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My dream might be coming true. Hutchy looks like he is coming to Waringstown. I hear he has the choice to come. That means Hall and Hutchinson opening the batting and in my opinion that will be the stongest opening partnership in the league!

Davy would also like to wish Cliftonville the very best for forthcoming season and the future. Great bunch of lads who are working soo hard to keep the club going in what is hard times.u's are certainly are bogey team and I hope that isnt the case this season!

Sat. 2.45pm,
WE'RE GOING TO THE WEST-INDIES ! WHEY-HEY,HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!

NEVER DOUBTED IT FOR A SECOND !!!

'Pistol Pete Connell, Andrew White and young George Dock'''

NEED I SAY ANYMORE ????

Wow! Afghanistan have qualifyed for the world 20/20. Well done to them and they will definately grow as a cricketing country!

r.e Ryan Haire.... I hope your right, its just hard to replace that quality and experience so close together

Apologies,
I meant Victoria's (Non-legendary) other fast bowler!

Ireland have beaten the much fancied U.A.E. who up until today were unbeaten in the tournament so far !

Alex Cusack did the bulk of the damage with the ball, but not before the N.C.U. fast bowler Peter Connell,had ripped through the Emerites opening batsmen. And Andrew White,again one of the 'Not-out' batsmen!

One more game tomorrow and with victory over the 'Dutch', were on the road to the 20/20 world-cup.

Vic Jons is the 'name', Victoria's fast bowler and Irish Cricket supporter, but sure you know that already!!!!

Re Ryan Mc Carter

Demise? Not so sure. A wealth of talent coming through which has and will continue to have more financial and back-up support year on year...

RE: Ivan McCombe

Thank you for clearing that up for myself and all those who veiwed the posting yesterday for it to be deleted 15 minutes later.

I wish you and all at the club all the best for the coming season and for future years with the development of your club.

PS - I would say you will be alot of peoples favourites this year with the quality of players you already had on board plus the arrival of Wayne and Ralph as well as the return of Baggers.

I see that Simon expresses doubts about Dundrum being a "graveyard" - having had certain problems getting in & serious difficulties getting Jean out due to the hospitality of people like Mr. Maguire the term graveyard springs readily to mind!

Re Davy Menaul.

No rumour about Ralph Coetzee joining Muckamore. It's fact. He and Bryan Baguley have been friends since High School days back in Cape Town and had always vowed to play together in Northern Ireland. Also his best friend here in cricket is Wayne Horwood so the opportunity to play with his two best mates greatly influenced his decision to join us.

Although I think it would be fair to say that he was also influenced by the reports he was getting from Wayne and now Bryan about the enthusiasm and ability of the young players at Moylena.

He has also played with David Cardwell at Woodvale and knows of the quality of Brian Dunlop, Neil Gill, Jason Vde Merwe and Kamy our professional.

Despite recruiting three Premier League quality cricketers no one at Muckamore is shouting the odds on promotion. Leagues are won on the pitch not on paper or Forums as Wayne keeps reminding us. We have a plan to further develop the young talent with more intensified coaching, summer schools and a full programme of Secondary and Primary school coaching. The three new players will greatly help in making better players of the young players.

We have a hard working cricket committee headed by Andy Clement and a 1sts skipper in Andy McCulloch who will use his experience gained in the Lancashire Leagues to help develop a five year playing strategy.

These new players help strengthen all the teams in the club and as captain of the 3rds I can feel an increasing pressure to deliver some silverware.( from Mr Clement ). But it's better than being retired in what is 40 years since I joined Muckamore as a twelve year old. It is also 40 years since Muckamore shared the Senior League title with Waringstown under John McCormick's captaincy. John still plays an active hands on roll in coaching at the club and has been an inspiration to every player at the club for about half a century.

just put a posting on the "other" site about the Ulster Shield and I was looking forward to the bus run to Kesh for the 1st round only to discover that Nth. Fermanagh may have withdrawn. But really looking forward to the new season when the "serious" postings will start e.g. standard of pitches-v- money spent on "coaches", etc. Always remembering that this is a "forum" and the views posted are totally personal!

Sorry skipper, got carried away again!

Hope both Gerald & I get selected for the fixture at 'the lawn', he was telling me he only got 9 wkts.against Waringstown that 'day' in 1973 in the Creamline-cup!

Some guy called 'Harrison' was the only survivor that day and rumour has it he may be coming out of 'retirement' to renew aquaintences with Gerald, 37 yrs later!!!

And Gerald wants all 10 wkts this time!

Did i not see a post on the forum earlier grom Gilly saying Ralph has joined the Antrim men?

Was it a hoax Gilly?

Vic,you need to calm down do you not think there will be enough Captains on the 3rd team ?? with Mr Johnston and all ,i hope he behaves himself the day that he returns to The Lawn !! if selected of course
As for Ireland beating Scotland big deal they are not really world beaters now are they ?????