DVCA: Barclay Shield

[Kingofthevalley]

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Hey mate you might wanna rethink your ladder.

You have Mernda and Plenty mixed up..

Whats the scoop the way you have been talking them up all pre season thought we had a super team on our hands...Never pays to shoot your mouth off pal...

There is a long way to go, im not sure if Mernda are home and hosed just yet!! I will reserve my judgement on them until someone under 50 years of age makes a run or takes a wicket. Are they able to enter their team into the vets???

 

[Tongs]

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What is going on down at Eltham, you blokes are up shit creek. Dick Hall your best bowler and Whitey taking the gloves your season looks very bleak.

I don't know about up shit creek. We have had heaps of injuries and unavailables for the first two games. You will see a change this week.

Dick Hall being the best bowler, He's honest and smart with his cricket.

Whitey being keeper is not only bad for Eltham but bad for sport in general! haha Only joking, From all reports he did a great job for someone that has never kept. He only played due to our normal keeper pulling out injured on Saturday morning.

 

[I HATE EVERYONE]

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who is chooka and what has he done ?

His been running around the DVCA for years, good bloke, good competitor. Not having a dig at the bloke, just Premiers Again who's been gobbing off for the past couple of seasons about how good they are and how good their juniors are. Looks like they did well again on the weekend. The big gun has barley fired a shot with the ball yet.

 

[I HATE EVERYONE]

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You are a fool and can believe whatever bullshit you have in your pee brain about what reasons people have for staying or leaving Plenty, however like i said before do some homework and find out what is actually going on around the place before you make yourself look like a moron. Our club isnt just about the development of our 1stXI, nor the 2nd or 3rd. It is about the development of each of the many young individuals as both a player and a person. This is a policy the club has had for many years now and it's just starting to bear fruit now. 70% of our senior playing list is under the age of 19 years old.

Looks like the policy is working well, touched up by Bundoora yesterday, even without Adams?

Good on ya Premiers Again, hearts in the right place even if your not all there upstairs.

 

[milo kerrigan]

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I don't know about up shit creek. We have had heaps of injuries and unavailables for the first two games. You will see a change this week.

Dick Hall being the best bowler, He's honest and smart with his cricket.

Whitey being keeper is not only bad for Eltham but bad for sport in general! haha Only joking, From all reports he did a great job for someone that has never kept. He only played due to our normal keeper pulling out injured on Saturday morning.

whitey did nothing wrong and thats coming from the opposition he kept well, as for blokes having a dig at plenty it was this time last year that bundoora was favourites to win the spoon but have a look where they ended up.

 

[THE ICEMAN]

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whitey did nothing wrong and thats coming from the opposition he kept well, as for blokes having a dig at plenty it was this time last year that bundoora was favourites to win the spoon but have a look where they ended up.

I'm not saying he did or didn't keep well. The thing is if they have to resort to using a washed up 2nd's BOWLER to keep in their 1's they arn't exactly going to be living on easy street for the season.

 

[Hoggy]

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whitey did nothing wrong and thats coming from the opposition he kept well, as for blokes having a dig at plenty it was this time last year that bundoora was favourites to win the spoon but have a look where they ended up.

When I bowled one down leg that went for four leg byes, I pleaded with the umpire to just give it as byes because I didn't want Whitey walking off the field with no byes!

In all honesty we've been in positions to win both of our games, and could quite easily be 2-0. Massive game round 3 vs Search at home, hopefully we can kick-start something.

 

[Tongs]

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When I bowled one down leg that went for four leg byes, I pleaded with the umpire to just give it as byes because I didn't want Whitey walking off the field with no byes!

In all honesty we've been in positions to win both of our games, and could quite easily be 2-0. Massive game round 3 vs Search at home, hopefully we can kick-start something.

Hoggy we all know you are telling lies. Since when do you bowl? Throw would be a better description! In all honesty, the panthers will fire this week with some changes to the side, and they will have fire in their belly's this week.

 

[get over it]

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Hoggy we all know you are telling lies. Since when do you bowl? Throw would be a better description! In all honesty, the panthers will fire this week with some changes to the side, and they will have fire in their belly's this week.

The whole fire in the belly's thing is crap, why would you want to win more this week than last week. It's a battle for the spoon and on the form of the past two seasons you'll need a minor (or should that be Minney) miracle to win.

 

[Hoggy]

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The whole fire in the belly's thing is crap, why would you want to win more this week than last week. It's a battle for the spoon and on the form of the past two seasons you'll need a minor (or should that be Minney) miracle to win.

On what basis? We get one of our best players back this week, and our 2s had a good win as well so someone in form should come up to help out. We'll win our share of games like we normally do, we almost made the finals last year after all.

 

[valleyboy]

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Hey bundoora, run us through Gurinda Mann as a bowler... 8/28 off 17 to destory plenty a pretty good effort. Also rosbrook - quick? doing much with it? hasn't taken a lot of wickets in the first couple of weeks.

 

[JBs Shadow]

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The whole fire in the belly's thing is crap, why would you want to win more this week than last week. It's a battle for the spoon and on the form of the past two seasons you'll need a minor (or should that be Minney) miracle to win.

Minney is to Eltham what:

Keays is to Lalor Stars
Baker is to Mernda
Hurst (x2) is to Epping
(Insert Import here) is to Bundoora
Turner is to Research
Whitcher is to Lower Eltham
Waddingham is to Macleod
Glynn is to Diamond Creek
Arnberger is to Lower Plenty
Gibbs is to Riverside
Hubber is to Plenty

It's fair to say that Eltham really do need Minney to fire, but if these guys don't do anything for their respective clubs, they struggle too (generally, not always)

 

[Bundoora]

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Hey bundoora, run us through Gurinda Mann as a bowler... 8/28 off 17 to destory plenty a pretty good effort. Also rosbrook - quick? doing much with it? hasn't taken a lot of wickets in the first couple of weeks.

Rosbrook bowled at good pace but probably struggled with his length, with Plenty having a new pitch it may take a while to adjust, i'm sure he'll get better as the season goes on.

As for Guri, bowled probaly the best i've seen up close, including Gillys 8/10 in a grand final. Speaking to Lovey & Joc they were extremely impressed. He's not super fast but wobbles the ball and rarely bowles a bad ball, he bowled 9 no balls ( front foot ) so his figures should have been even better. He also took a catch so was involved in all dismissals bar loveys, who was bowled by me, but enough was spoken about that on Saturday night

Guri is in Australia with his wife to study and is only playing because he is good mates with Sonny, who came to our club last season looking for a game. To be able to have 2 guys capable of playing "A" grade cricket fall in our laps has been tremendous, i just hope that they have a mate that can bat coming next year!!

We are hoping Dinesh will arrive within the next 3 weeks so our bowling should hold us in good stead for the rest of the season, just need to start making some runs so they have a score to defend.

We had our import play his first game on the weekend and made a second ball duck, i'm sure he can only improve.

 

[Bundoora]

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Minney is to Eltham what:

Keays is to Lalor Stars
Baker is to Mernda
Hurst (x2) is to Epping
(Insert Import here) is to Bundoora
Turner is to Research
Whitcher is to Lower Eltham
Waddingham is to Macleod
Glynn is to Diamond Creek
Arnberger is to Lower Plenty
Gibbs is to Riverside
Hubber is to Plenty

It's fair to say that Eltham really do need Minney to fire, but if these guys don't do anything for their respective clubs, they struggle too (generally, not always)

Stu Adams is the key to our side, if he takes wickets we generally go ok.

As we speak, our "import" has contributed 0 runs and was handy in the field, probaly not matchwinnng stuff..

We have two Indians playing but they are not imports, they are Indians living in Australia on Student Visas who happen to love playing cricket, as most Indians do. It just so happens that Sonny walked past training last year and saw a couple of "black" people training so he popped in to say g'day and enquire about playing. Who knows if we didn't have any imports last year he may not have had the confidence to come and say hello.
I'm glad he did as even though he is not paid to play cricket, we were able to organise part time work for him and has been a great addition to our club.

i think you are spot on about the above players being keys to there respective sides, but you still require guys to chip in most weeks to be successful, gone are the days where 1 player keeps a side together. The competition is as even as i can ever remember and reults will vary from week to week depending on the performances of your "lesser players". Just from our game on the weekend, Guri wouldn't have had a chance to get 8 for if Gibbo didn't make a match winning 45. We were 5/23 and in danger of being bowled out for another embarrasing total until a few guys who i probably didn't expect stood up.

 

[get over it]

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Minney is to Eltham what:

Keays is to Lalor Stars
Baker is to Mernda
Hurst (x2) is to Epping
(Insert Import here) is to Bundoora
Turner is to Research
Whitcher is to Lower Eltham
Waddingham is to Macleod
Glynn is to Diamond Creek
Arnberger is to Lower Plenty
Gibbs is to Riverside
Hubber is to Plenty

It's fair to say that Eltham really do need Minney to fire, but if these guys don't do anything for their respective clubs, they struggle too (generally, not always)

True, but what I'm saying is that that Eltham relies more heavily on their star because the blokes around him aren't as good as the guys from other clubs,and I believe that Eltham's record last year confirms that. He does well and they aren't guaranteed victory, yet I think you'll find when any of the other blokes you've mentioned do well so do their sides.

 

[imported_Opener2]

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Minney is to Eltham what:

Keays is to Lalor Stars
Baker is to Mernda
Hurst (x2) is to Epping
(Insert Import here) is to Bundoora
Turner is to Research
Whitcher is to Lower Eltham
Waddingham is to Macleod
Glynn is to Diamond Creek
Arnberger is to Lower Plenty
Gibbs is to Riverside
Hubber is to Plenty

It's fair to say that Eltham really do need Minney to fire, but if these guys don't do anything for their respective clubs, they struggle too (generally, not always)

But other sides have a few other players you could EASILY sub their gun for. eg Justin Whitcher for Jarrod Curtis. Gibbsy and Smale, Glynn for Glynn. Meaning they are less reliant on that one player. It is a bit harder to do that with Eltham. They'll still give plenty of fight, but Minney is well and trully their best player and needs to fire.

 

[JBs Shadow]

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Import = Non Australian Resident!

 

[bat11dontbowl]

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On what basis? We get one of our best players back this week, and our 2s had a good win as well so someone in form should come up to help out. We'll win our share of games like we normally do, we almost made the finals last year after all.

does that mean you will get dropped now? one can only hope hey?

 

[I HATE EVERYONE]

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Import = Non Australian Resident!

I faced Adams last year and thought he was as good as any bowler I had seen running around the valley. Sounds like a little racial slur from the Shadow.

 

[Mister Ed]

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I faced Adams last year and thought he was as good as any bowler I had seen running around the valley. Sounds like a little racial slur from the Shadow.

woooooohhhhh dont go there