To help the speedy restoration of Rogers' damaged pinky .... we invite all to focus our collective healing powers by laying their hands on this image of our saintly one.2002 NEWS ARCHIVE |
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Some of this you might have seen but it still raises a wee chuckle and more...(not for children's viewing [PG rating]...)
MICHAEL Buerk watching Phillipa Forrester cuddle a male astronomer for warmth during BBC1's eclipse coverage remarked: "They seem cold out there, they're rubbing each other and he's come in his shorts."
HERE is Ken Brown commentating on golfer Nick Faldo and his caddie Fanny Sunneson lining-up shots at the Scottish Open: "Some weeks Nick likes to use Fanny, other weeks he prefers to do it by himself."
MIKE Hallett discussing missed snooker shots on Sky Sports: "Stephen Hendry jumps on Steve Davis's misses every chance he gets."
JACK Burnicle was talking about Colin Edwards' tyres on World Superbikes: "Colin had a hard on in practice earlier, and I bet he wished he had a hard on now."
HERE is Chris Tarrant discussing the first Millionaire winner Judith Keppel on This Morning: "She was practising fastest finger first by herself in bed last night."
WINNING Post's Stewart Machin commentating on jockey Tony McCoy's formidable lead: "Tony has a quick look between his legs and likes what he sees."
ROSS King discussing relays with champion runner Phil Redmond: "Well Phil, tell us about your amazing third leg."
CRICKETER Neil Fairbrother hit a single during a Durham v Lancashire match, inspiring Bobby Simpson to observe: "With his lovely soft hands he just tossed it off."
CLAIR Frisby talking about a jumbo hot dog on Look North said: "There's nothing like a big hot sausage inside you on a cold night like this."
JAMES Allen interviewing Ralf Schumacher at a Grand Prix, asked: "What does it feel like being rammed up the backside by Barrichello?"
STEVE Ryder covering the US Masters: "Ballesteros felt much better today after a 69."
THE new stand at Doncaster race course took Brough Scott's breath away. "My word," he said. "Look at that magnificent erection."
WILLIE Carson was telling Claire Balding how jockeys prepare for a big race when he said: "They usually have four or five dreams a night about coming from different positions."
STEVE Leonard, talking about vegetation on Vets In The Wild, told Trude: "There's something big growing between my legs."
(very apt Mufs joke.)CARENZA Lewis about finding food in the Middle Ages on Time Team Live said: "You'd eat beaver if you could get it."
...Indeed.
You can tell I am making jolly good use of my few days off at the Betty Ford clinic. I am proud to launch new sections upon an unsuspecting public... namely the sheer horror that is the Muf-A-Likes; and the start of a series of Player Profiles... a fascinating collection of insights into the background and tormented mind of your fellow players. And you just thought they looked scary!! Anyone wanting to appear -let me know... but I'll be coming to get yer anyway ....resistance is futile.
"Muf-A-Likes" can accessed from this link and Player Profiles from this hyperlink.
The rescheduled Cup game has been organised for Thursday 11th July at Leith Academy, back up date is 16th. Note the Beast is unavailable for the Thursday game, so pray for rain (not that a wet pitch stops matches against Edinburgh CC - ask the Reivers!).
Thanks to Richy and a wee bit of WAP (wireless application protocol, I think, in case you ever wondered) magic, you can now get news etc direct to your WAP-enabled mobile phone. In best Blue Peter fashion Richy explains how.... (have your toilet roll tube and sticky-back plastic to hand...)
http://wmlproxy.google.com/wmltrans/u=http@3A@2F@2Fwww.murrayfielddafscc.co.uk@2Fmdcc_news_2002.htm/
Save the above as a bookmark on your Wap phone and you can view the news section of the web site. Currently has 1 of 30-ish pages but the headlines are on the first page! The hyperlinks do not work as they just link to the top of the page again, so you have to manually go through the pages to get to the news items. For the purposes of news headlines reporting via WAP it does an ok job. Obviously for fixtures/ contacts etc change the web address element, using "@2F" for any "/" symbols. Remember to put "htm/" at end ! If stuck just ask Richy.
Richy Sorrell
Next week Rich shows us How to Irrigate the Sahara and Make Vast New Areas Cultivatible.
Well it looked dodgy for a while but, unbelievably, cricket returned back into our lives on Saturday afternoons. A day of contrasting fortunes for the club... Ones win in a topsy-turvy game at the Inch against Mitre with Sorrell in devastating form after "Liberty" Knight and Lindsay Towns rescue the stuttering Mufs. Seconds lose the latest university challenge against the Edin Univ Staff.
Socially a most spendid gathering of members descended upon Berts Bar for beer, pies, chat, more pyschoanalysis, and then more food at Bar Roma - I think... me wandered off for more therapy elsewhere- whereupon I came across a beaming Mr Simpson and gal... woor Tony as we all know provides considerable column inches for the News desk with his various antics...(oooh errr, missus)... we would just want to say: good on you mate, and go for it!
Sickie is away next week darn sarf in the Betty Ford clinic.... so updates to the site might be a little problematic- send any bits you have to my hotmail account ian_shiels@hotmail.com and I will see if I can breathe life into my Dad's PC. See yer... ;-)
Following a recent spate of email angst amongst committee members and continuing doubt over the web-ed's sanity, Dazza Kidd wishes to share some sound words of wisdom:
"How can you figure out if you are sane? ... Once you begin to question your own sanity, you get trapped in an ever-tighter vortex of self-fulfilling prophecies, though the process is by no means inevitable. Everyone knows that the insane interpret the world via their own peculiarly consistent logic; how can you tell if your own logic is "peculiar' or not, given that you have only your own logic to judge itself? "
"You'll never entirely understand yourself, since your mind, like any other closed system, can only be sure of what it knows about itself by relying on what it knows about itself."
Or, for the those of you who really need to delve on things:
"You might be able to prove every conceivable statement about numbers within a system by going outside the system in order to come up with new rules and axioms, but by doing so you'll only create a larger system with its own unprovable statements. The implication is that all logical system of any complexity are, by definition, incomplete; each of them contains, at any given time, more true statements than it can possibly prove according to its own defining set of rules."
and finally
"Just as we cannot see our faces with our own eyes, is it not inconceivable to expect that we cannot mirror our complete mental structures in the symbols which carry them out? All the limitative theorems of mathematics and the theory of computation suggest that once the ability to represent your own structure has reached a certain critical point, that is the kiss of death: it guarantees that you can never represent yourself totally."
All quotes are related to Kurt Godel's Incompleteness Theorem which states:
"The First Incompleteness Theorem states that any contradiction-free rendition of number theory (a branch of mathematics dealing with the nature and behavior of numbers and number systems) contains propositions that cannot be proven either true or false on the basis of its own postulates. The Second Incompleteness Theorem states that if a theory of numbers is contradiction-free, then this fact cannot be proven with common reasoning methods."
I will leave it there
Kidda
A super fightback inspired by Simpson and Knight with the bat and terrific bowling from Sorrell and Simpson in particular saw Mufs beat Scottish Equitable in the Parks Trophy. Simpson walks away with the Sky Sports Man of the Match award.
Things however ended a little sourly for Lindsay Towns as the recent spate of theft directed at Mufs continues - his wallet, including his prized moth collection (only kiddin' L) and all, went awol from the changing rooms. Unlocked in midweek- lessons to be learnt perhaps after the recent tomfoolery too... if not try this link. Will the Home Secretary please note this trend in cricketer targeted crime?!!
Sinister indeed. At time of writing, the seconds kit had gone awol from Tom's most extraordinarily secure motor vehicle in the small hours of Saturday night/ Sunday morn. Details are a little sketchy, but seems "foreign agents" perhaps working on behalf of some of our rivals, may have decided to strike at the heart of Mufs to disadvantage us by stealing kit. Apparently they left the bats behind. Now I also know various hazardous substances have been known to grow in cricket kit-bags, and Toms boots are normally highly toxious, so an alternative theory circulating may be that we have been targeted specifically in an attempt to gather bio-hazardous material - perhaps as part of Osmana Bin Bag's continual struggle against the West? A dirty-bomb indeed. Hmmm... was it an inside job by a sleeping agent?
Tom as one can guess is feeling a little down about this turn of events - perhaps spending 21 hours in the pub with yours truly on Friday has resulted in some bad karma of mine rubbing off on him!!
Message from Phil Yelland, and well said.
Everyone knows that the first half of the season has been made very difficult as a result of the poor weather. The has imposed a huge additional burden on the captains and vice captains in organising teams and then having to tell people the match is off.
However, in recent weeks, there has been another difficulty that has put even more strain on the administration of the club and that is a number of late/very late call offs.
It is the responsibility of every member/player to let their usual captain or one of the captains know whether they are available or not. The captains are being left to do far too much chasing and it is not helped by the fact that the attendances at nets on Monday evenings at Roseburn could be better.
As we hit the peak holiday season can I ask you to contact your captain to confirm availability each week or say when you will not be around. Hopefully if the weather improves these problems will disappear.
It is worth remembering that the captains/vice captains are volunteers. They are not paid officials. Help them to run the club by telling them when you are around.
Phil Yelland (President)
Yes. Guess what. It rained again didn't it. All Saturday games were off. Instead a fine body of men and woman watched Senegal get kebabed, drank beer, ate pie, pyscho-analysed Sicknote, and enjoyed a fine evening of music in Berts. A sighting was made of Simpson and Fisher in seedier grounds later...!
Apologies from me for the gap in web service lately... had a funny few days, you see.
Never mind recent talk of broken feet.... but our ever enthusiastic Phil "Phil" Rogers suffered a dislocation and fracture of a finger at Monday's nets. Maybe in a Beckham like way... as the Rogers' digit doth heal he will become a messiac-like talisman for the club and lead us to glory?
To help the speedy restoration of Rogers' damaged pinky .... we invite all to focus our collective healing powers by laying their hands on this image of our saintly one.
The prospect of Simmo and Stormin Norman getting all the humour attention has prompted Silly Point to dredge up an old 'un (they're always the best, eh!) in honour of the gentleman who recently afforded us the oxygen of publicity …
The batsman glowered at the umpire, whose index finger was rising unerringly. As he trudged past the white-coated man, he growled, 'I never touched it - the wicket-keeper was chancing it - that was never out caught.'
'You just look in the local paper tomorrow,' replied the umpire, 'and you'll see it was out caught.'
'YOU look,' grumbled the batsman. 'I am the editor.'
Eduardo de Clarko
No surprises given yesterdays rain, but a wash-out for all MDCC games. The inglese (and psuedo-Danes) amongst us venture to Berts Bar to watch the footy and Test cricket and hopefully enjoy a long afternoon spent with Messers Beer and Pie. Definitely no ruddy bacon though.
It was bound to happen with all this recent press attention of late... but the poor dears at Buckingham Palace got their wires crossed. On hearing the news that Andy Piggott had achieved his one hundred, a telegram from the Queen herself was rapidly despatched congratulating him on reaching such a ripe ol' age. Next a knighthood for Simpson for services to the elderly to follow in the New Year Honours??
We may not be grabbing the headlines with our batting but the boys are still stealing the limelight in the press. Young master Piggott making the Friday edition of the Evening News. Ok it was a wee snippett but provincial press today, front cover of Hello magazine tomorrow for Piggs and Posh. Our Spice Boy himself has issued this statement via his press agency...
"I have had to wait since the end of last season for this, but now I'm just chuffed to bits. I would like to thank everyone who has helped achieve this record over the 14 seasons I've played for the club & hope that I have the good fortune to play for a few more seasons so that I can get closer to Duncan McNaughton's all time record of 151 dismissals for the 3s. The next target has to be 150 appearances for the Barmy Army !!" - Reuters/Piggott Press
Good stuff... Anyway for those who missed the Scotland on Sunday Online article on us, click on this link to the story....
Now things have been a bit of doom and gloom of late (so nice to have a good news story like Andy's and the SoS) and perhaps webby himself has been affected by the malaise (though I did my best to make all laugh with my attempts at batting at tonights nets). Even El Presidente threatened to resign! What is the world coming too. No danger Mr Yelly... we would miss the emails encrypted by the Enigma machine far too much. El Presidente Stays. Viva El Presidente! Anyway everybody cheer-up! Maybe its the weather (Tom..in case you are checking up on us from the rain-swept dunes of Maspalomas.... this 90 degree heat here is doing our nut in!) So.... in the spirit of bringing a little happiness back in to our lives, here is the return of a wee old friend. Spurred on by his debut in the international media after its earlier circulation of his joke... here's another from Tony! Eddie will be back very soon I promise, kids!
A blind man enters a Ladies Bar by mistake. He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a drink. After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, "Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?"
The bar immediately falls absolutely quiet. In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says, "Before you tell that joke, sir, you should know five things...
1 - The bartender is a blonde girl.
2 - The bouncer is a blonde gal.
3 - I'm a 6 feet tall, 200-pound blonde woman with a black belt in karate.
4 - The woman sitting next to me is blonde and is a professional weigh lifter.
5 - The lady to your right is a blonde and is a professional wrestler.
Now think about it seriously, Mister. Do you still wanna tell that joke?"
The blind man thinks for a second, shakes his head, and declares, "Nah... Not if I'm gonna have to explain it five times."
...And suffering with a most monstrous hangover, in some way the call from Darryn that the Freuchie game was off was a bit of a relief. Twos game was also washed out. However the Threes actually had a game for a change in Dunfermline. They managed to bowl the opposition out for 123 and Andy Piggott reached his 100 wicket milestone. Well done Andy. However, the batting malaise affecting the club continues to cast its dark shadow over us... we were all out for 34. At least its an upward curve!
The season is now more than a month old although the number of games played hardly reflects that. I had hoped to make my first appearance of the season yesterday (1st June) for the thirds but their game against Leith was called off. More of that later. Instead, I went to Muirhouse to watch some of the first's game against Largo.
One of the things that always strikes me about Muirhouse is what a good facility it is. It looks like a cricket ground and whilst the wicket had its moments, the Fact is that there is a groundsman looking after it. It appeared to have been well rolled before the game but there is no doubt that a lot of wickets are currently suffering from the adverse effects of the rain in recent weeks.
The first's have started with one win from three completed games. The opening day win at Mitre was encouraging but losing the toss in the game at Stirling County two weeks later did play a major part in the result. The abandoned game against Stewart's Melville might have produced an interesting battle and yesterday, the team looked to have a good chance of chasing 105 to win but it wasn't to be. The problem to date, has been the lack of practice for the batsmen in that the team have yet to play on successive Saturdays. Hopefully that will soon change and the fact that the team ran First Division Clackmannan close in the much-postponed 'Masterton' game shows that we have the talent to succeed.
Meanwhile, the seconds have once in four completed games but seem to have some easier games in the coming weeks. Its good to see some new faces featuring in the seconds and I know that at Westquarter there was a chance for regular third teamers Iain Martin and Lawrence West to add to their experience. One of the problems for Tom Hothersall and Phil Rogers is that it is difficult for them to get a truly settled side. They are always likely to lose players to the firsts and that is one of the reasons we need to improve the standards of those in the thirds so that when they get the chance to play at a higher level they can cope with it.
The thirds have won three out of four games. That sounds great but for the fact that the three wins have come as a result of the opposition failing to raise teams. That is very frustrating for those who are anticipating a game on the Saturday but it is very easy to criticise. We ourselves have been in that position. In my view what is not acceptable is calling a game off on the morning it is due to take place because you do not have a team. I believe if you think that is a possibility, the opposition should at least be warned. It appears that not everyone thinks that way. Full marks to newcomer and highly trained athlete Chris Brown who admitted to me that he had turned down a night out with the lads to be in top shape for the third's game at Leith. He, like the rest of the team, suffered the annoyance of the late postponement.
We are heading towards the holiday season and it seems appropriate that I put a plea in on behalf of the various captains. If you are going to be away, please let them know as early as possible for team planning purposes. It can cut down the work they have to do and given the postponements at the start of the season, they have had a lot of work to do already.
Secondly, can I remind players that subscriptions are due now. The reduced rate of £ 35 for adult and £ 17.50 for juniors runs until the 30th of June. The subscription is for membership of the club and can be a factor in deciding who is selected or not.
Subscriptions can be given to captains (preferably in the form of cheques made payable to the club) or sent to the Club Treasurer Gordon Dalyell at 18 St Ronan's Terrace, Edinburgh EH 10 5 PG.
Congratulations to Ian Shiels (shucks guys...webby) for his continuing efforts on the web site. As most of you will know, the Scottish Cricket gave the site 7 out of 10 when it reviewed it earlier in the season. It is now worth more, thanks to certain adjustments that have been made. The 'breaking news' feature is particularly important if you want to check if a game is on or off - hmmm.....depends if I am sober Saturday morning, chaps (or even know about fixture call-offs)....but I have been good(ish) this year..... :-) - . Keep up the good work, Webmaster.
As many of you will remember, it was decided at the AGM to enter the Small Club's Cup and we even got a bye in the First Round. The Second Round tie pitted us against the 1992 winners of the Trophy, Inverurie in a game that should have been played on 2nd June in Aberdeenshire. Sadly we had to scratch.
I know that those who committed themselves to playing were less than happy about the numbers who made themselves available and that I can understand. I also know that Darryn Kidd when to extraordinary lengths to try to get a decent number of bodies. What beat us, in the end was the Jubilee Weekend. There were a large number of players not available over that weekend as they had chose to take advantage of the extra public holiday and that is understandable. However, I can't help wondering why the Trophy organisers did not factor that into arranging the dates for ties. I doubt we will have been then only club to pull out.
As many of you will know, Andy Knight has been trying to move forward a project that would see ( him get a decent haircut? ....webed) us acquire a container which would be located at Muirhouse for storage of equipment and use as a scoreboard. This project has not moved forward as quickly as we had hoped for a number of reasons but hopefully it will shortly.
Firstly, thanks to the Murrayfield Hotel who have sponsored some of the costs for holding outdoor nets during the season. The take place at Roseburn on Monday nights at 6.30pm. Please try and come along and get there early to help put the nets up. The nets have to be put up for safety reasons and it isn't fair to arrive late hoping others have done the job. The teams for the following Saturday are normally selected after nets so attendance can be very helpful. Given the successful sessions held indoors over the winter with Steve Knox and Craig Wright consideration is being given to asking one of them along to one of the outdoor sessions but we need decent numbers to justify that.
Hopefully there will be progress on this very soon. I am talking to a supplier about a badge design and costs. The Netherlands link of late last year has come to nothing, I'm afraid. Paul Hubbard may be able to secure some sponsorship for shirts and if we can sort that out, some of the sponsorship can be used to reduce the cost of the merchandise. Watch this space.
Earlier in the year, a number of members obtained forms from Gordon Dalyell to join the 50 Club. I understand from Gordon that he has only had a couple of forms returned. This is our current source of fund raising so, please help the club by joining. If you need a form/another form, please let Gordon know.
Whilst we haven't got the results we have hoped for yet, I reckon the club is in good heart and I am delighted by the number of members (old and new) who are keen to play cricket. Let's hope for some consistent sunshine, some cricket and some success.
For those who haven't spotted it ... little ol' us got a dedicated article in the Scotsman On Sunday online edition, in their grassroots cricket section. Not only is the thought that some of my insane rantings might get national airing rather concerning.... but more worrying by a proverbial mile or the gate between MDCC batter's bat and pad (whichever is bigger) is the fact that they reproduced Tony Simpson's joke. It could have been worse.... I could start putting up Norman Allan's.... there's a thought....
Now our jokes (Simpson's for Christ's sake!!) are getting circulated through the mass media here's one from Norman. Not sure what Mrs Allan would say but.... according to Normie, women are too romantic and sensitive....
A woman meets a gorgeous man in a bar. They talk, they connect, and they end up leaving together. They get back to his place and as he shows her around his apartment, she notices that his bedroom is completely packed with sweet cuddly teddy bears. Hundreds of cute small bears on a shelf all the way along the floor, cuddly medium-sized ones on a shelf a little higher, and huge enormous bears on the top shelf along the wall.
The woman is surprised that this guy would have a collection of teddy bears, especially one that's so extensive, but she decides not to mention this to him and actually is quite impressed by his sensitive side.
She turns to him... they kiss... and then they rip each other's clothes off and go to bed.
After an intense night of passion with this sensitive guy, they are lying there together afterwards, the woman rolls over and asks, smiling, "How was it for you?"
The man says, "Help yourself to any prize from the bottom shelf".
A bad day at the office indeed as Ones and Twos fall to defeat. Threes cunningly pick up another scratched game victory. Twos I believe came very close to victory and draw in a nailbiter but succumbed in the end. Ones bowled well to reduce Largo to 104 all out. Bar some fine middle order resistance the batting was simply pathetic as we lost by 19 runs... we really need to make a far better collective effort as this Largo side was eminently beatable. That might sound arrogant and at the end of the day the scorebook records a victory to Largo... but if this is the kick up the arse we need then so be it.
I am sure the club would wish for us to express our condolences to James Green's colleagues and family. For those who do not know James, captaining Marchmont during a recent midweek game v Beige, tragically suffered a fatal heart attack. James was only 36. At the end of the day such events put everything in perspective.
Our Cup game trip to Inverurie is off. Thanks to the few who made themselves available - yes it may be a bad weekend, but that a club with this number of registered players could not raise 11 is pretty shameful. You can tell web-ed is not a happy man - made worse by getting a half-track grubber when he was feeling on top of the world batting wise!! Ah well, pub is calling... and its only a game....bye-bye for now and God Bless the Queen (and Sven)
Ones and Twos were rained off... so afore meeting the t'other half earlier than expected I quickly dropped in on the Threes. Well it all looked rosy when I arrived at a soggy Roseburn.... although the torrent of rain had forced an early tea I departed with the 3s in good heart having reduced Fauldhouse to 30 for 6. Just stop raining and surely victory will be ours? I heard no more, and given the evening was a pleasant sunny one as I made my way to see Obi-Wan et al battle the Dark Side I had high hopes of victory. However, the Force was not with our boys and gal and the veil of the Dark Side descended upon Roseburn as the Fauldhouse Sith Lords conspired to take their innings to 101-9. Darker forces were at play as MDCC3 succumbed to defeat with only 15 runs scored. Pleas of "Help us Obi-Wan-Kenobi.... you are our only hope" fell on deaf ears. In true George Lucas fashion this is not the end of the story.... the Mufs Empire may yet strike back.
It didn't happen ... nuff said... web-ed
And my first reaction was "where the muf is that?" Thanks to a Richie Sorrell mail I believe it is in Aberdeenshire so just a wee jaunt up the road. Availability for the Sunday 2 June match to Darryn Kidd please for any intrepid travellers. Talk of a stop-over is being mentioned but only on the promise that all are tucked in bed after half-a shandy each. Webed unfortunantly won't be present to record events both on and off the pitch which is probably just as well given his general insane behaviour on previous tours..(Roy Keane on tour is a pussycat in comparison)..(I suppose he might be looking for something to do... I wonder....) Aha I spoke too soon and yes I am now going - problem is we are short of players!! Please let Darryn Kidd know immediately if you are available
By the way... I have started to add dates to news releases next to the title as above in case you were wondering.
Our roving reporter Iain Martin reports again.....
The final was played last week and I'm sure you'll all be interested to know that the Royal Botanical Gardens beat Scottish & Newcastle in a game played in magnificent spirit. It was also pleasing to note that more than half of the players on both sides were Murrayfield-Dafs players. After the game, I recruited Aussie duo Scott Cook and Matt Sebbens for addition to the Mufs list of players and they should both be welcome additions to the squad, with Scott making his debut at Clackmannan on Tuesday night. These are the 4th and 5th players to be recruited from S & N in recent times, following Andy Hutton, Nick MacLean and Ian Davidson, and thanks go to Robin Hutton for his magnificent work in recruiting these guys into cricket in Edinburgh. web-ed - can we recruit their beer allowance as well from S&N ??
This game doubled up as the first round of the Parks Trophy and Botanics now meet the Reivers in a repeat of last years controversial TN semi-final. web-ed:- Note Sam Fox will be umpiring this year rather than RBGs Dr Death...
Iain Martin reports..... Andy Piggott needs just 2 wickets for the century for the third's (in its many guises) so let's wish Andy well in his quest on Saturday vs. Fauldhouse. We believe only Duncan McNaughton has taken more wickets so this would be a major achievement! Right Andy.... pressure's on!!
Charles Stanley, the national stock broking firm who recently acquired the Edinburgh stockbrokers Torrie & Co., will be sponsoring the Masterton Trophy in the 2002 season.
Charles Stanley will provide prize money for the winners of the East of Scotland Cricket Association's long established mid-week knock out competition and the runners up and losing semi-finalists will also be rewarded. A Man-of-the-Match Award will be a feature of the Final, which is scheduled for Wednesday 10th July.
John Torrie, Edinburgh Executive of Charles Stanley, said 'Sport was always encouraged by Torrie & Co. and it seemed appropriate for Charles Stanley to support this popular competition.'
President of the East of Scotland Cricket Association, Bill Polson commented 'It's great to receive the backing of a national firm with strong local connections for this important competition. It will now be called the CHarles Stanley Masterton Trophy. The Trophy allows local league clubs to come up against National League sides and, although such a side may well win, there's the chance of some giant killing on the way to the Final.'
Iain Martin
Mr Martin and Mr Piggott found themselves in a highly competitive Masterton Trophy game which went to the final ball. Grange batted first scoring 120 with Captain and former St Modans Pro, Cameron Coles scoring a fine half century. Heriot's run chase looked doomed once Mike Allingham was out but a magnificent knock from their junior number nine batsman took Heriots to needing two runs from the final ball. Unfortunately they could only mange one run and lost due to losing more wickets. webed- And did anyone turn up to throw abuse at our umpiring superstars as invited???
Bit of a lull in getting news right now, punters. Also seems to be a bit of a delay (Iain Martin excepted!) in getting match reports, jokes, snippets of news, midweek results (I have no idea what happened at Clackymannananaana at all this week either) etc! So not a lot to report... other than a potentially disturbing development on Saturday (and I don't mean the skippers fielding strategy), but that the very same skippa Kidda was modelling the new Mufs kit colours. I'm not sure how well a jersey, size:- tight-fitting, color:- light shade of pink.... will go down with the troops. Shome mishtake with the laundry, perhaps?
Ooops I did it again... got confused with this rain.....Iain Martin kindly clarifies the torrid tale of Third Eleven cricket - as I have slightly got the wrong end the stick of late.... I shall fall on my sword....
Firstly the Cramond game was a pre-season friendly.
The second game was supposed to be against Edinburgh CC but they were unable to raise a suitable team as they had no adult players to supervise their kids.However, at 8pm on the Friday they phoned back to say they had a team. Unfortunately by this time we had already cancelled all our players and therefore claimed the points.
Third game vs Belvoir Corstorphine. For the second week in a row Corstorphine were unable to raise a team and awarded us the points. Unfortunately with the three strikes and your out rule approaching we might not keep these points for long.
After receiving complimentary reports on the Mufs very own umpiring team from the Parks Final last year (Muslim vs Macabbi), the East League have appointed Andy Piggott and Iain Martin to the crunch Masterton Trophy game of Grange vs Heriots at Raeburn Place. So if you are not "on the bus" to the re-arranged Clackmannan-MDafs game on Tuesday 21 May come and give your very own umpires some abuse!
The sun may have been shining down on us for a beautiful day's cricket, but the Ones batting took an ugly turn against the Dogs of Stirling at Williamfield; the Twos battled manfully at Muirhouse but succummed to Accies. The Threes were again idle with another scratched game, but another welcome 25 points in the bag.
See reports (when written!) in 2002 Match Reports.
Well web-ed is back from his hols, and delighted to report a win I believe for Tom's Twos, though ol' Boris is being a little shy with his reporting. Jolly well done anyway. Ones had day off and Threes frustrated by the weather, though a "scratched" game means a win a 25 points.
The new season saw Ones and Twos in action. Ones cruised to a comfortable victory versus Mitre but the Twos lost versus Edin Univ Staff. See reports in 2002 Match Reports.
The fixture mystery has been solved, Grangemouth have dropped out of the League... so free day for Ones next week - fitness training instead perhaps- a wee 5km run. Yeah right, eh. A chance to support the other teams perhaps.
While reviewing rival teams websites for ideas and seeing how good they were (many aren't to be frank) I came across signs of a bit of strife in the Kingdom. Looks like the Dunfermline Carnegie webmaster has upset someone, somehow with some content that has obviously over-stepped the mark or the recipient is a bit "precious". Good job you chaps don't mind a bit of cyberspace mickey-taking eh. You don't do you??? Anyway, click on this link to Carnegie and intrude on some private grief. Addendum Richie Sorrell informs me this web-page has actually been up for some time... so perhaps all is sweetness and light now in the Kingdom. Or perhaps not.
By the way your dutiful webmaster will be away on leave from this Monday to the following Wednesday 8 May. Forecast for Gran Canaria for Tuesday is .... cloud... jesus wept! (sorry Murdo). So no website update in that period. Good luck from me to everyone this season.
By the way Eddie what has happened to the First Team game on 4 May v Grangemouth- on the fixture list given to me but not on the printed fixture card? Is there something I have missed??
Frank
"Is this joke bad enough for the website?" did Mr Iain Martin ask. I will leave it with yourselves to judge but having seen what has gone on before... most probably. And yes we will no doubt see the recent balmy weather turn arctic just in time for the season...
Two aliens were visiting Edinburgh to research the local customs. They split up so that they could learn more in the time allowed. When they met to share their knowledge, the first alien told of a religious ceremony it had seen. "I went to a large green field shaped like a meteorite crater. Around the edges, a few dozen worshippers gathered. Then two priests walk to the centre of the field to a rectangular area and hammer six spears into the ground, three at each end. Then eleven more priests walk out, clad in white robes. Then two high priests wielding clubs walk to the centre and one of the other priests starts throwing a red orb at the ones with the clubs." "Gee," replied the other alien, "what happens next?"
"Then it begins to rain."
Iain Martin, MUFS war correspondent reports from the front line...
Disturbing news reaches us that the the Gerrrrrmans attacked Roseburn Park this week. Sneekily they hid a bomb in a garden shed 57 years ago which they knew, when discovered, would be taken onto the "artificial cricket square" and exploded by the Army bomb squad. However, Lothian and Borders Police confirmed that other lines of enquiry are being investigated. These must surely involve local resident Eddie Clarke and his now dodgy looking excuse of being in Sunderland each weekend? Sunderland? I mean really?? Other lines of enquiry must surely involve a jealous Heriott's web designer!?
Meanwhile spare a thought for the Edinburgh Asians FC, whose FOOTBALL team was just 20 minutes away from its first victory in two years when their game was abandoned because the bomb disposal men needed the Roseburn pitch to detonate the Second World War shell. The victory would have lifted the side off the bottom of the Lothian and Edinburgh Amateurs League where it has been stuck since it joined two years ago.
A controlled explosion was carried out on the pitch at Roseburn Park interrupting the match against Standard Life A. For the record, Edinburgh Asians lost the replayed game. Edinburgh Leisure have been informed and the crater is to be mended this week.
Fast Eddie Clark was sober enough to record minutes of the recent EGM and Dinner held in the Murrayfield Hotel, Friday, 5 April 2002...
Present: Phil Yelland, Eddie Clark, Hugh Craig, Gordon Dalyell, Dave Fisher, Tom Hothersall, Darryn Kidd, Iain Martin, Andy Piggott, Praveen, Ian Shiels, Tony Simpson, Richard Sorrell, Lindsay Towns
Phil Yelland, occupying the chair, welcomed those present with news of two club members, Murdo Macleod (who has recently become a father) and Gordon Humphries (whose back problems will prevent him playing all season). He then turned to the only item on the agenda and called upon Gordon Dalyell to address the meeting.
Copies were circulated. There was a modest deficit, chiefly due to increased pitch hire costs and major newsletter expenses. With regard to the second of these points, it had been considered justifiable to keep the newsletter running in its mailed-hard-copy form during the ‘merger season’, but the club website has since taken over as the principal avenue for club information and this has already proved to be an efficient and effective alternative. Income from the 100 Club is kept in a separate account from general club funds; another separate account exists for ‘colts’, but it was members agreed that funds in this account should be spent on junior 3rd XI kit. For season 2001, the Treasurer had received subscriptions from some 40 people, mostly regular players from all the teams.
The accounts were adopted by members. (prop. E. Clark; sec. T. Simpson)
There being no other business, Phil Yelland closed the meeting. However, the club’s proceedings for the day continued forthwith, as the Club Dinner was served. A lively evening ensued, which included the announcements of the following Club awards:
It has been strongly denied that Britney Spears has forsaken her music career to join MDCC; having allegedly been seduced by the sound of leather on willow (and Tony Simpson). There is also no substantive basis to stories circulating the music press that she has expressed an interest in opening the bowling for Murrayfield-Dafs CC in the coming season. However she is apparently available to take up the vacant Edinburgh Reivers cricket club Captaincy and is rumoured to be making a late appearance at the Reivers AGM (to be held at Tom's House I think) this Friday to make a late bid. An official spokesperson for Britney declined to comment on any aspect of Andy Knight.
Next week: Samantha Fox to umpire for Botanics...
Despite a spellblindingly successful period as captain of Edinburgh Reivers, with barely a game lost, the Newsdesk is saddened to hear of Tom's shock resignation. Those Reivers players left alive will I am sure like to thank Tom for the way he marshalled all 8 of us with great tactical genius and wonderful spirit. Hurrah for Tom.
The first hopefully of many to come, but it is rumoured that MDCC's organisational superstar, Mr Iain Martin, has secured sponsorship from the Murrayfield Hotel to cover some of the costs of our nets practices. A sum of £100 was seen to pass hands in a grubby brown envelope. Well done fella. Over to the rest of us to match woor Ian's efforts. I think we need to have another go at Bert's Bar at least!! And I don't mean marathon pie eating, barmaid worrying.
First of all a hearty thanks to Iain Martin for getting MDCC its very own dedicated laptop for yours truly to be able to use at home. Now the Telewest man has been an gone we are up and running and able to post stories again freely - rather than having to sneakily use Scottish Executive facilities in one's lunchtime!
Never slow to celebrate another victory against Sporting Club Heriot's FP CC, we recently went head-to-head in a titanic cyberspace fisticuffs. The judge's verdict: MDCC 7 - Heriots 3.
For those who haven't seen the article, the latest edition of Scottish Cricketer has started to review Scottish cricket club websites, these being undertaken by Rob Outram who created an independent website dedicated to Scottish Cricket - The Rampant Lion (click here to access the Rampant Lion site). We and Heriots are the first to be reviewed. The review in full:-
Whilst it is informative, and no doubt accurate, the site is static and out-of-date. There is no interaction, or even much eye-candy to attract anyone back.
Conclusion: basic, factual and boring. Could do a lot better. 3 out of 10."
One main area of criticism is the lack of images, and those that are there are too large to be of use. The front page team photo, while very artistic, is also - at 122k - way too bulky for the internet.
On the whole, I also do not like frames. In design terms they should be invisible. However, what's in the frames of this vibrant site is quality material and can only help the club to maintain and develop team spirit.
Suggestions: Don't have all your match reports on the same page, spread your images around the site more, add interaction, a guess book and a message board to provide added value and interest.
Conclusion: a good effort, with plenty of room for development. 7 out of 10."
Friday evening saw the first Annual MUFDA Ceremony Dinner take place with great enjoyment all round.
The evening's feast kicked off with a gentle grilling of the lightly marinaded club Treasurer in a quick-fired consideration of the Club accounts in the pre-dinner EGM. Then it was onto the main course of the night - tasty enough but of varying temperature- brief distraction provided by the late arrival of the Ist team skip mid-course and some funghi tomfoolery with his "non-mushroomed" mushroom laden sauce for his steak. The highpoint came with the Award ceremony and the splendid acceptance speeches that had to be made on behalf of our winners for all but the President's Award (and I bet they wished someone had spoken more succintly for him too!). The winners in no particular order are:
So for these lucky winners a veritable treasure trove of shiny trinkets await. I think Phil Yelland and Iain Martin carted off the booty for safe keeping or flogging off at Ingliston Sunday Market.
Having completed the formalities, the evening carried on its merry way, those attendant most amused (bemused?) by Mr Hothersall's demonstration of how to dismantle a Trophy and not be able to put it back together again. A brave few set out to hunt and gather in Ricks Bar and then the inevitable Fingers. Sicknote for once managing to avoid a slap or a bottle in the mush from an encounter with one of his ex's and/or violent companions.
El Presidente speaks...so sit up and take notice...
As April starts, thoughts turn to the new season that is now a matter a weeks away. The winter has seen nets at the National Cricket Academy on a regular basis and a number of new faces joining last year's members in practising hard for the campaign ahead.
Last season, the first since the amalgamation of Murrayfield CC and DAFS CC went better than anyone could have imagined. Members of both clubs got on well on and off the park and it was only on the final League Saturday of the season that the fate of all three teams was decided from the point of view of promotion and relegation.
This year I think we can real expectations of success. The First team, with Darryn Kidd and Andy Knight in charge must have a good chance of pushing for promotion from Division 3. The Second team with Tom Hothersall and Phil Rogers at the helm ought to do better than battle against relegation in Division Four. The Third team under the leadership of Brian Johnson and Iain Martin will have a competitive time in Division Eight and could have a chance of chasing promotion.
However, what is paramount is that everyone member enjoys their cricket at whatever level that play. I hope we will find from the new faces, players to challenge for places in all three teams and I hope the youngsters who showed promise last season will continue to improve and contribute.
One of the keys to all the teams doing well is practice during the season and we will have nets on Monday evenings at Roseburn. It is really important that players from all teams turn up to try to improve batting, bowling and fielding and, with Iain Martin and Andy Knight having completed coaching courses over the winter, we will have more expertise on hand to encourage players and hopefully improve them.
What is also very important to those running teams is that they know the availability of players and, if you are going to be on holiday or unavailable at any time, please give them as much warning as possible. If you can't get to nets, please make a point of contacting the relevant captain to check what team you are in for the following Saturday. The onus to check has to be on the individual.
This year, in addition to some midweek games, there are going to be some Sunday games, hopefully to encourage mixing between the teams and ensure that everyone gets games. For the first time, the 'new' club has entered the Small Clubs Cup and awaits news of Second Round opponents having got a bye in Round One.
It promises to be a very interesting and exciting season. For my part, July will see the 30th anniversary of my debut for the then London Road club, the forerunner of Murrayfield and Murrayfield/Dafs. In those days, the wicket at Roseburn was better than it now is and no one, even at top amateur level in the east wore a thigh pad or owned a helmet. Some things have changed and improved; others not. I hope that the summer ahead sees the club continue to develop and that everyone connected with it continues to enjoy their cricket and the social side of the club.
Phil Yelland (President).
The Newsdesk has learnt of Tom Hothersall's latest corporate venture, that is into the world of dentistry. As a special offer for MDCC members, Tom is offering free dental treatment to co-incide with the current round of Net sessions. References can be obtained from Breck. Be afraid.
Cost of the dinner at the Murrayfield Hotel on 5 April now announced at £14.50 - its a 4-course meal apparently. If you still wish to attend and have not contacted Tony then email him asap at tony@tsimpson63.fsnet.co.uk
A MDCC Extraordinary General Meeting is to be held at 7:00pm on 5th April at the Murrayfield Hotel (before the feasting) to approve the Club accounts. Bring any tales or make accusations of the Treasurer's financial ineptitude as you wish.
Murrayfield Hotel, Tuesday 5 March 2002, 8.15 pm
Present: Willie Ritchie, Norman Allan, Eddie Clark, Gordon Dalyell, Tom Hothersall, Darryn Kidd, Andy Knight, Iain Martin, Phil Rogers
Apologies: Ian Shiels, Phil Yelland
Willie Ritchie, occupying the chair, welcomed members and called the meeting to order.
Sponsorship
Best Cricket Bats: Darryn reported that communication about possible sponsorship of the club, had failed to progress and were not being pursued.
Murrayfield Hotel: The meeting heard that Phil Yelland had written a letter to the hotel, but no news was available as yet regarding a response. PY to follow up.
Club yearbook: Iain has been looking into the feasibility of this and has received three quotes from local printing companies. However, the levels of advertising needed to make it work (approx. 20 advertisers) have not currently been attained – this perhaps should be held over until next season. Iain did suggest, however, that those who had shown interest this season could be offered advertising space on the club website, and the money received would cover the expected contribution to Ian Shiels’ website costs. Members agreed this approach in principle.
No other sponsorship ideas were aired.
Finance
Accounts to 31 December are available, but as yet unaudited. Members accepted Gordon’s proposal that the club EGM to approve the accounts be held on the same evening as the club dinner (5 April).
Funds from the 50 Club are healthy, but the club would always benefit from more participants; direct debit forms were handed around to those members who felt they could use them.
Indoor Nets
Iain reported that the indoor net sessions at Ravelston were going well. The plan for a coach to be hired @ £20/session for the last four sessions, had been proposed and generally approved in previous e-mailings to committee members, and it was agreed that the adult fees for these particular sessions should increase to £2.50 to cover the increased costs.
Roseburn Cricket
Eddie advised members that Edinburgh Leisure has confirmed the club’s forthcoming pitch bookings for 2002. Outdoor net practice will take place on Monday evenings, starting as near to 6 pm as possible, from 22 April; the club will be paying a fee to Edinburgh Leisure for using the facility over the season, but the three Roseburn keyholders (Tom Hothersall, Andy Knight, Iain Martin), who will share responsibility for organising these sessions, must remember to contact Edinburgh Leisure in the event of a session failing to take place, to ensure that payment for that week is credited. Iain briefed members on the previous evening’s Edinburgh Leisure/local clubs liaison meeting, where weekend pitch charges for adult cricket matches were confirmed as £50 (Meadows = £30), a 31% increase on 2001; members agreed that 3rd XI match fees should consequently rise to £4 (£2 school/student/unwaged), whereas the 1st and 2nd XI fees will remain at £5 (£3) for 2002.
Other Edinburgh Leisure Issues
Iain and B-J will write to Edinburgh Leisure to regarding team members’ applications for ‘keyholder’ during club league matches, which might result in a 20% discount on pitch charges for the club.
Edinburgh Leisure would appreciate feedback from clubs regarding the contractors’ work at Roseburn and other venues this summer. Murrayfield–DAFS’ own President, Phil Yelland, is now Facilities Convener for the East of Scotland Cricket Assn and would coordinate complaints from League clubs.
Edinburgh Leisure has undertaken to fence off the grass square at Roseburn on 27 April, and to supply a security guard to prevent Rugby League Final crowds from causing damage to the cricket facilities.
Recruitment
Phil Rogers made available updated recruitment posters and labels for members to use in updating any posters they still have from last season.
Iain reported that to date 49 players have attended at least one indoor net session this year, and there have been 16 ‘new faces’.
It was agreed that the drive to find more members should be continued. The website has proved to be a fruitful medium.
Club Dinner
Tony Simpson’s provisional date of 5 April was confirmed and the Murrayfield Hotel quoted a four-course menu at £14.50/head.
Members were reminded that Ian Shiels was responsible for the provision and adjudication of all trophies except the President’s Trophy. Ian Shiels to confirm the state of play.
Fixtures
Eddie confirmed that a practice match was scheduled for Roseburn on 20 April; the 1st XI will play all League home matches at Muirhouse (except 27 April, Meadows II); the 2nd XI will play all League home matches at Muirhouse (except 10 August, Roseburn artificial); the 3rd XI will play all League home matches at Roseburn (grass), but the away fixture to Carlton will be on Sunday 11 August, not Saturday 10 August (the League are aware of this switch); the Masterton Trophy first round will be away to Clackmannan County; full details of the club’s matches in the Parks Trophy and Small Clubs Cup are as yet unknown.
Norman confirmed midweek fixtures with Maccabi, Scottish Widows and Merchiston.
Iain will confirm fixture dates for any Sunday friendlies played this year, in liaison with Tony Simpson who will captain the Sunday team. This team should have a ‘developmental’ slant and ideally should manage to play two or three fixtures during 2002, preferably early in the season. Several clubs have already offered fixtures and Cairn Dow (away) is pretty much confirmed for 18 August. Inellan might come to Roseburn for 1 September. There are also the President’s Game and the Derby tourists to bear in mind. Phil Yelland to advise.
Pre-season Build-up
It was agreed that each team captain should be responsible for checking his kitbag and liaising with Gordon about kit requirements. Balls will be available at the East League meeting in April (this year, at Muirhouse).
A.O.C.B.
Stanley Morrison Trust: there are long-term benefits to be enjoyed from this (e.g. helpful for National Lottery funding), so it is worth following up the invitation to apply; Iain will be attending a forthcoming conference on youth cricket at Hampden Stadium, Glasgow.
Tom mentioned the value of obtaining a heavy roller for the Muirhouse groundsman, and will investigate availability.
Andy raised concerns about the general level of maintenance at Muirhouse, meanwhile reiterating his optimism with regard to the provenance of a container (@approx. £500) for use at Muirhouse (providing it had an adequate base on which to stand). These are issues which Eddie will raise with the cricket section at Muirhouse at the next opportunity.
Iain reminded members that no decision had yet been taken on whether to pursue Phil Yelland’s proposed shirt/badge scheme. It was agreed that, given the lack of other options, Phil should be asked to go ahead with researching this option, including the design of the badge and the possibility of ordering stand-alone badges. PY to follow up.
There being no further business, Willie Ritchie thanked members for attending and declared the meeting closed.
Cock-up on the ol' email address front... Tony is NOT contactable at the Ryden's email address anymore ! Please email notification of attendance for the Annual Dinner (and any abusive messages if you like) to Tony at lurve_express_69@babemagnet.co.uk... apologies... to tony@tsimpson63.fsnet.co.uk . Or phone him if you have his number. Mobile I believe 07951-364267
Stirred into life by the attempt by Simpson to claim Club Jester-in-Chief, Eddie's joke has returned from the dead....
A young man played for his local cricket club, but lived out in the countryside - this is in Angus, I think - some five miles away from the ground. One Sunday afternoon the team were at home to their local rivals when a huge thunderstorm came over for several hours and washed out any prospect of further play, so everyone repaired to the bar for the rest of the day. Obviously nobody was in any fit state to drive by closing time. The lad decided he’d just walk, or stagger, home. But after about a mile he managed to lurch into the side of the road, falling down into a puddle. When he got up again, he realised there was a phone box nearby, so he struggled in and dialled his home number. His mother answered.
‘Maw,’ he spluttered, ‘Eh’ve went and sat in a muckle puddle. Is there ony chance o’ a lift hame?’
‘Son, where are ye ringin’ fae?’
‘Fae the airse doon.’
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The news desk apologises for this effort from Tony...
A man walks into a pub with his pet octopus. He sits it down on a stool and tells everyone in the bar that, "This is a very talented octopus and he can play any musical instrument in the world." Everyone laughs at him and generally assumes that he's an idiot from the local asylum.
Not deterred, the guy announces that he will wager £50 with anyone that the octopus will play any instrument that they care to provide. Immediately a challenger walks up with a guitar and sets it beside the octopus who picks it up and starts playing better than Jimi Hendrix. In amazement, the guitar man pays up his £50. Another man walks up with a trumpet. This time the octopus plays the trumpet better than Miles Davis. This guy also pays up his £50.
At this point a Scotsman walks up with some bagpipes. He sits them down and the octopus fumbles with the instrument for a minute and then sits down with a confused look. "Ha!" the Scot says. "Can ye nae plae it?" The octopus looks up at him and says, "Play it? I'm going to shag it as soon as I figure out how to get its pyjamas off!"
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Having now been missing so far for the whole of 2002 and despite an increasingly desparate search, we deeply regret to report hope is fading fast for the return of Eddie's joke. I am sure the whole Club will join in me in celebrating the joy Eddie's Joke brought us all and mourn its passing.
Click here in memorium for Ed's Joke in its full glory last year.... (use the Back button to return here after you have paid your respects)Shome mishtake with Thirds fixtures- Eddie advises that the 3s' Sunday match is against Carlton (away) on 10 (sorry, 11th!) August, not Melrose on 13 July!!!!
As advised in an earlier despatch from your ever-reliable news desk... the MDCC Annual Dinner (MAD) and general knees-up (mother hubbard...?) is to take place on Friday 5th April at the Murrayfield Hotel, the actual feasting commencing at 8:00pm but not doubt the beering a bit earlier. Ol' snake hips Simpson (pictured opposite waiting his din-dins) requests that you promptly let him know whether you shall be attending and whether you shall be accompanied by one or more (ooh-err) partners. For ease of digestion, Mr Simpson himself has pledged not to bring his whole geriatric harem with him. You can contact the Lurve Express by e-mail him at tony@tsimpson63.fsnet.co.uk , failing all that sifting through the Club 30 flotsam and jetsum around 3am on a Sat/Sun morning may locate him. But BEWARE.
Also Eddie would like to advise that the Committee will be holding an EGM to approve the club accounts on the same night- members to gather at 7pm
Due to the concern expressed recently about the increasing propensity of MDCC batsman executing orthodox off-side shots, drastic action is needed to ensure the leg-side flick/heave is properly and rightfully restored to being Mufs batters' (only) shot of choice. Sicknote is delighted to accept the role of Mufs Nets coach to exorcise this pervasive evil of offside strokeplay.
Actually ... enter stage left Mr Stephen Knox as our Nets coach - he plays for Minor Counties side Cumberland and he's been the professional player at Penicuik. So we are delighted that he shall be attending the remaining indoor net practices.
Season 2002 kicks off on Sat 27th April with a semi-home game for the Firsts at the Meadows versus the might of Mitre; Seconds play away with Brian Cant and the Edinburgh Uni Staff. Thirds have a lie-in as no opening fixture until 4 May visit of the newly formed Edinburgh CC 3's. Click on this link to 2002 Fixtures
Courtesy of Mr Sorrell and his fancy digital camera thingy, here's a few brief clips of some of your heros in action at the last Nets... click on the following links (apologies if they ain't working yet - have no been able to test properly...)
Darryn Kidd attempting to bowl....And a bit from Mr Piggott....
For those who don't know, we have been drawn away to Clackmannan in the 1st Round of this year's Masterton Trophy.
A midweek trip to Alloa to look forward to....
more from Iain Martin...
Murrayfield-DAFS will have the honour of hosting the East of Scotland Cricket League Spring meeting on Wednesday 17th April 7:30pm at Muirhouse. As PR Convenor for the League this is my first step to promote cricket at grass roots.It is the first time in many years this meeting will be outwith the "private-school-linked top clubs".
Also, this will be a great opportunity to show ourselves in a good light and raise the profile of our club. To help enhance this opportunity can as many of you as possible try and attend.
This should also help our standing with the Civil Service club (fees etc) as they receive a handy midweek boost to bar funds.
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MDCC Committee Meeting - March 5 - 8-15pm - Murrayfield Hotel....right after the Nets...the agenda follows...
If you have thoughts or matters you want added to the Agenda can you let me know ASAP.
Phil Yelland.
latest from Iain Martin...
Sorry folks but the net times for March 5 and 19 should be 7-8pm NOT 8-9pm. Misunderstanding between the centre and myself.
Therefore can I suggest the committee meeting on Mar 5 be held straight after the net at say 8:15 at Murrayfield Hotel.
So to remind folk.... next Nets (other than tonight's (25 Feb)) on Tues 5 and 19 March 7-8pm, Tues 2, 9 and 16 April 8-9pm.
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More from Iain...
Please note that Murrayfield-DAFs have been awarded a bye into the second round of the small clubs cup. This means our fixture is likely to have to be played on the first Sunday of June with the second Sunday to be kept free as a reserve day. Please help ensure we get our strongest XI out for this fixture.
Cheers Iain.
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The Grand Dinner and Awards ceremony date is provisionally set for the evening of FRIDAY, 5 APRIL at the Murrayfield Hotel. Please check the website for further details.
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