http://www.thenightwatchman.info From the Pavilion news site. Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:14:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With the WC kicking off in less than a week, it's that time of the season when you are all no doubt scrupulously analysing stats and performances in an attempt to win the illustrious prize of...12 months FTP membership. Having won a prize in all but one of the WC ... http://www.thenightwatchman.info/?p=621 he Senior World Cup groups have been announced a few days a go and I thought I would share my thoughts on it. These groups have been copied from the Forums (credit to Sully89). Group 1 England 1 131.35 Zimbabwe 6 112.18 Sri Lanka 7 110.45 Bermuda 12 88.27 UAE 13 88.14 USA 18 70.79 England, Zimbabwe & Bermuda , so half the group has remained the same from the ... http://www.thenightwatchman.info/?p=619 For as long as I remember, my team (Jakstaz) have been rivals with Rish XI. We registered for FTP within a week of each other. Within the first week, they had their first friendly against each other. The teams have met on fourteen occasions, with Jakstaz picking up 9 wins (64.29%) ... http://www.thenightwatchman.info/?p=610 Hi and welcome to Radio DNA, 969 on your radio, for the Round 5 Pavilion Cup wrap up. Let’s go straight to our reporter, Tony Kreig, on the ground of one of the recently completed games. He has the captain of the winning side with him. Are you there, Tony? Tony ... http://www.thenightwatchman.info/?p=600 As the Pavilion Cup moves towards its pointy end there are some intriguing contests in store. One such match pits twice runnersup Ayatollah of rockenrollah against the Pakistani champions Hasraz. What follows is a preview of the match including a profile of the two managers, their main players and the ... http://www.thenightwatchman.info/?p=597 What does it take to get double-deluxe academies? How do you sustain this? What's it like? Achieving such task takes time. How on earth do you build towards such expensive constant investment from the beginning? Personally, it takes 5-6 seasons of fun prize-money distribution, rising through the divisions, and playing the ... http://www.thenightwatchman.info/?p=593 Their is currently a huge debate going on over the declining requirment for youth players in the game and the experience recieved in youth games and is worth building good quality youths when its easier to buy better quality players. But i put to you the reason for the lack of ... http://www.thenightwatchman.info/?p=589 There is a lot of talk on the FTP forums of the ‘golden generation’. These are the players who go into the U19 world cup (which runs every 2 seasons) as 19 year olds as opposed to 18 year olds. As you might expect, to play in the world cup as ... http://www.thenightwatchman.info/?p=586 I wandered around the Koo Wee Kricket ground on a warm and sunny Sunday lamenting my lack of enthusiasm in this season’s Pavilion Cup, my boys playing our semi-regular friendly against Damage Inc at the Cliff Burton Memorial Oval. No disrespect to them but I wish I was playing against ... http://www.thenightwatchman.info/?p=581 A much warmer day greeted the third round of the Pavilion Cup and I settled into my favourite chair for the afternoon. My boys started well but fell away quickly and I knew I didn’t have the attack to knock out my opponents. I did play only seconds for aforementioned ... http://www.thenightwatchman.info/?p=575