ve struggled for so long now there’s no attraction to go out there when there’s Woodville & Torrens just down the road, their only help to be more competitive is to get rid of whites in the 16’s at least.

Not enough kids playing cricket in their area

Only one turf club and one hard wicket club down there and I don't think either are particularly strong for juniors. Not like clubs like Brighton, Walkerville or Unley who have junior teams coming out of their ears and the nearby grade clubs can draw from them.

Don't think many schools play either.

Doesn't matter (much) what Port does at their club for the kids. Just don't have the talent or the numbers coming through the door. Other clubs turn away dozens of kids and have to run trials.
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby The Dark Knight » Sun Feb 03, 2019 4:29 pm

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Lightning McQueen wrote:I’m not sure how you think throwing money at a junior program is going to help them, they’re junior training structure is excellent and A Graders don’t mind going out and helping with one on ones.
They’ve struggled for so long now there’s no attraction to go out there when there’s Woodville & Torrens just down the road, their only help to be more competitive is to get rid of whites in the 16’s at least.

Not enough kids playing cricket in their area

Only one turf club and one hard wicket club down there and I don't think either are particularly strong for juniors. Not like clubs like Brighton, Walkerville or Unley who have junior teams coming out of their ears and the nearby grade clubs can draw from them.

Don't think many schools play either.

Doesn't matter (much) what Port does at their club for the kids. Just don't have the talent or the numbers coming through the door. Other clubs turn away dozens of kids and have to run trials.

Can't disagree with that in terms of the numbers playing cricket in our area TC whether at clubs or schools.

Without knowing the participation numbers I've felt like the numbers playing cricket have dropped off significantly in our area since I and then my brother started playing juniors and then into seniors.
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Tony Clifton » Sun Feb 03, 2019 6:06 pm

Sturt and Kensington through the one day grand final. Both fairly comfortable wins in the semis today
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Port Pirie Power » Sun Feb 03, 2019 8:22 pm

Tony Clifton wrote:Sturt and Kensington through the one day grand final. Both fairly comfortable wins in the semis today


Kensi’s looking like the team to beat this year, top of the ladder in the red ball stuff and in a good spot vs TTG in that game to cement top spot and now into the 50 over GF. Looks like they’re coming back with a vengeance after a poor year to their standards last season.
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Eagles2014 » Sun Feb 03, 2019 8:59 pm

Port Pirie Power wrote:
Tony Clifton wrote:Sturt and Kensington through the one day grand final. Both fairly comfortable wins in the semis today


Kensi’s looking like the team to beat this year, top of the ladder in the red ball stuff and in a good spot vs TTG in that game to cement top spot and now into the 50 over GF. Looks like they’re coming back with a vengeance after a poor year to their standards last season.


Agree. Think they have benefited from having their State players available most of the year. Grant and Opie best opening bowling combo, Dalton and Ross not played all year for Redbacks, Pope when available. Good all round team with no weaknesses, new coach with new voice has been a recipe for success also lately. Think they favourites to beat Sturt, and think Adelaide the only danger in Two day comp if Valente plays.
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Tony Clifton » Mon Feb 04, 2019 10:20 am

Could Glenelg and/or University step up into the Women's A Grade competition next season?
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Lightning McQueen » Mon Feb 04, 2019 10:39 am

Tony Clifton wrote:Could Glenelg and/or University step up into the Women's A Grade competition next season?

Uni have been ready for a while, they'd rather have two teams in the B Grade though.
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby The Hound » Mon Feb 04, 2019 11:46 am

Lightning McQueen wrote:
Tony Clifton wrote:Could Glenelg and/or University step up into the Women's A Grade competition next season?

Uni have been ready for a while, they'd rather have two teams in the B Grade though.


Glenelg keen too (subject to SACA approval), plan was to go straight into A Grade 3 seasons ago, SACA said no!
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Eagles2014 » Mon Feb 04, 2019 3:38 pm

Tony Clifton wrote:Bays under the pump

Only made 234 and Sturt are 2/150 with 20 overs to go. Davis and Tom Kelly both in on fifty


Another Semi Final loss to Glenelg, must be starting to be a mental thing now as be the third year in a row in all comps if they cant get job done in 2 day comp. Obviously have the talent in minor round to get job done as been ultra consistent, but key batters failing in the big games is killing them, no more so than Jake Winter who is probably their most important player.

Last ten innings in all the finals over this period:

Winter - 6,3,0,13,20,15,1,25,28 (only one out of 10 got going)
Bullimore - 22,2,4,7,4,15 (6 fails)
Irvine - 7,20,25,4,1,10 (6 fails)
Roach - 16,19,1,0,1,20 (6 fails)

Plant cant keep going forever and Hoffman quit, got good junior program so hopefully some more good young ones coming thru to stay up the top.
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Port Pirie Power » Mon Feb 04, 2019 5:31 pm

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Tony Clifton wrote:Bays under the pump

Only made 234 and Sturt are 2/150 with 20 overs to go. Davis and Tom Kelly both in on fifty


Another Semi Final loss to Glenelg, must be starting to be a mental thing now as be the third year in a row in all comps if they cant get job done in 2 day comp. Obviously have the talent in minor round to get job done as been ultra consistent, but key batters failing in the big games is killing them, no more so than Jake Winter who is probably their most important player.

Last ten innings in all the finals over this period:

Winter - 6,3,0,13,20,15,1,25,28 (only one out of 10 got going)
Bullimore - 22,2,4,7,4,15 (6 fails)
Irvine - 7,20,25,4,1,10 (6 fails)
Roach - 16,19,1,0,1,20 (6 fails)

Plant cant keep going forever and Hoffman quit, got good junior program so hopefully some more good young ones coming thru to stay up the top.


At least there getting there and in finals contention I suppose.

Reckon if they’re counting on Roach making runs then they are battling big time with the top four that they’ve got.

Funny game cricket, had they snuck through the T20 semi then who knows how the final and future weeks couldve played out.
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby cokadonkeytoo » Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:03 pm

Is there a time deadline for Premier clubs to have their mycricket information in by?? If not, why cant they implement it?? If so, what's the deadline??
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Tony Clifton » Mon Feb 04, 2019 8:24 pm

Didn't Roach get runs in the semi last year? Or maybe that was the year before.

Glenelg FC were sick of losing finals under Mark Mickan. Got rid of him. Solved their losing finals problem! :D
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Eagles2014 » Mon Feb 04, 2019 8:31 pm

cokadonkeytoo wrote:Is there a time deadline for Premier clubs to have their mycricket information in by?? If not, why cant they implement it?? If so, what's the deadline??


Reckon it is by Tuesday, think clubs get fined if not done.
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Iron Fist » Tue Feb 05, 2019 12:31 pm

Eagles2014 wrote:Was interesting going thru Port's team today, trying to work out how many of their juniors they had playing in the 1st Grade, could only come up with one - Aussie Umpherston?

Woodville - Benton, Sayers, Carter, McDonald
Glenelg - Kerr
Northerns - Giniotis
Uni - Cooper
Adelaide - Garlick
Unsure- Dilley and Jordy Thomas

Wonder why other Clubs get pi55ed off with them. Instead of trying to buy an A Grade flag, why not put that money towards their junior development programmes. We do this as we don't pay any players, then we find out they are targeting our gun recruit for next year and offered him big coin already. Weeksy is a sly dog, gotta watch him like a hawk as he targets so many players from other Clubs every year!


Sayers - played juniors for Port until he dad stopped coaching.
Benton was playing B's when he came to ports
Kerr - dont believe he was getting a A grade gig when he came over. (I could be wrong on him though)
Cooper (well Uni's dont have juniors so cant be any complaints from them)
Dilley grew up in NT - only ever played for Ports in South Australia.
Jordy Thomas - as someone else is a port junior.

So 4 blokes from the side you were looking at didnt play Juniors at port.

Great work by Weeksy and Finnie!!
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Eagles2014 » Wed Feb 06, 2019 9:40 am

Iron Fist wrote:
Eagles2014 wrote:Was interesting going thru Port's team today, trying to work out how many of their juniors they had playing in the 1st Grade, could only come up with one - Aussie Umpherston?

Woodville - Benton, Sayers, Carter, McDonald
Glenelg - Kerr
Northerns - Giniotis
Uni - Cooper
Adelaide - Garlick
Unsure- Dilley and Jordy Thomas

Wonder why other Clubs get pi55ed off with them. Instead of trying to buy an A Grade flag, why not put that money towards their junior development programmes. We do this as we don't pay any players, then we find out they are targeting our gun recruit for next year and offered him big coin already. Weeksy is a sly dog, gotta watch him like a hawk as he targets so many players from other Clubs every year!


Sayers - played juniors for Port until he dad stopped coaching.
Benton was playing B's when he came to ports
Kerr - dont believe he was getting a A grade gig when he came over. (I could be wrong on him though)
Cooper (well Uni's dont have juniors so cant be any complaints from them)
Dilley grew up in NT - only ever played for Ports in South Australia.
Jordy Thomas - as someone else is a port junior.

So 4 blokes from the side you were looking at didnt play Juniors at port.

Great work by Weeksy and Finnie!!


Yep great work by Weeksy and Finnie, if that's the way you want to go, awesome! Seems the plan every year has been to ring around 10 to 15 players at the end of season from other Clubs, guys who have played 1st Grade, may be stuck in 2nd Grade looking for more opportunities, offer them the world and 1st Grade games and go from there. Easier than giving your good juniors a go and developing them I suppose.

We had all 11 players on the weekend come from our junior program and no player older than Kelvin at 24. Short term pain for long term gain. Not take the easy cop out option that Port continue to do year after year.

Worked in our favour with Bailey Hann though, offered him the world and played no games. At least Port paid his $800 subs he owed us for last two years so we would clear him, and got rid of the pushy parents who thought he should have been playing for Redbacks. Win, win there!

Weeksy may deny approaching Kamau after our 20/20 thrashing of them, but he said "that big guy over there wants to meet me this week to discuss playing for them next season" and pointing straight at him. Funny that!!
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Lightning McQueen » Wed Feb 06, 2019 10:15 am

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Yep great work by Weeksy and Finnie, if that's the way you want to go, awesome! Seems the plan every year has been to ring around 10 to 15 players at the end of season from other Clubs, guys who have played 1st Grade, may be stuck in 2nd Grade looking for more opportunities, offer them the world and 1st Grade games and go from there. Easier than giving your good juniors a go and developing them I suppose.

We had all 11 players on the weekend come from our junior program and no player older than Kelvin at 24. Short term pain for long term gain. Not take the easy cop out option that Port continue to do year after year.

Worked in our favour with Bailey Hann though, offered him the world and played no games. At least Port paid his $800 subs he owed us for last two years so we would clear him, and got rid of the pushy parents who thought he should have been playing for Redbacks. Win, win there!

Weeksy may deny approaching Kamau after our 20/20 thrashing of them, but he said "that big guy over there wants to meet me this week to discuss playing for them next season" and pointing straight at him. Funny that!!


Yeah, you are right, he should've just sat on his hands and done nothing, continued to exist with no success and rolled over when the SACA forced them to merge.
Weeksy is a champion of a bloke who like most of us would, do anything to not only keep his club alive but to make it successful.
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Iron Fist » Wed Feb 06, 2019 11:21 am

Eagles2014 wrote:
Iron Fist wrote:
Eagles2014 wrote:Was interesting going thru Port's team today, trying to work out how many of their juniors they had playing in the 1st Grade, could only come up with one - Aussie Umpherston?

Woodville - Benton, Sayers, Carter, McDonald
Glenelg - Kerr
Northerns - Giniotis
Uni - Cooper
Adelaide - Garlick
Unsure- Dilley and Jordy Thomas

Wonder why other Clubs get pi55ed off with them. Instead of trying to buy an A Grade flag, why not put that money towards their junior development programmes. We do this as we don't pay any players, then we find out they are targeting our gun recruit for next year and offered him big coin already. Weeksy is a sly dog, gotta watch him like a hawk as he targets so many players from other Clubs every year!


Sayers - played juniors for Port until he dad stopped coaching.
Benton was playing B's when he came to ports
Kerr - dont believe he was getting a A grade gig when he came over. (I could be wrong on him though)
Cooper (well Uni's dont have juniors so cant be any complaints from them)
Dilley grew up in NT - only ever played for Ports in South Australia.
Jordy Thomas - as someone else is a port junior.

So 4 blokes from the side you were looking at didnt play Juniors at port.

Great work by Weeksy and Finnie!!


Yep great work by Weeksy and Finnie, if that's the way you want to go, awesome! Seems the plan every year has been to ring around 10 to 15 players at the end of season from other Clubs, guys who have played 1st Grade, may be stuck in 2nd Grade looking for more opportunities, offer them the world and 1st Grade games and go from there. Easier than giving your good juniors a go and developing them I suppose.

We had all 11 players on the weekend come from our junior program and no player older than Kelvin at 24. Short term pain for long term gain. Not take the easy cop out option that Port continue to do year after year.

Worked in our favour with Bailey Hann though, offered him the world and played no games. At least Port paid his $800 subs he owed us for last two years so we would clear him, and got rid of the pushy parents who thought he should have been playing for Redbacks. Win, win there!

Weeksy may deny approaching Kamau after our 20/20 thrashing of them, but he said "that big guy over there wants to meet me this week to discuss playing for them next season" and pointing straight at him. Funny that!!


Congratulations on Torrens having all 11 players being former juniors. They have a good junior program and Im sure almost every side in SACA would be envious of them.
I know Port are trying everything to make there juniors stronger but as has been said before the demographics of the port adelaide area means that they dont get as many juniors coming through as other clubs.
Why arent you on here whinging that all 11 of Uni's A graders aren't juniors and were poached from other clubs?
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Eagles2014 » Wed Feb 06, 2019 11:43 am

Lightning McQueen wrote:
Eagles2014 wrote:
Yep great work by Weeksy and Finnie, if that's the way you want to go, awesome! Seems the plan every year has been to ring around 10 to 15 players at the end of season from other Clubs, guys who have played 1st Grade, may be stuck in 2nd Grade looking for more opportunities, offer them the world and 1st Grade games and go from there. Easier than giving your good juniors a go and developing them I suppose.

We had all 11 players on the weekend come from our junior program and no player older than Kelvin at 24. Short term pain for long term gain. Not take the easy cop out option that Port continue to do year after year.

Worked in our favour with Bailey Hann though, offered him the world and played no games. At least Port paid his $800 subs he owed us for last two years so we would clear him, and got rid of the pushy parents who thought he should have been playing for Redbacks. Win, win there!

Weeksy may deny approaching Kamau after our 20/20 thrashing of them, but he said "that big guy over there wants to meet me this week to discuss playing for them next season" and pointing straight at him. Funny that!!


Yeah, you are right, he should've just sat on his hands and done nothing, continued to exist with no success and rolled over when the SACA forced them to merge.
Weeksy is a champion of a bloke who like most of us would, do anything to not only keep his club alive but to make it successful.


Agree, top bloke, and all Clubs need people like that who will do anything for the Club.

Just don't go around denying you have approached players, when facts are you have. That's all.

If they agree to go and Port want to dish out the coin to get it done, all fair play.
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Trader » Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:04 pm

Eagles2014 wrote:
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Eagles2014 wrote:
Yep great work by Weeksy and Finnie, if that's the way you want to go, awesome! Seems the plan every year has been to ring around 10 to 15 players at the end of season from other Clubs, guys who have played 1st Grade, may be stuck in 2nd Grade looking for more opportunities, offer them the world and 1st Grade games and go from there. Easier than giving your good juniors a go and developing them I suppose.

We had all 11 players on the weekend come from our junior program and no player older than Kelvin at 24. Short term pain for long term gain. Not take the easy cop out option that Port continue to do year after year.

Worked in our favour with Bailey Hann though, offered him the world and played no games. At least Port paid his $800 subs he owed us for last two years so we would clear him, and got rid of the pushy parents who thought he should have been playing for Redbacks. Win, win there!

Weeksy may deny approaching Kamau after our 20/20 thrashing of them, but he said "that big guy over there wants to meet me this week to discuss playing for them next season" and pointing straight at him. Funny that!!


Yeah, you are right, he should've just sat on his hands and done nothing, continued to exist with no success and rolled over when the SACA forced them to merge.
Weeksy is a champion of a bloke who like most of us would, do anything to not only keep his club alive but to make it successful.


Agree, top bloke, and all Clubs need people like that who will do anything for the Club.

Just don't go around denying you have approached players, when facts are you have. That's all.

If they agree to go and Port want to dish out the coin to get it done, all fair play.


Please help me out here, as I'm totally lost.

The way I'm reading your comments is as follows:

"We aren't happy that Port Adelaide are trying to 'poach' Kamau off us, that's unfair"
But the only reason you have Kamau is because you 'poached' him off Walkerville?
So why is it ok for you guys to take him from Walkerville, but not ok for Port to try and get him? Especially when you consider he's played a full season for Walkerville but hasn't played a Saturday game for you guys?
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Eagles2014 » Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:36 pm

You have been around the traps a long time Trader, you surely know how it works, you are not that dumb and just being a smart alec I know!

These players come from overseas to play cricket, but they get sucked in and don't realise half the time what comp they are going to be playing in. Told playing A1, top competition, blah, blah. Find out its a third rate comp that is worse than B Grade cricket these days, with ordinary facilities and crap pitches. They get duped.

Now he is rapt to come back and play in the highest comp available in SA at a top club.

Hope you are no longer "lost" now Trader, we only got permission from Walkerville to play our three Friday night 20/20 games, no poaching at all, they were more than happy with this!!
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