Para District Cricket Association 2008/2009

[blackcat]

Heard that Para Teachers might be folding. Struggling to get enough numbers to field 1 senior team

[Lightning McQueen]

Heard that Para Teachers might be folding. Struggling to get enough numbers to field 1 senior team

What has happened out there then, they had 4 sides only a couple of years ago.

Judging by the possible gradings list that the clubs were distributed last week, it appears that Central Districts have not nominated any teams. A bit sad considering they were one of the dominant sides not too long ago.

Salisbury North at this stage have been given the opportunity to be promoted to div. 2, is there any news on who they've picked up?

[norm11]

Heard that Para Teachers might be folding. Struggling to get enough numbers to field 1 senior team

What has happened out there then, they had 4 sides only a couple of years ago.

Judging by the possible gradings list that the clubs were distributed last week, it appears that Central Districts have not nominated any teams. A bit sad considering they were one of the dominant sides not too long ago.

Salisbury North at this stage have been given the opportunity to be promoted to div. 2, is there any news on who they've picked up?

I think central Districts have combined with Penfield. Not sure about sal north

[Browny25]

Sandy Creek v Brahma Lodge in trial games this saturday, both a and b grade.

[norm11]

Sandy Creek v Brahma Lodge in trial games this saturday, both a and b grade.

as of 530 tonight it is still not definetly on yet

[Browny25]

Sandy Creek v Brahma Lodge in trial games this saturday, both a and b grade.

as of 530 tonight it is still not definetly on yet

You playing? few people probably unavailable due to long weekend..

[norm11]

Sandy Creek v Brahma Lodge in trial games this saturday, both a and b grade.

as of 530 tonight it is still not definetly on yet

You playing? few people probably unavailable due to long weekend..

Not playing u guys cause your a graders are away. we will be at nearlly full srength so sibbo was not keen to play us

[Lightning McQueen]

Willaston folded, they were meant to be in Grade 4.

I overheard someone from Eliz East complaining that their A's got put up to div. 4, if they played their best 11 in the A's instead of C's, they'd go allright.

North Pines A's are in div. 5, they asked to get put down into div. 6, wtf.

[Browny25]

Sandy Creek v Brahma Lodge in trial games this saturday, both a and b grade.

as of 530 tonight it is still not definetly on yet

You playing? few people probably unavailable due to long weekend..

Not playing u guys cause your a graders are away. we will be at nearlly full srength so sibbo was not keen to play us

Ah ok, makes sense then.

We are going to have a fairly young side this year I think...

[Lightning McQueen]

Gee weddings suck, in one of the early rounds for this season, we have 6 A Graders going to a wedding and are unavailable for one week. We can only do the replacement rule for 1 player, it leaves us in a bit of a predicament. There are several ways to tackle the situation, just picking the right one is the problem. Do we:

1: Replace them with the next best 6 players and do the same with the B's & C's, potentially risking 3 losses.
2: Do we concede and make sure we don't ruin our lower grades hopes & hope the A's can make up for it.
3: Give some youth the opportunity to see if they are up to it.

I guess it will come down to who we are playing that round. At least my wife made sure that we married on a sunday in between footy & cricket season.

[Lightning McQueen]

Round 1 Grade 1 tips

Salisbury West vs Two Wells: I'm tipping Two Wells simply because they are the reigning premiers, it wouldn't surprise me if Westies get up at home though.
Brahma Lodge vs Sandy Creek: I think Sandy will get up as they'll be better prepared
ATCO vs Virginia: I'll seem contradictory here by picking ATCO, no Secca's for Virginia & I have heard whispers that they are struggling ATM. I think ATCO will feel far more at ease not having to face Seccafien.
One Tree Hill vs Rose & Crown: I'm tipping OTH as they were so keen to stay in Grade 1, maybe some players have returned and because they are at home.

I'll do seperate previews on the top few grades as I get to them, there is not much to go on ATM, only rumours and speculation. Good Luck to all teams, I don't think they could've had a more evenly matched 1st round.

[norm11]

Gee weddings suck, in one of the early rounds for this season, we have 6 A Graders going to a wedding and are unavailable for one week. We can only do the replacement rule for 1 player, it leaves us in a bit of a predicament. There are several ways to tackle the situation, just picking the right one is the problem. Do we:

1: Replace them with the next best 6 players and do the same with the B's & C's, potentially risking 3 losses.
2: Do we concede and make sure we don't ruin our lower grades hopes & hope the A's can make up for it.
3: Give some youth the opportunity to see if they are up to it.

I guess it will come down to who we are playing that round. At least my wife made sure that we married on a sunday in between footy & cricket season.

Play ur best 2 juniors and bring the best 4 others up from the b grade

[Lightning McQueen]

Gee weddings suck, in one of the early rounds for this season, we have 6 A Graders going to a wedding and are unavailable for one week. We can only do the replacement rule for 1 player, it leaves us in a bit of a predicament. There are several ways to tackle the situation, just picking the right one is the problem. Do we:

1: Replace them with the next best 6 players and do the same with the B's & C's, potentially risking 3 losses.
2: Do we concede and make sure we don't ruin our lower grades hopes & hope the A's can make up for it.
3: Give some youth the opportunity to see if they are up to it.

I guess it will come down to who we are playing that round. At least my wife made sure that we married on a sunday in between footy & cricket season.

Play ur best 2 juniors and bring the best 4 others up from the b grade

The draw didn't help our cause too much, all 3 teams have strong opposition for the affected round, damn

[DemonGirl]

So i went down to suss out cricket today and apparently our a grade game could be moved to agarna park?? the council yet again have stuffed around with our oval at the wrong time... it looks terrible. dirt or something else stupid has been dumped all over the ground. So we'll have to wait and see where we're at until tomorrow i guess.

[norm11]

Round 1 Grade 1 tips

Salisbury West vs Two Wells: I'm tipping Two Wells simply because they are the reigning premiers, it wouldn't surprise me if Westies get up at home though.
Brahma Lodge vs Sandy Creek: I think Sandy will get up as they'll be better prepared
ATCO vs Virginia: I'll seem contradictory here by picking ATCO, no Secca's for Virginia & I have heard whispers that they are struggling ATM. I think ATCO will feel far more at ease not having to face Seccafien.
One Tree Hill vs Rose & Crown: I'm tipping OTH as they were so keen to stay in Grade 1, maybe some players have returned and because they are at home.

I'll do seperate previews on the top few grades as I get to them, there is not much to go on ATM, only rumours and speculation. Good Luck to all teams, I don't think they could've had a more evenly matched 1st round.

Two Wells. Hard to pick because not sure about sals west side at the moment.
Sandy Creek.
Virginia. Not sure about these two sides have to go on last years form.
One tree hill. With a decent captain this year should go ok
I heard that seccas is in the a grade at port

[Lightning McQueen]

Round 1 Grade 1 tips

Salisbury West vs Two Wells: I'm tipping Two Wells simply because they are the reigning premiers, it wouldn't surprise me if Westies get up at home though.
Brahma Lodge vs Sandy Creek: I think Sandy will get up as they'll be better prepared
ATCO vs Virginia: I'll seem contradictory here by picking ATCO, no Secca's for Virginia & I have heard whispers that they are struggling ATM. I think ATCO will feel far more at ease not having to face Seccafien.
One Tree Hill vs Rose & Crown: I'm tipping OTH as they were so keen to stay in Grade 1, maybe some players have returned and because they are at home.

I'll do seperate previews on the top few grades as I get to them, there is not much to go on ATM, only rumours and speculation. Good Luck to all teams, I don't think they could've had a more evenly matched 1st round.

Two Wells. Hard to pick because not sure about sals west side at the moment.
Sandy Creek.
Virginia. Not sure about these two sides have to go on last years form.
One tree hill. With a decent captain this year should go ok
I heard that seccas is in the a grade at port

Who's captaining One Tree Hill?

Apparently Virginia are struggling, this happens so often in the PDCA, clubs work their way into Grade 1 then fall to pieces, I hope for their sake that this isn't a re-occurence.

Smithfield did it early nineties, Two Wells mid-nineties, Willaston late nineties, Salisbury North early 2000's & Central District after dominating the comp for a while.

Para Teachers have one side...........in Grade 6, WTF

[blackcat]

I think PTCC might struggle to even field one team. I've even heard that their juniors have folded too.

[Lightning McQueen]

I think PTCC might struggle to even field one team. I've even heard that their juniors have folded too.

Yep, 1 senior team in div. 6 and no juniors.

[Lightning McQueen]

We had a disasterous start to the season. Out of our A & B grade from last year, there were only 9 available for round 1. We had someone do a "no show" in the A's and someone from the C's took off after he had a bat, no one realized he was gone til we took the field. We used 2 juniors in the A's, 3 in the B's and 5 in the C's, roll on round 2.

A Grade
Playford 249 (R.Hannun 3/46 (19 overs)), J.Kulik 2 wickets (15 y.o, A Grade debut). Smithfield 2/30 (approx).

B Grade
ATCO 290 (C.Lowe 3/17).

C Grade
Smithfield 141 (N.Goulding 30, C.Rundle 29, A.Taylor 24) vs North Pines 0/98. Well done to A.Taylor, 13 y.o.

[norm11]

We had a disasterous start to the season. Out of our A & B grade from last year, there were only 9 available for round 1. We had someone do a "no show" in the A's and someone from the C's took off after he had a bat, no one realized he was gone til we took the field. We used 2 juniors in the A's, 3 in the B's and 5 in the C's, roll on round 2.

A Grade
Playford 249 (R.Hannun 3/46 (19 overs)), J.Kulik 2 wickets (15 y.o, A Grade debut). Smithfield 2/30 (approx).

B Grade
ATCO 290 (C.Lowe 3/17).

C Grade
Smithfield 141 (N.Goulding 30, C.Rundle 29, A.Taylor 24) vs North Pines 0/98. Well done to A.Taylor, 13 y.o.

c Rundle in the c grade whats going on?