MMVCA General Cricket Chat

[silvermagpie]

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I wanted to pose a questionfor opinion......

Seeing that neither teh A or B turf grand finals actually had a result (as in at least 1st innings points) what are peoples thoughts on the idea that when the day 1 and 2 are washed out in a GF, that the match resorts to a 80 over a side, ensuring at least a 1st innings result!

St Andrews batted for 60 overs and made 334 in great time, but still werent able to bowl out Glenroy in 86 overs. There was no incentinve in the end for Glenroy to make the runs. Is this too much advantage to the third team playing fourth??

I only pose this in this situation where 2 days of cricket were lost, coz if 4 days were played or even 3, there would of been a result.

Any thoughts???

what if 3 days were washed out would you have them play one dayer or 4 days washed out bowl off everyone knows start of season you need to finish high as possible thats how it should.As for glenroy they were fifth entering last round and the 4 above them all stumbled at the wrong time similer story in b grade glenroys and east coburg good fortune

 

[FRONTFOOTNOBALL]

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Dont you mean, beating yourself???

You are a piece of sh1t. You have potted blokes all season, yet you still wont reveal yourself. I know you are from St Marys scumbag.[/QUOTE]

mmvca why would i want to reveal myself on this web site, this is a cricket forum not a porn website.... Another thing how could i be a piece of sh1t, i would not have thought a piece of sh1t could use and a computer!!
Anyway seems as if you still are pointing the finger at the wrong person and club. The guys at your club must think you are a little ha ha (GNOME) crazy. No doubt they will be glad to see the back of you and all your troubles, although i do feel very sorry for the club that takes you on. Hopefully they do a full check and speak to people from St.Marys about you.

Have you ever thought about getting some high heels to wear?

 

[My Captain My Captain.]

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KK on my way to the Eastern Freeway going home this arvo i dropped those Qld Pineapples off, please check with your Zoo keeper to make sure they give them to you. Gee they smelt very fresh and sweet, sweet like that LBW you got on the weekend lol.......

FFNBalls you should have a good look at yourself. King Kong is one of the most genuine person I have the privilege of knowing. He never talks himself up ( he could because he is so good), but people talk about him. He always has time for others, he never asks for anything special (he could because he is so good) plus he is not scared and hide behind a screen. G.T. has been playing in this comp for a long time and he demands to have the respect of all.
Unlike yourself that is a chicken s h i t!!!!!!!!!! buy they way how is West Coburg (the March chokers) going are you planing on another good year just to fail again in March.

 

[putabellintheball]

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In the B Turf East Coburg battered all day on Saturday and until 5pm on the Sunday.
In saying this the wicket was the biggest road I have even seen in my life and was impossible for the bowlers to get wickets.
Sunshine YCW commenced batting only for East Coburg to place all there players on the fence.
Well played East Coburg and good to see you stay around for a beer after the game. What a discrase of a club.

Surely the ground allocation needs to be also looked at as Pascoe Vale's ground was shocking and shouldn't have even been considered for a final let alone a GF. The wicket only gave the batting team a chance and the outfield was as bad as East Coburg attitude as a team.

Your kidding right?!?

SORRY ABOUT THE LONG POST but lets address all the above rubbish.

Why not acknowledge the fact that you could not bowl us out? We did not declare at 5pm - we were all out. We would have batted to 6.05 if we could - we couldn't. That was the JOB and WE EXECUTED.

Why not acknowledge the fact that it was an INCREDIBLE effort bat that long.

403 is a club record in a final so dont tell me that anyone can do it.

The pitch was a road but the bowling was shite.

Good bowlers get bats out - regardless of the pitch. Impossible to get wickets. How did you EVENTUALLY bowl us out then?

We had players on then fence because that is the right STRATEGY. Do you expect us to bring everyone and say hey just have a smash?

Regardless of that - I did not see you guys go down swinging.....even your captain was shaking his head waiting to go in saying 'this is not a two day game' clearly he wanted you to have a go.

You guys were out in the semi for 60 on what was also considered a good wicket - how do I know - I spoke to your spectators and also a committee member who said you guys tried to bat like million dollar players. I dont know - I was not there at the SF - I am just relaying conversations from your OWN supporters. Only after you had the arse ripped out of you did you do the job in the second innings.

Imagine the second innings was washed out - ahahhahahha you would not have even made the grannie.

You bowled ordinary (how much short shit do you want to bowl when you NEED to take wickets), caught like 12 year olds (mate going one handed for catches is a no no at anytime of the year let alone a GF (the one dropped at square leg)), and the strategy was wrong.

AND YOU WERE MORE WORRIED ABOUT THE SUPPORTERS THAN THE GAME. Your opening bowler screamed out 'I will give you something to cheer about!' hahahhaha HE SURE DID. Our bats smashed him to the boundary TWICE in a row and told him to GO FETCH.

Maybe if he spent less time standing the in middle of the pitch after every ball that DID NOTHING, staring batsmen down, then he might have got a wicket......

Calling our club a disgrace for not sticking around - again - you got rocks in your head.

You guys shook hands after the game saying 'good draw..' hahahahaha are you in dream land? Acknowledge the team you played WON the GF.

A drawn game does not mean you SHARE the medal.

You needed to WIN and DID NOT do the job.

Simple.

Also - your captains speech - not so gracious in defeat....

All he harped on about (yes I heard the violins) was about he wished he had four days....he wished he won the toss.....he thanked us for the game and a dismissive 'oh yeah good win / result' but we wish.....

come on - I had a crap year myself but never was a bad loser. YES WE WON THE GF.

So after all that you want us to stick around and have a beer?

So who is the disgrace?

Mate - have a look at the St Andrews / Glenroy GF and the pics and comments. That is the spirit this game is played in. Well done to Warren / Dave and the guys. You have even more respect from me.

Why did you not come back to OUR ground to have a beer? The sainters did that with Glenroy in the ones? We had the beer flowing till very early in the morning. It was only around the corner.....where OUR spectators got a chance to celebrate OUR WIN.

And also dont have a go at Pacco's ground - the wicket and table was perfect.

The outfield is NO different to the rest of the grounds and therefore the GF was played at the best place possible.

A bad tradesmen blames his tools.

The question is who or what are the tools here?

Dropped Him - get your story right before posting crap like that.

I hope that give everyone else into the insight of the game.

 

[putabellintheball]

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One way of ensuring your firsts stay in A turf, why would Sunshine YCW take the field can't they say can't achive a result and shake hands. It looked as though they only batted for 10 overs, that's a long 2 days in the field knowing you need a result to win the game. Whether it was a road or not, good effort by Easts to bat for that long!

Thanks Guru - it was a great effort but personally I would have had a bat and thrown everything at it. I would have gone down swinging.

 

[putabellintheball]

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I can't believe this post. All outfields are stuffed. So rather than playing on an excellent pitch, you would rather play on a green top in a Grand Final.

Where would you have liked it to have been played?

Its unfortunate that the first 2 days were washed out, but if Sunshine YCW had two days to bat on a belter, they might have got the runs.

Major problem here is that east Coburg would rather win a B Turf flag than push there A Turf side up the ladder.

A few points on this too.

We did not have the players to play in the ones.

The players in the ones were already basically players from the B Grade anyway so I dont know how you can come to this conclusion.

We lost 9 A grade players this year and you dont just find them from your B grade......

When we decided to give B grade every chance to make the finals - the qualification criteria of players meant that it was not possible to change the teams around anyway as this was well and truly a few games after christmas anyway.

As a club - there is NO point in the A and B grade finishing mid pack and thats what would have happened.

How many clubs would be happy with their A grade and B grade fishing 5th and saying hey we had a good year but have nothing to show from it?

 

[putabellintheball]

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Dropped him East Coburg are not renowned drinkers, going back several years ago probably more, there we're a few who liked to have a crack (the gilmore boys) but not anymore...

Probably but there were a few guys in good form on Sunday night....

Probably not so good form in the morning...

 

[putabellintheball]

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Not sure where the game could have been played as I do not know the grounds that well.
Not saying that our game should have been played at our ground but maybe the A turf or C turf should have been played at our ground.
It is the best ground / facilites in the comp by a long way. Maybe should be look at for coming season. Anybody who has played there would agree.

I have no problems with East Coburg batting the 2 days because we dropped a few catches and couldn't buy a LBW when it counted in the first day and a half. They are allowed to do this because the rules allow this.
But to place all the fielders on the fence with 10 overs to bowl and not having a beer with the other team after the game is a joke.

We battered the 10 overs because why should East Coburg get a easy win and just celebrate when they are all out. If this was the case we should have pulled stumps at tea. We made the GF and wanted to play the 2 days out. We would have given the 400 a fair shake on that ground and wicket.

yeH right - you lost two quick wickets and you WERE NOT EVEN throwing the bat!

LMAO

*scratching my head*

where is the logic?

Are you saying if you had time you would have batted differently and as such they way you batted for those 10 overs was you *actually* throwing the bat?

LOL?

 

[RooBoy]

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yeH right - you lost two quick wickets and you WERE NOT EVEN throwing the bat!

LMAO

*scratching my head*

where is the logic?

Are you saying if you had time you would have batted differently and as such they way you batted for those 10 overs was you *actually* throwing the bat?

LOL?

Sean you need to relax man, you're getting sucked in here and doing yourself no favours!

I have been around East Cob for years (prefer not to say who I am), the decision to "stack" the 2nd XI to make the finals was wrong. Its no good wining the GF in the reserves when the firsts are finishing last.
The club should be trying to blood young players, even if they are not up to A turf as yet, its better to develop them over time and improve the 1st XI than satisfy some of the "older" guys sitting in the 2nds, whose careers are now finished. Take a leaf out of Merlo's book this year and even Sunshine Hghts who are using the same philosophy to develop kids.

I disagree with your philosophy on this..........if you're coaching next year.........think 1st XI and develop players over time.

 

[putabellintheball]

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Sean you need to relax man, you're getting sucked in here and doing yourself no favours!

I have been around East Cob for years (prefer not to say who I am), the decision to "stack" the 2nd XI to make the finals was wrong. Its no good wining the GF in the reserves when the firsts are finishing last.
The club should be trying to blood young players, even if they are not up to A turf as yet, its better to develop them over time and improve the 1st XI than satisfy some of the "older" guys sitting in the 2nds, whose careers are now finished. Take a leaf out of Merlo's book this year and even Sunshine Hghts who are using the same philosophy to develop kids.

I disagree with your philosophy on this..........if you're coaching next year.........think 1st XI and develop players over time.

Probably I should but I love my club and I am not going to sit here at let people crap on about stuff that is just wrong.

The A Grade did play kids this year. Levin Reece, Issac Garden, Jack Donahue are all 16.

So we did not exactly stack the 2's rather - we blooded some kids ourselves and that meant some fringe A/B grade players stayed in the B Grade.

Merlo have done a great job and we need to do a similar thing.

Extremely hard when you dont have juniors. We are working on that but really thats a 5 year plan to get juniors up and running and competitive and then feeding into the senior teams.

We need it though.

Also - I don't coach at Easts.

Cheers Rooboy (mystery man!)

 

[FRONTFOOTNOBALL]

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FFNBalls you should have a good look at yourself. King Kong is one of the most genuine person I have the privilege of knowing. He never talks himself up ( he could because he is so good), but people talk about him. He always has time for others, he never asks for anything special (he could because he is so good) plus he is not scared and hide behind a screen. G.T. has been playing in this comp for a long time and he demands to have the respect of all.
Unlike yourself that is a chicken s h i t!!!!!!!!!! buy they way how is West Coburg (the March chokers) going are you planing on another good year just to fail again in March.

Oh no i think i have hit a nerve with you..... My Captain, My Captain i can feel your man love for Gav, how long have you been sleeping with each other or have you moved into his Palm Tree?
As for chicking we were not the only ones, we look forward to next season to make amends. Now get back to massaging KK's feet and palms on his hands after all that swinging around you two love Apes have been doing!

 

[The Black Panther]

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Took me awhile to work-out who Hi Ho was, been a bit of trouble ah [again....ask E. Keilor from a few years ago] can't be too bad though he's sponsoring your club and the mighty E. Cob...........B Grade Premiers 08/09 I also notise that your wanting applications for Cpt/Coach ..... I Might apply hahahahahah how much you offering ? ? ? ?

Hi Ho is not a trouble maker has done alot for many clubs and has been great with the kids this year. All the best to him if he does leave?

 

[GeeCeeCee]

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Sean you need to relax man, you're getting sucked in here and doing yourself no favours!

I have been around East Cob for years (prefer not to say who I am), the decision to "stack" the 2nd XI to make the finals was wrong. Its no good wining the GF in the reserves when the firsts are finishing last.
The club should be trying to blood young players, even if they are not up to A turf as yet, its better to develop them over time and improve the 1st XI than satisfy some of the "older" guys sitting in the 2nds, whose careers are now finished. Take a leaf out of Merlo's book this year and even Sunshine Hghts who are using the same philosophy to develop kids.

I disagree with your philosophy on this..........if you're coaching next year.........think 1st XI and develop players over time.

We at Glenroy have also been doing this over the last couple of seasons, and what hansome dividends it paid this season. In our team last weekend, we had 6 players 21 or younger, a further two aged 24 & 25. So developing kids will work wonders if you have the 'right' kids.

You are quite correct Rooboy in stating Merlo have done a fantastic job as well. They were huge improvers this season.

 

[DROPPED HIM]

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Your kidding right?!?

SORRY ABOUT THE LONG POST but lets address all the above rubbish.

Why not acknowledge the fact that you could not bowl us out? We did not declare at 5pm - we were all out. We would have batted to 6.05 if we could - we couldn't. That was the JOB and WE EXECUTED.

Why not acknowledge the fact that it was an INCREDIBLE effort bat that long.

403 is a club record in a final so dont tell me that anyone can do it.

The pitch was a road but the bowling was shite.

Good bowlers get bats out - regardless of the pitch. Impossible to get wickets. How did you EVENTUALLY bowl us out then?

We had players on then fence because that is the right STRATEGY. Do you expect us to bring everyone and say hey just have a smash?

Regardless of that - I did not see you guys go down swinging.....even your captain was shaking his head waiting to go in saying 'this is not a two day game' clearly he wanted you to have a go.

You guys were out in the semi for 60 on what was also considered a good wicket - how do I know - I spoke to your spectators and also a committee member who said you guys tried to bat like million dollar players. I dont know - I was not there at the SF - I am just relaying conversations from your OWN supporters. Only after you had the arse ripped out of you did you do the job in the second innings.

Imagine the second innings was washed out - ahahhahahha you would not have even made the grannie.

You bowled ordinary (how much short shit do you want to bowl when you NEED to take wickets), caught like 12 year olds (mate going one handed for catches is a no no at anytime of the year let alone a GF (the one dropped at square leg)), and the strategy was wrong.

AND YOU WERE MORE WORRIED ABOUT THE SUPPORTERS THAN THE GAME. Your opening bowler screamed out 'I will give you something to cheer about!' hahahhaha HE SURE DID. Our bats smashed him to the boundary TWICE in a row and told him to GO FETCH.

Maybe if he spent less time standing the in middle of the pitch after every ball that DID NOTHING, staring batsmen down, then he might have got a wicket......

Calling our club a disgrace for not sticking around - again - you got rocks in your head.

You guys shook hands after the game saying 'good draw..' hahahahaha are you in dream land? Acknowledge the team you played WON the GF.

A drawn game does not mean you SHARE the medal.

You needed to WIN and DID NOT do the job.

Simple.

Also - your captains speech - not so gracious in defeat....

All he harped on about (yes I heard the violins) was about he wished he had four days....he wished he won the toss.....he thanked us for the game and a dismissive 'oh yeah good win / result' but we wish.....

come on - I had a crap year myself but never was a bad loser. YES WE WON THE GF.

So after all that you want us to stick around and have a beer?

So who is the disgrace?

Mate - have a look at the St Andrews / Glenroy GF and the pics and comments. That is the spirit this game is played in. Well done to Warren / Dave and the guys. You have even more respect from me.

Why did you not come back to OUR ground to have a beer? The sainters did that with Glenroy in the ones? We had the beer flowing till very early in the morning. It was only around the corner.....where OUR spectators got a chance to celebrate OUR WIN.

And also dont have a go at Pacco's ground - the wicket and table was perfect.

The outfield is NO different to the rest of the grounds and therefore the GF was played at the best place possible.

A bad tradesmen blames his tools.

The question is who or what are the tools here?

Dropped Him - get your story right before posting crap like that.

I hope that give everyone else into the insight of the game.

Put a bell in it you a such a tool. Fair book by the way.

Where do I start.

If you actaully read my previous post I said that East Coburg done everything in the rules and we were happy with that except getting bored to death by the batting. What we were a bit dissapointed in that we didn't get the opportunity to win the game at all (Not your fault).

I personally think the bowling wasn't too bad and has done the job most of the year. We only had very limited oppotunies to get wickets because of the track was so good it made it very difficult to break through when we dropped a couple of catches. We only actually dropped 2 proper chances for the whole game maybe 3. Didn't take our half chances.

Your comment good bowlers get batsman out is way off the mark.
Maybe you might recall the test against Sri Lanka and Pakistan last month when Sri Lanka declared at 7/644 and Pakistan declared 6/765. Maybe bowlers like Murali, Mendis and Vass just to name a couple are no good.

Maybe at 3 for about 250 our opening bowler actaully bowled a few short balls but nothing over the top and when we couldnt but a wicket you try anything. Please tell us more when you faced alot of short balls because you faced nowhere near the amount you should have faced. If I had it my way everyone ball would have been short when we couldn't get you blokes out because that was the only time you would play a shot.

How is the right stratergy having every bloke on the fence when we commenced batting at 5:15 and we only battered 10 overs. If you do your maths genius that would be 40.6 an over to win. Different story if we were chasing 20 an over no wonder why you blokes have no respect around the competition!

I think you are retarded. How did they let you out of your home for the weekend without your helmet on. We had no intentions at all in getting the score and any normal sane person would think the same.
He was shaking his head because of the coward tatics you guys had.

Yes we didn't respect the bowling and the wicket for occassion but we dug in and done the job which was at hand and learnt alot from the 1st dig in the semi. Also this is impossible to be speaking to one of our supporters because they wouldn't have been able to understand you with the frof coming out of your toothless mouth.

Oh we were to worried about your spectactors as 1 players said 1 thing to your group of supporters who were getting stuck into him. Please mate grow up it is a grand final. The boy put his heart and soul into the game and wasn't getting the rewards he normally gets. He bowled 27 overs 3/86 which is pretty good effort. In case you have never seen a opening bowler that has some heart firing up is what they do.

I do know that when we were shaking I did say "well done" to all players. Sorry cannot hear over my own voice congratsulating you on your win. Not sure you expected a hug or something but we felt pretty hollowed and just lost a grand final.

About the captain's speech
Yes he did say well done to East Coburg but was very annoyed with every fielder on the fence chasing 40 runs per over and you blokes winning the game in the unsportsmanlike manner.

In my whole time of playing cricket I have never ever heard of a team going back to the other club's room to have a drink with them through the season let alone in the grand final. In case you forgot nuffy we lost we dont want to watch you blokes celebrating.

Not having a go at Pascoe Vale at all it has nothing to do with them. All they can do is prepare the ground the best they could and it is the competition that assigned that ground not them. Yes the wicket was the best wicket I have ever seen but does it give the other team a chance of wiining.
Go back to my other post about Pakistan and Sri Lanka and that explains why.

If anybody has time over the next couple of weeks head down to Kindersmith reserve and have a look what a ground with grass looks like. Also whilst you are there have a look at our facilities and tall me if grand finals should be played their?

Why you are bringing up things do you want to mention how East Coburg took the covers off on the first Saturday in the rain?
Maybe between you guys and the umpires how could you let this happen it was absolute bucketing down and please don't tell me you didn't ring the wet weather number.
Not to mention we used East Coburgs covers the first weekend and after they took them off the wicket they took them back to there club only for us to go and pick them up at 6pm Saturday night.
We will not be lodging a protest but the game might have been a different story you blokes batting at 3 on the first Sunday with some juice in the wicket.

Did one of your players happen to bat both the semi and grand final with a runner and made heaps of runs both times. He might have even won the medal?

 

[Smoke My Bat]

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FFNBalls you should have a good look at yourself. King Kong is one of the most genuine person I have the privilege of knowing. He never talks himself up ( he could because he is so good), but people talk about him. He always has time for others, he never asks for anything special (he could because he is so good) plus he is not scared and hide behind a screen. G.T. has been playing in this comp for a long time and he demands to have the respect of all.
Unlike yourself that is a chicken s h i t!!!!!!!!!! buy they way how is West Coburg (the March chokers) going are you planing on another good year just to fail again in March.

Can we please get one thing straight... FFNB is not a West Coburg Player... how many times do we have to say it, so go ahead and bag the SH^% outta him and not our club... yes we lost in March again, but were beaten by a better team on the day... plain and simple...

 

[FRONTFOOTNOBALL]

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Can we please get one thing straight... FFNB is not a West Coburg Player... how many times do we have to say it, so go ahead and bag the SH^% outta him and not our club... yes we lost in March again, but were beaten by a better team on the day... plain and simple...

Smoke My Bat, i think you have had one too many fruit kebabs in your time! Search a little harder and speak to the right guy and you will find out who i am

 

[FRONTFOOTNOBALL]

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Put a bell in it you a such a tool. Fair book by the way.

Where do I start.

If you actaully read my previous post I said that East Coburg done everything in the rules and we were happy with that except getting bored to death by the batting. What we were a bit dissapointed in that we didn't get the opportunity to win the game at all (Not your fault).

I personally think the bowling wasn't too bad and has done the job most of the year. We only had very limited oppotunies to get wickets because of the track was so good it made it very difficult to break through when we dropped a couple of catches. We only actually dropped 2 proper chances for the whole game maybe 3. Didn't take our half chances.

Your comment good bowlers get batsman out is way off the mark.
Maybe you might recall the test against Sri Lanka and Pakistan last month when Sri Lanka declared at 7/644 and Pakistan declared 6/765. Maybe bowlers like Murali, Mendis and Vass just to name a couple are no good.

Maybe at 3 for about 250 our opening bowler actaully bowled a few short balls but nothing over the top and when we couldnt but a wicket you try anything. Please tell us more when you faced alot of short balls because you faced nowhere near the amount you should have faced. If I had it my way everyone ball would have been short when we couldn't get you blokes out because that was the only time you would play a shot.

How is the right stratergy having every bloke on the fence when we commenced batting at 5:15 and we only battered 10 overs. If you do your maths genius that would be 40.6 an over to win. Different story if we were chasing 20 an over no wonder why you blokes have no respect around the competition!

I think you are retarded. How did they let you out of your home for the weekend without your helmet on. We had no intentions at all in getting the score and any normal sane person would think the same.
He was shaking his head because of the coward tatics you guys had.

Yes we didn't respect the bowling and the wicket for occassion but we dug in and done the job which was at hand and learnt alot from the 1st dig in the semi. Also this is impossible to be speaking to one of our supporters because they wouldn't have been able to understand you with the frof coming out of your toothless mouth.

Oh we were to worried about your spectactors as 1 players said 1 thing to your group of supporters who were getting stuck into him. Please mate grow up it is a grand final. The boy put his heart and soul into the game and wasn't getting the rewards he normally gets. He bowled 27 overs 3/86 which is pretty good effort. In case you have never seen a opening bowler that has some heart firing up is what they do.

I do know that when we were shaking I did say "well done" to all players. Sorry cannot hear over my own voice congratsulating you on your win. Not sure you expected a hug or something but we felt pretty hollowed and just lost a grand final.

About the captain's speech
Yes he did say well done to East Coburg but was very annoyed with every fielder on the fence chasing 40 runs per over and you blokes winning the game in the unsportsmanlike manner.

In my whole time of playing cricket I have never ever heard of a team going back to the other club's room to have a drink with them through the season let alone in the grand final. In case you forgot nuffy we lost we dont want to watch you blokes celebrating.

Not having a go at Pascoe Vale at all it has nothing to do with them. All they can do is prepare the ground the best they could and it is the competition that assigned that ground not them. Yes the wicket was the best wicket I have ever seen but does it give the other team a chance of wiining.
Go back to my other post about Pakistan and Sri Lanka and that explains why.

If anybody has time over the next couple of weeks head down to Kindersmith reserve and have a look what a ground with grass looks like. Also whilst you are there have a look at our facilities and tall me if grand finals should be played their?

Why you are bringing up things do you want to mention how East Coburg took the covers off on the first Saturday in the rain?
Maybe between you guys and the umpires how could you let this happen it was absolute bucketing down and please don't tell me you didn't ring the wet weather number.
Not to mention we used East Coburgs covers the first weekend and after they took them off the wicket they took them back to there club only for us to go and pick them up at 6pm Saturday night.
We will not be lodging a protest but the game might have been a different story you blokes batting at 3 on the first Sunday with some juice in the wicket.

Did one of your players happen to bat both the semi and grand final with a runner and made heaps of runs both times. He might have even won the medal?

Nothing but dribble...............

 

[putabellintheball]

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Nothing but dribble...............

Not going to argue with that.....

Not going to sit here at pick apart the crap again point by point (which I could do but I dont think the rest of sane people where want to see this conversation continue).

At the end of the day Dropped Him go back to your first post where you called us a disgrace for doing exactly what we were supposed to and then wanted us to stick around and have a beer with blokes who were not gracious in defeat.

Your captain tried his guts out all day.

Your opening bowler did exactly the same (by far the only bloke that looked like he was going to get a result) but he did bowl too short. I am not just talking about a few of the bouncers he bowled. Stiff - you would want that but blokes are just going to leave balls that are not going to get them out.

Common sense. Why play at something you dont need too?

And the guy who dropped the first soda impressed the hell out of me with his fielding for the rest of day. He is one of the better fielders in the comp which is why I can not for the life of me believe he dropped that catch.

Dont get on here and make your club sound like they are sooking when they TRIED ALL DAY for BOTH days.

You are making the rest of them look bad.

If you have no respect for us - well I will still sleep at night. The rest of the blokes I know personally on here certainly dont think that.

and dont forget when you point a finger there is three pointing back the other way

lastly - dont try to be funny goose. ****** and helmet jokes make you sound even dumber than the excuses you are peddling.

Leave the funny stuff to FFNB - at least he is consistent and his material is not only original it is funny. Sorry KK - i dont agree with him but it is funny ;-)

 

[Sainters_3_Peat]

Re: MMVCA General Cricket Chat

Congratulations to glenroy on drawing the grand final although we dont have a medallion we were definately the best side in it!!! On a different note we have already signed 4 or 5 new players to the club who will all play A or B turf next year. Mark my words St Andrews will win flags in all three turf grades next year with ease, we are the power house of the competition and we will prove this next season. Bring on the 09/10 season cant wait already!!!!

 

[A.Hussey]

Re: MMVCA General Cricket Chat

Put a bell in it you a such a tool. Fair book by the way.

Where do I start.

If you actaully read my previous post I said that East Coburg done everything in the rules and we were happy with that except getting bored to death by the batting. What we were a bit dissapointed in that we didn't get the opportunity to win the game at all (Not your fault).

I personally think the bowling wasn't too bad and has done the job most of the year. We only had very limited oppotunies to get wickets because of the track was so good it made it very difficult to break through when we dropped a couple of catches. We only actually dropped 2 proper chances for the whole game maybe 3. Didn't take our half chances.

Your comment good bowlers get batsman out is way off the mark.
Maybe you might recall the test against Sri Lanka and Pakistan last month when Sri Lanka declared at 7/644 and Pakistan declared 6/765. Maybe bowlers like Murali, Mendis and Vass just to name a couple are no good.

Maybe at 3 for about 250 our opening bowler actaully bowled a few short balls but nothing over the top and when we couldnt but a wicket you try anything. Please tell us more when you faced alot of short balls because you faced nowhere near the amount you should have faced. If I had it my way everyone ball would have been short when we couldn't get you blokes out because that was the only time you would play a shot.

How is the right stratergy having every bloke on the fence when we commenced batting at 5:15 and we only battered 10 overs. If you do your maths genius that would be 40.6 an over to win. Different story if we were chasing 20 an over no wonder why you blokes have no respect around the competition!

I think you are retarded. How did they let you out of your home for the weekend without your helmet on. We had no intentions at all in getting the score and any normal sane person would think the same.
He was shaking his head because of the coward tatics you guys had.

Yes we didn't respect the bowling and the wicket for occassion but we dug in and done the job which was at hand and learnt alot from the 1st dig in the semi. Also this is impossible to be speaking to one of our supporters because they wouldn't have been able to understand you with the frof coming out of your toothless mouth.

Oh we were to worried about your spectactors as 1 players said 1 thing to your group of supporters who were getting stuck into him. Please mate grow up it is a grand final. The boy put his heart and soul into the game and wasn't getting the rewards he normally gets. He bowled 27 overs 3/86 which is pretty good effort. In case you have never seen a opening bowler that has some heart firing up is what they do.

I do know that when we were shaking I did say "well done" to all players. Sorry cannot hear over my own voice congratsulating you on your win. Not sure you expected a hug or something but we felt pretty hollowed and just lost a grand final.

About the captain's speech
Yes he did say well done to East Coburg but was very annoyed with every fielder on the fence chasing 40 runs per over and you blokes winning the game in the unsportsmanlike manner.

In my whole time of playing cricket I have never ever heard of a team going back to the other club's room to have a drink with them through the season let alone in the grand final. In case you forgot nuffy we lost we dont want to watch you blokes celebrating.

Not having a go at Pascoe Vale at all it has nothing to do with them. All they can do is prepare the ground the best they could and it is the competition that assigned that ground not them. Yes the wicket was the best wicket I have ever seen but does it give the other team a chance of wiining.
Go back to my other post about Pakistan and Sri Lanka and that explains why.

If anybody has time over the next couple of weeks head down to Kindersmith reserve and have a look what a ground with grass looks like. Also whilst you are there have a look at our facilities and tall me if grand finals should be played their?

Why you are bringing up things do you want to mention how East Coburg took the covers off on the first Saturday in the rain?
Maybe between you guys and the umpires how could you let this happen it was absolute bucketing down and please don't tell me you didn't ring the wet weather number.
Not to mention we used East Coburgs covers the first weekend and after they took them off the wicket they took them back to there club only for us to go and pick them up at 6pm Saturday night.
We will not be lodging a protest but the game might have been a different story you blokes batting at 3 on the first Sunday with some juice in the wicket.

Did one of your players happen to bat both the semi and grand final with a runner and made heaps of runs both times. He might have even won the medal?

Dropped him you sound like a kid who hasnt got his way. come on. i didnt see any of the game but it sounds like you were just not good enough. some times you just have to suck it up and say well done to the opposition no matter how hard done by you feel. it just makes your club and yourself look bad.
secondly i have played in a few gf and lost way more than i have won and after each lost we have headed to the victors club house or pub. im sure if you did you would have enjoyed a chat and beer with your opp and even though it would still hurt you would not have such a sour taste in your mouth