Tony Clifton wrote:Stumps wrote:Simple questions.
1)When The redbacks won the shield last how many grade teams were in the comp and what was the population of adelaide.
2) How many teams in the comp now and What is the population now
1) 14, less than now
Spot on. It's bullshit I reckon. Should just have two grade clubs so it's the best playing against the best every week!
Fewer clubs won't fix anything. Some players will join the newly formed merged club. Some might drift off to other grade clubs. Some will filter into Adelaide Turf or back to their home club. Others will stop playing. There will be the perception that a merged club is really just "Club A" with a different name and its players are favoured.
Look at Northern Districts. Salisbury were THE absolute powerhouse. Merged and now they can't get all those old Salisbury champions to go back there to coach or do anything. They're more likely to be involved with Pooraka. Will people want to play for a blended club that no one is passionate about?
Performances of clubs ebb and flow depending on who is in charge at committee level, who is coaching, who is running juniors. Better off setting some minimum standards and a proper process regarding the appointment delegates, junior coordinators, senior coaches, junior coaches and women's coaches rather than culling clubs.[/quote
Correct. The difficult answer is to spend money on talent development, coaching, facilities the easy answer is to cull. 13 clubs for a city of 1.4 mill doesn't seem too much to me, maybe cutting out D grade will mean 30 people at training not 40 which helps coaching, helps training standards etc etc. Anyway I'm skeptical it will work. I think the main reason A grade cricket isn't the standard it was is due to decent 28-35 year olds leaving the system because of too long playing hours and too many Sunday's. 1-6pm 80 overs and maybe some Saca based incentive to keep your wes thomas' jarad Taylor's, duffet, Southam etc etc playing grade cricket, would sort out the 1 or 2 charity players every team is carrying. Kids playing against kids breeds kids standard cricket
Stumps....