Interesting comments by smac - nice dig at West Torrens!

Footy Smart is spot on - two brothers were from Balaklava I think, played in the Yorke Peninsula team, so were registered by SACA under this name. Three seasons ago were registered by West Torrens without a thought as YP is their zone. Amazing no commonsense was shown by Woodville who lodged the complaint or Andrew Carver from East Torrens who stripped all premiership points without a hearing. Lucky the Grade cricket committee saw the exceptional circumstances involved and that the Club was not at fault.

WT clear all players that want a clearance, if they dont want to play for you, why stop them moving. Unfortunately, Woodville take the opposite approach and refuse everyone, make them front their committee, etc and make it as hard as possible. Think Neil Holton loves causing grief.

Anyway, common sense prevailed, the Ray Sutton kids and families can put the last week of massive stress behind them and hopefully put up a good show in the Grand Final on Sunday.

In hindsight the decision not to bring back the PL players was a distinct advantage to the team that did.

Anyway with this only game played on the weekend if Adelaide jag an outright in their last 2 day fixture and win the last round 1 dayer they could be sweating on results of other games in round 12 (they have the bye) and round 13 (play University) to pinch 4th spot :shock:

Now I'd imagine if this was to transpire there would be some rather irate opposition clubs looking at SACA for allowing just the 1 fixture to get away yesterday....

Must admit full credit to WT ground staff for getting the wicket going not a sign of the amount of rain we had for the past few days. Only downside it robbed you the chance to mow the outfield as if its anything thing like my front lawn its grown an inch since Friday :shock:

WT knew not bringing PL players back would make it tough, but looked at the bigger picture. With Adelaide now a slight chance to play finals, justifies pushing two guys out to fit Lawford and Barnes in.

Trent Kelly did great job, he also prepares Woodville Oval, and that was the other game to go ahead. Trent knew the weather was coming, so had the pitches prepared Wednesday, big covers on, was perfect day for cricket. Good lesson to other curators!

Outfield was slow, grass not mowed on Friday like normal. Thats why Lawford, Barnes, Cabot, etc went over the boundary line instead, was good to watch such clean hitting!