Dr Turf wrote: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??
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 
