Grade Cricket

[bazza1]

I know for a fact that they have a wealthy benefactor that looks after all player payments. The numbers that have been stated are unders.


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[The Hound]

Ben Turley playing at Port on $12,000 a year for the next two years. Smacks of his financial decision to go to Prospect a few years ago now that Woodville are in Div 2.

The more important question is where are they getting their money? Wealthy sponsors?

Valente $25k, Andrews $20k, now Turley $12k. They are the well known ones, do Conway, Benton, Greber etc get coin too?

They should be made to put that money towards their Juniors so they don’t forfeit the Under 12’s again or their Whites teams

I heard from someone at Uni that Greber was getting $15K. The pokies at Alberton Hotel must be doing well!! I'm sure the rest of the players are playing for the love of the club

MC, is the K a typo

[Minimum Chips]

Ben Turley playing at Port on $12,000 a year for the next two years. Smacks of his financial decision to go to Prospect a few years ago now that Woodville are in Div 2.

The more important question is where are they getting their money? Wealthy sponsors?

Valente $25k, Andrews $20k, now Turley $12k. They are the well known ones, do Conway, Benton, Greber etc get coin too?

They should be made to put that money towards their Juniors so they don’t forfeit the Under 12’s again or their Whites teams

I heard from someone at Uni that Greber was getting $15K. The pokies at Alberton Hotel must be doing well!! I'm sure the rest of the players are playing for the love of the club

MC, is the K a typo

Sorry - $15k

[The Hound]

Anyone know if they are planning for games for Dec 21?

[Eagles2014]

Anyone know if they are planning for games for Dec 21?

Yeh, not clear on Play HQ?? Posted that bit further back.

My guess would be the QF and SF of 20/20 be played like last year, with final played early in 2025. So 5 clubs have early Xmas break. Looks like other grades playing that day in 20/20 matches.

One day comp looks like only two rounds? Bit bizarre. Assume QF, SF etc on Sundays in Jan/Feb but tough to make top 8 if lose one of your games

[Shark_Hunter]

Anyone know if they are planning for games for Dec 21?

One day comp looks like only two rounds? Bit bizarre. Assume QF, SF etc on Sundays in Jan/Feb but tough to make top 8 if lose one of your games

Players and coaches wanted less Sunday cricket, early drafts had 6-8 Sundays included without finals. Preferred option to reduce it was to pull back on the one-day comp - not ideal bit better than no one-day comp.

[Arry Gablett]

SACA facebook page spruiking how the state players have changed clubs, we all know that many of these lads never play district
fFaser McGuirk put his foot in the door at kensington once all year

ALSO
the coach on the page talking about the need to play at district level, lets hope so the batters need to bat and make loads at this level

seems to work in Queensland, WA, NSW, Vic and Tasmania

[The Hound]

I assume some trial games will be held this weekend. Anyone know of any?

[Eagles2014]

Wes Agar to Kensington now also, his fourth club

[The Hound]

Is it mandatory to have a team in 4th grade this year? as we may have our first forfeit, 3 sides listed as not playing.
and good to see the Eagles back in the 4th grade ring

[Shark_Hunter]

Is it mandatory to have a team in 4th grade this year? as we may have our first forfeit, 3 sides listed as not playing.
and good to see the Eagles back in the 4th grade ring

Not mandatory, but all clubs initially nominated a 4th grade only for the Jets to pull out a few weeks ago I think. WT actually applied to ATCA for a team to field a 5th grade in LOs but I believe got knocked back. Lots of overflow now age groups changed to U15.5. Big turnaround from last season.

Any thought out there on teams to beat in Div 1 and 2 this season?

[Eagles2014]

Amazing chase by Eagles today, brilliant batting by Drewy and Harry. Next Sunday vs Bays could have Spencer and JFM playing too, could be worth a visit to Henley Oval!

[Aerie]

Amazing chase by Eagles today, brilliant batting by Drewy and Harry. Next Sunday vs Bays could have Spencer and JFM playing too, could be worth a visit to Henley Oval!

I saw a bit of the Drew/Manenti partnership and then flicked on again when Nielsen was in the 40's and Drew on 129 (off 129 balls). Nielsen was hitting them beautifully and Drew anchored the innings superbly and adds more early season runs to set himself up for a good First Class season. Not much fun for the bowlers on Park 25 #2. Mackenzie Harvey hit 159 for Sturt but the rest left some runs out there.

Convincing wins to Port over Prospect and Glenelg over Southerns in the other Sunday games.

East Torrens scored a mammoth 5-374 on Saturday on the back of Ryan King's 181 off 103 balls! Adelaide never in despite a century to Khan, making 305. Tea Tree Gully easily accounted for Port on Saturday, another big total, 5-311 with Jackson scoring 102 off 79 balls. Barrett and Wadia doing the job with the ball for TTG, both taking 4 wickets to dismiss Port for 215. Uni (2-161 - Adair 102 off 60) easily beat Woodville after bowling them out for 158 on the back of 4 wickets to opener Yadav. Kensington 8-306 did enough to defeat Northern Districts, who were bowled out for 283 in the 49th over, having set themselves up nicely early in the run chase on the back of Cahill's 91 off 50.

The One Day competition is short and sharp and sees just the 3 Rounds, and 2 games for each team, before heading into a top 8 knockout format. So every game this season has something on the line. Calculators will be out for Round 3, 1 win and a NRR above Port's 0.05 should be enough to get through.

After 2 Rounds
1 Glenelg 1W-0L 3.89NRR (last game vs WT)
2 Uni 1-0 3.5NRR (SD)
3 TTG 1-0 1.92NRR (ND)
4 ET 1-0 1.38NRR (Pros)
5 Kens 1-0 0.46NRR (Wood)
6 WT 1-0 0.11NRR (Glen)
7 Port 1-1 0.05NRR (Bye)
8 Sturt 0-1 -0.11NRR (Adel)
9 ND 0-1 -0.46NRR (TTG)
10 Adel 0-1 -1.38NRR (Sturt)
11 Pros -2.68NRR (ET)
12 Wood -3.5NRR (Kens)
13 SD -3.89NRR (Uni)

[Lightning McQueen]

Bottom placed team should not get an invite into the following seasons fixture, most games were reasonably well contested so only playing two games is a bit of a fast, especially when there are a coupe of teams a long way off the pace.

[Gosaints]

I am hearing that the SACA are delighted with how the Division 1 and 2 concept is playing out.

The SACA don't want 2 divisions long term. They wanted to reduce the number of premier cricket teams, and clearly this was not going to happen under current arrangements.
So, they created an environment where poorly managed clubs would essentially self-destruct (not my words) by making a mess of recruitment (dollars) and losing their core group of players and transition themselves to a community club (and eventually merge).

Do premier cricketers really want to be playing against 16/17-year-olds in division 2? No, they are out of there.

I am told they are surprised it has happened so quickly and do not see 2 divisions being required in 3-4 seasons.

There is no future in SACA funding being used to recruit players who will never play first class cricket or paying for overseas imports in division 2. We are already seeing a decline in pathways.

[Minimum Chips]

I am hearing that the SACA are delighted with how the Division 1 and 2 concept is playing out.

The SACA don't want 2 divisions long term. They wanted to reduce the number of premier cricket teams, and clearly this was not going to happen under current arrangements.
So, they created an environment where poorly managed clubs would essentially self-destruct (not my words) by making a mess of recruitment (dollars) and losing their core group of players and transition themselves to a community club (and eventually merge).

Do premier cricketers really want to be playing against 16/17-year-olds in division 2? No, they are out of there.

I am told they are surprised it has happened so quickly and do not see 2 divisions being required in 3-4 seasons.

There is no future in SACA funding being used to recruit players who will never play first class cricket or paying for overseas imports in division 2. We are already seeing a decline in pathways.

Whether anyone on here can confirm but I heard that clubs receive payment (per game) from SACA for any player from their club who is picked in the U/19 Div 2 team?

[helicopterking]

Amazing chase by Eagles today, brilliant batting by Drewy and Harry. Next Sunday vs Bays could have Spencer and JFM playing too, could be worth a visit to Henley Oval!

I saw a bit of the Drew/Manenti partnership and then flicked on again when Nielsen was in the 40's and Drew on 129 (off 129 balls). Nielsen was hitting them beautifully and Drew anchored the innings superbly and adds more early season runs to set himself up for a good First Class season. Not much fun for the bowlers on Park 25 #2. Mackenzie Harvey hit 159 for Sturt but the rest left some runs out there.

Convincing wins to Port over Prospect and Glenelg over Southerns in the other Sunday games.

East Torrens scored a mammoth 5-374 on Saturday on the back of Ryan King's 181 off 103 balls! Adelaide never in despite a century to Khan, making 305. Tea Tree Gully easily accounted for Port on Saturday, another big total, 5-311 with Jackson scoring 102 off 79 balls. Barrett and Wadia doing the job with the ball for TTG, both taking 4 wickets to dismiss Port for 215. Uni (2-161 - Adair 102 off 60) easily beat Woodville after bowling them out for 158 on the back of 4 wickets to opener Yadav. Kensington 8-306 did enough to defeat Northern Districts, who were bowled out for 283 in the 49th over, having set themselves up nicely early in the run chase on the back of Cahill's 91 off 50.

The One Day competition is short and sharp and sees just the 3 Rounds, and 2 games for each team, before heading into a top 8 knockout format. So every game this season has something on the line. Calculators will be out for Round 3, 1 win and a NRR above Port's 0.05 should be enough to get through.

After 2 Rounds
1 Glenelg 1W-0L 3.89NRR (last game vs WT)
2 Uni 1-0 3.5NRR (SD)
3 TTG 1-0 1.92NRR (ND)
4 ET 1-0 1.38NRR (Pros)
5 Kens 1-0 0.46NRR (Wood)
6 WT 1-0 0.11NRR (Glen)
7 Port 1-1 0.05NRR (Bye)
8 Sturt 0-1 -0.11NRR (Adel)
9 ND 0-1 -0.46NRR (TTG)
10 Adel 0-1 -1.38NRR (Sturt)
11 Pros -2.68NRR (ET)
12 Wood -3.5NRR (Kens)
13 SD -3.89NRR (Uni)

Some of the dismissals that Sthn Districts innings are as village as you will ever see.

[Gosaints]

I am hearing that the SACA are delighted with how the Division 1 and 2 concept is playing out.

The SACA don't want 2 divisions long term. They wanted to reduce the number of premier cricket teams, and clearly this was not going to happen under current arrangements.
So, they created an environment where poorly managed clubs would essentially self-destruct (not my words) by making a mess of recruitment (dollars) and losing their core group of players and transition themselves to a community club (and eventually merge).

Do premier cricketers really want to be playing against 16/17-year-olds in division 2? No, they are out of there.

I am told they are surprised it has happened so quickly and do not see 2 divisions being required in 3-4 seasons.

There is no future in SACA funding being used to recruit players who will never play first class cricket or paying for overseas imports in division 2. We are already seeing a decline in pathways.

Whether anyone on here can confirm but I heard that clubs receive payment (per game) from SACA for any player from their club who is picked in the U/19 Div 2 team?

I also heard that and I also heard that a player insisted he be paid the money (just what I heard, if it is untrue I am sure we will be advised), to which his club agreed. I don't believe that went down very well at all.
Refer comment above re poorly managed clubs.

[wedgetail]

SACA facebook page spruiking how the state players have changed clubs, we all know that many of these lads never play district
fFaser McGuirk put his foot in the door at kensington once all year

ALSO
the coach on the page talking about the need to play at district level, lets hope so the batters need to bat and make loads at this level

seems to work in Queensland, WA, NSW, Vic and Tasmania

Jake FM at West Torrens training last night and actually went up to club volunteers to introduce himself rather than wait to be approached, commendable. He will be playing against port this Saturday and Glenelg in the one dayer on Sunday.

The one dayer was supposed to be at Henley but now Park 25 due to under prepared oval. Charles Sturt council was informed by the club 3 weeks ago what needed to be done but minimal action was taken by the council. Torrens filthy over the issue as would have been a big day at Henley with JFM and Spencer Johnson both playing.

[Shark_Hunter]

SACA facebook page spruiking how the state players have changed clubs, we all know that many of these lads never play district
fFaser McGuirk put his foot in the door at kensington once all year

ALSO
the coach on the page talking about the need to play at district level, lets hope so the batters need to bat and make loads at this level

seems to work in Queensland, WA, NSW, Vic and Tasmania

Jake FM at West Torrens training last night and actually went up to club volunteers to introduce himself rather than wait to be approached, commendable. He will be playing against port this Saturday and Glenelg in the one dayer on Sunday.

Great to hear. Plenty have got stuck into him for having a bit of swagger, this shows he has some character as well. Look forward to seeing what he can do this weekend.