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Great to see an article on George. He is a top lad and should break records for Ireland with the ball over the years to come!

Jonathan just curious,

Any lady umpires joined the ranks yet ?

The offside rule for woman...

You're in a shoe shop, second in the queue for the till. Behind the shop assistant on the till is a pair of shoes which you have seen and which you must have.
The female shopper in front of you has seen them also and is eyeing them with desire. Both of you have forgotten your purses.
It would be rude to push in front of the first woman if you had no money to pay for the shoes.
The shop assistant remains at the till waiting.
Your friend is trying on another pair of shoes at the back of the shop and sees your dilemma.
She prepares to throw her purse to you.
If she does so, you can catch the purse, then walk round the other shopper and buy the shoes!
At a pinch she could throw the purse ahead of the other shopper and "whilst it is in flight" you could nip around the other shopper, catch the purse and buy the shoes!
BUT, you must always remember that until the purse has "actually been thrown", it would be plain wrong for you to be in front of the other shopper and you would be OFFSIDE!

NIACUS UMPIRE TRAINING COURSES
Umpire training courses have been organised by the NIACUS for March/April 2011.

Level 1a Course - Friday 4th March to Sunday 6th March 2011 - Facilitated by Keith Smith and Trevor Magee. Designed for Umpires who have successfully completed their Level 1 exams and who wish to proceed to Level 2. Course will take place at St Johns Ambulance Training Centre, Knockbracken Healthcare Park.

Level 1 Course - Friday 1st April to Sunday 3rd April 2011 - This course is for anyone who wishes to umpire at local level and beyond and is your first step to standing in the middle. Course again facilitated by Keith Smith and Trevor Magee and Alan Neill. Will take place at St Johns Training Centre.

Anyone interested should contact me as soon as possible. Course fees £35 approx.

Harry - you're nearly right! Having played both games with the same degree of mediocracy I would regard myself as a Ireland rugby & cricket supporter and I always would look out for the N.I. soccer result. I have no interest whatever in the Irish olympic team and I certainly have no time for nor
any interest in the Eurovision song contest. Having watched K.P. this morning I suggest that perhaps its time he caught the same taxi as Mr. Personality!!

typical english attitude - hussain was born in India!

Bit of a contradiction there, typo, should read typical Indian attitude

i would have to agree with andy, hussain was going on and on about ed playing for ireland again, although he was happy enough to have morgan move from ireland to england, piterson, trott.... and i could go on not englishmen by birth. typical english attitude. I have to say i usually support england but i certainly dont agree with hussain.

on a more local note, any more transfer rumours or new pros etc?

I would contend that the pendulum is swinging back in favour of Northern teams with regards to the Irish Cup.

Waringstown were knocking on the door last year, but one bad innings reply cost them when they had their southern counter-parts on the ropes at one stage and North Down have pedigree in depth and should be capable of beating any oppostion at club level, North or South.

So maybe Wylie will get his wish and one of two above teams will go all the way this year and lift the I.S.C. or maybe one of the other premier league N.C.U. clubs may be in with a good shout at least !

Andy, what about Ireland's chances of winning the world cup, was watching G. Doctrell last nite tie up a West-Indian University team at T20 cricket, he got 2 wkts and stifled them out of the match bowling for Somerset, like I say, "plenty of good home grown talent breaking through" !!

andy, why are you so touchy about what hussain says? and while we're on the subject of nationality what does it matter nowadays. You cant make any comments. You support Ireland at cricket and rugby, probably norn irn at football, ireland at the eurovision, ireland at the olympics, and you probably have a UK Passport lol.

I know that I have raised the subject of the English media before and as a result I have been (wrongly) accused of being anti-English but there was another example this morning when Hussain on Sky started querying how Ed. Joyce could be back in the Ireland side "Ireland to England to Ireland - that shouldn't happen - how can that happen, your country is your country, etc. etc."- and this coming from a guy born in India!! David Lloyd surmised that as Ireland is an "associate" nation, this was in order but this didn't stop Hussain going on & on about it. Methinks he may be getting a defence ready for England's demise in the World Cup!! Jeff - what's the odds on Pakistan winning the competition?ny

I would assume a big part of the reason why NI teams dominated the ISC back then was probably down to a higher skill level of the local players than those down in the ROI. Now a days there would be a strong argument that the main reason why this has been reversed since 2000 is due to the influx of highly skilled overseas players who have choosen to live in the ROI. Also would anyone know the stats on how many overseas players have settled in NI and went on to play for Ireland compared to their counterparts in the ROI for the last 10 years.

if any clubs in the ncu are interested in level 2 high performance coach from australia to do work this summer, and to play competively, get in touch. level 2 high performance, current coach of ACT state junior sides. get in touch. james.shannon2@gmail.com or on facebook. cheers

Is J Askin Justin (just for short) Askin?

There are currently two non-Irish born players in the 15 that I can think of that played for clubs in the NCU.

Re S McChesney

Usual Norn Ireland response in wondering WHO is saying something rather than WHAT is being said.

Anyway,"the troubles" didn`t seem to affect clubs from N.I. winning the Irish Cup almost every year from 1982 -2000........or was there no disturbance then.

Stop looking for excuses ......... I repeat, don`t navel gaze and DEVELOP your OWN players by using non Irish born players [your club professional] and others for cricket development ...........just not for safeguarding your position in the very very small pond of NCU cricket

having umpired in Dublin cricket down there is a bit like watching Canada in that current T/20 competition - not too many Canucks playing!!