Good News, Bad News
No denying that the number of items on the ‘bad’ side is heavily out-weighing the ‘good’ at the moment. Where do we start?
Last post was greeting our overseas player Bev Smith. Bev’s brother played for us in 2004 and a number of our members are friends of the family in Johannesburg. When it was suggested that Bev might come to us this year, we all said whoopee, or words to that effect. We did not do the normal checks. When we came to register him, we found he was too old to be classed as an Overseas Amateur, and did not have the coaching certificates to let him be an unpaid professional. Big thank you to Clarence Parfitt of Cricket Scotland who worked hard to help us with arranging coaching certificate courses, but Bev decided it would all take too long and took the plane home last Thursday. Tough on Bev, sad for us.
We have a long injury list to add to this, so it’s not going to be an easy season.
We were also bouncing in our last post about the Twos’ success against Carlton. The ESCA competitions committee have taken the view that we went against the spirit of things by playing Alan Wallace and Steve Rowley, and have reversed the points score – nowt to us, ten to Carlton. We don’t think we went against the spirit at all, have the right of appeal and are exercising it.
And the good? Thumping home win for the Firsts against Stenhousemuir on Saturday, which puts us third in Division I. If we can maintain that through the season with such a depleted squad and no overseas players, it’ll be some feat.
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