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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Grounds => Topic started by: uknsaunders on November 24, 2011, 12:35:00 PM
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We are in the middle of a local dispute over ground usage. Our 1's play at our home of 70 years but our newly formed 2's are trying to work with the club that hire the ground on alternate saturdays, in order to reach a solution. Just wondered if anyone else has their 1s/2s at different grounds or have an arrangement that involves a another club sharing a pitch on a Saturday.
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Our firsts and seconds play at our home ground and our thirds play at a Secondary School. We don't have any issues at all, with the school's games having been planned well in advance.
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1/2's at ground 1 and 3's elsewhere is pretty normal for most clubs. I seem to remember from my Thames Valley days that NPL Teddington (was Lensbury CC) had some kind of unusual arrangement for a few years that involved 1 club playing at ground A and another at ground b.
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Same with us, 1's and 2's play on top pitch, 3's on bottom pitch
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1/2's at ground 1 and 3's elsewhere is pretty normal for most clubs. I seem to remember from my Thames Valley days that NPL Teddington (was Lensbury CC) had some kind of unusual arrangement for a few years that involved 1 club playing at ground A and another at ground b.
They have two grounds in the park now, but yes, they did used to be in that position. We're slightly different in that our ones and twos play "away" - we happen to have use of the RAF ground at Vine Lane which, as a genuine first class venue, is that bit too good to let the Threes and Fours loose on it!
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Blimey you play for Hillingdon!? Small world
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Blimey you play for Hillingdon!? Small world
Who do you play for?
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1st and 3rds usually at home which then alternates too 2nds and 4ths.....our 5ths share another clubs ground and alternate with them when they are home/away each week!
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1's and 2's on main home pitch. 3's and 4's on our other ground that is actually better pitch wise that main ground, 5's and 6's on other rented ground. We cannot get permission for club house on 3's and 4's pitch as it is in a residential area, residents saying it will cause too much noise.
Both grounds have others teams apart from us using it Sundays.
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we started a 5th team last year and they play about 7 miles away from our home ground at a grammar school. amazing how difficult some other clubs made it when negotiating to use their pitch that they werent using every other weekend. one club strung us along til the last minute and then said they wanted £5,000 for 10 matches! if we were prepared to travel we could have used the county ground at beckenham that kent play a few games a year on for £250 a game!
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1st and 2nds on same pitch. are 3rd team is are sunday team and consists of the same players so never an issue.
we dont really have it allternate like one week us at home next week them etc..
just what ever the fixtures say!
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Interesting topic.
1s and 2s play at home ground. 3s/4s and 5s were at another ground about 2 miles away last year. 5s used the top square (midget pitch :D ) once every 2 weeks and 3s/4s alternated.
Unfortunately league fixtures cocked up and 3s always played with 5s meaning we had the pitches with small boundaries..4s got use of the whole ground with no other match so could play on the middle square with bigger boundaries.
A school has now bought that ground (formerly the Wilf Slack Memorial Ground) up, and is only giving us 1 square next year, meaning the 3s and 4s will alternate on it.
The 5s are playing at another ground much further from the club itself.
I guess that's the difficulty running more than 2 teams these days. It's highly likely that our 3s/4s will be moving to another ground next year as well - we were looking at Winchmore Hill (bliss as it's an absolute road! - about 300 is par there :D ).
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One 1s and 2s play same ground whereas our 3s and 4s play at the local secondary school which is quite frankly awful, the outfield is rarely cut, no boundary line, artificial wicket which allows spinners to bounce you off a length. Makes me glad I'm 1s :D
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Yeah, I've played on some awful grounds myself (luckily never an adults game on an artificial..) and I'm so lucky I don't play at rubbish grounds every week. :)
Would be rubbish to be a batsman on your 3s/4s ground eh Joe..? I guess nothing really goes for 4... :(
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bit off topic, but here's my old clubs (Marlow) 3rd team ground, lovely spot except for one thing:-
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-YPOG5xRMpdk/Tlvn3qzN-JI/AAAAAAAACfo/a5G-3VD__Kk/s800/DSC_0668.jpg)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1k0goiQ2A24/TlvmVdV6uxI/AAAAAAAACfA/m2ll0yYANGE/s800/DSC_0660.jpg)
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-wllWyl4CQ7A/TlvnLuy1IyI/AAAAAAAACfI/DUeelYKucWI/s800/DSC_0661.jpg)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BLpSUnbi1LA/TlvnqvLymgI/AAAAAAAACfc/4Y-ULovqNr4/s800/DSC_0665.jpg)
That's right, the wicket, this is before it rained btw:-
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-8jUn_FG-3ps/TlvnTCixrbI/AAAAAAAACfM/mS-oYfJkFac/s800/DSC_0663.jpg)
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How can the ground be so nice and the square so dismal?!
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long story but the square is only 5 years old. My father did it for the SAS Institute (you own it) and it was improving but the groundsman at SAS who knows nothing about pitches took over 2 years ago and it's gone downhill. Shame as it's got a very high clay content and could be a quick deck if managed properly.
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Yea such a shame considering how good the ground looks but I guess that can happen when you are relying on a groundsman outside of your club
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1st 2nd 3rd 4th all in the same grounds for us
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1's and 2's alternate on the main pitch, 3's and 4's alternate on the 2nd pitch
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1/2's on the main square with the 3rds on the back square (smaller boundary's) and the 4ths get free range on a sunday.