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Blog 2 : 26th May 2010

What a great improvement on last season with all three senior sides showing more confidence and obtaining better results than at this stage last year. The junior sides also continue to improve with the under thirteen’s having already won a cup final against a strong Lowerhouse team..
No need to spend any time on first team match analysis, as we have the superb skills of Paul Yates who his doing a very professional job with first team match reports.
I’ve never met the man and until Dave put is Tom Jones with glasses look a like photo on the website, I didn’t know what he looked like, he’s no sex bomb, but that’s not unusual amongst our members.
The seconds and thirds under new captains Gary Holder and Deano have also got their teams off to a more positive start than last year and without doubt the player who his shining so far must be young George Bevan(sorry he’s Welsh) who is scoring runs for fun and also in my opinion looks very sharp in the field keep up the good work .
I spoke to the new young captain Deano and what he thought of the pressure of being captain and pressure of selection,
“Pressure Bob, you must be joking, you should see the pressure on Vinny and Gaz when they have to climb over the wall at Newhallhey”
Whilst on the subject of selection, apparently Monty wanted to be on the selection committee and he’s spent all winter sharpening and wielding his axe.
Clubhouse news from the scrolls of Scholes is also very positive with lots of new faces being seen for the first time, unfortunately we haven’t seen much of some familiar faces especially club legends Peter’s Wood and Seal apparently they’ve been abroad filming Clash of the Tight-Uns Two .
New to the club this season was the sponsored lunch ,which was absolutely first class with top class food ,great company and plenty of drink, what more could a man want ?,well let me tell you ,the Chairman wanted to be a waitress until he got a rollicking from Karen in the kitchen. A few of the Rammy contingent were a bit unhappy, they said that groundsman Tony Bolton had drunk so much wine that he rolled the wrong wicket at the interval. I’d say that was sour grapes.
Also before the Rammy match, I noticed that the opposition players had adopted the modern trend to warm-up with a game of football, I asked Vinny
“Why don’t we play football"?
“You must be joking Bob” he replied
“Why"?
“Well every time we got a corner, the pro wanted to put a shop on it”
The funniest tale to come from the clubhouse was that apparently one lad had fell asleep on the floor and when he woke up ,he thought we’d bought a four legged snooker table but it was the club treasurer and club captain in their shorts.
Around the ground its situation normal down on the Barnes bench, we have KEN, Bob. Dave and Bill all trying to swing their legs like they were street dance group Diversity (when you get chance just watch them) but they are struggling and apparently Ronnie Ashworth has been called in to choreograph them.
“How’s it going Ronnie ? I enquired
“Well what can do with four Douglas Bader’s”
“Escape”
Finally when I was leaving the club after the Rammy game I over heard a conversation that went something like this ,
“ANDY I’m sick as a pig I would have looked great in that French maids outfit”
“Don’t worry Brian try wearing it at the golf club at the junior golf day”
“How will you hide it in the accounts “
“I’ll ask our former member of Parliament”

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Until next time, Ta Ta
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