City of Moorabbin Cricket Association 2010/11

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Heard a rumour that a previous Woolnough captain from a club outside of the fishbowl of Moorabbin may be leaving this season to play in the VTCA, if this is the case said sides batting may seriously struggle.
Anyone heard anything to do with this?
 
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Seeing as Clock has posted his prognostications essay for Woolnough, (nice work Clocker but expect Sharks to go better (drop in standard will see mediocre players become better) and Heights to struggle more than you expect (they have a couple of guns but not much depth), they will go okay though), thought I would add Longy press preview for you early birds.

UNITING SHAPE AS CHALLENGERS - EUREKA

Bentleigh Uniting, after narrowly missing out on finals participation last season, have sought to rectify the situation and stand out as the team most likely to challenge East Sandringham’s dominance in Longmuir Shield this season.
Uniting were extremely active in the off season with the fruits of their labour being some high quality recruits coming to Centenary Park.
Glenn Lalor, after a long and distinguished career at St.Kilda including being a Premiership player and club captain has made Uniting his new home. Joining him will be close mate Ash Russell from South Caulfield. Russell is coming off a season in which he accumulated nearly 600 runs and took out the bowling award. Lalor and Russell are in place to oversee an exciting time at Uniting as youngsters from their successful junior program are promoted through the ranks.
Strengthening the player list will be former premiership Captain Brett “Pup” Ernst who will be primed after a successful off-season in England and young Keeper/ Batsman Jarryd Allan returns to cricket after a spell. The addition of the experienced crop of players should allow the youthful batting line up to thrive and the club still has Damian Britt and Simon Surridge to keep opposing batting teams honest.

West Bentleigh, whilst making the finals, were considered under achievers last season and will be looking for their talented playing group to be more settled this season. Danny Frew has retired and Con Pothitos takes over the reigns as Captain-Coach. However, Pothitos will be relying on a collaborative approach with many key players such as Marc Reid, Carl Reid, Chris Fidler and Jack Macleod all taking on major leadership positions.
The club have secured Keeper-Batsman Brett Stevens from Bentleigh Uniting and are expecting continued improvement from all-rounder Macleod and hope that Brandon Hunt and Oliver Box push for senior selection more regularly.

Mackie Cricket Club continue their ‘steady as she goes’ philosophy. Damien Krotofil continues as Captain-Coach for his second year, being assisted by Dale Park as Assistant Coach.
Last seasons runners-up were buoyed by the performance of their whole club last season with all of their teams near finals contention. The promotion of junior players into their senior side was a great success with Chris Lavery being a regular team member and Matt Suppree being selected during the season with both expected to turn into regulars this season.
Dean Bott, Craig Park, Colm Kinsella and Brendan Clark will still form the nucleus of the line-up whilst Tom “One Eye” Nelson should be ready to make his mark with a couple of years of experience in the top flight under his belt.

Le Page Park will again be a danger team looking to find the extra couple of wins they need to press for the top four. Steve McConchie is again on-field leader with Phil Martin taking over as coach. The Panthers will be another club focusing on youth with Declan and Morgan Hampton, Michael Deiacovo and Peter Mentiplay all under eighteen along with young paceman Justin Greer who returns after a season with Dandenong. They have also picked up Adam Broomhall from Mornington and expect a big season from Glen Czosneck.

Carnegie South picked up David Fisher, an opening batsman from England, all-rounder Niroshan Perera from Sri Lanka and hard hitting Dan Stumbles has returned to the club after a stint overseas and coach Bruce Haley expects further progress from it’s existing playing group. The Redbacks did appoint a new skipper in John Collison with Simon Kulikov as his lieutenant and they will be focusing on maintaining a steady level of play rather than having good periods and then playing themselves out of a game in a short period. Wily veterans Scott Handley and Glen Gallagher are expected to suit up again.

Bentleigh ANA appointed Bill Biggs to replace Adam Mikkelsen as captain coach. Mikkelsen will miss the first half of the season and his absence will be difficult to cover. Biggs should prove a ready made replacement after spending 10 years in the system at St Kilda and he did enjoy a cup of coffee with ANA playing the last three games of last season. He will be supported by the likes of Brad Dolman, Brad Lovell, James White, Bryce Jansz, Luke Morrison & Joel Gebert who all showed some good signs last season but they will need to step up a notch to cover Mikkelson’s absence.

Down at Kingston Heath they will be hoping for more fairway than rough. Leroy “Hot Dot” De Alwis has been retained as Coach, but stepped down as Captain of the firsts, a role that has been taken on by Troy Warner. Young Josh Manning has been lost to St Kilda. A major plus is the return of Matt Reid from injury and The Golfers also picked up off spinner Ashane Hewawasam. The clubs youth movement including Waltrich, Raymer and Davis should be better for the full season at Shield level and a return to form from Daniel Schwarz would make a big difference.

Hampton Central make a return to Longmuir Shield at the expense of Washington Park after their Woolnough Shield premiership. David “Acapulco” Gold will take over from Craig Amoore as captain with all players retained. The club welcomes back Adrian ‘Dish’ Warry from the western suburbs and has added Grant Newman from even further west and expects both the Hay and Ferries brothers to have an impact in the first eleven. Steve May will remain a cornerstone of the bowling line-up but he will have plenty of support with Nigel Hunt and Brad Tomholt on board.

Elwood has appointed a new coach with Steve Jones taking the helm after returning from the UK after a successful six year stint in the Middlesex County Cricket League. He should stiffen the top order batting. Skipper Marshall McBunting returns from Scotland after spending the Australian winter honing his skills with Dunfermline in the Scottish National League Premier Division. Big things are anticipated from Rob DeHaan and Nathan Harris. The Woods will have its usual fair share of new players and with this season seeing them with full use of their sensational new club rooms there is a lot of excitement at Wattie Watson.

Brighton Union has had a number of player movements in and out. The big addition is former Elwood star Ano Apostolopoulos who can be expected to score heavily and former junior Hayden McLellan will add depth whilst losses include retired former captain/coach Alex Gerdan, batsman Leigh Krafchek and all-rounder Justin King. Ross Veitch is expected to have a big impact with the ball this season as should Stuart Bell and The Union brains trust will be hopeful that speedster Michael Cove is injury free whilst Darian Kuzma, Stuart Scorgie and second year captain Ivan Delac should supply plenty of runs. Union have put in a big pre-season and expect to hit the ground running.

Omega, who just missed finals action, have made a trade-off losing talented keeper/batsman Alex Bychkov to St.Kilda whilst regaining other young talent in Jarryd Lyons and Jon Gillard. Clint Ferguson will again steer the ship which will need to avoid the second year blues after their young talent improved so much last season. Players to watch will include Glen Beckett, Steve Mitchell and Ben Wighton. Tim Malane still heads the batting and Chris Clement will again spearhead the pace attack.

Reigning premiers East Sandringham are playing their cards typically close to their chest as they endeavour to net their 9th flag in ten years. Glen Phelan and Mark Jenkin were rumoured to be retiring after last years exciting premiership win but East have a couple of former players ready to step back into the line up. It won’t matter too much as East can still rely on their core group of Duddy, Dallas, Bennett, Devereaux and company to defend the title. They do look likely to be right up there again but might expect to face some tougher opposition in season 2010/2011.

ROUND 1 Oct-02

LONGMUIR SHIELD
Hampton Central V Carnegie South
Bentleigh Uniting V ESBC
Bentleigh ANA V West Bentleigh
Elwood V Le Page Park
Omega V Kingston Heath
Mackie V Brighton Union
 
Re: City of Moorabbin Cricket Association 2010/11

nofox;408813 said:
Just wondering who's running the longy and wooly tipping this season?
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i think its the poof that drinks the queen adelaide stuff, he should be back with us soon
 
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Quilton;408933 said:
i think its the poof that drinks the queen adelaide stuff, he should be back with us soon
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Be careful Quilton. You are likely to be sent to jail for using such a term. Worst still Ian Roberts will be looking for you.:eek:
 
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Challengers to East Sandringham rise up - Cricket - Sport - Bayside Leader

Alex Zaia should bounce back from a disappointing season and young quick James Coles and Ben Humphrey will spearhead the pace attack.

Saw this old article while i was scrumaging through my garage the other day. Whatever ever happened to the above two players? Dont even have a clue who Ben Humphrey is and James Coles has been disapointing the last two years will he be around? What happened to Tim Doherty aswell remember him being another young quick down at Bentleigh?
 
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Has been skipper at Asp/Edi for the past few years, but got the travel bug and is O/S for the early part of this season.
 
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Strange Things, go on some information supplied by clubs. Don't think Humphrys ever made it to the line, Coles looked a goer early but has not happened and looks unlikely this season whilst Doherty wasn't playing until after Xmas last year and from memory lead the Magoos to a runners-up title. He's a good lad with a lot of potential so hopefully he will be involved this year. Did have a day out in a C Grade game where he took 10-fer with 7/30& 3/15 or therabouts and should be a 1's player.
 
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Anyone else going to struggle next week? I've already had 3 players tell me they're unavailable next weekend. I'm sure that figure will increase during the week.
 
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As with the 1990 Grand Final taking week one of the scheduled cricket season, the CMCA must act quickly to tell the clubs that the first game will be pushed back a week, and make the first 3 rounds one dayers.

The fact that the CMCA's 2 most supported AFL clubs are playing a Grand Final on the weekend, would mean it's common sense.

Poor guys... they just finished the draw yesterday too!
 
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Well said Sugar given the fact that most clubs are laced with St.Kilda supporters given it is Moorabbin means most clubs will struggle and besides alot of people who don't follow either side will want to miss Rd1 of cricket to watch the replay.
But the word i am hearing is the CMCA will look at moving the matches to Sunday after the Grand Final obviously taking ground availability into account, but we may see Longmuir and Woolnough play on the Sunday and the rest of the grades play 3 one dayers on the trot but this option is less likely.

I would love to see games moved to Sunday if ground availability allows it, but then there will be alot of sore heads come the Sunday either way CMCA needs to act quickly.
 
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I have heard that all of round 1 has been changed to sunday.
 
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Interesting. We played a practice match against Hampton Central today and fair to say the enthusiasm for a game after a day like yesterday wasn't great. From what was said today, Sunday was the new Rd.1 date, but Australia Day was being entertained as a replacement day or even the first 2 weeks in the New Year become 2 one dayers to make up for next week. One suggestion made by one of the players was that the season gets pushed back 1 week and we don't have a spare day for the Grand Final of the cricket season in March. That, to me, was the best of the possible solutions.

What a joke this has become on the AFL's part. We at Highett West had a season launch planned with the Mayor to cut a ribbon, distinguished guests from the local Council and State Government, capped off with a past players day and a band playing after the match. We've now had to cancel the formalities for the opening of the ground to cricket due to some of those distinguished guests being unavailable for the following week and we've been on the phone doing a ring around to all of our past players to advise them we're going to continue with the day and will have got projector screens showing the big game. All for the sake of Demetriou's inability to act on an outdated rule on extra time.
 
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All for the sake of Demetriou's inability to act on an outdated rule on extra time.[/QUOTE]

Amazing, this guy is hanging out to "make his mark" or "leave his stamp" on AFL, at any cost. Got his chance to do it and fluffs it again. Their concern for the common footy fan is wonderful!!!!! Demetriou/Anderson credo = "How can we fleece as many people as possible?"
 
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Looks like this week will have zero cricket, and Round One will somehow be squeezed in somehow after Christmas.

Good result.
 
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You want to talk about "Fleecing" Jimmy!? Ticketek are charging a $7.20 (on top of a $270 "premium" ticket) fee for the punters to have the privilage to have to go to an "outlet" to collect their tickets! No other option (ie print out the ticket) was given!

Not sure how they justify the "transaction fee", where they are actually doing nothing to deliver the purchased ticket to you! That's FLEECING!!!! :cool:
 
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BrianFantana;409247 said:
You want to talk about "Fleecing" Jimmy!? Ticketek are charging a $7.20 (on top of a $270 "premium" ticket) fee for the punters to have the privilage to have to go to an "outlet" to collect their tickets! No other option (ie print out the ticket) was given!

Not sure how they justify the "transaction fee", where they are actually doing nothing to deliver the purchased ticket to you! That's FLEECING!!!! :cool:
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Your right Brian.....how can anyone with there head screwed on correctly explain a $7.20 charge to go and pick up tickets from were they are printed from???
And i would guess that if there was a cheaper option ie: get them delivered it would be charged less then it would be to pick them up.

Afl has lost the plot, the game is no longer and has been for sometime about the people it is all about the $$$$ and revenue!!
 
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You got it Brian, wake up and smell the coffee, you'll likely be in the top deck watching ants as well, although Geoff Ogilvy will no doubt manage to snag a good seat near Eric Bana. Don't get me started on how Andy and Ades allow the clubs to stick it to their "invaluable" members with their $1,300 breakfasts with the all-inclusive worst seat in the house GF ticket included! Disgraceful. They do everything democratically until it doesn't suit them. Mr.Fantana, glad you got your ticket and enjoy the $5.80 plastic cup half full of nice warm light beer and the $7.50 bucket of stale chips!! Just don't try to take your own food in.
As far as your $7.20 goes (not far), interesting to know what % finds it's way back into the AFL coffers, but at least you got to go and collect them and paid for the priveledge. $7.20 is a bourbon and coke at a trendy bar!!
More importantly on cricket, word is that the likely scenario is we will have one dayer (round 2) to start season commencing Oct 9 and then 2 one dayers immediately following Xmas, (Rounds 1 & 8). Probably the least disruptive given the options!!
 
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