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cracking game at Lurgan yesterday - interesting to see that there were significantly more spectators at Pollock Park than at Stormont on Wednesday - and some guys are talking about Test status for Ireland - aye right

Dazzler

'Drunk in charge' again I see.....Will you be at the Green on 4th of July. Bring your whites and i'll see if can get you on, we could do with a hard-hitting all-rounder, so if you know of one.......

Andy I'm coming to buckna-i have alot of english friends and i am a big liverpool fan so Carragher and gerrard give me a slight interest in the english football team in world cup as I want them as players to personally do well. Point is not racist towards the english. However I want england as a team to get stuffed at whatever sport-I didnt always feel like this but it is just the english media that make me feel this way.
Mcdowell has just been adopted and from a team point of view Eoin morgan was always one of their own according to some articles. Rugby union-one minute johnson out- the next going to win world cup in New zealand after a one point win against aussies. Talksport today talking about how England football team going to get at argentina's defence in quarters then possibly spain in semi's-they may beat germany but according to the media its a done deal, especially after such a convincing group performance!!!! Last saturday it was capello should be sacked, doesnt know what he's doing etc-now he will be knighted after they win final and they are only in first knockout round!!!
Think-note i think- 5 of the current team played at winsdor that wed night in sep 2005-england are worldbeaters!!!
Anyway it does give me some joy to watch Eoin Morgan's progression in the England cricket team as it did Ed joyce a few years ago. Glad Eoin got his century against aussies like ed did in sydney a few yaers ago. However hate the fact England won the other night and now the english media have the team to win Cricket World Cup next year. Win a couple of games against a weak aussie team and 20/20 wc(anyone could have won it in carribbean-who knows if irl v eng hadn't been washed out)and England are suddenly favourites.
Rant over-come on germany

to get back to a more cricket topic - starting times. As we approach July the start time moves from 1:00 p.m. to 12:00 noon. My understanding is that the 1:00 p.m. starts in May & June were to facilitate schoolboys playing in the morning. From many years experience down the club I always appreciated the later starts in order to get a team out but I wonder is there is any longer any merit in retaining the later starts in, say. the Premier League or Section 1 during May & June.

Boys a boys, that was a quare nice cuppa tea, incase anyone's interested !

Think I'll have another one !!!

Re: Andy K

Not one that I would endorse.

What about an "assistance" of Lawyers, or a "value" of Lawyers, or perhaps a "bargain" of Lawyers? Maybe more accurately an "argument" of Lawyers!

RE: Jim and Andy

Well said Andy, Jim get your facts straight or people may start accusing you of being an Idiot...!
By the way, it is no detraction of an Ulstermans "Britishness" to hope that the "English" get a good stuffing on sunday.
The only ever time I shout for the Germans...!
Being part of Britain is one thing...but love of the English is a completely different matter...the perception of us by the English, inc there commentators, is comparable to something they find on the soles of their shoes...
Can't believe I could be jailed for BBC License Fee evasion and still have to listen to those obnoxious,overpaid,overrated,noitallnonotins...
I say Replace Lineaker and Shearer with Christine Bleakley and May McFettridge and the team may start to have some appeal...they could certainly give more objective opinions...

Timmy - - my dictionary has some strange collective terms such as a murmuration of starlings, etc. What about an "expense" of lawyers?

Is Jim accusing me of being racist? It is clear that he obviously doesn't know me! Not sure what "adject" means! I wish Jim would read my postings objectively and point out to me ANY of my postings where I have expressed any dislike of the English. I freely admit to having a somewhat jaundiced view of the English media and that goes back to the days when Northern Ireland's John Watson was "placed" in Grand Prix. Lo & behold he became "Britain's John Watson" when he won. It continues to this day. If Jim would have a look on the Cricket Europe forum he will find a posting about a Daily Mail article about Eoin Morgan so, as Jim says, there are others who share my view. Does that mean that we are wrong because we express an alternative opinion to Jim? But to take an objective view of what is happening in English cricket I simply ask, how with a 17 County sides, a Minor Counties organisation and 10,000s of players in 1000s of clubs up & down the country, their selectors have to look at a country where cricket is played by a relatively small number of people and in restricted areas, e.g. the North West, the greater Belfast area and the greater Dublin area, to find players? Particularly when the English Board pumps so much finance into the English game at all levels. Perhaps there should be a "quid pro quo" with some of their largesse being distributed to Irish clubs. No green-tinted glasses in Buckna -just realism.
Jeff - Another pet hate is aul' dolls who do their shopping in petrol stations and stand for 15 minutes filling 3 or 4 bags when all I want to do is pay for fuel!

Andy. Graeme McDowell is in fact British, and the media you speak of are not english, they are british. You are more full of the anti-english hype than they are of the pro english hype. People are sick of listening to it. Go back to Darkest Buckna

Jim I reckon even Andy's bound to have a soft spot somewhere deep down for the English, after-all as I've said before, there would be no cricket if it weren't for 'Dear Old Mother England', that's where the game originated isn't that so ?...... and I hasten to add..... I'm very good at it !

Seriously though you have to agree with Andy, that's a bloody disgrace about what some mindless morons did to the Limavady cricket pitch, heard about it on the 6.00pm TV local news last-nite.

Sometimes you wonder just what makes people 'tick' ! Why can't they go and pick up a bat & ball and learn to play the game and try to make something off themselves ? Instead of wasting their obviously sad boring lives ???

Anyway better go, I've tea to drink !

Jeff Andy K has nothing wlse to do other than slag off the English. Probably because it makes him more popular on these and other forums which i'm sure he subscribes to. He has no adject thinking on his views, blaming the english as a whole on the reason he dislikes us. Maybe he should take a look around the NCU clubs and realise that the best cricketers in some of them are in fact English! But with green tinted specs and clearly a bigoted person, maybe he should be allowed to rant and rave as much as he likes and others will see him, as you have, for what he is.

just to add that something else that I have no time for is the type of scroat who has caused the damage at Limavady.

well spotted Jeff! There are many things that I like & enjoy - a good game of cricket, the company of few friends particularly round a good pint of Guiness or two, Paul Brady songs to name a few. The things that I don't like are too many to enumerate but first on my list, by a long way, is the English media who never fail to surprise me with their partisanship. First item on Radio 4 news this morning - England qualify. And if the England XI, as it looks at this point in time (5:00 p.m. Thursday), beat the Aussies it will be "bring on the world". Their rugby side ground out a win on Saturday - it was as if this was the dawning of a new era then back to reality -v- the Maori. Just counting the days until they start describing Northern Ireland's G. McDowell as British - fuuny how they catch on the cottails of others success!

Re: Ireland Lawyers Cricket

We have now managed to track down a number of northern based cricketing lawyers (not sure what the collective noun would be!).

We are hoping to play a game against our southern counterparts on Sunday 4th July. We had hoped to stage the game at either the Lawn, Uprichard Park or Shaw's Bridge (given that these are the home grounds of some members of the squad). Unfortunately none of these grounds are available. Woodvale is also out of action given the extensive works being carried out this season.

We would be most grateful is anyone out there were able to facilitate the staging of this game. It is likely to start at around 1.00pm and would probably last 40 overs per side.

The following is a list of northern based cricketers of which I am aware or have managed to make contact with. I am sure there are a number of others who would be keen to be involved, I would be grateful for a list of further names:

1. T. Browne (Sol. Woodvale)
2. M. Foster (Bar Lisburn)
3. M. McCracken (Bar)
4. A. Kirkpatrick (Sol. Ballymena)
5. N. Cahill (Sol. Cliftonville)
6. J. Black (Sol. Instonians)
7. P. McCall (Sol. Bangor)
8. S. Beckett (Sol. Bangor)
9. M. McCord (Sol. Bangor)
10. N. Matthews (Bar Waringstown)
11. J. Cunningham (Sol. Bangor)
12. D. Russell (Bar Cooke Collegians)
13. R. Shaw (Sol. Holywood)
14. C. O'Rawe (Bar CSNI)
15. C. Webster (Sol. Saintfield)
16. S. Burnside (Cooke Collegians)
17. R. Coghlin (Bar Bangor)
18. D. McDowell (Bar)

I am sure that there will be some interest from within and outside the profession and I hope that someone out there can accommodate us.

If anyone wishes to contact me via email please do so, the address is browne_timothy@hotmail.com

Thanks