Abolish the Colts.

[Hoggy31]

With an increasing number of teams having to field depleted sides due to a lack of depth in certain areas, isn't it time to get rid of the colts and divvy up their players to the remaining teams. There's also a growing irritation amongst players at the number of byes.

Discuss.

 

[ash chaulk]

very fair

 

[Robertinho]

Won't commit an answer, but I think we jumped too quickly into creating a new side, we're seeing teams being really tested for depth these days.

The byes situation is ridiculous. Colts should have the bye every time, you reap what you sow

 

[Smudge]

Either abolish them or force them to be called CW Canary Yellow.

Thoughts?

 

[NZTailender]

A thread born out of jealousy IMO.

 

[Robertinho]

Win a game, then we'll talk.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Yeah, the lack of squad depth is pretty poor. I guess divvying up the Colts is one way of solving that problem.

 

[andyc]

Why not divvy up the least successful team, rather than the newest?

 

[Travis_Teh]

Win a game, then we'll talk.

He isn't apart of the blue FC team

 

[PY]

Why not divvy up the least successful team, rather than the newest?

Shotgun not playing for Greens.

 

[Travis_Teh]

I think it would be exessive to call for a cull of the colts.

Sure the lack of depth at times through the season gets very frustrating, and the byes can grate the nerves ..... but let's not forget the entire system is done by people out of their own spare time etc so we should be thankful it is running at all, ... let alone having a sook about our team not playing for a day.

In regards to lack of depth, though, what about the 'retired' players having a crack, like we did a season or two ago, or maybe even bring in 'randoms' from the grade system. Our dev leaguers play down, why couldn't the graders play up if neccessary?

The loan system has capacity, but there is often far too much debating going on over who gets who.

 

[Robertinho]

I wasn't being serious, but the best idea in my opinion is for each club to have 1 (or 2) "feeder" grade clubs. That said, with players scattered all over the place (ie; some Grade teams have players from different Dev League clubs), how would we decide which Dev League team gets which Grade teams?

Grade players is the answer, in any case.

 

[Adamc]

Abolish Borcich.

 

[Hoggy31]

Abolish Borcich.

Someone's a little jealous that they're not leading FC wickets.

 

[chaminda_00]

Colts provide 11 extra players the chance to play FC/List A cricket. If you got rid of the Colts then there would be more people who would complain about not getting any game time and them people would call for another new team anyway. We would end up being back to square one again.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Yeah, the lack of squad depth is pretty poor.

If we have squads of 20, plenty of people will come in, join up, then spend a season on the sidelines.

That's not on.

 

[Buddhmaster]

Let's get rid of Blue and Red while we're at it. Black vs Green every game.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

The obvious system if you have 20 players a side is to have Grade actually mean something, so you can actually fight for spots instead of waiting for someone to get called up to the XI or get injured.

 

[andyc]

It's fine the way it is, IMO. If, however, people want change, why not just have a day or two each week when a Dev game isn't played, allowing for international games to occur.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Nah, international players missing is a very good part of the dev league system. It challenges the strong teams and also adds some realism and gives opportunities to fringe players.

What is happening with Blue right now is partially our own fault for having too many bowlers when it's mostly batsmen we lose to the internationals, but I do think there should be some sort of system where average quality grade players can be called up into Dev League sides to fill gaps.

It's pretty unrealistic to have a team picking 7 bowlers because 3 or 4 batsmen are playing a test match. If they had a few randoms from grade who could bat a bit in the side instead, it would stop the ridiculous situation we have at the moment without taking anything away from sides that have fewer internationals and/or greater squad depth.