The Bedge wrote:Clubs like Dublin are used all the time in these debates as to why not to explore these options (Pt Noarlunga could be another), but surely instead of ruling out due to that you’d explore various options such as neutral venues, or creating enough gap in divisions so it’s unlikely..
Worst case you’re looking potentially once a year - the other season we had to travel out to Dublin 4 times before Xmas as well as Two Wells.. is what it is, suck it up, expressway is a game changer.
I guess that would be another significant reasoning to argue for a hard wicket 'one day comp 'rather than two-day comp which would include back to weekends with large travel distance.
I have to be honest having played 6 years in a row of just one dayers, I do really miss batting in two day cricket....not so much the fielding and i bowl about the same number of overs. It is nice to get a result every week and its nice know you will get a bat every week but imo will be a sad day if two day cricket completely dies.
If a new comp had multiple formats for me they would have to be multiple competitions with finals for each comp. This would also include relegation/promotion separately so you could be div 1 in the two dayers div 2 in the one dayers. Challenge would be fitting in the weeks of cricket. Potentially doable with 6 team divisions I'm guessing but would prefer somehow to have 8.
A grade and B grade clubs would not compete against one another, go with the A1, A2, A3 and then B1, B2, B3 etc.