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Appropriately last Sunday morning I watched the classic John Wayne film True Grit, later in the day I watched a performance of true grit. We batted first and as usual the guile of Harris pinned us down but Payney produced a great innings to help us to a total of 145,the Carlsberg bench weren't smiling and it did look like the visitors were in the driving seat but Kez and Nathan had other ideas ,and Bacup found the runs hard to come bye. Yes it was nip and tuck than up stepped Harriss "to fill his boots the son of a bitch" he'd hit Kez for three successive sixes but the old dog got him, when young Barlow showed proper TRUE GRIT when he took a wonderful catch on the edge. Nathan took the last two wickets to give him a match winning seven wicket haul..
It was another excellent day in front of a bumper crowd and hopefully one that some of the younger lads won't forget for a while,it certainly made this "Fat old man happy."
Whilst its always good to beat local rivals its also great to see a team stay for a drink after the game despite being disappointed.
The annual golf day for the juniors was held on Friday ,it was once again a great success with team Birtwistle winning the main prize, the dinner at night did throw up one puzzle for me though ,how come if your Chairman of the Lancashire league and you knock wine all over the table and other guests it's a accident but if your me you're a pi$$ pot ??
To conclude I must go back to Sunday and tell a tale the made me smile ,I don't know if anyone noticed but the array of different headwear down on the Barnes bench was awesome, but the winner hat to be the man in the Panama who looked like he was straight out of the film Casablanca ,with a big grin on his face he kept repeating
"LETS PLAY THEM AGAIN KEN"
For the next few weeks the reports will be brief due to Dave and my own work commitments, It was late last week and I was getting stick from Vinny for missing deadlines .when I told Dave Dawson he just replied"Shouldn't that young man be more worried about waistlines"
The best quote from last weekend as got to be from Dannys lovely girlfriend Emma,
Is that my Danny batting?"
"Are you joking?"
"No why?"
"Well that's John Hayman and he's a right hander"
"Oh I don't worry about which hand he his I just know by the colour of his HELMET"
Priceless..