<18/12/2011>

What an excellent manner in which to go into the xmas break, we are living the dream with our top 4 teams all in the four of their respective grades
Just goes to show that if you put in the effort you will reap the rewards. Well Done and no surprise really !

It was an outstanding round for a number of reasons and I could not put and order to any of them
but the highlights from my standpoint and not in any order were:
- the century from Liam Carrison in the Thirds
- Six vital wickets from Stuey Squires in the firsts
- the rise of Cam Tomkinson and Niragen Kumar
- The resurrgence of Toby Grayling and the realisation of Tim Kennedy
- The Hand of God and the Edge of God in the firsts
- and of course the fabulously spirited and gutsy win from the firsts against the juggernaut, cementing the champion team theory

As a coach I am very satisfied with the present results and I am very proud of the players in the club and look forward to more success after the break

May I extend to everyone at the club my best wishes for the festive season and good fortune for the upcoming year

see you at Denyer on the 3rd Jan

Coach Young

<14/12/2011>

"Cricket is a funny game !

Wins don't come easy and have to be earned, and we are doing the work which justifies the odd win and we are all on track for a reasonable season
After being in the playground a while you get know the routines and what to do to keep yourself up in successful circles
This time of the year is when and where seasons are defined
already we have arranged 39 training sessions and believe it or not there are only 17 to go before the end of the Home and Away season to get it right for the finals

The truth is that we don't have the complete experience nor depth of talent some of the very top clubs possess but we do have Determination and High Intensity available to us and we are getting to our destination
We need to be training better than the other clubs around us and be prepared a lot better.

The reason training has gone up a notch does a couple of things

1. it sorts out the stragglers and exposes the champions

2. it prepares us for the much harder grind of finals cricket

I am looking for self disciplined players who drive themselves and their team mates, this is not for the feint harded nor weak of mind and body.
As the excuses come to me for not "putting in" I will be able to easily determine who the slackers are and who has a pee heart, and there will be no place for these bludgers in our finals campaign
However we are lucky that we have a great bunch of blokes who want to do the right thing and have already done so to date, it would be a shameful waste of time and effort if we were to rest on our laurels expecting play off in the finals series jst because we think we are great, luckily the high majority of you guys are real goers and I only expect a couple of whingers to let us done after xmas we start again on Jan 3rd 2012 and we will be conducting all Tuesday night training at Doug Denyer on the centre wicket and in the nets ( PERSONAL COACHING AVAILABLE ON THESE NIGHTS)

Training will be strenuous on both training nights so I suggest that you get some miles under belt in your own time over xmas and beyond, I would expect that you will be match hardened and fit with your own efforts and the attendance count will continue, It is expected that all 1st XI and 2nd XI prospects attend the last 17 sessions and it is compulsory for players to notify the club if they are dead and cannot get to training no excuses please I repeat that we need to train better than our opposition

The chances that we can play off in finals is a real prospect and a thrill that our work might be rewarded, however the hardest thing in the nwould is not getting into a good position but it is staying there that is tough

Good Luck with continued good work

work smart and keep up the high level of training it is good stuff


Coach Young...