Geelong Cricket '08/'09(gca/bpca)

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Couple of Questions. When does the fixture come out, and will there be an expanded Twenty20 comp this year?
 
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Tailender;228097 said:
Couple of Questions. When does the fixture come out, and will there be an expanded Twenty20 comp this year?
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Fixture out very soon. The GCA had to wait for the final decision on Mainfold. They are also thinking of how to run the 20/20 comp. Might be run on Sundays!
 
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Babies Arm;227968 said:
st albans are sending posts thru the ballarat ca looking 4 players!! do they expect them to play for nothing???? just a question, not bagging stalbans
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Babies Arm, its good to see youre on the ball (Cricket Ball) yes it is true that St Albans Breakwater have posted an invitation to any cricketeers looking for a change of club from the Ballarat area, that invitation also goes out to anyone from around here who loves to play with good mates who hang a little bit of shit on each other but importantly enjoy them selves.

If you ever want to get on board I would like to hear from you. I went to training at the old nets at St Albans when they were on the Boundary Road side in the early 80's and I love the place.
 
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Smokin Joe;228068 said:
What about Div 2? Any predictions?
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Thomson - if full strength all year will be hard to beat. Salta and Smelly to get them of to strong starts, plenty of good young kids coming thru
St Peters - good all round team, expect another big year from Illingworth + the younger ones to push thru the grades
Manifold - competitive at times in Div 1, with no player loss will be up there
Corio - Fergusson himself will score 500-700 runs + Arnott, bowling will be the worry
Highton - still competitive and will be all year
Waurn Ponds - the Skene's will produce again in Divvy 2

Alexander Thomson and Torquay will be there abouts aswell
 
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sam hall from north is same age as yelland, he'd have to get a look in for the under 25s. played real well in country week last year.
 
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Renny24;228077 said:
Div 2:

Thomson
Highton
St Peters
Corio
Manifold Heights
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Will expand a bit on my previous post; sorry should have done so at the time:

-Thomson: The injection of Smiljanic will have a huge impact with the presence of good cricketers around him. Not as much pressure on Salts = more runs.
-Highton: Keep scraping results together and play very well as a team but crumbled last year.
-St Peters: Will miss Lamb a lot but will be well covered by Graham Clarke who took 40 and made 400 in the 2nds last year. Youngsters DeBeer & Harvey to keep improving. Could have another Pom on the way.
-Corio: Fergie will be massive but am tipping they will implode and may not even make finals. Tip as 4th because of last season's promise.
-Manifold: Div 2 has improved since they were last here and Runners Up. Last time there was no Thomson, no Torquay, Corio were no good and neither were Waurn Ponds. Not the walk up start that they think they will be.

-Waurn Ponds maybe just outside. They achieved great things last year and played to their optimum; first ever 1st XI flag. They will miss Chapman and Hilditch immensely and have no replacements at this stage. Back-up quick Karofilis also leaving.
 
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clearing pickets;227961 said:
how old are u lucas? and im sure you'd play even thou no-one knows your dad
seems you've been around for a while haha :D
blair allen would be a walk up start in the u25s but he is rumoured to be leaving geelong cricket to play elsewhere, thats why i didnt put him in originally :)
Andy hughes is an ok good bat, bottom hand specialist.
Fabris and schaller i have not seen but have only heard good things about schaller from BPCA people, shanebourne are they any good?
I know schaller is only young however.
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yeah fabris has been down at geelong might of played a couple in the two's not certain.

schaller although he's a big nuffy can really bowl, he bowls left arm leggies with a ripper wrong un' needs to go play higher cricket to really improve and be noticed eg. GCA1 or VCA don't know if he will tho with he's old man beeing a barwon heads legend and knob.

mitch herbission also from barwon heads is the best young bat in the bpca by miles he's in the vic u/19s squad im pretty sure and he also needs to play higher cricket.
 
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thommy_rissole;228142 said:
herbison just wants to play with his mates at the heads, isn't too interested in cricket, is quite a good footy player aswell and is more committed there.

he was at vic u19s but a that stage he was still training/playing at geelong.
but even he admitted getting in the team was well beyond him, said it was good practice tho.
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yeah i agree with the bit about good practice, i played one season with a vca club in their lower grades, was never going to be good enough to make the higher grades but training with those guys was awesome, did plenty for my skills in just one season. Especially fielding.
 
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ants14;228108 said:
sam hall from north is same age as yelland, he'd have to get a look in for the under 25s. played real well in country week last year.
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Scored 70 in the final.
 
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Renny24;228076 said:
Div 1:

Sth Barwon
Grovedale
East Belmont
Geelong West
Leopold

Pretty sure it will only be a Top 5 this season.
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your a tosser renny. with our inclusions im tipping a top 2 finish
 
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SHANEBOURNEorWARNE;228121 said:
yeah fabris has been down at geelong might of played a couple in the two's not certain.

schaller although he's a big nuffy can really bowl, he bowls left arm leggies with a ripper wrong un' needs to go play higher cricket to really improve and be noticed eg. GCA1 or VCA don't know if he will tho with he's old man beeing a barwon heads legend and knob.

mitch herbission also from barwon heads is the best young bat in the bpca by miles he's in the vic u/19s squad im pretty sure and he also needs to play higher cricket.
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fabris was at geelong. doubt he played as high as 2s!!!
and herbisson wont get far in the u/19s playing for bhcc. while most of them are in vca 1sts and 2nds, his facing the likes of braniff!!!
 
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shark bite;228206 said:
your a tosser renny. with our inclusions im tipping a top 2 finish
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Hang on a minute; please correct me if I'm wrong; you're inclusions are Scott Lindsay and Adam Pitts and your losses are Colin Millard. All of a sudden you are going to arrest your slide down the foot of the ladder and surge past the rest of the sides including at least one of last season's grand finalists and get yourself into the top 2. I must be missing something. I would have thought that you would be satisfied by being competitive and knocking on the door of the finals; let alone a grand final appearnce. Good on you if you get that far.
 
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Babies Arm;228124 said:
fabris was at geelong. doubt he played as high as 2s!!!
and herbisson wont get far in the u/19s playing for bhcc. while most of them are in vca 1sts and 2nds, his facing the likes of braniff!!!
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i let seany know u said that!!!!!

yeah maybe so but he is just class you can just tell woth some young players.
 
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Renny24;228208 said:
Hang on a minute; please correct me if I'm wrong; you're inclusions are Scott Lindsay and Adam Pitts and your losses are Colin Millard. All of a sudden you are going to arrest your slide down the foot of the ladder and surge past the rest of the sides including at least one of last season's grand finalists and get yourself into the top 2. I must be missing something. I would have thought that you would be satisfied by being competitive and knocking on the door of the finals; let alone a grand final appearnce. Good on you if you get that far.
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Spot on Renny! Losing Trav Agg is bigger than gaining Lindsay. Pitts has never been an overly consistant player but will be handy. He would equal Millards lose. I must admit, I think last year was a bad one out of the box for City. City will finish between 4 to 8. No higher, no lower.
 
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SHANEBOURNEorWARNE;228125 said:
i let seany know u said that!!!!!

yeah maybe so but he is just class you can just tell woth some young players.
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i wonder is sean got his throat back off blissy????

doubt it, im sure the selectors would be sayin play vca or seeya later.
 
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Renny24;228076 said:
Div 1:

Sth Barwon
Grovedale
East Belmont
Geelong West
Leopold

Pretty sure it will only be a Top 5 this season.
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I would replace Leopold with Joeys. I know they lost a couple of very handy players, but I think they might have just about been replaced. They also have pretty good depth, something Leopold has not got. I still think it is a 4 horse race though (South, East, Grovie & West), But God knows what order!

Mind you, South did beat East last year in a BIG game when no one expected it, I think other clubs now know they can be beaten. East will feel that this year. Grovie might be to cocky. South will have something to prove and West could be anything on a good day. Should be a cracker of a year for the GCA Div 1 comp.
 
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Babies Arm;228126 said:
i wonder is sean got his throat back off blissy????

doubt it, im sure the selectors would be sayin play vca or seeya later.
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i dunno mate mate im not a selector, have u played vca u/19s have ya:confused:

i let seany know about that one 2 thats a big grave your digging babies arm:D

anything else?
 
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is Agg going to Geelong to captain the 2's better than staying put for his own career?
 
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Babies Arm;228124 said:
fabris was at geelong. doubt he played as high as 2s!!!
and herbisson wont get far in the u/19s playing for bhcc. while most of them are in vca 1sts and 2nds, his facing the likes of braniff!!!
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the bpca isn't the strongest comp going around but does have some decent bowlers eg. Chris Welford who bowls ok from all reports and luke hardiman from down at ocean grove les wallace from barwon heads brendan long from collendina these blokes all can hold there own and a couple have been gun players in GCA1 although hardiman is getting on a bit id imagine he still bowls ok
 
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I heard today that Torquay have confirmed the pommie coach for the season!
 
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Bringbackwarney;228130 said:
the bpca isn't the strongest comp going around but does have some decent bowlers eg. Chris Welford who bowls ok from all reports and luke hardiman from down at ocean grove les wallace from barwon heads brendan long from collendina these blokes all can hold there own and a couple have been gun players in GCA1 although hardiman is getting on a bit id imagine he still bowls ok
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Would never doubt that there are some talented cricketers playing loacal district leagues such as BPCA but the reality is that if you want to get noticed and play at a higher level, then you play GCA. That is of course unless you just want to keep playing with mates and don't want to take your cricket seriously. If you were a young bloke and didn't make the TAC cut you wouldn't keep playing with a district club I wouldn't think. The best comp and the springboard would be the GFL.
 
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Bringbackwarney;228130 said:
the bpca isn't the strongest comp going around but does have some decent bowlers eg. Chris Welford who bowls ok from all reports and luke hardiman from down at ocean grove les wallace from barwon heads brendan long from collendina these blokes all can hold there own and a couple have been gun players in GCA1 although hardiman is getting on a bit id imagine he still bowls ok
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you left out jason murray and chris jones from st albans
 
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Babies Arm;228126 said:
i wonder is sean got his throat back off blissy????

doubt it, im sure the selectors would be sayin play vca or seeya later.
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herbison just wants to play with his mates at the heads, isn't too interested in cricket, is quite a good footy player aswell and is more committed there.

he was at vic u19s but a that stage he was still training/playing at geelong.
but even he admitted getting in the team was well beyond him, said it was good practice tho.
 
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Renny24;228160 said:
Will expand a bit on my previous post; sorry should have done so at the time:

-Thomson: The injection of Smiljanic will have a huge impact with the presence of good cricketers around him. Not as much pressure on Salts = more runs.
-Highton: Keep scraping results together and play very well as a team but crumbled last year.
-St Peters: Will miss Lamb a lot but will be well covered by Graham Clarke who took 40 and made 400 in the 2nds last year. Youngsters DeBeer & Harvey to keep improving. Could have another Pom on the way.
-Corio: Fergie will be massive but am tipping they will implode and may not even make finals. Tip as 4th because of last season's promise.
-Manifold: Div 2 has improved since they were last here and Runners Up. Last time there was no Thomson, no Torquay, Corio were no good and neither were Waurn Ponds. Not the walk up start that they think they will be.

-Waurn Ponds maybe just outside. They achieved great things last year and played to their optimum; first ever 1st XI flag. They will miss Chapman and Hilditch immensely and have no replacements at this stage. Back-up quick Karofilis also leaving.
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all you blokes keep picking thomson to finish top of div 2. we keep smashing them in the practice matches! and we are bpca nobodys? GIVE US A CRACK
 
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SHANEBOURNEorWARNE;228125 said:
i let seany know u said that!!!!!

yeah maybe so but he is just class you can just tell woth some young players.
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yer he is class, i know he only plays BPCA but he could mix it in div 1
 
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supersaintjohnny;228260 said:
all you blokes keep picking thomson to finish top of div 2. we keep smashing them in the practice matches! and we are bpca nobodys? GIVE US A CRACK
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i'm sure they'd love to play you guys in the BPCA but they are in the GCA, practice matches are indeed that.... practice.
Saw you play them in the 20/20, you guys were good and no doubt you would be in the top5 in divvy 2, just need to get in there!!

And any chance you could score a run this year Johnny?

You becoming more and more famous for your 160 odd in u13s :D
 
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Smokin Joe;228068 said:
What about Div 2? Any predictions?
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Manifold were pretty competitive last season in div 1, and i think they might have a little too much class this year.
Although with smelly and fergie playing who knows what will happen.

Manifold
Thompson
Corio
St Peters
Highton
 
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shark bite;228206 said:
your a tosser renny. with our inclusions im tipping a top 2 finish
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Shark Bite, MIillard for Lindsay is basically a straight swap.
Pitts isn't exactly a divvy one run machine either.
Although dickie bird has said Jarvis is on some coin so i'm sure he'll earn it by scoring some runs this year :D

I'm predicting Geelong City to finish in the bottom 3, Marsland's back will fire up and again and he'll become disinterested, the loss of Travis Agg has depleted your bowling and Millard was the only one who scored runs for you last year, and even he wasn't great. Lindsay, Pitts and Jarvis need to score 1500 between them for you to have any chance of making finals!!
 
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Second XI At Best;228144 said:
Manifold were pretty competitive last season in div 1, and i think they might have a little too much class this year.
Although with smelly and fergie playing who knows what will happen.

Manifold
Thompson
Corio
St Peters
Highton
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Thomson... no p Mr At Best :D
 
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Smokin Joe;228270 said:
People are picking Thomson on the strength of signing Smelly.
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they finished 3rd without him last year and they do have alot of young players there.
Riches, Bliss, O'Neill x2, Rodgers, Gill, Trezise are all 15-21 throw in the experience of Saltamachia, Smiljanic, Dahlahaus, Bosworth, Castle and they are every chance to progress on last years 3rd place.

Not many other clubs in the Divvy 2 can stake a claim to having that much home grown talent, maybe Highton and St Peters.

It is good to see these young players progressing thru the ranks to play in the 1st XI.

I know St Peters have got structures in place to fast-track there juniors thru the seniors, which isn't dis-similar to Newtown, it all takes time tho :)

It is quite rewarding for all concerned when the youngsters do well :D
 
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The key's are Bosworth and Smelly, probably more so Bosworth. Smelly is hit and miss, and that's what you get. devastating yes, consistent, no.
 
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