tawac wrote: ↑Sun May 18, 2025 4:30 am
Just wondering if Andy Flower too was doing kisses when he played for the Old Winstonians.
No he went there because they were literally the only black club and realised they needed help and Zim cricket wasn't going forward without them. They got a free pass into first league year after year and were going nowhere. It would have been very interesting had he not gone there because they'd have continued losing practically every game, not because they lacked ability, but belief. The only way out would have been for ZC to completely dismantle club cricket, which they did anyway and basically Takas was the only club left, then they claimed they'd kept the flag flying, thoroughly disengenuous.
Its now the polar opposite, other clubs desperately need help and everyone is sick and tired of the undue influence Takashinga has. 90% of the country enjoys Takas getting beaten and its now good for our cricket and not bad. We need another 5 or so good clubs and then we will be back to where we were 35 years ago. That's the sad fact of it. The money that has been invested in Takashinga could have had 5 good clubs on the radar by now, had they had decent management of course.
There's only one big club rivalry now and that's Takas and Rangers. Its a start. Its partly down racial grounds, which is not good, but better than nothing. I don't get that from the players, it's Takas management that has spitefully created that, major PTSD from the madalas. Raza, BT and Knackers playing for them is a bit weird. Its miles from where they live and what's the upside for them? They don't need to play there to be on the radar. That's Takas beefing up their side to take on Rangers. They've made it clear they're a black club so let them be one, yet it's upsetting if theres a "white" club. Two sets of rules as usual. Why would you want to play for a club that brands themselves as black if you're not black? Again it's disengenuous to claim Rangers brand themselves as white because they don't and can't, but the powers that be have tried to make it into that and it's simply not true. I mean to go to the extent of approaching individual players and warning them not to play for Rangers is pretty low level stuff. Its hard to blame any black guys for leaving under that sort of pressure and then unfortunately it would become a white club and the black white thing rears its head. I know guys who've been issued stern warnings and by who. Its just ridiculous.
Rangers actually has too many players, there's room for another whitish club so you could have two clubs that were 50/50 white and black and they'd be strong as well. ZC would unreasonably impede that and make them qualify for first league, which is a long process. You could have Rangers 1 and 2 in fact, if SOGO were willing to sponsor it. They've got a young second team but you could split their first team players down the middle and really strengthen club cricket. That's what BT, Ballance, Knackers and Raza should be looking at. One extra strong team and not just helping Takashinga, who have the largest player pool x10 to be even stronger, it's just backwards thinking. Its what directly created the mess we are in and theyre repeating the same mistake. Zero learning curve.
