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many congrats to the groundsman at bangor c.c. played a midweek match on tuesday on a super track and outfield,best i have seen uprichard park ever,well done again.

I know that Dundrum CC would struggle to finance this Roger. I cannot see this CDO coming all the way down to Dundrum either! As far as teams/players are concerned, it's an ongoing issue to get players, we in Dundrum are quite lucky at the moment. I think clubs should be an integral part of the community, engaging in helping locals. In Dundrum we used to get involved in raising money for a Senior Citizens Christmas Dinner for instance. Good luck to all tomorrow. I'm going to hit some fours/fores today at our Golf Classic!

realistically I cant see too many clubs wanting to pay for an officer that wont leave the greater belfast area or the Prem league clubs

Would all NCU clubs be willing to pay, say £300-400 pa to subsidise a CDO? I would like to hear in particular from smaller clubs in Sections 2 and 3.
With the majority of NCU clubs appearing to be finding it inceasingly difficult to field adult teams at 3rd/4th XI level in particular, this is seen as one of our priorities at the present time. If we have the support of clubs we could make it a reality fairly quickly.

Ryan, we at the NCU totally agree with you, and are currently looking at the possibility of employing a club development officer, but finance is the main problem at the present time. When you say match funding would be available, what exactly do you mean by this? If you wish to ring me to discuss, please feel free to do so.

Can some one explain what is going on in the with the like of victoria/donaghcloney/waringstown having a increase of members for the last couple of years and there is a decrease in the rest of the ncu

Yes Davey could have been the 1 in particular but nothing more said about it its happened before and im sure will happen again, but as you say yea was a good game thats the closest youve ran us in the 4 years ive played against yourselves and totally agree your young guys are looking really good that young fella marshall bowled rightly the first night and batted sensibly enough just one shot too many. as for stevie theres no sign of him retiring if you had to listen to him the 4 or 5 nites im down at our place hes a different injury for each night haha but loves his cricket and will play for a few years yet id say, as should you, you play the game in the way it should be played and the young players need to learn from player like you and not the umpire mentioned above!!!

Craig

Below is a list of some of the things the NCU do for younger players:

The NCU organises league, cup and plate competitions at U11, league and cup competitions at U13 and U15, the Colts Cup at U17.

We have representative sides at all these levels.

We have around twenty schools competitions.

We organise the Belfast team for the Lord's Taverners Cities Tournament.

We help fund the excellent coaching for young cricketers organised by Cricket Ireland.

Young cricketers participate at all levels in our senior competitions.

Is there anything else you think we have missed out?

Maxi

I think when you said that our "Umpires" riled you, it could have been narrowed down to "an umpire of ours" riled you (but he is known to do that from time to time), and i am wondering why i am to be congratulated, and can only surmise that it was my tactic of lending my Jumper to your 12th man lol
At the end of the day it was a decent game of cricket with the better team winning (when is Stevie going to stop getting me out?), and some of our young lads have shown again that they are improving either with the at or ball, I just hope that some day soon they improve with both on the same day, then i can retire to the safety of the pavillion :-)

All the best for the rest of the season

After selecting 2 senior teams for Donacloney this week we were left with 20 unselected players.It's a long time since we have been in such a position! The obvious solution is to to field a 3rdXI next season but in the mean time we are looking for midweek friendlies .If any club can help us out please get in contact.

Re Craig...

I think the union need to move to address grassroots cricket development collectively by investing (or seeking to invest) in an NCU Development Officer.
Match funding would be available and the Officer / Coach could liase with the council coaches on the ground and be accountable to ALL cubs who would pay a subsidy yearly toward the salary.

Re Wylie

i mean by under 18's

Vic

Thanks for the kind words about the NCU site.

I am indebted to the league secretaries, captains, players and many others who send me results and correct my mistakes.

Only because of them am I able to keep the results and tables etc as up to date as I can.

There was a meeting of the NCU's Competition Committee yesterday evening and I think only a few results need to be changed because of teams playing unregistered players etc.

re: Craig McKinley

When you mention "junior" cricketers do you mean players from Section 2 and 3 or players under 18?

guys do u think there is enough done by the union for the junior cricketers