There have recently been some rumblings of amendments to the playing season based on clubs player availability and aging demographics. Additional to this, there were suggestions of weeks off throughout the season for things like the Adelaide test match. I think since the pandemic, more people are ...

Quote: "Westies won't be offered any concessions.

they will play D3 or exercise their right to stay in D4 but they won't be dropping 2 grades."

What is the difference between Brahma Lodge and Salisbury West, other than the obvious lack of people serving on the executive committee?

Has the League ...

I should say I have also have no sympathy for any club who lives beyond their means.

Any club who earns promotion should have to take it, it shouldn't be optional. If they lived beyond their means to get it then the following year they should suffer if players leave.

Thanks for your support Dogwatcher. At least someone read my post and understood what I was referring to. It seems that the ones from NH don't believe it was a king hit or they are too close to it. If the disputed "king hit" doesn't make my comments legit maybe I should have substituted it with "an ...

Exactly: no mention of St Pauls, Flinders Uni, CU or North Pines in this discussion

Why do these clubs need to be mentioned in this subject. All very middle of the road teams in div 7, at best. So what if they are "A" grade teams playing some "C" grade teams. Results so far show that they are in ...

A couple of records broken so far in the Grade 1 PDCA Comp. Virginia CC 226 opening partnership between Shaun Lay and Ashley Nicholas. Craigmore CC also broke a record a few weeks back for the 5th wicket partnership of 208 between the Parker brothers.

By all reports Shaun Lay hit some pretty big ...

Woody had stated before that he wouldn't play against the Units and as they gained promotion it looks like he is keeping to his word.

PDCA umpired by a pack of yahoos who think the game is about them!?!

How on earth does a club hit MORE runs than the opposition and then lose the game because an umpire decides to apply "penalty runs".

What a disgrace... fancy punishing a whole side over what? An umpire forgetting its not about ...

I am sure that all club would prefer to have juniors as they are the life line of a club. As you say the stumbling points are get volunteers and some of the older areas do have a problem in getting junior players. Clubs in some of the newer areas should be blessed with juniors over the coming years ...

Not sure there has been to many better juniors in their time. I used to occasionaly play a grade up and shit myself whenever he hit the ball in my direction.

He was CU junior??? along with Scott Christie
Yeah, won a 14's premiership for memory with the team scoring 128, he managed a ton himself ...

Lightning McQueen wrote:

The Bedge wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:Did you buy a beer?

Be rude not to

Well that's why they kept you around

$5 a beer is pretty good going though.

And he didn't only buy one beer that day. If play got underway that day would have been interesting to see how most of the players handled it after a few.

This comp is deadset so ******* unorganised and all over the shop it's not funny.

Delegates meeting last night - now decided it's pink 156g balls in Grade 1 and Grade 2 one day matches.. oh wait that's not enough, let's make it 2x balls one from each end like it's ******* Australian ODI cricket ...

Footy Chick wrote:Jamie Jarman has been appointed A grade coach of Central United for 2017 - Good pick for the Units, he'll do good things there.

Who's their kicking coach, not the jam jar as he couldn't kick over one

The bar turns over about $220k a year, if not more and *just* breaks even. When I looked at the MYOB database I calculated that football provides, conservatively, about 65% of that revenue. Approx 50% goes in employee costs - wages, insurance, annual leave, super etc. My very strong position is ...

I've also heard plenty of comments like "If he was from Salisbury West or North he would've got double..."

Let's review the last suspension from SW:

Jones received three suspensions for striking, one for 10 weeks (by knee) , a second for six weeks (by knee) and a third for an elbow. He also ...

The Bedge wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:I appreciate your support but I now think we are wrong.

Well, fair to say really f***ed that one up haha!

Thanks Bedge and LM. I will accept your apology.

Demon Juke wrote:

PortPower2018 wrote:Brahma Lodge Vs Central United Massive Game for me the best teams in div7

You like to mention Brahma a lot for a bloke from Kenilworth

And played for Brahma ones on Saturday, one of the many clubs he has played at.

Tony Clifton wrote:

The Bedge wrote:If you dramatically reduce the number of grade clubs, do you run the risk of losing more players to the game of cricket in general?

Possibly but that's not grade cricket's role

But it SACA's role. It's all based on numbers.

Easy solution. No permits are issued, irrelevant if it is round 1 or finals. Then there are no grey areas or clubs pleading for an out. It is up to the club to manage their players and not go cap in hand to the permit committee when they fail to do so. Then everyone knows where they stand.
You may ...

If I didn't know any better, I'd say the illustrious leader was caught out doing something Wong on the weekend
Player W played B grade round 1 / 16 / 17 / 18, played A grade every round from 2-15, does he play B grade finals if A grade are out?

Surely not - I don't know the permit/rules well ...