With two weekends left all three teams have an opportunity to finish in their respective promotion places – or crash and burn after long seasons. Whatever the results this has been the most exciting season for the entire club for years, or certainly in Wickman’s recollection.
The 1s – after a couple of disappointing weeks – now find themselves a point off second place behind surging Stoke D’Abernon. Two wins and any slip up from Stoke and promotion will be theirs. But with Long Ditton at the end of the season and a tricky trip to sixth placed Godalming awaiting them on Saturday the 1s will need to be on top of their game.
The 2s – back in the driving seat after a couple of shock losses, can finish at least second with two straight wins at home to CMO and away to Shepperton. Again, neither are easy games, but with Chobham poised to cruise to a victory at the end of the season against already relegated Whiteley Village, who are yet to post a win this year, win they must.
And then there’s the 3s. After looking dead and buried two weeks ago on the abandonment weekend when all around them won games (where were they playing???) the 3s are back in the hunt. Old Tiffinians have been fined 40 points by the League for misdemeanours, dumping them into fourth place. They were pretty much all over this blog a cussing and a dissing after the 3s game a while back (see match report and comments) so there will be a sense of shadenfreude in some quarters (not Wickman of course, he is above such things). A win this weekend for the 3s (again – tough oppo to negotatiate) will put them into second place and create an incredible promotion game with third placed Battersea Ironsides with the Wick needing only to maintain a points margin.
But this weekend is the key. Wins for all three teams will create possibly the most exciting final week in living memory. So its time for a massive effort boys. No one wants to miss out this season and the fact that all three teams have an opportunity to contest promotion spots has got to be great for the club.
Hampton Wick Royal Cricket Club * 1863 - 2013 * 150 Glorious Seasons
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Needed – One Wickwash
With two weekends left all three teams have an opportunity to finish in their respective promotion places – or crash and burn after long seasons. Whatever the results this has been the most exciting season for the entire club for years, or certainly in Wickman’s recollection.
The 1s – after a couple of disappointing weeks – now find themselves a point off second place behind surging Stoke D’Abernon. Two wins and any slip up from Stoke and promotion will be theirs. But with Long Ditton at the end of the season and a tricky trip to sixth placed Godalming awaiting them on Saturday the 1s will need to be on top of their game.
The 2s – back in the driving seat after a couple of shock losses, can finish at least second with two straight wins at home to CMO and away to Shepperton. Again, neither are easy games, but with Chobham poised to cruise to a victory at the end of the season against already relegated Whiteley Village, who are yet to post a win this year, win they must.
And then there’s the 3s. After looking dead and buried two weeks ago on the abandonment weekend when all around them won games (where were they playing???) the 3s are back in the hunt. Old Tiffinians have been fined 40 points by the League for misdemeanours, dumping them into fourth place. They were pretty much all over this blog a cussing and a dissing after the 3s game a while back (see match report and comments) so there will be a sense of shadenfreude in some quarters (not Wickman of course, he is above such things). A win this weekend for the 3s (again – tough oppo to negotatiate) will put them into second place and create an incredible promotion game with third placed Battersea Ironsides with the Wick needing only to maintain a points margin.
But this weekend is the key. Wins for all three teams will create possibly the most exciting final week in living memory. So its time for a massive effort boys. No one wants to miss out this season and the fact that all three teams have an opportunity to contest promotion spots has got to be great for the club.
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I'm pumped?
Anon - you are no Winston Churchill Wickman is guessing.
egh?
BRING IT ON!!!
BELLLIIIEEEVVVEE!!!!
cant wait... i feel justice has been done. we should have beaten old tiffs anyway.
TRIGGER
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