Darwin & District Cricket - 2012

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Are_You_A_Mong said:
sooooo your average of 22 and your 2 50s from 22 hits is worthy of a top 6 spot?????
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Go ask the selectors.

Washed Up Never Was said:
If I was even considered it would be a further sad indication of the state of Darwin cricket.

But three B graders in the sharks side, whats happening there?
And the Buffalo's side. No disrespect to Terry but he has been mainly C grade all season and only A's for the T20 and finals - and he has lost all his hair, so does that means he has lost his cricket powers as well.
Did Districts have such a bad year you had to say what their players were selected for? A. Dale Meat Pie Bowler.

NT Cricket wants to return Calder Shield to its glory days but this won't help.
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You'd both do well to drop the negatitude and start contributing rather than slandering a competition that you supposedly care about. Attend the 10th November Cricket Review Forum and actually have a crack at solutions if you have any but I'm guessing just like at the NT Cricket Roadshow that when the big dogs that everyone pots behind their back are up on stage and open to direct criticism in a question and answer session, we won't hear boo.
 
Rumour has it Tracy Village a seeking the well credentialed Shaun Ezard For coach next season...... Apparantly he is running around in Victoria local cricket and has put on a few KG's but is keen to head back north..... any thoughts.... may bring back some of their guns and colt figures?
 
OhMyGodTheChips said:
You'd both do well to drop the negatitude and start contributing rather than slandering a competition that you supposedly care about. Attend the 10th November Cricket Review Forum and actually have a crack at solutions if you have any but I'm guessing just like at the NT Cricket Roadshow that when the big dogs that everyone pots behind their back are up on stage and open to direct criticism in a question and answer session, we won't hear boo.
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And how do you know that I haven't contributed over the years to try and help? I even attended NT Cricket AGM's where we have had to come back a week later cause no one else would show to get a quorum - Maybe no-one else cares.

My comments about the Calder Sheild I think are legitimate. They want this to go back to the strong inter-region comp it once was, but not been able to field the best region sides becuase of the way the DDCA comp is at the moment won't help.
There are long term solutions but the way the world is at the moment everyone wants results now.

PS - knowing Terry and Adrian, they will take the comments in the way they were meant to be taken.
 
What are you saying, contributing is going to an AGM? Your post is a contradiction, you sledge the CS because it isn't how it used to be but then lament there are long term solutions but people want results now. You speak of solutions but offer none?
 
Ok, if that is what you got from my post then so,be it.
No, going to AGMs is not comtibuting a lot, that was just part of the point I was making.
CS - it was NT Cricket who were talking it up to the past.
As for solutions, why put any up here where everyone is taking the mickey. I will contribute mine where appropriate.
 
T/20 do need to be looked out. Playing them on a Sunday is also an issue. A few clubs were struggling to put sides together especially after big benders on the Saturday night.
 
Washed Up Never Was said:
Ok, if that is what you got from my post then so,be it.
No, going to AGMs is not comtibuting a lot, that was just part of the point I was making.
CS - it was NT Cricket who were talking it up to the past.
As for solutions, why put any up here where everyone is taking the mickey. I will contribute mine where appropriate.
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So are you saying that the Calder Shield should not be promoted now as well?

Are_You_A_Mong said:
nt cricket need to have seprate ladders for 20/20 0ne day and 2 day so teams can focus on there goals none of this everything counts for 2 dayers crap!
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The ladders are separate but together. The whole reason the two day flag is worth so much more than winning the OD or T20 flag is because it is based on the whole season. I don't see how that can make players lose focus? The only issue is that the draw was done terribly ie Districts had all their byes out the door by mid May.

This was a good Premier Grade cricket season, it had the right amount of cricket played, the teams that were consistent over the whole period finished in the top 4 and there were 3 different GF winners for each format. I don't see an issue with that at all.

Washed Up Never Was said:
T/20 do need to be looked out. Playing them on a Sunday is also an issue. A few clubs were struggling to put sides together especially after big benders on the Saturday night.
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There is talk that T20's won't be played at all next season which can't happen if cricket in Darwin and the Territory is looking to go further. At some point the clubs have got to see where the opportunities are for their cricketers and one of the main opportunities to get the NT into a national spot light as a team or through players will be in the BBL.

At the moment, cricket up here is too much players hold all the sway, players that don't hold the best interests of cricket in Darwin at heart, players that don't contribute besides playing at club level, committee level and after their playing days are up. So why should the competition listen to players that aren't willing to contribute through maybe becoming an umpire, coach juniors, play Sunday cricket, compete in the Calder Shield and/or go away or even turn up for NT selection trainings?

On other things; Luke Robins made 45 for East Torrens in West End Cup match against Prospect and took 1 for. Greg Clarence with a ton for Kensington against Glenelg.

Sam Miller debut for SA, Hill and Sheridan also playing for VIC.
 
OhMyGodTheChips said:
So are you saying that the Calder Shield should not be promoted now as well?



The ladders are separate but together. The whole reason the two day flag is worth so much more than winning the OD or T20 flag is because it is based on the whole season. I don't see how that can make players lose focus? The only issue is that the draw was done terribly ie Districts had all their byes out the door by mid May.

This was a good Premier Grade cricket season, it had the right amount of cricket played, the teams that were consistent over the whole period finished in the top 4 and there were 3 different GF winners for each format. I don't see an issue with that at all.


OhMyGodTheChips you on drugs! the top 2 teams after the 6 2 dayers should play each other not the teams that win 1 or 2 and a truck load of one day and 20/20! there was to much cricket played all for high quailty cricket but its not gonna happen sat & sun maybe during the week under lights (palmos new footy oval)
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NT final squad should be named by the end of the month.

Players unavailable - Berry, Lavers, Giarola, Mitchell, Hodgson, Clarence and Williams at this stage, plus players that are going to U19's.

This potentially means Ovens and Chatto come back into the fold while other players like Bob Wilson will also be in the mix.
 
Good weekend ahead for Darwin Cricket. 5 blokes (Cal & Kane Richardson, Luke Robins, Thomas Andrews and Jake Wetherald) who have all played their juniors in Darwin plying in one Premier Grade game in Adelaide. East Torrens vs Sturt down at Campbelltown. Also three guys from the NT heading away to India with the Australian Aboriginal team (Marcus McGregor-Cassidy, Dylan Fuller and D'Arcy Short) Marcus would have also played in the East Torrens/Sturt game.

However, blokes like Bob Wilson should not be elidgable for Strike. There is no NT in Victoria.
 
Just Another Lad said:
Good weekend ahead for Darwin Cricket. 5 blokes (Cal & Kane Richardson, Luke Robins, Thomas Andrews and Jake Wetherald) who have all played their juniors in Darwin plying in one Premier Grade game in Adelaide. East Torrens vs Sturt down at Campbelltown. Also three guys from the NT heading away to India with the Australian Aboriginal team (Marcus McGregor-Cassidy, Dylan Fuller and D'Arcy Short) Marcus would have also played in the East Torrens/Sturt game.

However, blokes like Bob Wilson should not be elidgable for Strike. There is no NT in Victoria.
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Good on the NT blokes in Adelaide doing well.

I disagree with your comment about eligibility though. If we follow your thought process through, Phil Hughes would be ineligible to play for South Australia because there is no NSW in SA, Usman Kuwaja would be ineligible to play for QLD as there is no NSW in QLD - the list goes on and on. If you register and play in a competition, then you are eligible to represent that area/zone/territory/state at its highest possible level in my opinion. Darwin is in a strange position due to playing in the 'off' season, but if we wish to attract quality people and players from around the country to grace our sporting fields then we need to offer them the right to represent us should they be good enough and/or available. It's a 2-way street because it means a stronger competition and also a stronger Strike team in return for offering the chance to represent.

think about it 'Lad' and don't be worried you will lose your position to someone else....
 
Johnny Come Lately said:
Good on the NT blokes in Adelaide doing well.

I disagree with your comment about eligibility though. If we follow your thought process through, Phil Hughes would be ineligible to play for South Australia because there is no NSW in SA, Usman Kuwaja would be ineligible to play for QLD as there is no NSW in QLD - the list goes on and on. If you register and play in a competition, then you are eligible to represent that area/zone/territory/state at its highest possible level in my opinion. Darwin is in a strange position due to playing in the 'off' season, but if we wish to attract quality people and players from around the country to grace our sporting fields then we need to offer them the right to represent us should they be good enough and/or available. It's a 2-way street because it means a stronger competition and also a stronger Strike team in return for offering the chance to represent.

think about it 'Lad' and don't be worried you will lose your position to someone else....
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While I agree with you about the eligibility, I disagree with your examples, Khawaja and Hughes are contracted players they never have to play a club game in their new states so it is different, but blokes like Bobby Wilson who played the entire season should be given a look in, but I am not sure you can justify Ovens or Chatto.
 
Blokes like Bobby Wilson are currently playing in other states, states which they call 'home'. As 'in your crease' said, blokes like Hughes are professionals who are being paid good money, this makes it entirely different. It happens in junior cricket as well. at U/17 and U/19 level you play for the state you are from regardless to where you are. Special exceptions are made though, such as Ben Cooper playing for the NT in the most recent championships as an over-age player because he was too old for NSW and also it will be interesting to see what young spinner Ashton Agar does after going through the entire Vic system after now being contracted with WA and being elidgable for another year in U/19s.
 
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