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Correct Uncle. West made a mess of our batting line up. Bowled a disciplined line and gave us nothing and we obliged with some ordinary battling. The quality of the bowling was even better considering the poor state of the run ups at Widdop. An absolute goat track of a ground and if they...

Clocker you are absolutely correct about the Hatch thing. This is a very fertile recruiting ground for subbies. Fortunately most of our young talent stayed but the next crop may well decide to go. Plenty of CMCA clubs have been touched up as result of the Hatch comp. Ironically it was a...

Clocker. Many good and valid points you raise. It is not just the standard of the CMCA but suburban cricket right across the board. Personally I believe that football has a lot to with it. Most top suburban comps start pre-season in November and if you want to play at a high level you are...

Thanks for the reply. When I posted only the scores were up, not in the full scorecard and I seriously thought it was a typo hence the request for confirmation. Low scores are nothing new but anything under 40 in Longy is pretty rare. Anyone who has played the game for a while will recall...

Longy scores posted tonight show West Bentleigh being bowled out by Elwood for 15 !!. Surely this is a typo. Can anyone enlighten us ?

Positive Merl would love to get the dog and grandchild out for a stroll but winikipop just where are the rep games being played? I did hear a rumour the Phil Arnold Shield was being played at Uncle Mick oval but alas couldn't find anything jumping out at me on the famous website. Quite the...

Correct. They were told but arrangements were made to have it done on the Thursday to accommodate this game. I mean isn’t that why we have cricket grounds….to play cricket on..… The club were told very late in the piece that it was now going to be top dressed on the Wednesday and the...

Because the Glen Eira Clowncil top-dressed the ground today despite knowing there was a game of cricket to be played tonight. They claimed it was the only opportunity they had as all Parks & Gardens staff have a Xmas party on Thursday!! This would not surprise anyone involved in Sporting clubs...

Absolutely spot on Clocker. You have managed to convey in words exactly what I was thinking. While the one day idea of the uncle has some real merit the contingencies involved, particularly for those involved in the juniors, makes it impossible to start before 1.00pm. Even then it’s a real...

I'll just correct you on a few things, Michael Fletcher's development has been curtailed due to a bad back which has stopped him from bowling. Beckett has just turned 20 and has excuses(none to which i will disclose) as to why he hasn't been consistent. No one at Omega begrudged Alex Bychkov for...

Chop Chop. Don’t quite know if you are serious or not but I will pay due respect to your post offering my take on the Omega situation. I will concede that this is an outsider’s viewpoint but is made by someone who knows a lot of people at the club. A couple of years ago they looked like...

On the flip side Hampton Central's I Grade skipper officially goes down as the biggest f*ckwit in the CMCA. I've never been more incensed by an individual over a game of park cricket. There aren't enough colourful superlatives for me to describe a bloke who denies one of Woolnough players to...

Bloody hell Clocker what are you the fun police? It seems no one is allowed to enjoy their success without being labelled. For mine WP were simply posting some good news on their website about a positive start to the season. This is hardly ‘crowing’. Let them enjoy it and if you are offended...

So how can the comment “manipulating the draw” not be construed as bagging the club? If you were a bit closer to the fire you would know how tough it was to even keep the juniors going after they were decimated a few years back. Just running a viable program was the priority. Winning a couple of...

We might have to agree to disagree on this one. Of course you are entitled to your opinion but I reckon you are wrong. If you make such inflammatory remarks and accuse a club, who you name, of manipulating the draw then you should substantiate. As mentioned you can’t do much more than win...

What do you mean by that? From my recollection the recent BUCC U16 flags have been won in the Friday night A grade comp. Can’t do much more than that and until they invent an A + plus grade then that’s the highest standard available. Sour grapes perhaps?

Re: City of Moorabbin Cricket Association 2010/11 I can shed some light here. Humphrey was a promising (but erratic) young quick. Injured his back in rd 1 or 2 and that was it. A talented footballer (A grade Ammo’s) who I am told is doing a doing a VFL pre-season and unlikely to be seen...