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1st grade? Crowds at Matador games?

Burgey

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Macca, what sort of rep workload is there in the late teens in Victoria? Young bloke and his mates who are all 15 are getting fried atm - Saturdays, Sunday reps starting next week, Monday academy, Tuesdays and Thursdays Grade practice and Wednesday rep practice. Once this rep stuff finishes then they go into Green Shield til the end of January and that will take over from the Wednesday rep stuff that’s on now. Then, from next year there’s only Saturday Cricket and the two nights practising. There’s no more age related cricket til Under 23s, unless you play State carnival stuff. Is it like that down there too?
 

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One thing about the grade cricket "crowds" - the commitment to grade cricket means it's often a "young mans" game. We play 17 rounds, with seven of them two day games, that we have to squeeze into 26 weeks, including three weeks of finals. The competition has done a lot to reduce the amount of Sundays, but you can end up playing anywhere between four to ten during the season (if you have a really successful one). Add in three to four month long pre-seasons, training at least twice a week, and the commitment means that most people pull up stumps and move back to local cricket around 30.

So when people start having families, and their kids and families coming down to watch it's back at local cricket. And then the player will stay around there when they retire, because the local clubs have the bigger and better junior programs, so they want to help their child's team. You'll get better crowds at local cricket.

In terms of standard, I'd say grade/premier cricket is pretty much around County 2nd / Minor County standard.
I'm a dinosaur and started in grade prior to the introduction of Saturday/Sunday fixtures

When they were first introduced, it was a bit of a novelty and many took the opportunity of having a weekend away and staying somewhere close to the ground

After a while, more fixtures were scheduled for Sundays and many with other commitments gave it away whilst others dropped down the grades so as not to be forced to pick and choose
 

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Macca, what sort of rep workload is there in the late teens in Victoria? Young bloke and his mates who are all 15 are getting fried atm - Saturdays, Sunday reps starting next week, Monday academy, Tuesdays and Thursdays Grade practice and Wednesday rep practice. Once this rep stuff finishes then they go into Green Shield til the end of January and that will take over from the Wednesday rep stuff that’s on now. Then, from next year there’s only Saturday Cricket and the two nights practising. There’s no more age related cricket til Under 23s, unless you play State carnival stuff. Is it like that down there too?
Here the rep stuff is mainly away from the clubs now - state has been divided into sixteen regions (eight metro, eight country) and we have U14 / U16 / U18 representative stuff. For kids who miss out on these teams, there are other rep stuff (junior comp vs junior comp, etc.). All the representative cricket is really only played in the January holidays - the training would be on Wednesday nights, when I was coaching we'd probably have it once every two weeks, with some practice matches on Sunday.

So sounds like the workload isn't as full on here as it is for that year, but there's six years where you could be playing representative cricket.

We don't have the Under 23s (PGs yeah?) down here, which I think would be a good thing to bring in.
 

Burgey

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Yeah PGs it is. Cheers for that, it seems like there’s a lot more age based stuff up to the early 20s there than there is here. It’s actually ridiculous the amount of work they’re doing at 15/16, yet next year he workload will drop off the cliff.
 

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