Para Districts Cricket Association 2010-11

[Phantom Gossiper]

Hearing that Matt Rogers is leaving has come to a shock to me, loads of talent but has achieved nothing in PDCA. What could possibly be his excuse? Or have i answered my own question?

Believe i heard its because he feels himself he is under-achieving especially with the bat and he believes in order to perform or improve he needs to go back and challenge himself more at district level.

[catchit]

Hahaha i cant remember..

How about how you got home? Or your driving the porcelain bus the next morning

Was looking like along walk untill a total stranger picked us up at 4am, a hour later and this stranger would of been cleaning the best power spew off his dash

[Phantom Gossiper]

Was looking like along walk untill a total stranger picked us up at 4am, a hour later and this stranger would of been cleaning the best power spew off his dash

LMAO!!! he was probably scared for his life seeing some big drunken tattooed bloke waving him down!

[whufc]

Hearing that Matt Rogers is leaving has come to a shock to me, loads of talent but has achieved nothing in PDCA. What could possibly be his excuse? Or have i answered my own question?

He picked up 6 wickets in round 1, players under-estimate the transition for turf to hard-wicket, if you think you can go out there and knock up tons from the outset you will be mistaken.
I don't think it has anything to do with ability and I'm sure after some time in the middle he would've found some form. Good luck to him and his plight to play A Grade district, I'd like to look in the Sunday Mail soon and see his name in there with some impressive returns.

Hey LM i know the bowling depth question has already been raised BUT we played your B Grade on the weekend and from what i saw i dont think there was any bowlers there who could step up to Div 1, the opening bowler who was also the captain was handy (and a top bloke as well) but at Div 1 would probably only bowl 5th in the one dayers but he unfortunalty doesnt hold the bat to well. Apart from him the rest of the attack was barely up to Div3 standard.

I dont mean to be rude just an observation and obviously i dont know who you had in and out and so forth.

Will add it was great to read Jordan Webb go well with the bat the bat on the weekend. I grew up with his 2 older brothers as i lived on the same street as them for 6 years. Logan the oldest brother was a very handy junior cricketer.

[OKC!]

Hearing that Matt Rogers is leaving has come to a shock to me, loads of talent but has achieved nothing in PDCA. What could possibly be his excuse? Or have i answered my own question?

Believe i heard its because he feels himself he is under-achieving especially with the bat and he believes in order to perform or improve he needs to go back and challenge himself more at district level.

TTG have only played one game this year due to weather, They have asked him to come back out and play and he thinks that it is probably best if he does for his cricket in the future. Annoying that he is leaving, but when you see the level of cricket compared to district, you cant really see why he would stay.

Coming from turf myself this year, it does take a game or two to adjust back to hard wicket, and im sure a big score would have been round the corner.

I wish him well at TTG again, just hope that he makes it worth it and comes out with a decent year!

OTH went into the season not knowing that Matt was a part of the side, only to get a call one night before the game, we still believe we can compete with any team and will be a force come finals!

[catchit]

Hearing that Matt Rogers is leaving has come to a shock to me, loads of talent but has achieved nothing in PDCA. What could possibly be his excuse? Or have i answered my own question?

Believe i heard its because he feels himself he is under-achieving especially with the bat and he believes in order to perform or improve he needs to go back and challenge himself more at district level.

Yeah i am abit confused with this one, he must of thought he would dominate and now thinks its because of the standard.. to me he is letting the oth boys down, ya cant just pack up after 3 games and desert ya mates.. IMO..

[catchit]

Was looking like along walk untill a total stranger picked us up at 4am, a hour later and this stranger would of been cleaning the best power spew off his dash

LMAO!!! he was probably scared for his life seeing some big drunken tattooed bloke waving him down!

I can assure you i was more scared than him, he spoke like he just left a man to man club and probaly thought the big drunk bloke would take it hard... I wasnt that drunk...

[Lightning McQueen]

Hey LM i know the bowling depth question has already been raised BUT we played your B Grade on the weekend and from what i saw i dont think there was any bowlers there who could step up to Div 1, the opening bowler who was also the captain was handy (and a top bloke as well) but at Div 1 would probably only bowl 5th in the one dayers but he unfortunalty doesnt hold the bat to well. Apart from him the rest of the attack was barely up to Div3 standard.

I dont mean to be rude just an observation and obviously i dont know who you had in and out and so forth.

Will add it was great to read Jordan Webb go well with the bat the bat on the weekend. I grew up with his 2 older brothers as i lived on the same street as them for 6 years. Logan the oldest brother was a very handy junior cricketer.

That's a fair oservation, our A's had to go in with an extra bowler as Raed couldn't play week 2, so Newman and him went the sub. Hodgie can only play every 2nd week atm so that makes it hard for him. Young Knapp would've tried to bowl too fast and would've sprayed them everywhere I'd imagine. I just looked and seen that Alex Taylor didn't get a bowl which I don't understand either. Pete and Doug Collis were both unavailable which further retarded our line-up.
Looking at the bigger picture, we had a player come out to training who will bolster the B grade bowling stocks, when we get near full strength it wont be too much of an issue, it was known that we were going to struggle in the B's as far as bowling this game.
Young Jordan done very well, he'll be moving up the order no doubt.

[Merki the God]

Hearing that Matt Rogers is leaving has come to a shock to me, loads of talent but has achieved nothing in PDCA. What could possibly be his excuse? Or have i answered my own question?

Believe i heard its because he feels himself he is under-achieving especially with the bat and he believes in order to perform or improve he needs to go back and challenge himself more at district level.

Yeah i am abit confused with this one, he must of thought he would dominate and now thinks its because of the standard.. to me he is letting the oth boys down, ya cant just pack up after 3 games and desert ya mates.. IMO..

You can after one game!

[Gunnerson]

Hearing that Matt Rogers is leaving has come to a shock to me, loads of talent but has achieved nothing in PDCA. What could possibly be his excuse? Or have i answered my own question?

Believe i heard its because he feels himself he is under-achieving especially with the bat and he believes in order to perform or improve he needs to go back and challenge himself more at district level.

TTG have only played one game this year due to weather, They have asked him to come back out and play and he thinks that it is probably best if he does for his cricket in the future. Annoying that he is leaving, but when you see the level of cricket compared to district, you cant really see why he would stay.

Coming from turf myself this year, it does take a game or two to adjust back to hard wicket, and im sure a big score would have been round the corner.

I wish him well at TTG again, just hope that he makes it worth it and comes out with a decent year!

OTH went into the season not knowing that Matt was a part of the side, only to get a call one night before the game, we still believe we can compete with any team and will be a force come finals!

I dont see Adam Ozlins leaving after a average start to the year? i personly think there will be a couple OTH boys looking in the paper and hoping to see single figures against his name.

[OKC!]

Hearing that Matt Rogers is leaving has come to a shock to me, loads of talent but has achieved nothing in PDCA. What could possibly be his excuse? Or have i answered my own question?

Believe i heard its because he feels himself he is under-achieving especially with the bat and he believes in order to perform or improve he needs to go back and challenge himself more at district level.

TTG have only played one game this year due to weather, They have asked him to come back out and play and he thinks that it is probably best if he does for his cricket in the future. Annoying that he is leaving, but when you see the level of cricket compared to district, you cant really see why he would stay.

Coming from turf myself this year, it does take a game or two to adjust back to hard wicket, and im sure a big score would have been round the corner.

I wish him well at TTG again, just hope that he makes it worth it and comes out with a decent year!

OTH went into the season not knowing that Matt was a part of the side, only to get a call one night before the game, we still believe we can compete with any team and will be a force come finals!

I dont see Adam Ozlins leaving after a average start to the year? i personly think there will be a couple OTH boys looking in the paper and hoping to see single figures against his name.

You dont see Ozlins having a career in A Grade District either, its not what he wants to do. I Guarentee you that if he did want to further himself in cricket, he wouldn't be playing Para Districts. No one from OTH wants him to fail.

[whufc]

Hey LM i know the bowling depth question has already been raised BUT we played your B Grade on the weekend and from what i saw i dont think there was any bowlers there who could step up to Div 1, the opening bowler who was also the captain was handy (and a top bloke as well) but at Div 1 would probably only bowl 5th in the one dayers but he unfortunalty doesnt hold the bat to well. Apart from him the rest of the attack was barely up to Div3 standard.

I dont mean to be rude just an observation and obviously i dont know who you had in and out and so forth.

Will add it was great to read Jordan Webb go well with the bat the bat on the weekend. I grew up with his 2 older brothers as i lived on the same street as them for 6 years. Logan the oldest brother was a very handy junior cricketer.

That's a fair oservation, our A's had to go in with an extra bowler as Raed couldn't play week 2, so Newman and him went the sub. Hodgie can only play every 2nd week atm so that makes it hard for him. Young Knapp would've tried to bowl too fast and would've sprayed them everywhere I'd imagine. I just looked and seen that Alex Taylor didn't get a bowl which I don't understand either. Pete and Doug Collis were both unavailable which further retarded our line-up.
Looking at the bigger picture, we had a player come out to training who will bolster the B grade bowling stocks, when we get near full strength it wont be too much of an issue, it was known that we were going to struggle in the B's as far as bowling this game.
Young Jordan done very well, he'll be moving up the order no doubt.

Being a small bloke which i am Knappy just tried to take my head off. Luckily for me the only 2 shots i can play is the pull and cut. I was surprised at the lack of pace he got as well, a few of our younger lads said coming into the game that he was fairly nippy but that wasnt the case on the weekend.

Alex Taylor never seen him bowl but boy can the kid field, he was briliant whether it was chasing the ball down, diving to his right or left or throwing in from the boundary. Also was forced to bat late on day when we had only 5 overs left in the day and Binga was storming in.

He was listed to bat at 7 i think but came in at 4 while some of the older blokes in the team sat back and sucked piss. He tried his best but was tough conditions. I thought it was poor form by older members of the side.

[Lightning McQueen]

Adam's had his crack at district, he's returned to the club where he played as a young lad, nothing wrong with that, 64 in round one was a decent start.

[Merki the God]

Hey LM i know the bowling depth question has already been raised BUT we played your B Grade on the weekend and from what i saw i dont think there was any bowlers there who could step up to Div 1, the opening bowler who was also the captain was handy (and a top bloke as well) but at Div 1 would probably only bowl 5th in the one dayers but he unfortunalty doesnt hold the bat to well. Apart from him the rest of the attack was barely up to Div3 standard.

I dont mean to be rude just an observation and obviously i dont know who you had in and out and so forth.

Will add it was great to read Jordan Webb go well with the bat the bat on the weekend. I grew up with his 2 older brothers as i lived on the same street as them for 6 years. Logan the oldest brother was a very handy junior cricketer.

That's a fair oservation, our A's had to go in with an extra bowler as Raed couldn't play week 2, so Newman and him went the sub. Hodgie can only play every 2nd week atm so that makes it hard for him. Young Knapp would've tried to bowl too fast and would've sprayed them everywhere I'd imagine. I just looked and seen that Alex Taylor didn't get a bowl which I don't understand either. Pete and Doug Collis were both unavailable which further retarded our line-up.
Looking at the bigger picture, we had a player come out to training who will bolster the B grade bowling stocks, when we get near full strength it wont be too much of an issue, it was known that we were going to struggle in the B's as far as bowling this game.
Young Jordan done very well, he'll be moving up the order no doubt.

Being a small bloke which i am Knappy just tried to take my head off. Luckily for me the only 2 shots i can play is the pull and cut. I was surprised at the lack of pace he got as well, a few of our younger lads said coming into the game that he was fairly nippy but that wasnt the case on the weekend.

Alex Taylor never seen him bowl but boy can the kid field, he was briliant whether it was chasing the ball down, diving to his right or left or throwing in from the boundary. Also was forced to bat late on day when we had only 5 overs left in the day and Binga was storming in.

He was listed to bat at 7 i think but came in at 4 while some of the older blokes in the team sat back and sucked piss. He tried his best but was tough conditions. I thought it was poor form by older members of the side.

Surely you can't drink during a game? Not setting a good example for the young blokes.

[catchit]

That had nothing to do with mates or cricket merki.. All to do with the afternoon tea that was left behind after somone also left half way through the year, my health comes before cricket

[Lightning McQueen]

Being a small bloke which i am Knappy just tried to take my head off. Luckily for me the only 2 shots i can play is the pull and cut. I was surprised at the lack of pace he got as well, a few of our younger lads said coming into the game that he was fairly nippy but that wasnt the case on the weekend.

Alex Taylor never seen him bowl but boy can the kid field, he was briliant whether it was chasing the ball down, diving to his right or left or throwing in from the boundary. Also was forced to bat late on day when we had only 5 overs left in the day and Binga was storming in.

He was listed to bat at 7 i think but came in at 4 while some of the older blokes in the team sat back and sucked piss. He tried his best but was tough conditions. I thought it was poor form by older members of the side.

Knappy's ability to bowl with consistent pace along with line and length on a week to week basis is his downfall, he is only 16 so there's a fair bit of learning to do. He is a lot quicker when he's pitching the ball up and needs a smarter head at mid-on getting in his ear.
Alex is an exceptional fielder, he bowls a very tidy line and length, makes the batsman play at every ball, it p!sses me off that he doesn't bowl more, probably the fact he's a good lad and doesn't whinge costs him a bowl, I wouldn't blame him for losing interest.

[Lightning McQueen]

Surely you can't drink during a game? Not setting a good example for the young blokes.

Having a beer after 60 overs in the field, nothing wrong with that, there's having a beer and there's getting drunk. Your talking about a couple of 40 year olds playing in a grade that Smithfield never really deserved to be in anyway.

[Merki the God]

Surely you can't drink during a game? Not setting a good example for the young blokes.

Having a beer after 60 overs in the field, nothing wrong with that, there's having a beer and there's getting drunk. Your talking about a couple of 40 year olds playing in a grade that Smithfield never really deserved to be in anyway.

Couldn't they wait another 10 or so overs?

[sports follower]

Being a small bloke which i am Knappy just tried to take my head off. Luckily for me the only 2 shots i can play is the pull and cut. I was surprised at the lack of pace he got as well, a few of our younger lads said coming into the game that he was fairly nippy but that wasnt the case on the weekend.

Alex Taylor never seen him bowl but boy can the kid field, he was briliant whether it was chasing the ball down, diving to his right or left or throwing in from the boundary. Also was forced to bat late on day when we had only 5 overs left in the day and Binga was storming in.

He was listed to bat at 7 i think but came in at 4 while some of the older blokes in the team sat back and sucked piss. He tried his best but was tough conditions. I thought it was poor form by older members of the side.

Knappy's ability to bowl with consistent pace along with line and length on a week to week basis is his downfall, he is only 16 so there's a fair bit of learning to do. He is a lot quicker when he's pitching the ball up and needs a smarter head at mid-on getting in his ear.
Alex is an exceptional fielder, he bowls a very tidy line and length, makes the batsman play at every ball, it p!sses me off that he doesn't bowl more, probably the fact he's a good lad and doesn't whinge costs him a bowl, I wouldn't blame him for losing interest.

Maybe a spot for an experienced former fast bowler LM?

[sports follower]

Surely you can't drink during a game? Not setting a good example for the young blokes.

Having a beer after 60 overs in the field, nothing wrong with that, there's having a beer and there's getting drunk. Your talking about a couple of 40 year olds playing in a grade that Smithfield never really deserved to be in anyway.

Couldn't they wait another 10 or so overs?

Who are you, the COPS?