Grade Cricket

[BMAC]

Torrens torrens torrens!!! All out 77! Just got to adel oval and woodville are 1 fa 117. Stray 82no McNally 26no. A lead of 204!
I assume the last 5 west torrens bats didn't respect their wickets or what???
Well deserved win by woodville.

[BMAC]

Game officially over!!!!

[heater31]

Torrens torrens torrens!!! All out 77! Just got to adel oval and woodville are 1 fa 117. Stray 82no McNally 26no. A lead of 204!
I assume the last 5 west torrens bats didn't respect their wickets or what???
Well deserved win by woodville.

With West Torrens 5 down overnight it would be only the bowlers left any way

[bulldogproud2]

Torrens torrens torrens!!! All out 77! Just got to adel oval and woodville are 1 fa 117. Stray 82no McNally 26no. A lead of 204!
I assume the last 5 west torrens bats didn't respect their wickets or what???
Well deserved win by woodville.

Of course the players respected their wickets - who wouldn't in a Grand Final??
We just have to admit that Ken Skewes bowled far too well for us today, ending up with 6/19.
A richly deserved premiership to the Peckers - congratulations!
Fight hard again next year, Eags. We are not far away from the premiership.
On a side note, well done to Luke on his first Grand Final and to Andy for finishing his career in fine style (after seven Grand Finals) - great umpiring throughout the match.
Cheers

[Aerie]

A bit kind there bulldogproud. 6 knicks through to slips, the majority of them flashy drives or hard handed pushes wasn't good. The equivalent of being 6 goals up in the 2nd qtr and being beaten by 10. Disappointing.

[Dogwatcher]

Read it here first: Peckers top of the SACA tree!

http://wp.me/p1Tnfg-Is

[bulldogproud2]

Read it here first: Peckers top of the SACA tree!

http://wp.me/p1Tnfg-Is

A well-written accurate article.
Cheers

[Dogwatcher]

SACA lower grades winners

http://wp.me/p1Tnfg-Ix

[Dogwatcher]

Penfield Central District seeks a coach:

http://wp.me/p1Tnfg-Il

[beeroclock]

Check out the u/16 whites GF.
Prospect chased down 172 and won 9 down.
Amazing game of cricket to watch.

[Footy Smart]

Premier League word is out again, clubs already talking about the possible sides etc etc Still discussing the Whites grades future....

all happening!

[heater31]

Premier League word is out again, clubs already talking about the possible sides etc etc Still discussing the Whites grades future....

all happening!

2 division structure, all grades follow the A grade?

[Footy Smart]

Premier League word is out again, clubs already talking about the possible sides etc etc Still discussing the Whites grades future....

all happening!

2 division structure, all grades follow the A grade?

From what I have heard it will be a stand alone 6 team (zoned sides) comp starting mid Sept. play for 12 weeks roughly. IMO its a waste of time as many of the better players wont want to be a part of it and if they dont play the standard is dilluted. Not to mention some Zones will be stronger than others. What grounds to the play on? Who coaches, assists the team? What happens to those coaches/volunteers grade clubs? Who pays the additional associated costs?

[beeroclock]

Get rid of D grade cricket for starters.

[heater31]

Get rid of D grade cricket for starters.

Yep another constructive post


For some clubs you are right that grade is a blight on the club but others use it for development of kids that are 16 years old and need to adjust to playing 80 overs of cricket against adults. Port Adelaide have major trouble ahead of them as they had the oldest average age of any team in that grade last season (Would be pushing late 20's), The Sturts, Kensingtons, Tea Tree Gully and Adelaide would have teams struggling to get above an average of 20


In other news, Adelaide CC have their AGM in May the earliest I have ever seen it in my almost 10 years at the club I shouldn't laugh as I started a pre season fitness program this week also.

One would assume this Premier Concept would be heavily discussed at committee level, plus the usual issues of where to get the $$$ for each season.

[Aerie]

Get rid of D grade cricket for starters.

D Grade has its place but should be a shorter competition played when College Cricket has a break. Maybe from mid-November up to Australia Day.

Obviously no club wants to merge or fold but somehow they need to get it down to 10 clubs maximum. I think this would be better than bringing in 6 Super League teams or whatever the talk is.

[The Hound]

Get rid of D grade cricket for starters.

Yep another constructive post


For some clubs you are right that grade is a blight on the club but others use it for development of kids that are 16 years old and need to adjust to playing 80 overs of cricket against adults. Port Adelaide have major trouble ahead of them as they had the oldest average age of any team in that grade last season (Would be pushing late 20's), The Sturts, Kensingtons, Tea Tree Gully and Adelaide would have teams struggling to get above an average of 20


In other news, Adelaide CC have their AGM in May the earliest I have ever seen it in my almost 10 years at the club I shouldn't laugh as I started a pre season fitness program this week also.

One would assume this Premier Concept would be heavily discussed at committee level, plus the usual issues of where to get the $$$ for each season.

I think you will find Heater that with this Premier League talk ACC are just trying to get on the front foot as a couple of the executive are stepping down from the committee and they want to have things in place just in case, hence the reason the AGM has been called earlier

[Bulls forever]

Get rid of D grade cricket for starters.

Yep another constructive post


For some clubs you are right that grade is a blight on the club but others use it for development of kids that are 16 years old and need to adjust to playing 80 overs of cricket against adults. Port Adelaide have major trouble ahead of them as they had the oldest average age of any team in that grade last season (Would be pushing late 20's), The Sturts, Kensingtons, Tea Tree Gully and Adelaide would have teams struggling to get above an average of 20


In other news, Adelaide CC have their AGM in May the earliest I have ever seen it in my almost 10 years at the club I shouldn't laugh as I started a pre season fitness program this week also.

One would assume this Premier Concept would be heavily discussed at committee level, plus the usual issues of where to get the $$$ for each season.

Heater, would have thought you would be all over this, bit hard to run a club without a President, now Ian has stepped down, the logical step would be to run your AGM to elect a new one, I take it that this is not you.

[beeroclock]

Get rid of D grade cricket for starters.

Yep another constructive post


For some clubs you are right that grade is a blight on the club but others use it for development of kids that are 16 years old and need to adjust to playing 80 overs of cricket against adults. Port Adelaide have major trouble ahead of them as they had the oldest average age of any team in that grade last season (Would be pushing late 20's), The Sturts, Kensingtons, Tea Tree Gully and Adelaide would have teams struggling to get above an average of 20


In other news, Adelaide CC have their AGM in May the earliest I have ever seen it in my almost 10 years at the club I shouldn't laugh as I started a pre season fitness program this week also.


More than the fair share of clubs use it as income.
Make that all clubs use it as income.
Its bloody ridiculous because half the time they would be taking players from junior levels to fill a D grade side.
Juniors wanna play junior cricket.
Sure the quality junior players are already in the seniors which is fair enough.
Kids also want to enjoy cricket with their mates and it is completely disrespectful not to recognize this.
If they don't enjoy it they leave.
Is that constructive enough for you?

[smac]

Perhaps better utilising the $50k grant from SACA could help clubs be the elite clubs they are supposed to be?