the smokey wrote:4th Grade to go ahead, think vote was 7 to 6, interesting! any bets on how many forfeits there will be in that grade.
With a delay to the season and some SANFL clubs starting Under 16 and Under 18 pre-season in November could be hard for clubs to fill aide with youngsters.
17's changed to under 18's and Under 12's gone. My understanding is 14's to 16's to stay as is.
Ocean Pony's 6th team in Women's first grade.
Hussey report recommendations delivered to clubs tomorrow night.
Once again the PCC and SACA have been given a chance to better cricket in SA and have failed to do so. Clubs that wanted the 4th grade are obviously more interested in the $$ that they will receive rather than bettering the standard of Grade Cricket from top to bottom. This is understandable from purely a financial perspective but surely there needs to be an eye on the future and trying to lift the overall standard of grade cricket.
It Will be interesting to see if this is revisited again ready for 2021/2022 - Also the recommendations in the report are potentially going to be as pointless as the last report they ordered if their arent people that are willing to implement the changes that are needed and required.[/quote]
Yet again the Grade clubs let down SA cricket. Typical nanny state mentality that is resistant to any kind of change. If you keep doing the same thing you will get the same result, its madness.
Time for SACA to start a new comp and invite 8 or 10 clubs to be part of it, with funding carrots. The ones who dont get invited get no funding and can go and play in the ATCA