Give Us a Clue
C’mon, reporter! There’s been plenty happening, and never a cheep in the blog!
The pre-season tour to Northern Ireland has come and gone. Good time had by all, despite being untimely ripp’d from our kips to leave here at 5.45 a.m. for the Stranraer to Belfast ferry. Good crossing followed by tour of Bushmills distillery, whose 400th Anniversary coincides with our 100th. All conducted in excellent spirits, so to speak, and we left them a bottle of Freuchie 100. We’d have to confess that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with their twelve year old single malt, mind you, “I’m just not sure about that one – could I just have another wee taste …?”
The only thing wrong with the whole trip was a shortage of players – only ten travelling and one of them not fit to play. We played Eglinton on Saturday with two players loaned by the hosts, one of them catching their opener at slip. What’ll that do to his prospects for the rest of the season, do you think? Despite that success, we’d have to admit that we got a bit of a doing.
We played Brigade Cricket Club on the Sunday, bolstered by one of our Eglinton loan players, but the result wasn’t much better despite some real power batting from Stevie Rowley and a fascinating cameo innings from Patsy. A meal and an evening’s entertainment followed that, with some very quiet people in the bus home on Monday.
Our sincere thanks to Eglinton and Brigade, and there’s a possibility of our hosting a return fixture in 2009.
We’ve been joined by Michael Jackson and Andy Sutherland, who were with Perthshire last year, by Bevan Smith from South Africa and Shane Kennedy, originally from Ireland but now resident here. Cosmopolitan, eh?
Our opening home game with Penicuik on Saturday past was cancelled, our pitch like the proverbial pudden, but the seconds journied to Carlton and scored a win, so they’re off to a flier.
The Firsts are off to Stirling County this Saturday, with the Twos at home to Heriots. Rain, rain, go tae Spain …. Rainy rainy rattlesticks, dinnae rain on me … Any form of prayer you fancy!
Our Campion Homes sponsored tops are due back from Blue Crags, (the Auchtermuchty company who are doing the embroidery), so we hope for a presentation ceremony this weekend.
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