Wickman was having a tidy up and found these. We picked these babies up at the end of season Fullers League Dinner.
The dinner (the food anyway) was good. Beer was cheap as per. But the rest of the evening? A bit bewildering if Wickman is honest.
For some reason the organisers decided that it would be a good idea to honour a whole bunch of people that don't play cricket on the evening. It started with some geezer from the committee who was retiring. They let him up on stage. He decided to tell a very old golf joke. It wasn't a very good joke. He's not a raconteur of much note. Result? Boredom.
Then a procession of people from other clubs who do a bit behind the scenes were invited up. It looked like the entire committee. Clap clap clap clap clap for what seemed like half an hour as these boys tottered up to grab fifteen minutes of bemused onlooking from the rest of us.
We perked up a bit when they handed out the baubles because we picked up a couple. Good stuff. Great season. Two promoted sides, one finishes in third. Surely we'll pick up a club of the month spot? Especially since we WERE club of the month on the Fullers site earlier in the year? Did we buggery.
One of the "clubs of the month" - if Wickman remembers correctly and believe me he took to the liquid anaesthetics pretty hard during the golf "joke" so this might be false memory sydrome - was a club whose 1xi didn't turn out xi players all season, whose seconds are about to rejoin Fullers after a season in which they often had only eight out on a Saturday (welcome back boys why don't you join forces with Mellett and chums?) and their 3xi was docked 40 points for selection irregularities or some such.
Along with the red wine it left a slightly odd taste in the mouth. Never mind eh? It's not every year you have three teams in the promotion run off and two go up. We'll have to content ourselves with enjoying the cricket in Surrey Div 5.
At least Dusty Miller, the hired entertainment, was on his usual form. If Wickman hadn't heard his whole routine at the Oval in August he might have really enjoyed that bit...
Hampton Wick Royal Cricket Club * 1863 - 2013 * 150 Glorious Seasons
Friday 5 December 2008
Baubles
Wickman was having a tidy up and found these. We picked these babies up at the end of season Fullers League Dinner.
The dinner (the food anyway) was good. Beer was cheap as per. But the rest of the evening? A bit bewildering if Wickman is honest.
For some reason the organisers decided that it would be a good idea to honour a whole bunch of people that don't play cricket on the evening. It started with some geezer from the committee who was retiring. They let him up on stage. He decided to tell a very old golf joke. It wasn't a very good joke. He's not a raconteur of much note. Result? Boredom.
Then a procession of people from other clubs who do a bit behind the scenes were invited up. It looked like the entire committee. Clap clap clap clap clap for what seemed like half an hour as these boys tottered up to grab fifteen minutes of bemused onlooking from the rest of us.
We perked up a bit when they handed out the baubles because we picked up a couple. Good stuff. Great season. Two promoted sides, one finishes in third. Surely we'll pick up a club of the month spot? Especially since we WERE club of the month on the Fullers site earlier in the year? Did we buggery.
One of the "clubs of the month" - if Wickman remembers correctly and believe me he took to the liquid anaesthetics pretty hard during the golf "joke" so this might be false memory sydrome - was a club whose 1xi didn't turn out xi players all season, whose seconds are about to rejoin Fullers after a season in which they often had only eight out on a Saturday (welcome back boys why don't you join forces with Mellett and chums?) and their 3xi was docked 40 points for selection irregularities or some such.
Along with the red wine it left a slightly odd taste in the mouth. Never mind eh? It's not every year you have three teams in the promotion run off and two go up. We'll have to content ourselves with enjoying the cricket in Surrey Div 5.
At least Dusty Miller, the hired entertainment, was on his usual form. If Wickman hadn't heard his whole routine at the Oval in August he might have really enjoyed that bit...
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Its those type of nights when you really appreciate The Wick. The idead that that counts as 'entertainment' of some of their lives tells you why we are light years ahead of many clubs in so many ways.
Wick
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