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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby The Bedge » Fri Aug 26, 2016 11:57 am

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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Bluedemon » Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:31 pm

I heard Richardson and Zampia from ET to Kensington
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby heater31 » Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:34 pm

Bluedemon wrote:I heard Richardson and Zampia from ET to Kensington


Well that is wrong....

Only Richardson confirmed at this stage to West Torrens. Only because the Club suspended his brother for 12 months for attacking a team mate during a pre game warm up :shock:
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Tony Clifton » Tue Aug 30, 2016 12:03 am

Did we ever find out why Rounds 1 and 2 were switched?
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby heater31 » Tue Aug 30, 2016 8:38 am

Tony Clifton wrote:Did we ever find out why Rounds 1 and 2 were switched?

Because Woodville wanted it that way ;)
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby The Bedge » Tue Aug 30, 2016 2:21 pm

I see Adelaide have picked up young Lain Beckett from NSW - handy pickup..
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Browny25 » Tue Aug 30, 2016 3:12 pm

heater31 wrote:
Bluedemon wrote:I heard Richardson and Zampia from ET to Kensington


Well that is wrong....

Only Richardson confirmed at this stage to West Torrens. Only because the Club suspended his brother for 12 months for attacking a team mate during a pre game warm up :shock:


So his brother is going to WT too?
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby maxi » Sat Sep 03, 2016 8:02 pm

Is Joel Garrett returning to the seahorses
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Tony Clifton » Tue Sep 13, 2016 2:46 pm

Is it true that talented country junior cricketers are being told not to travel to Adelaide to play grade cricket?

Too much travel, negatively impacts the local competition if the don't play juniors there, means their parents aren't involved in helping run local competitions and teams etc.
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby The Angry Bull » Tue Sep 13, 2016 4:51 pm

Tony Clifton wrote:Is it true that talented country junior cricketers are being told not to travel to Adelaide to play grade cricket?

Too much travel, negatively impacts the local competition if the don't play juniors there, means their parents aren't involved in helping run local competitions and teams etc.


One would hope it's dependent on circumstances.

We have two lads from Quorn who are exceptionally talented. One, who is 17yo and his been reliably informed by the club he will be playing for that they will give him every opportunity in senior cricket. The other lad, is 15 yo and has been informed that he will be spending a 7 hour round trip to play 16 whites.

The player and his parents do not have the ability nor the want to spend 7 hours on a return trip. They are happy to allow him to play senior cricket and be involved in the Upper North Development program and pending what he does with schooling in a few years time, have a crack at premier cricket.

The 17yo has two brothers who also play for us and their father is the coach of the u/17s and a great club man, to lose his services as coach, barman, cook and everything else he contributes will leave a gaping hole of responsibility for others to step in to.

From personal experience, I was lucky enough to be situated only an hour and a half drive from Adelaide and very supportive parents. It is a significant commitment for a country cricketer to play premier cricket. If they are a genuine talent, you would think they would find the ability to commit, young fellas like the Pengilly's and Angus(?) Judd from Whyalla spring to mind who are all involved, or where involved, with SACA underage programs.
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby The Hound » Wed Sep 21, 2016 6:17 pm

Has the muzzle been put on the WT posters as very quite on here?

Looks like some clubs are picking up English players for the first part of the season, is this to get some early wins to protect themselves from any merger discussions :lol:
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Aeropti » Tue Oct 04, 2016 3:51 pm

The Hound wrote:Has the muzzle been put on the WT posters as very quite on here?

Looks like some clubs are picking up English players for the first part of the season, is this to get some early wins to protect themselves from any merger discussions :lol:

That's been going on for many years amongst a range of clubs?
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Homer J » Tue Oct 04, 2016 8:38 pm

How much longer will SACA persevere with Junior Whites teams?
Hearing another club north of the city will be without 16 whites this season.
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby heater31 » Tue Oct 04, 2016 8:42 pm

Homer J wrote:How much longer will SACA persevere with Junior Whites teams?
Hearing another club north of the city will be without 16 whites this season.

Nothing will change until the number of clubs issue is sorted out! Once that is complete it's onto the Junior structure....
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Tony Clifton » Tue Oct 04, 2016 10:50 pm

Homer J wrote:How much longer will SACA persevere with Junior Whites teams?
Hearing another club north of the city will be without 16 whites this season.

That's a shame to hear.

I wonder if a couple of clubs perhaps suspect the way the wind is blowing in regards to U/16 Whites and aren't going to lose too much sleep over whether their team gets off the ground or not?

The U/16 Whites and D Grade are always the ones spoken about but I worry that if clubs get rid of them then the problems will transfer up.

At the moment those grades absorb the player availability issues and are the most heavily affected when players through the club are away due to higher honours, injury etc. This negatively impacts those grades but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter because it's an average standard and the best players are in U/16 Reds and C Grade or higher.

There is always a pool of players to draw on for C Grade and U/16 Reds. Those grades remain healthy and strong.

I reckon if you take away U/16 Whites and D Grade then the pool of players will diminish and the squeeze on availability will simply be transferred to the U/16 Red and C Grade teams. The lowest teams at a club always scratch around for players.

That's not a ringing endorsement for D Grade and U/16 White cricket I know but until there is a perfectly fluid system of players flowing between community clubs and grade clubs I don't have a better solution.
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Aeropti » Tue Oct 04, 2016 11:46 pm

Can't speak for all clubs but college cricket being played on another dashboard from a Saturday would resolve a lot of problems for a fair few clubs. Bottom 4 or so from the reds would drop down to whites to increase the standard, too.
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Burras » Wed Oct 05, 2016 10:00 am

Aeropti wrote:Can't speak for all clubs but college cricket being played on another dashboard from a Saturday would resolve a lot of problems for a fair few clubs. Bottom 4 or so from the reds would drop down to whites to increase the standard, too.


Agree, cant say that the 16 red standard is as high as it should be these days.
I've seen plenty of kids leapfrog 16's into C/D grade cricket over the past 2/3 years
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Tony Clifton » Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:31 pm

School cricket and Grade club U16's used to be able to coexist. Now it seems there's not enough players to go around.
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Tony Clifton » Sat Oct 08, 2016 10:52 pm

:shock:

A parliamentary inquiry has lifted the lid on the bitter infighting in South Australian cricket’s corridors of power.

The SACA has been beset by ructions that have included a coach leaving with a year on his contract, a high performance manager being contentiously sacked and board members walking away in disgust.

The dysfunction in the nation’s worst-performed cricket state — which has not won a Sheffield Shield in 20 years and has barely produced a Test player in that time — runs all the way to the top, according to former board member Glenn Bain.

Bain has told a parliamentary select committee that he was shunned by fellow board members and was threatened with a lawsuit if he spoke publicly about his resignation in January.

Bain’s testimony to the select committee paints the SACA’s administration as a closed shop that doesn’t deal well with dissent.

It portrays a board as dysfunctional as the Redbacks sides that have failed to win titles in a period of sustained mediocrity.


Full article here

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/cricket/bitter-infighting-holding-back-south-australian-cricket/news-story/8efa7ac3375110025ed5d4e7a2dcedcf
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Re: Grade Cricket

Postby Aerie » Sun Oct 09, 2016 11:53 am

Glad that someone has finally spoken out.

No surprises really. I've said it before and will again, the way this has been handled by the SACA Board is nothing short of a disgrace.

I wonder what the consequences will be?
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