Bulls forever wrote:The Hound wrote:Bulls forever wrote:the star wrote:Have spoken with someone involved in selecting the sides and no side has been confirmed.
Leave RT alone "Star". Don't know what all the hype is around the selection of the squads, probably more about who has decided not to nominate rather than who has, after all, my info is squads will be around 24, so 96 SACA players in the 4 squads, gee you would be unlucky if you missed out, there are only 143 players playing grade cricket every week. Hey that might even be around the number they want playing A Grade cricket every week, 110 ??????????
The you have the NT nymphs, which I can almost guarantee will be supplemented by local players and the PNG pirates who I believe will also have some SA imports.
It is looking more like SACA should have listened in January 2011 when the Grade Clubs said they would look at restructure, probably be completed by now.
Shame, Shame, Shame.
BF, just wondering what official proposal the SACA grade committee put forward? apart from making noises on the number of days their players would be available for them outside of PL.
TH, my info is that nothing has been put forward by the Grade Clubs, various submissions by various clubs, but the general move seems to be inevitable that unless the number of grade clubs is reduced, Premier League stays where it is. If rumors are to be believed, the Grade Cricket committee is doing a review, but more importantly SACA is doing a review, headed by Shane Berhardt, involving Bob Zadow, Nathan Adcock, Martin Faull. The SACA review is the significant one, as it will come back with recommendations involving the future of Grade Cricket, change structures, reduce teams, review junior set up, etc. etc. I am quite confident that the major recommendation will be a reduction in grade clubs, then the hard part will come. How that is achieved. That is why, if SACA had listened in Jan 2011, the implementation would be upon us. My info is the Grade Cricket internal is just lip service by Carver to the Board.
TH, sorry where I say nothing, it was basic opposition to the PL based on numerous grounds, mainly in that it would be in opposition to Grade Cricket. SACA have come back with very little if any played on same days, but the pudding will be in the eating, ie when the programs are released.
We may need to discuss this over a beer at Perty BF but the Grade committee said they would look at a restructure in Jan 2011 and have not put one official peice of paper as a collective in front of the SACA since then. SACA announce they will do PL and the Grade committee look at the negatives, yet they have done nothing apart from some clubs putting their view points across to the Grade committee, which would of had oppostion from oppostion clubs.
The proof will be if the mid twenties grade cricketer who has missed out on a redbacks contract nominaties to play in the PL, that is where the strength/depth of the PL will come from.
