Who Has The Best Center In Victoria And Who Has The Worst???

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CareBears Rock!!!!

although i have not always been happy about Morwell lanes id have to say that if it wasnt for them i wouldnt be who i am today! its always good to at least practice on tougher lane conditions because u dont know what ur gunna get when u get out there in a tournie! we dont even always know the condition were gunna get at morwell!!! theyre not always gunna be easy and with the practice u get on bowlin on those different conditions improves u as a bowler. a few years ago my sister and i even traveled from morwell to another center that had tougher conditions than morwell and it has helped us a lot!

as it has showed in the past our jnrs have rocked for a number of years!! we have had a number of state bowlers over the past god knows how many years with a number of us also makin it more than 1 year! we have won a number of jnr country cups and jnr shields and just missed out on quite a few more but we have always been up the top! it was always hard just to even make our representative team with so many bowlers. when we went away we bowled well because of all the practice we had on harder conditions!

i dont know about u but id rather have a lower leauge average and go out and ave 20, 30 pins higher in a tournie than the other way around! im not sayin go and bowl at a tougher centre all the time maybe just have practice there every now and then! ull be amazed at how much it does help u and teach u about your bowling. at least next time youll have half an idea about what to expect and if u actually think about it and not just complain the lanes were crap im sure u can find a way to improve and even bowl a decent ave.

as for good centres well id have to say i love mooroolbark! and thats not just becoz i bowl there now! the people there are always friendly, they have a great group of jnrs there with a lot of support from the adults and uve got patrick there if anything goes wrong! what more could u want! i do also like greensbourgh becoz of the practice u can get there. the staff are friendly and its only 2 mins from my house so its so easy to get to!

so it depends on what your actually after! lane conditions at centres or the actual centre itself?

either way i wouldnt trade growing up on morwell lanes for anything! the experience ive ive gained and who could forget the years of bowlin my first few years in a jnr team with tammy, christine, simon, steven, ian, grant, with russell and bob in charge of the teams and the trouble we caused! im surprised we bowled so well with all the fun we had ouside the bowl! but then maybe that is the reason we did bowl so well!

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i'd just like to say sorry over and over again but i have bowled at other with the same problem and i addapted to it i guess if i bowl there again i'll adjust to suit me sorry for saying morwell is bad but i'm just i'll never talk bout it again cause morwell has produced good bowlers sorry debra

PS I retract my statement from this forum saying morwell has bad lanes but there center is good I"M just so sorry sorry.

Man i wish i had never started this forum

Over And Out
Castle NNSW

 

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Chris Chris Chris

You have started a war of the words with this topic.
I think that anyone who loves bowling does not have a 'worst' centre it is just that some centres are more challenging than others.
I think that if you were to classify a centre as the worst then you could only base it on rude staff, dirty environment etc. Blaming conditions, equipment etc shows that bowlers weaknesses or inabilities.
The biggest problem with some bowlers (and I am not sterotyping you Chris) is their ego. They can ave 220 or etc back home and expect to do it everywhere. No one at Morwell aves close to that so what makes them think that they can. If they let the ego go and let the ball do the talking then the bowling world would be alot better off.

As far as most enjoyable centres to bowl at go I would have to say Geelong and Shepperaton. I also enjoyed bowling at Mildura a few years ago and had a great time and since then I believe that Rob & Lisa have done great things. I havent bowled in a Melbourne Centre since I made shield all those years ago but in those days Moorabin and Sunshine where the pick of them

Challenging Centres
Without doubt the most challenging centre that I have bowled at personally would have to be Colac and the reason being that when you have the best Vic Country has to offer, bowling 5 man teams, for a total of 242 games, with only 4 team series over 1000 for the tournament - Now that was a challenge

 

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Being a bowler that had to learn to bowl (pre urethane balls, no synthetic lanes) I would have to say it is tough to decide my favourite or worst centre.

Scoring wise I would have to say the synthetic centres these days win hands down. Consistent conditions make it easy to score. But then you are not necessarily bowling then are you.

I have to agree that Northcote rates as my favourite centre (despite not bowling in leagues there anymore). I must say it is easy to dig deep in tournaments because of the grounding Northcote gave me. I learn't to bowl there and bowled there for 15 years. I probably still rate it as my spiritual home centre despite bowling for the last 5 years out of Chadstone.

I was going to say I don't have a worst centre but then I remembered Narre Warren. Bowled there once and once was enough. No conditioning on the lanes what so ever. Can't bowl if you can't keep the ball on the lanes! However, if you are a true bowler then their are no worst centres. A bowling centre is always the place I want to be.

I have to agree with all who say that the reason that the bowlers claim a centre is their worst centre is that they had to do something they don't have to do at their home centre, Bowl!

You had to get out of your comfort zone and actually had to work out how to knock down all ten pins for once, instead of bowling blindfolded.

Remember it is never the lane condition but the bowlers lack of bowling condition.