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I grew up in a time where the Sheffield Shield seemed to have a really high profile. Lots of Shield and Test players also played club cricket as the administrators and the players themselves understood the importance of competition and development pathways. It definitely seems like that has not been the case for a long time and it shows in our lack of depth. We don’t have the Hussey, Lehmann, or Siddons stories anymore where they scored 5,000+ runs before getting a gig (or not), or bowlers taking 50+ wickets in Shield seasons and not getting picked for test matches. The gap between Cricket Australia contracted players and the rest seems like daylight.
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I think you’ve raised the beginnings of an interesting conversation, but I think the focus of the conversation might be about momentum and how the outside backs use their speed and agility to kickstart sets and gain momentum. While the use of outside backs early in sets to ruck the pill up used to be about minimising the amount of territory your forwards had to cover to get back on side, it is now more of touch footy with tackles ethos of getting defensive lines back pedalling and stripping their numbers somewhere or having them giving away six agains
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