The PlanetCricket Battrick Sledging Thread

[Maxkarter]

It's okay, I've done it before.....

Well training happens on Saturday, cup on Sunday, teams in SA try as much as possible to play NT players as often as they can therefore the PFL knocks will be high. Most teams in Aus and Eng use farming, so only training affects them, besides the pool of players that Aus and Eng have to pick from is alot larger so the manager can simply call up an as good a player with better PFL.

 

[Griffo]

Surely just a change in training technique will fix that problem, everyone is going to have to adapt with the new system anyway

 

[Maxkarter]

Theres one way to stop PFL hits in training, thats dropping intensity which would make pops take longer or less nets. Big countries like Aus and Eng can afford either due to the pool of players likely to be eligable for NT relative to SA/Ind/NZ etc is much much larger.

The point isn't that everyone won't have to adapt, it's that it'll be alot easier for the larger nations to suss out the changes and come out the other side hardly weakend.

 

[Griffo]

Well that means the situation was the same before.. as we were always in the same boat as every other nation

 

[Maxkarter]

Nah, currently the time between training and international matches is longer and therefore the players can recover PFL quicker.

 

[Griffo]

Lol I finally understand where your coming from its not that big of a deal still... but i can understand where your coming from

 

[Maxkarter]

Haha, the guys in the SA sledging made their point much clearer and much quicker than I've tried. They way I've said it still doesn't sound as good either lol.

 

[Griffo]

Copy it into here

 

[Maxkarter]

Reading it again it doesn't sound quite as clever as what it did previously, it's basically a bunch of jumble.....

why do we need 22 man squads when their is only 1 NT game a week. This means that even the most poorly managed NT squads can win and if your player is not played enough then you have a high wage with no subisdy and no use of your player in your own team. This is seriously putting me off training players for the NT any more.

I like the changes a part from 1 international per week... They are making the NT teams easy to run with all these changes and it only works in Aus and Englands favour.

I can see some people worrying about finances and having to offload their NT and higher waged players if they are not getting subsidy. Exciting but worrying times for battrick i think.

The NT team with 14 elite/elite players and good experience will win .... as long as they make sure the players will have highest level of pfl every Monday.

So implementing new NT players (like we did with Kelly, Long, Arnold, Ata, Potter, Patterson, Hale, Dunn in recent seasons) hardly will be possible untill these players hit elite/elite and the older players will loose skills.

That also brings in a new dimension I didn't mention before, no subsidy means alot of teams wont be tempted to train for NT but once again the percentage that still do train hard for the cause will mean that relative numbers will mean that Eng/Aus will have more players being trained hard than SA/WI/IND etc.

 

[Jaztheman]

Haha I've just noticed that Bushwackers(vinters) is in my Twenty20 league. He'll probably beat me but it'll be nice to have a game with him before the Competition starts.

 

[angryangy]

I've never understood the logic behind training an international. It's entirely for show, and costs the team enormously.

 

[Griffo]

WC I beat you cause im better lol, its not like i played top line up and lost..

 

[Maxkarter]

The only thing that would tempt me to train an NT player is if battrick managed to introduce something like a central contract that we see in real life, so basically all the NT players when selected are paid for by their corresponding country. I mean the subsidy isn't near enough to warrant me to train an NT player and thats when the subsidy actually gets paid.... An U19 player is still affordable, but obviously will be of little use to your team as the manager would want to have his fitness levels high for the U19 games.

Well I can keep dreaming about an NT player, but I reckon if they worked out a system like that the incentive to train or own a national player would be alot higher.

 

[Highlander999]

Me >>> Griffo (only just ) >>>> Syl >>>>>> Noob team made yesterday >>>> WC

 

[Griffo]

Me & Tom > Syl > Manchester City > Russian Astronauts > Newcastle > The English Cricket Team > More Russian Astronauts > My Shoes > WC