Para District Cricket Association 2008/2009

[norm11]

always love a sly dig at sandy hey catchit? Jealousy is a curse. When you have so many junior sides as they do you need plenty of coaches . Its called working as a team and looking forward and having a future at the club (as Two Wells has not till this year) I give them 2 more years tops

[catchit]

always love a sly dig at sandy hey catchit? Jealousy is a curse. When you have so many junior sides as they do you need plenty of coaches . Its called working as a team and looking forward and having a future at the club (as Two Wells has not till this year) I give them 2 more years tops

always love a dig at anyone mr cricket.. and there is nothing sly about it...far from jealous there will always be a two wells side.. 113 who is your batting coaches?didnt ratters play?

[norm11]

Norm, very first thing I heard from the A grade was you and Sewell reported, then someone from the game said it was only a warning. Apparently it was a very interesting day in terms of the umpiring!

I think 20/20 has to have some presence now. And the way the bottom 2 in grade 1 seem to get demolished year in year out weakens the standard in our flagship grade so I agree with the idea of a 6 team comp with 20/20 as part of it. In the lower grades we have a lot of kids and older guys who would in the former's case enjoy 20/20 and the latter provide some rest. I think the result would be extending some guys PDCA careers a year or two longer, and perhaps getting some more kids involved.

I can however see the problem with 20/20 in the top grades negating the better players. Given finals are 2 day games and we're already talking 20 days cricket with a 5/5/5 concept would it be better to go for 5/10 or just straight up 10 2 day games and then finals for grade 1 (and 2?). It might make things awkward with lower grades being a different format but I think with a bit or organisation and perhaps an expansion of the super sub rule to cater it could work.

Can we talk about the umpiring openly on here?

[norm11]

always love a sly dig at sandy hey catchit? Jealousy is a curse. When you have so many junior sides as they do you need plenty of coaches . Its called working as a team and looking forward and having a future at the club (as Two Wells has not till this year) I give them 2 more years tops

always love a dig at anyone mr cricket.. and there is nothing sly about it...far from jealous there will always be a two wells side.. 113 who is your batting coaches?didnt ratters play?

Dont have batting coaches mate

[leftarmoffie]

where's daniel jenner and andrew lydeamore gone?? jenner was very overrated and lydeamore bowled left arm pies

[catchit]

always love a sly dig at sandy hey catchit? Jealousy is a curse. When you have so many junior sides as they do you need plenty of coaches . Its called working as a team and looking forward and having a future at the club (as Two Wells has not till this year) I give them 2 more years tops

always love a dig at anyone mr cricket.. and there is nothing sly about it...far from jealous there will always be a two wells side.. 113 who is your batting coaches?didnt ratters play?

Dont have batting coaches mate

just seen the bunyip he did..

[norm11]

where's daniel jenner and andrew lydeamore gone?? jenner was very overrated and lydeamore bowled left arm pies

DJ at Gawler Centrals , Lydeamore at Ingle Farm

[norm11]

always love a sly dig at sandy hey catchit? Jealousy is a curse. When you have so many junior sides as they do you need plenty of coaches . Its called working as a team and looking forward and having a future at the club (as Two Wells has not till this year) I give them 2 more years tops

always love a dig at anyone mr cricket.. and there is nothing sly about it...far from jealous there will always be a two wells side.. 113 who is your batting coaches?didnt ratters play?

Dont have batting coaches mate

just seen the bunyip he did..

Did you play the first game

[norm11]

what perthetic pay out

[leftarmoffie]

where's daniel jenner and andrew lydeamore gone?? jenner was very overrated and lydeamore bowled left arm pies

DJ at Gawler Centrals , Lydeamore at Ingle Farm

were they the heart and soul of the rosie A grade?? did they keep them competitive??

[norm11]

where's daniel jenner and andrew lydeamore gone?? jenner was very overrated and lydeamore bowled left arm pies

DJ at Gawler Centrals , Lydeamore at Ingle Farm

were they the heart and soul of the rosie A grade?? did they keep them competitive??

I think so . But thats only my opinion.

[leftarmoffie]

where's daniel jenner and andrew lydeamore gone?? jenner was very overrated and lydeamore bowled left arm pies

DJ at Gawler Centrals , Lydeamore at Ingle Farm

were they the heart and soul of the rosie A grade?? did they keep them competitive??

I think so . But thats only my opinion.

ur a handy cricketer norm11 so ud have a fair idea of what ur on bout

[leftarmoffie]

where's daniel jenner and andrew lydeamore gone?? jenner was very overrated and lydeamore bowled left arm pies

DJ at Gawler Centrals , Lydeamore at Ingle Farm

were they the heart and soul of the rosie A grade?? did they keep them competitive??

I think so . But thats only my opinion.

ur a handy cricketer norm11 so ud have a fair idea of what ur on bout

[norm11]

Thank Twin have i played against you at some stage?

[leftarmoffie]

Thank Twin have i played against you at some stage?

yeah u have mate, on a few occasions and maybe with me too

[norm11]

Thank Twin have i played against you at some stage?

yeah u have mate, on a few occasions and maybe with me too

Got me thinking now i hate that it hurts

[leftarmoffie]

Thank Twin have i played against you at some stage?

yeah u have mate, on a few occasions and maybe with me too

Got me thinking now i hate that it hurts

Being a smart man like u it shouldnt hurt too much lol

[norm11]

you cant just run away after that

[Lightning McQueen]

Under 11's play for 1 hour & 25 mins or 25 overs each, 13's, 15's & 16's play 44 overs each.

44 overs is to much for 13 & 15 year olds.. to many every day kids would get bored after 30 tops.. only the die hards love the longer form of the game and those are the ones who should be be introduced to district cricket at a early age..

It's not too long mate, when you have to rotate kids to make sure they are all getting a hit and a bowl, it works out pretty well, kids get turned off when they go 3 or 4 weeks without having a hit. One day games are crap for the older kids, the more advanced kids usually bat for the majority of the time and bowl the most overs.

The problem with juniors is everyone wants to bat 5,6 or 7, that way they don't have to open and face the better bowling and they don't want to bat too low. We have a club rule whether it be A Grade, womens or under 13's that you don't bat 9,10 or 11 unless you are in the first 3 bowlers. It works and we don't get any complaints from players who think they are not getting the opportunity.

[Lightning McQueen]

The 6 team comp got squashed because it was poorly explained at the AGM, ALL of the top 2 division clubs should have been invited to the initial discussions, opposed to the small group that thought they were on a winner. It became a us against them situation rather than coming to an amicable decision.

I think that it has strong merit and should be discussed at the next PDCA meeting, half of the problem was working out gradings for div.1, they couldn't really drop 4 teams down to div. 2 to allow Virginia & ATCO to be promoted and there seemed to be no fair solution. However, if it set in concrete early this year, they could have the top 5 stay up, the div. 2 premiers get promoted and keep it as 1 up, 1 down for future years.

One Tree Hill were strongly opposed to it as they were going to be relegated and really wanted to stay up, I could see thier point, if they knew earlier in the year the requirements to retain their spot in div. 1, they'd have no leg to stand on.

It's been a bit of a dog's breakfast with the grading's etc. so far this year, there's not a lot that can be done now, we should all just make sure that we are better prepared as an association next season and be more proactive as clubs in the running and laws of the PDCA.

Your on the money LM The meeting in early April was set up by the PDCA and 4 clubs. The BL delegate put it to the floor at the last PDCA meeting that if any club wanted to join in and have discussions regarding changing formats please contact him or Frank. 4 clubs did Tw SW C and Vir with the latter not coming. I agree, not much information was given out before the AGM which dissapointed the 4 clubs and the PDCA. The OTH delegate acted very poorly and considering the way they performed in the last game of 2008, they should be in grade 6.I believe the 4 clubs must again act but need more to come on board. The writing is on the wall after 3 weeks. Forfeits, massive scores, sides struggling to field teams, the kids programme changed in every grade. mmmmmm dark days ahead change we must ,use the force basil

Well I'm surprised that you agreed with me given my low "IQ" as per your previous post. My understanding was that your delegate was going to get in touch with our delegate along with some others and come up with a few draft plans to present at the AGM, apparently we weren't notified and it was sprung on us at the AGM, we were going to support it, it just seemed thrown together on the night, our delegate didn't cast a vote as it was going to have no bearing on us at all.

We all need to get the wheels in motion now to be ready for next season. I must say, the PDCA have done well so far, they were let down by a few clubs pulling junior sides out far too late. It's not rocket science, if you have 20+ kids, you put 2 teams in, if you have any less, you put 1 team in, if you have less than 5, pull your side out.

We don't advertise as we can't cater for excessive amounts of kids, 1 team in each grade is enough, no extra grounds, coaches, scorers, umpires etc. We'd prefer to have 8 players than 14, as we know we'll pick a couple up along the way and everybody gets a game every week.

As for OTH, I was surprised to hear that they were so passionate about staying in div. 1, they were pretty poor at times during the season, I thought some re-building in div. 2 would've helped them immensely.