its easy to say that this year or last years teams were the best, but look at it this way, imagine bowling shield with the BEST names in bowling today.. as in belmo, jez, brando, nable, bradley, wilton, rutten (walsh), sheehan, blachut, halprin the list goes on.... not a bad bunch of people i can tell ya..
i know the young'ins from today, wouldnt know many of these names, but i got to bowl shield with most of em, and lemme tell you, it was awesome!
so its easy to say that just because the juniors/youth of today think that last years state teams were the best, chances are they arent really THE BEST.
if only there was a way to determine the cream of the crop for like an all star of shield teams.. something like highest 5 averages over the last 20 years of shield or something? dunno, worth thinking about...
there certainly is some great talent coming thru the junior ranks these days all around the country, hopefully with the right looking after some of them will turn out into our next cara honeychurch's, jason belmontes, ashley rileys...
this is just my opinion, and having bowled my last shield in 1996 you can say i am old, but have also seen a couple shields since then.
anyway guys, thats my 2c worth..
martina