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Re Peter,

Again another coward who will abuse a club without being man enough to put his full name up. Although I have a fair idea who it is and I'm glad his own club are such a superb club with there fantastic youth setup that has got them absolutely nowhere over the years!

I'm not going to get into all that is going on at Moylena. Andy Clement is free to say whatever he wants, he is a past player but doesn't have any role at Muckamore so his prediction of us winning 18 out of 18 is a view of his own and not that of the 1st Xl or anyone at Muckamore. I've played enough seasons in Section 1 to know that it's a competitive league and anything can happen on any given day.

As Ivan said we have a pro who is injured, our opening bowler Gary Nicholl is also injured and we have been missing Sam Gordon for past couple of weeks due to holidays. We will bounce back don't worry about that. Bangor beat us in a 20 over match and fully deserved it and Woodvale beat us yesterday and beat us well, 2 good sides who will be right up there at the end of the season but plenty of teams will have a few defeats in Section 1 this season.

So Peter common are you going to share with us Moylena lads who you are??

I honestly do not know how with the financial outlay at Muckamore that a top 4 finish would be deemed a success. In fact was it not the NCU chairman who said in that pre season video that he fully expected 18 wins out of 18?

Good to see a couple of Muckamore defeats got the typewriters going again. Better to be in the news than be forgotten about. If anyone care to go back to early May you will find a post from me saying that winning Section One this season wasn't going to be easy given our decision to field such a young team. The recruitment of Ryan Haire was to assist in their development and already we have had Sam Gordon score an Irish Senior Cup fifty and Calum Weir take a five for as well as quite a few other wickets while Aditya Adey has made telling contributions with the bat and ball and those three are 17. Craig Drummond has 300 runs including a century and he's 21 while Jay Hunter and Jamie Magowan have both got runs at stages and they are only 20. We have been missing Gary Nicholl our left arm opening bowler ( 22) through injury for about a month . Gary has already featured in Knights training squads and now our pro is injured . However these things happen and at Woodvale yesterday they absolutely wiped the floor with us and I think Bangor won easy midweek.
However this is part of the learning curve fir our young players as we look to Ryan and Neil Gill and his brother David to get us back on course. As I said in that earlier post a top four finish and young players developing will be a good season.
Peter's rather sarcastic comment about "nice guys" is really a big compliment. When I thought I was going to play a "nice " team I expected to win. Give me a team of horrible , nasty guys when we cross the rope but then a few pints afterwards when everyone knows they gave it their all. Lots of great matches ahead including the T20 Qualifying tournament at Stormont and two great cup finals at the end of July at Comber and Eglinton.

Geoffrey Boycott was often critised as a player, yet was one of the best opening batsmen England ever had, and indeed, as a radio, TV and sports columnist/pundit etc. he is equally forthright and opinionated and certainly not one for making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

You will however note, he's never out of work nor short of offers.

Say what you see and say what you mean or don't say anything at all!

Sam & Peter - As a certain former Man Utd manager would say "the weague's not over wet"!!

Always gutting to see the Muckamore family losing again. Such a nice bunch of guys too

Andy

I see the high spending 1st XI of Muckamore are struggling to live up to all the pre season hype.

not having a "pop" - just fact stating facts. There have been many postings re CIYMS "investment" over the past few seasons and their 2nds WERE 0 for 5 at one stage yesterday. As for my "umpiring" - always done to the best of my limited ability but to my personal high standards of honesty - like so many players! But to have a real "pop" - NCU cricket continues to decline in playing standards, numbers of players and pitches. And don't get me started on teas!! And I'm usually calm on a Sunday.

I'm surprised that an umpire from Muckamore is having a pop at a club's 2nd XI.

Andy...as always, your posts are nearly as good as your umpiring...

The 2nd XI of high-spending CIYMS at one stage yesterday reduced to 0-5 against their Muckamore counterparts! And a brilliant 6-38 for young Callum Weir! Now what might have happened if you had gone to a more "fashionable" post-primary school buddy?!

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Any reason why Armagh got a walkover against Larne today?

Totally agree with Bryan Milford. I don't think discussions on a forum, on the merits of specific schoolboy cricketers is helpful to anyone. Congratulations to all of the boys who have been selected on the various representative teams. Enjoy the experience as it will be one of the highlights of your cricketing careers, with some great memories.

Matchett 80 seems to end the argument Louis.