To Zach & Others
Your post is intriguing, would you like to clarify what you mean't in your last sentence??
Do you mean that three 140 Avg bowlers each bowled a 300 game at Caboolture or a 140 Avg bowler bowled three 300's there???. Either way would you name this extraordinary bowler or bowlers who bowled these 300 games at Caboolture. If this is correct, it would represent hope for me, but personnaly I think I would have a "snowflakes chance in Hell" to bowl a 300 at Caboolture.
"Other Centres and Bowlers are getting sick and tired of the scores bowled there"??
Then let the other centres get their act together and put some real oil on their lanes instead of the cheap rubbish that does not hold up. They have been presenting bowlers with Deserts for years and getting away with it.
These centres are the ones with falling Tournament numbers. When some bowlers had the cheek to complain about the lane conditions at some Tournaments, the arrogant answer was "If you don't like it then F-off, so some did.
Tournament bowlers were sick of paying good money on Airfares/Accommodation/Entry Fees and food, only to find the lane conditions abysmal and that they were pulling up sore and injuring themselves in their efforts to keep their balls on the lanes to score.
Come on guys, you know what it has been like prior to this year. (Thanks Trev, for your post, it was timely and I particularly liked the last line).
To their credit AMF Super Six Series has provided better oiling conditions (Except Koolfoam) and I think the majority of bowlers appreciate this.
It will also help our Rep Teams do better O/Seas as they will at least have some experience now of bowling on oil.
Back to Caboolture.
I have been reading the posts "If you think Caboolture is easy" and other prior posts on Caboolture.
Gentlemen, I'm sure you don't mean to, but your posts on this subject are starting to look as though you are slagging Caboolture and the conditions Brian has put down there.
I think Brian is to be commended for being one of the first in Aust to buy and use the Kegel machine and oil. (yes I know Andrew had one first) He has done this to provide better lane conditions for his bowlers League and Tournament, at some considerable cost to him.
Caboolture has always been known for its reasonable condition (before Kegel). This is because they took the trouble to wash and oil every day and maintain the lanes - unlike some other centres who would not oil for three or four days.
Since Kegel? Yes at first they were very easy and Brian and the boys are constantly fine tuning the machine to even out the condition - they can do no more.
Qld Ladies Classic.
It was stated that nearly the entire field bowled 200+ Avg. This is not correct - 28 out of the 42 achieved this - 28th being 201 Avg, the rest dropped rapidly down to last place 174 Avg.
The top avg ladies are the Creme de La Creme of Australian Lady bowlers - The field consisted of a number of Australian Reps and State Reps Junior and Senior and many who are aspiring to elite bowlers. Mary is to be commended for attracting this talent to her tournament.
These Ladies can hold their own in any centre in Aust and o/seas and have done so.
Many of them done Aust proud with their o/seas achievements and I constantly see their names listed high in Tournament Results all over Australia, quite often placing higher than some of our top male bowlers.
With your criticism of Caboolture lane conditions and Classic Averages, did you stop to think that you may be unintentionally putting these ladies down? That you may be making them feel that their achievements in the tournament are unworthy because Caboolture is too e-a-s-y?? and that other bowlers around Australia after reading your posts could think " Oh so and so bowled such and such an avg but it was at Caboolture so it doesn't rate??
Well the lanes were not so e-a-s-y when the following games were bowled, 183-169-171-180-159-164-168-171-174-167-155-169-176, these were from the top 20 - not the rearguard-(no offence to the lower placed bowlers) bowling these scores in a high avg tournament was deadly as the person on the next pair could have been bowling 240+.
Yes some of the lanes were very good - others? well lets just say - the Ladies were punished for any dereliction in the execution of their shot. They had to be totally focussed over the 18 games bowled and if they relaxed on any pair they paid. It is not like bowling 3 games in league every week.
Well I probably said enough to get me into trouble, so I'll sign off and hope some people agree with me.
