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trust you mccready... dont post anything about cricket all year.. but you dont miss a chance to stick the boot in you scouse rat lol
Man Utd and the new series of CSI have something in common - they are now both on channel 5 in the new year
No surprise that Andy Kennedy is ABU!!!
NIACUS December Open Meeting and Christmas Quiz is scheduled for Monday 12th December 2011 at 7.30pm at Stormont. All members and friends are welcome to attend. Christmas refreshments will be served to all.
I know this is not cricket-related but there must be some cricketers out there who may be interested. Due to unforeseen circumstances I have, for sale, a polo shirt "Champions League Winners 2012" in red - no longer required by the person I intended to give it to. Any takers??!
Muckamore are bringing Kamy back for his 5th season in 2012. With Neil Gill as skipper we will be aiming to get back in the Premier League as soon as possible.
Very good Norman, are you any relation to Kieran? We'll keep you informed of who has applied and what size of tracksuit they need.
Dyer or Dire?
Come on Norm why have a cheap pot at CI when there are plenty of clubs that have pros? Are you just another pot stirrer with nothing else to do in December?
Does anyone know if any pros have been confirmed for the 2012 season? Have CIYMS confirmed their player/coaches yet?
Norman
I have only been captaining for two years, but have already had a couple of interesting excuses.
When we were playing in Portadown, I reckoned if the game went the distance we would be finished by 530, but one lad told me he couldn't play because he had a band parade at 630. Where was the band parade? In Portadown!! So surely he could play... no, he wanted to go home and have a shower and his tea. Sure, its only ten minutes to your house, you could sneak off a few overs early if need be. "No, I don't want to be rushed."
But, my personal favourite.... The 2nd XI were home with a 12 o'clock start. I was with 1st XI, my phone goes and one of the 2nd XI players phoned, "We only have ten players". At 1.30, I get a text, "Sorry, I thought the game was off, it was raining in Lisburn"
Excuses NOT to watch cricket:
'Duckey' Davidson a good friend of mine although a football man to the core,(now a prominent mid-ulster referee), decided to take his two gun-dogs for a walk around Lurgan Park one fine summer's day a few seasons ago and sat himself and his 'muts' down on the bench while we were playing a game of cricket on the square.
I was bowling at the time and yelled over to him to stay on a while and watch the 'action' !
A few days later I bumped into him again and eagerly enquired if he'd enjoyed his afternoon's entertainment watching the cricket ?
His rely... "Yes it was very soporific"!
I asked him what do you mean by that ? He replied...
" Well not only did I fall asleep, but so too did my two dogs"!!
(He never came back since).
As captain of Academy cc for a few years I had numerous excuses along the lines already quoted but my 2 'favourite' reasons for not turning up are:- 1. A schoolboy didn't appear at Queensway for a Sunday game v Derriaghy, I phoned him 10 mins before the scheduled start time. His response was 'I'm sorry Brian I thought you were just being polite when you asked me to play!' 2. 'I'm not available this saturday, I'm having my legs waxed.' All these years later they still raise a smile.
Playing for Cregagh we had lost the toss and after 5 overs were reduced to 10 men. After 32 overs the opposition were 150 for 1 and a long toil in the field was obvious. A fielder left the field waving his left hand. At he end of each over we looked towards the pavilion for his return. As 40 overs came up he strolled back to join us.
At the end of the over almost in unison the other nine players roared 'What was the problem?'
The not to be forgotten reply came 'I had a rag nail on my wee finger and found it almost impossible to find a pair of scissors!!' PRICELESS.
should have added 10:30 p.m.
our good pal Ian Houston tells the story of receiving a phone call at 10:30 from a "blow in" umpire crying off for a Saturday game. "didn't want to leave it too late" in order to give Houstie enough time to get a replacement! Apparently he never umpired again in NCU. I note that Timmy doesn't divulge how he escaped from the phone box
