Adelaide Turf Cricket Association 2009-10

[azzaisbest]

Have noticed a few Hope Valley B graders in the runs lately, just wondering how close they are to promotion?

Thats a bit nasty azzaisbest. With some B graders making runs, it would be silly not to promote inform batsmen.

yes some strage things do happen at HV. i believe last year out of form C grade batsmen were dropped to the B grade and vice versa with B graders making scored and being promoted to the C grade!

Pumba.....was only thinking of you the other night when i was looking at my premiership medals So how have you been mate, still see that your A's are in C1. Thought with there being a vacancy in B3 you guys would have wanted to come up and fill the void in a better comp. Pity, might have been the only way to get your boys up the grades

[on_a_length]

Heard on the infamous grape vine that a certain ex Aust / State player might be having a game or two with para hills ? can anyone confirm or deny????

Greg Blewett this week according to the ATCA site. Will it be only the one game or more does anyone know?

[Masha]

Thats a bit nasty azzaisbest. With some B graders making runs, it would be silly not to promote inform batsmen.

So at para hills you would promote a B grader who has just hit one 50 into the A's , no questions asked???

We have promoted for less!!

You certainly have...when I was out at Para Hills a few years back I made 2 runs in the D grade, next match I was opening for the A grade. Go figure.

[Dr Turf]

Does anyone know why the SACA Grade cricket continue their competition on the Adelaide Test Match weekend but Adelaide Turf choose not to play and instead have the week off?????????????????????

[heater31]

Does anyone know why the SACA Grade cricket continue their competition on the Adelaide Test Match weekend but Adelaide Turf choose not to play and instead have the week off?????????????????????

Check your facts it is only the A grade have a game the other 3 have the week off. mind you its only the XXXX Gold Cup game on so no great loss there.


This years Adelaide Test Match is going to be one of the poorest attendances ever. Nobody I know is going and I will be using the spare afternoon on the Golf Course

[Plumb]

Thats a bit nasty azzaisbest. With some B graders making runs, it would be silly not to promote inform batsmen.

So at para hills you would promote a B grader who has just hit one 50 into the A's , no questions asked???

We have promoted for less!!

You certainly have...when I was out at Para Hills a few years back I made 2 runs in the D grade, next match I was opening for the A grade. Go figure.

Your a special case Marshy, your too good a bloke to have in any other grade!!

[Plumb]

Heard on the infamous grape vine that a certain ex Aust / State player might be having a game or two with para hills ? can anyone confirm or deny????

Greg Blewett this week according to the ATCA site. Will it be only the one game or more does anyone know?

At this stage it's just the one game.

[Dr Turf]

Does anyone know why the SACA Grade cricket continue their competition on the Adelaide Test Match weekend but Adelaide Turf choose not to play and instead have the week off?????????????????????

Check your facts it is only the A grade have a game the other 3 have the week off. mind you its only the XXXX Gold Cup game on so no great loss there.


This years Adelaide Test Match is going to be one of the poorest attendances ever. Nobody I know is going and I will be using the spare afternoon on the Golf Course

Exactly my point Heater. Still no clearer from your vague answer! Definately didnt answer my question.
You obviously dont know too many people then if no one you know is going.
Maybe you should spend the spare afternoon, reading the question so you understand it more before you answer it!
And yes it will be one of the poorest attendances ever, that wouldnt have anything to do with one half of the ground being unavailable due to the new grandstand being constructed would it?

[bloods08]

Does anyone know why the SACA Grade cricket continue their competition on the Adelaide Test Match weekend but Adelaide Turf choose not to play and instead have the week off?????????????????????

Thats a question you may have to put on the grade cricket thread.

[Senor Moto Gadili]

Does anyone know why the SACA Grade cricket continue their competition on the Adelaide Test Match weekend but Adelaide Turf choose not to play and instead have the week off?????????????????????

Pretty simple really. ATCA decision not to play on weekend of Adelaide Test is based on input from the clubs who make up ATCA. Bottom line is that the majority of clubs do not want to play this weekend. If you think we should be playing then make sure your club delegate puts forward a case to play. It can always be changed for next year.

[Masha]

Heard on the infamous grape vine that a certain ex Aust / State player might be having a game or two with para hills ? can anyone confirm or deny????

Greg Blewett this week according to the ATCA site. Will it be only the one game or more does anyone know?

At this stage it's just the one game.

Plumb with the weather likely to cancel this weekends game, will he be shift his 1 game commitment to another game?

[heater31]

Does anyone know why the SACA Grade cricket continue their competition on the Adelaide Test Match weekend but Adelaide Turf choose not to play and instead have the week off?????????????????????

Check your facts it is only the A grade have a game the other 3 have the week off. mind you its only the XXXX Gold Cup game on so no great loss there.


This years Adelaide Test Match is going to be one of the poorest attendances ever. Nobody I know is going and I will be using the spare afternoon on the Golf Course

Exactly my point Heater. Still no clearer from your vague answer! Definately didnt answer my question.
You obviously dont know too many people then if no one you know is going.
Maybe you should spend the spare afternoon, reading the question so you understand it more before you answer it!
And yes it will be one of the poorest attendances ever, that wouldnt have anything to do with one half of the ground being unavailable due to the new grandstand being constructed would it?

How is my answer vague. Simply that it is the A Grade that is playing on the Saturday and it is only for the One day Competition.

Any way if the a over whelming majority of clubs vote right and we have a washout this weekend the Turf clubs will be joining them leaving only 396 Grade Cricketers to attend the Test Match

[trev]

Just announced on ATCA website all games cancelled.

[Dr Turf]

Good on ya Adelaide Turf once again waiting until the last minute before making a decision on playing this week (Dec 5th) when the decision should have been made last Saturday once we knew the emergency committee called the Nov 28th game off due to bad weather.

This year in total we have now played five weeks of cricket and missed out on five (4x Weather) & (1x Adelaide Turf Vote to play). I doubt this has ever happened before.
Surely The Emergency Committee can overule the Adelaide Turf Clubs 10% or more (not in favour of playing this Dec 5th) vote on the One Day game missed (Nov 28th) and re-schedule it for an up coming Sunday?

If we are going to see ourselves as the benchmark of Amateur Cricket and second to District Cricket in the State why not set that example and play the game we miss out on, instead of missing the whole weekend for a test match.
There is five days to go and watch a test match, it only takes one day to play a round of cricket.

Does anyone know when the Adelaide Turf Twenty20 fixture will appear? Isn't it supposed to start next Tuesday? Surely they are not leaving this until the last minute too?

[catchit]

Good on ya Adelaide Turf once again waiting until the last minute before making a decision on playing this week (Dec 5th) when the decision should have been made last Saturday once we knew the emergency committee called the Nov 28th game off due to bad weather.

This year in total we have now played five weeks of cricket and missed out on five (4x Weather) & (1x Adelaide Turf Vote to play). I doubt this has ever happened before.
Surely The Emergency Committee can overule the Adelaide Turf Clubs 10% or more (not in favour of playing this Dec 5th) vote on the One Day game missed (Nov 28th) and re-schedule it for an up coming Sunday?
If we are going to see ourselves as the benchmark of Amateur Cricket and second to District Cricket in the State why not set that example and play the game we miss out on, instead of missing the whole weekend for a test match.
There is five days to go and watch a test match, it only takes one day to play a round of cricket.

Does anyone know when the Adelaide Turf Twenty20 fixture will appear? Isn't it supposed to start next Tuesday? Surely they are not leaving this until the last minute too?

its not that hard hey.. gotta laugh sometimes..

[Bag & Sledge]

Good on ya Adelaide Turf once again waiting until the last minute before making a decision on playing this week (Dec 5th) when the decision should have been made last Saturday once we knew the emergency committee called the Nov 28th game off due to bad weather.

This year in total we have now played five weeks of cricket and missed out on five (4x Weather) & (1x Adelaide Turf Vote to play). I doubt this has ever happened before.
Surely The Emergency Committee can overule the Adelaide Turf Clubs 10% or more (not in favour of playing this Dec 5th) vote on the One Day game missed (Nov 28th) and re-schedule it for an up coming Sunday?
If we are going to see ourselves as the benchmark of Amateur Cricket and second to District Cricket in the State why not set that example and play the game we miss out on, instead of missing the whole weekend for a test match.
There is five days to go and watch a test match, it only takes one day to play a round of cricket.

Does anyone know when the Adelaide Turf Twenty20 fixture will appear? Isn't it supposed to start next Tuesday? Surely they are not leaving this until the last minute too?

its not that hard hey.. gotta laugh sometimes..

Why didn't they vote it on a majority rules scenario instead of a 90% to 10% ratio???

[bulldogs]

Good on ya Adelaide Turf once again waiting until the last minute before making a decision on playing this week (Dec 5th) when the decision should have been made last Saturday once we knew the emergency committee called the Nov 28th game off due to bad weather.

This year in total we have now played five weeks of cricket and missed out on five (4x Weather) & (1x Adelaide Turf Vote to play). I doubt this has ever happened before.
Surely The Emergency Committee can overule the Adelaide Turf Clubs 10% or more (not in favour of playing this Dec 5th) vote on the One Day game missed (Nov 28th) and re-schedule it for an up coming Sunday?
If we are going to see ourselves as the benchmark of Amateur Cricket and second to District Cricket in the State why not set that example and play the game we miss out on, instead of missing the whole weekend for a test match.
There is five days to go and watch a test match, it only takes one day to play a round of cricket.

Does anyone know when the Adelaide Turf Twenty20 fixture will appear? Isn't it supposed to start next Tuesday? Surely they are not leaving this until the last minute too?

its not that hard hey.. gotta laugh sometimes..

Why didn't they vote it on a majority rules scenario instead of a 90% to 10% ratio???

think you will find in the bylaws that a change to the programe needs a 90% yes vote. Im with Dr Turf lets play on a sunday to make up for the loss of last rnd.

[Jimmy_041]

I have heard that PAOC have acquired the services of Matty Elliott this season.

Has now been confirmed.

I found out the connection today - his son goes to PAC

[Shark_Hunter]

Good on ya Adelaide Turf once again waiting until the last minute before making a decision on playing this week (Dec 5th) when the decision should have been made last Saturday once we knew the emergency committee called the Nov 28th game off due to bad weather.

This year in total we have now played five weeks of cricket and missed out on five (4x Weather) & (1x Adelaide Turf Vote to play). I doubt this has ever happened before.
Surely The Emergency Committee can overule the Adelaide Turf Clubs 10% or more (not in favour of playing this Dec 5th) vote on the One Day game missed (Nov 28th) and re-schedule it for an up coming Sunday?
If we are going to see ourselves as the benchmark of Amateur Cricket and second to District Cricket in the State why not set that example and play the game we miss out on, instead of missing the whole weekend for a test match.
There is five days to go and watch a test match, it only takes one day to play a round of cricket.

Does anyone know when the Adelaide Turf Twenty20 fixture will appear? Isn't it supposed to start next Tuesday? Surely they are not leaving this until the last minute too?

its not that hard hey.. gotta laugh sometimes..

Why didn't they vote it on a majority rules scenario instead of a 90% to 10% ratio???

think you will find in the bylaws that a change to the programe needs a 90% yes vote. Im with Dr Turf lets play on a sunday to make up for the loss of last rnd.

From what I heard they only had about 60% of the vote anyway. Lots of blokes had planned to have the weekend off and would have been unavailable. We would have been happy to play in A1 - our opponents reckoned they would have lost 1/2 their side if we'd played this weekend! Same would have happened to our B grade though...

[Silky Johnson]

Good on ya Adelaide Turf once again waiting until the last minute before making a decision on playing this week (Dec 5th) when the decision should have been made last Saturday once we knew the emergency committee called the Nov 28th game off due to bad weather.

This year in total we have now played five weeks of cricket and missed out on five (4x Weather) & (1x Adelaide Turf Vote to play). I doubt this has ever happened before.
Surely The Emergency Committee can overule the Adelaide Turf Clubs 10% or more (not in favour of playing this Dec 5th) vote on the One Day game missed (Nov 28th) and re-schedule it for an up coming Sunday?

If we are going to see ourselves as the benchmark of Amateur Cricket and second to District Cricket in the State why not set that example and play the game we miss out on, instead of missing the whole weekend for a test match.
There is five days to go and watch a test match, it only takes one day to play a round of cricket.

Does anyone know when the Adelaide Turf Twenty20 fixture will appear? Isn't it supposed to start next Tuesday? Surely they are not leaving this until the last minute too?

You're assuming that people don't have to work there Dr Turf.... the majority of people are more likely to only have 2 days to watch the test, so if we go back to playing on Test weekend that would become 1 day.

I agree that we have missed a lot of cricket this year & that is extremely disappointing, but unfortunately that's life in a game that can be affected by the weather (although don't get me started on the heat rule - it's a summer sport so we should be playing unless it's too wet & not missing out because it's too hot).

But these days I'd much rather be free to go to the test match & I'd prefer to have Sundays free as well. I played Grade (district) cricket for 10 years & it was great to have the test match weekend off (which the ATCA didn't at that time). The only reason the A Grade play on test match weekend now is because the SACA wanted to remove as much Sunday cricket as possible from the program. Going back 10 years ago the A/B grade players were playing as many as 8 Sundays a season & a lot of the older players were moving to ATCA clubs to get away from Sunday cricket.

I suspect you're suggesting this as more of a one-off measure in reaction to having the test match off, but where would you draw the line? Would we then reschedule every day that we miss? And would you still call for us to play on the test match weekend if we were playing England & not the West Indies??