woodublieve12 wrote:CoverKing wrote:As me and bloods have spoken about numerous times together, this is something we think would work RE: the finals.
From our experience at the youth centre, we find the two hardest weeks to get players to play are the first week of the season and the first week back after christmas. We are always having a large number of people available for the second week after christmas, and therefore missing out on cricket.
To combat this, with the intention to also add the extra advantage (double chance, come finals time for the top two sides) a program would b better suited like this in our opinions.
Season starts. Week 1 - one dayer
Games 2-6 all 2 dayers finishing the saturday before Xmas
Week after christmas break - one dayer (therefore extra week gained). round 7
ROund 8 -11 all 2 dayers.
Week 1 of finals (used to be last week of season) 1 v 2 3 v 4
week 2 (presuming high side wins) 1 in GF week off, 2 v 3. 4 is eliminated
Week 3 GF 1 v 2
This could be the same in all sections.
The only problem that some people would have is possibly playing 3 weeks of Sat/sun games. It is something that has to be weighed up against the added bonus and attraction of finishing in the top 2 and the fact it would make selections the week after christmas a lot easier.Every side will still play everyone once and once only in a 12 team section. Nothing changes except the extra one dayer.
if this was a motion that was being put forward this week, i for one would definitely be voting for it.
Thoughs??
Alot of people would have problems with 3 weekends taking up playing cricket... i know i would... Also January 2nd, bit soon surely!!! Can't agree sorry...
i didn say jan 2nd. that was westsider. with how think it should be there would be no change in breaks over christmas, start to the season or finish. all it is, that the finals are extended by a week and the minor round is decreased by a week