Devon Cricket Board - Tipper wants promotion this season

Tipper wants promotion this season

A DIVISION
PLYMSTOCK should get a strong taste of what lies ahead this season when they entertain promotion tips Exeter in their first game back in the C Division.
Plymstock have been down in the B Division since the end of the 2005 season – and a lot has changed since then!
Exeter were a Premier Division side then and after a year in A Division exile don’t want to spend another out of the top flight.
Getting up and staying up are totally different propositions, as Tavistock and Alphington have found out in recent seasons.
Skipper Dave Orchard, one of the few Plymstock survivors from 2005, is confident it can be done.
Bagging Dan Robotham and Hal Kerton from Plympton will help Plymstock’s cause.
Darren Full has joined from Fowey and there is a new overseas player called Matty Reynolds from Australia.
Although last season’s leading run getter and Devon League player of the year Dom Wood has moved to London, skipper Orchard is optimistic.
“With some more than useful winter signings, we've brought some valuable players into our match day squad,” said Orchard.
“We know the A Division is a big step up from the B, but we hope we can consolidate our position in the league and build a platform for future years.
“With the likes of Dan Robotham joining us, a man with masses of experience in the Premier Division and Hal Kerton, we hope we can hold our own.
“Our overseas player this year, Matt Reynolds comes with a good pedigree from our feeder club in Australia and we're looking for good things from him.”

EXETER know they will be favourites for promotion this season after a near miss in 2011 – and it doesn’t seem to worry skipper Jon Tipper at all.
The County Ground outfit are away to newly promoted Plymstock in the seasonal opener this Saturday and fired up to make a winning start.
Tipper said Exeter saw how it was done last season and have taken the lessons on board.
“Torquay set the standard last season by winning from day one and if we want to go up – and that is our aim – we have to do the same,” said Tipper.
“Traditionally, we have been slow starters and that cost us big time last year.
“Our worst day was the 10-wicket defeat at Abbotskerswell when we came away with no points at all.
“All we needed from that game was two points and we would have been promoted.
“The aim has to be to win from the start, be more consistent and for more players to chip in with performances.
“There are some new players around this season and that should help our consistency of selection. We chopped and changed too much last year and that didn’t help.”
Baden Norwood a batter and bowler from Western Australia, is Exeter’s overseas player in 2012.
Alex Bate, a seamer, is working at Exeter Cathedral School and signed on for the season ahead.
Alex Mead, a lively bowler who didn’t feature as often as he or Tipper would have liked in 2011, will be more readily available this summer.

And keeper-batter Cameron Grainger has said he will only miss two or three games all season due to university commitments, which is another bonus.

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