Lightning McQueen wrote:bennymacca wrote:to me it just seems to compromise both the A1r and the A2, just for the sake of not having byes in the A1r.
because each A2 only plays a single A1r team, the effects of the skill difference between the grades is exacerbated by the luck of the draw. i.e if you are a bottom A1r team that plays a top A2 team, it wouldnt be too bad, but if a top A1r team is drawn to play one of the weaker A2 teams, that could give them a massive advantage. its like they get to play a bottom side that no other side in the comp gets access to. The reverse obviously applies for the A2, where a good A2 team playing a crap A1r team potentially has access to points that a middling A2 team playing an A1r team doesnt have.
a better solution for mine would have been to either drop the worst A1r team down to A2 and have a similar relegation/promotion system, or put the best A2 team up into A1r for a season. either that or just put up with a Bye in A1r. obviously not an idea situation but i think that would be the best of a bad bunch of solutions.
Did you just want to use the word "exacerbated" in a sentence?
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This has already happened, Tanunda will more than likely be one of the bottom A2 teams and they narrowly lost to Nuri who will be the top A1res team.
Of your solutions, the 1st one, constitution says all clubs must have their A Grade in A1 or A1 Res unless otherwise directed by the management committtee. i.e Mallala were given an opportunity to move through the grades which they did, they were just an A4 team only 2 seasons ago. Once they nominated for A1 res there was always going to be 7.
Point 2. The best A2 team (Mallala was already going up), Nuri (minor premier) already has a side in the A1 res., The b grade teams in an A grade comp has been done to death in the past and these sides know they have no hope of competing against the A grade teams and this has a negative effect on a whole club for a whole season and sometimes more than one season. Not that your club would know about this, your B grade has always hidden in A3 and your A grade until the last couple seasons has always been one of the A grade clubs in the 2nd division that beat up on b grade clubs. The cross over games allow for everyone in A2 to have to "share the pain" so to speak but for only 3 saturdays in 21. A massive loss will be quickly forgotten if it happens on the other hand a win for an A2 can set up the season.
It is also a trial for this year and see what happens. It will either prove that the top team in A2 should go up all season or it will prove the gap is too big and this system will continue.
3rd point. The clubs in A1 res did not want a bye and as an association we are trying to promote the playing of cricket in our comp, not byes.
However if you asked your delegate he could have told you all this or better yet why don't you put your hand up and get involved in administration