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Sorry, been busy doing work for those people who pay me to spend my time to administer cricket!!!!:D Our meeting was basically split into 2 – one half for the restructure, and one half for clubs griping about the VTCA!! (I won't bore this thread with the 2nd half) No club spoke up against it -...

Dont know - but it is already on my list of questions for tonight

You make some good points - will be interesting to see how much hardball CV are prepared to play. South VTCA clubs are meeting tonight, north clubs next week. The VTCA acknowledged for the first time last week that they are "of course, at the direction of their clubs" as to which way they go...

Each turf grade (whether that is VSDCA 1st XI, or VTCA D1) has been given a ranking. Teams were then ordered within that framework. There were some obvious anomalies at first glance, but I expect they will be ironed out – it was only indicative.

Personally if I was from the SECA I would have been picking over the bones of the VTCA South clubs ages ago

And that's probably the primary issue I (and others I've spoken to) have with the VTCA opposition to this. It isn't based on what will be best for the clubs or turf cricket or cricket generally. It's based on what is best for the VTCA as an organisation (and administrators in some cases). That...

I think you're right - but my concern is that was their position regardless of what was actually in the document. It raises a couple of related issues Namely, how does this thing get going? Who votes on it? VMCU, Associations, clubs? If the VTCA clubs are for it, isn't it incumbent upon the...

Copy of VTCA newsletter attached - happy for you to all make your own judgements on what the VTCA think of it. Whether that is representative of what VTCA clubs think (particualrly in the south), is another story

Yep, my time in the VTCA isn't ridiculously long so I'm happy to bow to your VTCA knowledge, but South Caulfield, Beauy and Bentleigh have all played in Senior Division GF in my time (I think) – and have been there or thereabouts pretty much every year since. They are well administered with...

I'm a bit confused as to what you're replying to!! · I could find an old edition of the VTCA newsletter (Leading Edge) which documented their opposition to it, and as to why they were opposed. · I'm on the executive of my club – not the VTCA · And I'm on the other end of the spectrum when it...

Good luck!!!

Don’t have an argument with most of what you say – but there are plenty of clubs who are struggling. We are one of the bigger clubs (4 turf and 1 synthetic on Saturday, 1 turf on Sunday) so we have a bit more wiggle room. But we still need a comp where the likes of McKinnon, Beaumaris, Hampton...

In my time in the VTCA, Old Mentone won the flag in South, and won straight away in Senior (2 seasons ago I think). Then the guys in their 2s didn’t want to travel, so they were forced by the VTCA to be play in South A (check their scorecard from last week) because the VTCA doesn’t want to have...

I play for (and am on the executive of) a club in the VTCA. I don’t know how you could find anything in what I wrote that would pin me as a rep for the VTCA. I'm so far down the other end of the spectrum it isn't really funny!!

But if you extend the 4 group model of subbies, you get what the restructure will provide. Except over the whole of metropolitan turf cricket, and 5 regions instead of 4 groups. Teams will play against other teams of similar standard throughout ALL grades (in the Bayside region for example there...

I've tried uploading it, but it is apparently too big. If you're really keen to read it – flick me your email in a PM and I'll send it across The VTCA are vehemently against it – although I reckon the document didn’t really change their mind. They were opposed from the start and have looked for...

Although it seems a common sense decision to have an 8 team finals series for South C3 (which has 16 teams), seems weird that the first two games in that series are on the Saturday and Sunday of week 1 of the finals - (when there is an empty week later on) Isnt the reason these people play 1 day...

Far be it for me to be a VTCA sympathiser, but i don't know if this is something they can be responsible for

Agree - the new covers are actually lighter than the older ones despite being larger. It's not ideal but they can be manoeuvred by 1 or 2 people in benign conditions. Having said that, we should also endeavour to ensure that a wet square doesn't result in games not being played when the deck...

I reckon we're about to lose week 1 http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR023.loop.shtml#skip