Aerie wrote:To rehash an old post and to limit the need to go through the whole scenario of choosing teams to merge or cull - let performance dictate as below.Aerie wrote:Keeping in the October-March time-frame, I reckon you could do something like:
Premier Grade - 8 Teams - Three Trophies
- 3-day comp (Sat + Sat/Sun) 7 Rounds plus 4-day Final (Sat/Sun + Sat/Sun) to finish season
- 1-day comp 7 Rounds (Saturdays) plus Final done by January
- T20 comp 7 Rounds (mid week evenings) Final done by February
- All senior state level players or players aspiring to play state level for that season or the next would play for Premier Grade clubs
A combination of the three competitions above to determine who would have a possibility of being relegated by finishing bottom.
Players playing Premier Grade would play 7 Sunday's, plus Sunday Finals for all 3 competitions over the course of a season.
District Grade - 14 Teams - One Trophy
- Combination of 1-day and 2-day games, 13 Rounds, all played on Saturday's, except for Sat/Sun Semi Final and Final.
- I would add a new team at Mt Barker with the new facilities being currently built - servicing the Hills/Strathalbyn/Murray Bridge etc.
- The 8 Premier Grade teams to field their 2nd Grade in this competition.
- If a 1st Grade team won the premiership, they would be promoted to Premier Grade to replace the bottom team.
Reserve Grade A - Optional Entry to be determined before start of season by each club
- Essentially 3rd Grade/2nd Grade teams, up to clubs if they want to submit a team or their Reserve Grade players play for local clubs.
Reserve Grade B - Optional Entry to be determined before start of season by each club
- Essentially 4th/3rd Grade teams, up to clubs if they want to submit a team or their Reserve Grade players play for local clubs.
Every club to also have a Womens team in a similar set-up.
Juniors, just one U17, U15 and U13 team playing each weekend with fluid player movement between local clubs and grade clubs to ensure everyone is getting a game and the most committed and talented are playing in the Grade teams.
Unnecessarily complicated imo. Cricket Australia would also never let it happen as they wont even let 'premier' cricket be called something different in each state. Also creates a situation where any player with state aspirations has to leave a club if the club has one bad season and gets relegated. Becomes a bit silly if there is a merry go round of players for that reason.
They probably are too many teams but I think the Redbacks would still struggle compared to other states. Simplistic to think it will solve everything by simply removing three teams from the grade competition.