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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 : Yes I am and [...]
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 match itself.
The managers:
Heffner: Also known [...]
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 game right. This article separates [...]
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 good quality youths is not [...]
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 an 18 year old, a [...]
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 Staples015, hoping for revenge for [...]
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 reasons but credit where credit [...]
Tales of the Unknown vs. Odins Revenge
Pitch: Flat Weather: Windy
Result: Odins Revenge won by 6 wickets
MOTM: Herjan Gunnblindi (3/47)
Match Ratings: TotU:149,138 OR:146,666
Tales of the Unknown were desperate to get their first win on the board and things started well, with Samad winning the toss and electing to bat first. Odins Revenge were so [...]
The first tour of Season 8 will be under way in a few days. Two seasons ago, this was my first tour as National manager of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe had been knocked in the quarter finals in the World Cup, where as West Indies had made the Final and lost to New Zealand. Zimbabwe & West [...]
Round 2 bought us another cool day in Melbourne and I am sitting here a little worse for wear after attempting a comeback in real life cricket and my 44yo body told me very quickly my time had come and pass. It was a fun day with the 3 amigos playing and contributing 35 of [...]