New South Wales

No, I play him based on the fact that I still think he's good now. Seven games will not change my opinion of such a proven player.

From the Crusaders team, or from the NSW team?

He'll be dropped from the NSW team when his performances for NSW are unacceptable, and not a moment sooner. Such a ridiculously high quality player probably shouldn't be dropped at club level unless he has an entire season of failure.

Nah you've just got to stick with a guy if you know he's good IMO. Every player has bad runs of form sometimes - it doesn't mean they should be dropped. You pick your best players, not the players that have performed the best in the last 35 seconds.

I really couldn't disagree with more about anything, ever, if I tried.

 

You are. If you'd performed decently this season you'd be an absolute shoe-in for the eleven.. as it is now you'll still almost certainly still make the 25 but you'll probably fall short of making the final team.

You've still got four rounds to turn things around though I suppose.

 

New South Wales Academy Squad

K Fung (captain) *
AD Hunt (vice-captain)
B Apps
PG Daly
S Das
AW George
BG Herd *
BI Immanuel
H Jorgans
A Kolar
M Mills
L Popovic
MJM Rose
DC Scott
KF Tait

* Players subject to availability.

 

I'll be honest - I actually have no idea who this Academy team is going to play yet.

However, I wanted to get it going. I've noticed that new members who are from GB seem to get much more involved in CricSim because they jump into consideration for the GB team as soon as they start playing well. The NSW team is pretty well settled and it takes several seasons of consistent performance to get in there, so I thought I'd give newer members from NSW something to aim for and discuss.

To qualify to the Academy, you have to have made your Bannerman Shield debut in Season 7, Season 8 or not yet at all. Fung and Herd are "subject to availability" as they're actually in the senior squad, and the Academy will probably play their game(s) during the rep season.

 

GB will be playing New South Wales Second XI, which is different to New South Wales Academy. The Second XI players will almost definitely all come from the 25 named in the first post of this thread.

I dunno who NSW Academy will be playing yet. Perhaps Queensland Academy or something, although I'm not sure they'd actually be able to field eleven players.

 

Haha, it really should get absolutely mauled by serious opposition at the moment. Particularly if Fung or Herd couldn't play.

One really annoying thing was the fact that I couldn't select Welker. After playing, IIRC, two Second Class games he was picked for the last game of the season in the Season 6 Bannerman Shield when someone get injured. Thanks Tyson.

 

Indeed.

I'm not sure when this team will be playing, hence you being "subject to availability". If you make the NSW team or the NSW Second XI and the Academy game(s) clash(es) with that, you'll miss the Academy game(s).

 

Actually, that's not a bad idea. It'd make more sense to have the team as "Great Britain Academy" with the same eligibility rules as the NSW one though IMO.. the team would be exactly the same as their Second XI unless they dropped players from the first XI who had played BS before Season 7.

There's no-one in that team Slogga just posted that wouldn't be eligible for an Academy game. I think the onlu players they have who would be ineligible are Whicker (won't be dropped to Second XI anyway), Smith (won't be dropped to Second XI anyway), Short (won't be dropped to Second XI anyway), Hornby (won't be dropped to Second XI anyway) and Nova (probably won't be dropped to Second XI anyway).

NSW v GB in an Academy series, FTW.