Where has Cricket gone Wrong for South Australia..?

[GWW]

adcock as capt. somes it up 4 me where were going wrong !

The rot set in way before he was made captain.

[Ecky]

Everyone needs to keep in mind that we have less than 1/10th the population of Australia, but are one of 6 states. So there will naturally be less talent coming through our ranks than the other states (except Tasmania).

Okay then Ecky how do you explain Tassie winning the shield last year?

And Australias performances at the Olympics where we can can consitantly outperform countries like Germany, France, Spain, Brazil, the UK, Canada etc in terms of medals. On a per head of population we out perform China, Russia and the US.

Success at the elite sport level is not based purely on popualtion (it is an important factor I'll grant you) but it can be overcome with good development programs, effective underpinning competitions (were SA is lacking IMO), good coaching, good admin, good talent ID and good support services.

Australia has the best high performacne sport models in the world no excuse for not getting the structures and frameworks in place to correct those.

I was just making the point that we would have less natural talent coming through than other states. All the other factors you mention obviously contribute to success, but by having less talent to choose from, it makes it harder for us to be competitive assuming those other factors are similar between the states (which I suspect they are). Tasmania has always had a high proportion of imported players, which has helped them to be competitive.