Port Pirie Cricket Asociation

[letsbehonest]

sounds like risdon and south port cricket clubs dont like each other? Dont know how joobs jefferies/cornflour congdon and kit cat kennedy get time to post all of this hilarious stuff. South port not sure whos doing the blogging but could be berty bert crocker/ paul never played a game keane/ geoff im the boss keane / pavvy im the best pavlich or merrett the the madman who doesnt want to play anyway? BUT WE WILL NEVER KNOW. keep blogging fellas as it is bloody hilarious. all we need now is a few high rolling sooks from wandies to join in.

[Squids]

Will anyone come out of the association meeting alive tonight?

[letsbehonest]

why would anyone not come out of a cricket meeting alive? Is there a costapo group there waiting for the cricket people? Bit strange to be having meetings on a Thursday night isnt it? Squids you are obviously involved would you care to elaborate?

[Squids]

Is it okay to use the Port carpark if you did not build it or help maintain it?

[Go the greens]

why would anyone not come out of a cricket meeting alive? Is there a costapo group there waiting for the cricket people? Bit strange to be having meetings on a Thursday night isnt it? Squids you are obviously involved would you care to elaborate?

Is that the Costa Rican version of the Gestapo?

[letsbehonest]

nah chump the italian version.

[whichgrade]

nah chump the italian version.

actually the 'Organizzazione per la Vigilanza e la Repressione dell'Antifascismo' or 'OVRA' were the italian version of the 'gestapo'.

[Squids]

I love talking about axis organisations but lets get back onto the cricket fellas.

No doubling up at all this year, might affect teams that try and stack there champions league teams aye gtg.....

[AD]

No doubling up at all this year, might affect teams that try and stack there champions league teams aye gtg.....

No taking runs off normal deliveries which go to the keeper now.

"You're just a one man team anyway".



GTG- will Matt Thornton be back this season or is he still away?

[Go the greens]

The loss of the double up rule wont really have any effect imho. Its a non issue, I havent seen any year where it has made a scrap of difference as to who wins the B grade flag, last year included (hats off to you tigers).
It will lead to a few more forfeits maybe, thats all, and that will be a shame if it works out that way.

Anyone else's thoughts?

Thornton will be back as i understand it.

[whichgrade]

It will lead to a few more forfeits maybe, thats all, and that will be a shame if it works out that way.

Anyone else's thoughts?

Good point gtg, can't wait to rock up on a saturday morning only to find that theres no game, or we/the other team has 8 players or something like that. I can't believe that 2 of the clubs with a and b grade teams would vote it out.

[AD]

Would hate to see any forfeits. In the end we're paying subs to play the game and to not be able to play because of forfeit would just be shit.

As I understand, the three standalone teams in the B grade voted against the double up? no surprise, but it seems like punishment for teams like us and Sollies who have struggled for numbers recently but at least tried to fill an A Grade and B grade team.

[whichgrade]

Would hate to see any forfeits. In the end we're paying subs to play the game and to not be able to play because of forfeit would just be shit.

As I understand, the three standalone teams in the B grade voted against the double up? no surprise, but it seems like punishment for teams like us and Sollies who have struggled for numbers recently but at least tried to fill an A Grade and B grade team.

Sollies voted it out I think you will find AD

[letsbehonest]

it could also work the other way as well and i guess thats what the clubs where thinking that wanted them out. You may find clubs instead of getting there A grade players to drop down and play B and A grade on the same weekend instead will just play there genuine B graders who are not good enough to play A grade or who want to play B grade cricket on a saturday morning for a bit of fun and a social outing. There were games last year i beleive where genuine B graders were left out of the side so an A grader could play two games on the weekend. I dont think that is fair or is good for the person missing out on a game of B grade cricket. If clubs forfeit because of this rule change they obviously have not got enough players to have two sides so they should withdraw a team or it tells me they are to lazy to get off there bums and go and get players. I think the rule has definitely been abused by certain clubs in the past and certainly dont think that double headers is a good thing for port pirie cricket and ultimately thats what everyone should be trying to achieve the best thing for local cricket. My opinion only of course. Squids and AD you were obviously at the meeting or was told by someone who was there what went on, so was there any strong debating happening?

[letsbehonest]

It will lead to a few more forfeits maybe, thats all, and that will be a shame if it works out that way.

Anyone else's thoughts?

Good point gtg, can't wait to rock up on a saturday morning only to find that theres no game, or we/the other team has 8 players or something like that. I can't believe that 2 of the clubs with a and b grade teams would vote it out.

them clubs obviously thought it was a lot fairer to the B grade competition and dont want genuine B graders missing out on a game of cricket. As i have said in a previous blog if you have to rely on playing double headers then you do not have enough numbers to have an A and B grade side. I mean its like relying on overtime to pay your house loan if you cant pay it out of your normal wage you shouldnt get the house loan because the overtime might stop.

[letsbehonest]

Would hate to see any forfeits. In the end we're paying subs to play the game and to not be able to play because of forfeit would just be shit.

As I understand, the three standalone teams in the B grade voted against the double up? no surprise, but it seems like punishment for teams like us and Sollies who have struggled for numbers recently but at least tried to fill an A Grade and B grade team.

Sollies voted it out I think you will find AD

Maybe if you risdon blokes are so keen you should change the rules so you get your full 35 overs in the B grade and 50 overs in the A grade irrelevant of when you or other teams pass the score you always get a chance to get your full lot of overs. It is obvious you wanted double headers as your club obviously voted to keep them in so if you are all so keen to play two (2) games in the one weekend surely your club would vote to play the full allotted overs available so we all get to play more cricket? So i will expect to hear risdon put a change in for this shortly if they are fair dinkum, If they dont agree with this they are hypocrites!

[Diddy]

A fairer way would be to make the A-graders who are doubling up and playing B-grade to fill in the numbers bat and bowl with their non-preferred hand/arm/leg.

[the bearded wonder]

Good to read the posts fellas Pirie cricket is alive and well. But how does the comp work? 5 1st grade teams and 3 2nd grade who what don't have juniors? How does that work? So the 1st grade promote the game by having junior sides I presume and these other clubs benefit and have a say in how the overall comp is run! A very strange set up. Has it always been this way?

[letsbehonest]

A fairer way would be to make the A-graders who are doubling up and playing B-grade to fill in the numbers bat and bowl with their non-preferred hand/arm/leg.

the clubs just get a chance to use juniors thats all as all clubs carry on about promoting juniors so heres there chance if they need to as there is no restrictions on them.

[AD]

Sollies voted it out I think you will find AD

Really?

I thought they were pretty hard-up for numbers last year in their A grade. Doesn't make sense that they'd do this.

it could also work the other way as well and i guess thats what the clubs where thinking that wanted them out. You may find clubs instead of getting there A grade players to drop down and play B and A grade on the same weekend instead will just play there genuine B graders who are not good enough to play A grade or who want to play B grade cricket on a saturday morning for a bit of fun and a social outing.

It could work that way- I mean when Wandies drop back Matt Thornton and Karl Button, and even Cody Brooke* for a B grade match you know something is up.

*Brooke may very well be just a B grade cricketer at this point in time, but he's definitely going to be an A grader sooner rather than later.

But back on our hand- we have guys like Congdon, Rasheed, Hajisavva, Kennedy doubling up. They are B graders all for their own reasons, who fill in for A grade. They are not A graders dropping back to bolster the B grade. If we dropped back any of the Pines or Twigden that'd be a different story.

As i have said in a previous blog if you have to rely on playing double headers then you do not have enough numbers to have an A and B grade side. I mean its like relying on overtime to pay your house loan if you cant pay it out of your normal wage you shouldnt get the house loan because the overtime might stop.

So what do you propose for that then? If guys like me and a few other lads at RCC can't get a game when the B grade is full, how are we going to play A grade cricket should the B's be scrapped in favour of fielding one team?

On the other hand, say we pull out of the A grade comp- leaving a four team A grade competition. How is that good for cricket in Pirie? Four teams has made A grade hockey in Pirie suffer, it wouldn't be too long a bow to draw that cricket would be the same should that happen.



I wasn't at the meeting, but our club representative has let us know of the goings on. Didn't ask about any heated arguments etc.