Adelaide Hills Cricket 2012/13 (HCA, TVCA, A&EH)

[jackpot jim]

Langhorne Creek over Strath have a feeling the Creeks boys will have a few ins

Would have to be a few pretty signifigant 'INs' for the Creeks to roll Strath.
Creeks only had 4 of last years GF side front for their R1 clash last week.
The 7 missing were -
Tarque - GONE to SCIB
Lewis-Burns - ?? Presumably GONE ??
Rothe - NOT playing this year
Clements - GONE back to Kensington for now
Golding - Serving a suspension til round 5
Dellatore - Rumoured to be playing but hasn't been seen
Zanker - Gone fishing ??

others -

M.Tonkin - ???
Chandler - work committments / travelling
Ben Warren - Still celebrating Norwoods premiership win. may play a game or 2 ??
Darren Lehmann - Retired / Queensland coaching commitments.

A couple of 'INs' out of that lot if they're lucky.

[saintal]

Really enjoyed the comprehensive and well researched TVCA season preview in the Courier yesterday...

[The Bowler]

Nairne to beat Hahndorf but closer than everyone might think
Creeks to have a win over a low scoring Strathalbyn
Ashbourne to have a win against Wistow
Lobethal over Woodside in a tight one

[jackpot jim]

Strath already have 1st inngs points over the Creeks who had a bit better side from last week but didn't work hard enough with the bat after being sent in on a bit of a damp pitch which ddn't excuse them only making 79 in 37 overs.

Whats the go at Lobetbal ? 97 runs for the day in 70 overs?

132 runs for the day at Wistow oval That'd have to be a record low total in a days play there?
Hills ovals dont cut their outfields b4 christmas?

[jumbo20]

How is Stirling looking this season?

[The Bowler]

Whats the go at Lobetbal ? 97 runs for the day in 70 overs?

Lobethal made 1 run less (4 runs if you take off extras) against Woodside than Ashbourne did last week

Looking forward to round 4 - Nairne Vs Woodside - should be an entertaining match

[The Phoenix]

Some very low scores like you say Jackpot Jim! Interesting to see how much quicker all the ovals are next week with a few warm days and an extra mow!
Looks like could be in for an interesting season in A&EH

[Pinarello]

A&EH Round 2

Sat 13 Oct, 20 Oct(1:00 PM) Nairne v Hahndorf Nairne Oval
Sat 13 Oct, 20 Oct(1:00 PM) Langhorne Creek v Strathalbyn Langhorne Creek Oval
Sat 13 Oct, 20 Oct(1:00 PM) Wistow v Ashbourne Wistow Oval
Sat 13 Oct, 20 Oct(1:00 PM) Lobethal v Woodside Lobethal Oval

Tips for Round 2

Nairne - possible outright?
Strath - unless the creeks have a significant amount of "ins"
Wistow - better this year with Willis back, add Judd?
Woodside - will be too good for Lobethal - but Lobey will be better later in the season when they get a few players back
Any other thoughts - Jackpot Jim, Yoda!

I think all 4 of my selections are looking good.

Nairne may yet get the outright - only Hassold stands in the way.
Strath - already beaten the Creek.
Wistow - should make the runs - 132 won't be enough on the wistow hill.
Woodside - 2/30 chasing 67. Lobethal has always been a slow oval, and batsman need to work hard to score runs.

[Yoda]

Pinarello, you were not far off the mark with your tips. Great Stuff

From all reports the grass at Wistow was very long???? can anyone confirm that???

Would be a shame if Wistow cut it low this week and a bit unfair on Ashbourne, if the grass is kept close to the same length it could be a close game with Ashbourne's strong opening bowling attack.

Woodside & Nairne seem to be the form sides in the comp

Creek could they win outright like last year against Strath???? Tough ask but you never know

[jackpot jim]

Creek could they win outright like last year against Strath???? Tough ask but you never know

That would a huge shock if that happened.
Creeks will have to work very hard with the bat to save the match, get a bit of confidence with the bat, hopefully get another player or two back in coming weeks including Golding in Rd 5 as their upcoming games are only going to get tougher.

My semi final tips.
Nairne v Lobethal @ Nairne
Woodside v Strath @ Woodside

Hope i'm wrong but thats what my money would be on at this stage.

[Dutchy]

Looking thru the HCA results.

Bridgewater forfeited B grade but fielded teams in C & D grade WTF?

Meadows again have their 2nd side in the D grade, Why?

Basket Range made 179, with 124 coming from one player

[Alaska]

Looking thru the HCA results.

Bridgewater forfeited B grade but fielded teams in C & D grade WTF?

Meadows again have their 2nd side in the D grade, Why?

Basket Range made 179, with 124 coming from one player

Congrats Dutchy with an first up 50, playing with some real heritage items there.

[flanker]

Dutchman, due to the short notice of Bridgy entering the B Grade draw they agreed to forfeit the opening round as they only made the decision on the eve of the opening day. Meadows struggling big time with numbers and I've heard they are lucky to be fielding 2 teams at all this season so chose to field a d's

[FlyingHigh]

Really enjoyed the comprehensive and well researched TVCA season preview in the Courier yesterday...

Yes, I'm now up with all the latest in the TVCA.

How did things go on the weekend saintal?

[frothin]

Looking thru the HCA results.

Bridgewater forfeited B grade but fielded teams in C & D grade WTF?

Meadows again have their 2nd side in the D grade, Why?

Basket Range made 179, with 124 coming from one player

yeh dutchy as said with bridgey had 2 forfeit there b's, but had players playing c's who will play b's which is kinda stupid. I reckon they should have had to select a b grade even though they werent playing to make the lower grades fairer.

meadows have had a's and d's i believe for atleast 1 yr. and struggle to fill 11 in there d's.

Its sad but the way the hills comps looking we may be looking at a super league very soon with stirling, happy valley, basket range and now bridgey all dropping to b grade. you look at uraidla this yr who are missing 5 from last yrs team and aldgate scratching around and not getting any younger. hopefully happy valley can come back up after winning the b grade last yr.

[Dutchy]

Didnt Meadows win D grade last year and I see they scored 250 on the weekend in the D's?

Just dont think its right to have fringe A graders playing D grade!

Reckon you are right, its time for a super league at least across A&EH/HCA soon.

[Pinarello]

Reckon you are right, its time for a super league at least across A&EH/HCA soon.

I agree with you 100% Dutchy - the sooner a super league is established with A&EH, Hills & TVCA the better.

In terms of Meyer Shield its dead easy, each club is aligned to their current association, and then represents that association at the Meyer shield, and for that matter, all levels of representative cricket, juniors included.

Imagine what an excellent comp it would be - 8 teams per div, promotion/relegation. Clubs would benefit from closer competition within their div, and smaller gaps between the div's. Meadows as an example - very good A grade outfit, surely their fringe or developing players would benefit from a comp stronger than D Grade? Or is this a case of wanting to be big fish, in a small pond?

My 2 cents

[2jox]

I do not neccesarily see that merging the competitions with the current clubs would be a definitive solution. Playing numbers at the respective clubs that are already an issue would continue be so.

While this would never happen, due to individual organisations (clubs) needing to merge, a zonal competetion which consisted of combined clubs would strengthen the playing clubs and the competitons. For example:

Woodside / Onkas - North
Mt Lofty / SCIB - West
Bridgewater / Aldgate - Central
Hahndorf / Mt Barker - East
Meadows / Echunga - South

Etc etc

It would strengthen total playing numbers throughout seniors and juniors, result in a stronger competetion(s). However the issues are obvious as are the hurdles facing any mergers of clubs.

At the end of the day its a system of individual clubs nominating to compete in the desired association and grade so its probably going to continue this way until Hills cricket is non existant.

[frothin]

i don't think you can merge teams together. The reason you play for the team you do is because your all mates and the last thing you want to do is merge with a team you play against, cause let's be honest of your opponents you probably think half of them are idiots. Different story off the field though.

[Pinarello]

Woodside / Onkas - North
Mt Lofty / SCIB - West
Bridgewater / Aldgate - Central
Hahndorf / Mt Barker - East
Meadows / Echunga - South

At the end of the day its a system of individual clubs nominating to compete in the desired association and grade so its probably going to continue this way until Hills cricket is non existant.

As you have stated - It won't happen, as no club is going to "vote" itself out of existence, even if only in part.

Woodside have now entered another team in A&EH - so they have 6 senior sides - clearly they DON'T need to merge with anyone!

Hahndorf & Mt Barker merger.... not likely, be a cold day in hell!

Meadows/Echunga - also not likely. The Mylor experiment was worthwhile, & I understand that Mylor did not want to not exist anymore, and that is fair enough.

In terms of A&EH - Both Nairne & Woodside are "powerhouse" clubs, and good luck to them. Their committee's have obviously worked hard to take these clubs to where they are now. While some smaller clubs continue to shoot themselves in the foot! For example the club that nominated 3 teams, forfeited their lowest team on Saturday, struggled to fill their 2nd team (with juniors and blokes playing their 1st ever game) so what happens now..... do they go back to the association and say sorry guys we don't have the players for a 3rd team, so we go through another competition re-draw. Clearly they should have "sured" up their playing stocks (last season) and not assumed they would be returning. Incompetence, arrogance and mis-management!!