My Christmas has come early.

I had two early Christmas presents, the best presents you could wish for.
Firstly I had word that Matty Ballantine had announced his engagement to a beautiful girl in Ally McKinnon. Matty was our wicket keeper and a major part of our most successful 3rd Grade team ever in the history of City United. The team was captained by City's "Mr Cricket", Peter Mead. This amazing side won every thing there was to win, The Minor and Major Premiership's as well as the One-Day final. They even had battles off the field with the officaldom. This team overcame them all with integrity and grace.
Matty himself has had health problems which he has over come. He is now living in Gunnedah and working seven days a week making a life for himself and his fiance.
The other terrific news was that of Bobby Hession. Bobby was City's Fourth Grade Captain for many years until eight years ago when he hung up his old battered hat. A year later he was diagnosed with cancer, for seven long years he battled this curse. With his wife Lyn and family by his side, he was given a few months to live by his specalist a number of times. But Bobby is a fighter and never gave in.
Bobby touched many City players who came through the grades. He was a father figure to them all. Bobby is from the old school and would call players little wankers if they played up and would never give his bowlers a fine leg saying if he can't bowl on off stump he shouldn't be bowling at all.
Bobby was the captain of a winning fourth grade side for City and has told me the most talented and inspirational young men he captained was the Sipple twins. Both Adrian and Grant went on to play 1st Grade for City, with Adrian Captaining our 1st Grade side.
Bob is in remossion, has been seven weeks off all medication and is looking forward to spending this Christmas with his family.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (some presents are more valuable than money can buy) CITY.

 

ALL CRICKET HAS BEEN CALLED OFF

Council have just called all cricket matches off due to the rain. Hope you all have a enjoy weekend indoors.We really needed the rain as watering by buckets sucks, but I know Simon and the other Captains were keen to play Wests.

GOOOOOOOOOOO  hope to see you all at training City

THE RAINS ARE HERE DAD THE RAINS ARE HERE

City United has be informed that all tomorrows turf wickets matches have been cancelled. Our 1st and 2nd Grade both have the weekend off.

The synthetic wickets (3rd and 4th Grade) will be inspected by council tomorrow morning as soon as we are informed of any decision it will be placed on our web site.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO as the rains tumbles down CITY

It is not through a lack of hard work.

Our 1^st Grade side are having a real dig this season. At City’s training sessions there are great numbers of  1^st Graders, not only do they turn up, they really put in. To see the intensity of their bowlers in the nets to their follow teammates batting is quite frighting at times.

A couple of players from our 1st Grade side have been selected to represent at the highest level this season, playing with and against the best cricketers in the state. Over half the side have been rewarded by being selected in one of the two Tamworth Representative teams.

With a third of the competition completed our City 1^st Grade side is improving every match and our bowling line up is the talk of the town. Their commitment to Simon their captain and to their team and club is reflexed by the number of players used this season to date. The ability to have the same team playing each week has added to their success.

A Friday story.

I was so frustrated. I had complained dozens of times to my daughter about her newest gag of kissing the bathroom mirror immediately after applying lipstick, but it was all to no avail.

Finally, one day after spending a half hour scrubbing the mirror, only to find another kiss mark an hour later, I had enough, “Katrina!” I yelled.

“What?” was my daughter’s reply through her bedroom door.

"I can’t find the toilet brush that I’ve been using to clean the bathroom mirror. Do you have any idea where it is?” I asked.

After hearing the gagging from behind the bedroom door, I knew my days of cleaning kiss marks off of mirrors were over.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO where is this rain they keep talking about CITY

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GOOOOOOOOO boy they repair almost everything CITY

City's women season is coming to an end.

The women’s competition is coming to its conclusion this Thursday, everyone is welcome to come down and watch some very exciting and high standard of women’s cricket as the City women play off for 3^rd place.
Results from round 3 yesterday are as follows – some really strong wins by South’s and City scoring lots of runs and Old boys putting in a great run chase as the sun set on No 6.
Round 3 Results – Thursday 27th November 2014
South’s                3/135     d             Old Boys              4/ 116
City                        2/109     d             North’s                 3/ 95
Now next week is the finals for our women’s league – thanks again to all the clubs umpires and special thanks to players and Beth Hodge for making the league a success over the 5 week period.
 Good luck to all teams the finals are as followed according to administrator Graham (have a great holiday fly’s to Europe tomorrow).  Repeat of final round on different fields but I am sure being the final the standard will  rise another level as it has every week.
Tamworth Women’s Cricket League Finals – Thursday 4th December
Game time – can we please commence games at 5.15pm  to ensure we get through 20 overs in both games and time for presentations before dark – ask for a early mark from the Bosses please.
South’s vs Old Boys Grand Final          No 4 Oval     Umpire Simon
North’s vs City Play off for 3rd.            No 6 Oval     Umpire Doug

 While in Grade cricket played on Saturday City's 3rd Grade side had a nice 1st Innings win over Souths with Eddie Beattie once again receiving the 3 best and fairest points from the umpire. Eddie steered the boys home with the bat being unbeaten on 47 N.O., this is after he secured another 5 wicket haul with his bowling. An inspirational effort.

City's 4th Grade juggernauted continued on their way with a dominating Outright win. It's very much a team effort down there with every player playing his part in a pleasing start to the seasonGOOOOOOO more on the weekends results tomorrow CITY

With the passing of Phil Hughes Friday's post will be posted today. Looking for extra cash.

NSW SUMMER CRICKET CAMPS
Coach Cricket With Nathan Bracken, Michael Bevan, John Dyson & Get Paid?
Shaun Brown’s Cricket Coaching are once again conducting cricket clinics throughout December & January in NSW and we NEED YOU to assist in coaching the young cricketers of tomorrow.  The clinics have been operating for over Twenty years and provide coaches with numerous benefits. 

 
Consider…….
The benefits to you!!
üThe chance to meet, coach and learn from Former Test & First Class players;
ü 9am – 3pm work hours;
üHaving a ‘mini trip away’ with other Premier cricket players;
üPay from $180 for a two day clinic – ask about our pro coach multi camp roll over pay
üCar pooling and travel expenses covered;
üGain further experience in coaching;
üStaying at reputable motels throughout  NSW – which most often have a pool;
üCoaching appointments which work around your lifestyle and schedule;
üCoaching attire consisting of a cap and shirt provided;
ü“Refreshments” provided following the conclusion of each days coaching;
                                                     
If you are interested in being one of the coaches on this year’s clinics, simply go to www.cricketcoaching.com.au ; fill in your details at the bottom of the front page under Coaching; Employment Opportunities. If you have registered this year then we look forward to your participation on this year’s summer cricket camps. If you registered last year you will need to re registered this year due to the new financial year.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO  get paid while having fun CITY

Friday's little story.
I'm not happy, not happy at all !!!!!!!
My 16 year old daughter, nervously brought her boyfriend home last week to meet her parents.  Although my daughter was very fond of him she was nervous about what sort of  impression he’d make on her parents. After all, he was full of tattoos and rings all over his body.
 “Mom and Dad” said Katrina nervously, ” I would like you to meet  Spike, my boyfriend, Spike this is my Mom and Dad.” After a few minutes of small talk and pleasantries, I called my daughter over and whispered “Katrina, I don’t like him, I don't think he is nice guy at all”
“Dad please!” retorted Katrina, “if he’s not a nice guy how can you explain the forty hours of unpaid community service he does a week?!”
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the joy of your children growing up CITY

A sad day in Australian cricket!

City United Cricket Club received an message from James Sutherland late last night and it reads.

27 November 2014

PHILLIP HUGHES | A message from james sutherland

Dear City United Cricket Club ,
It is my sad duty to inform you that a matter of hours ago Southern Redbacks batsman, Phillip Hughes passed away as a result of the injury he sustained at the Sydney Cricket Ground earlier this week.
The word tragedy gets used far too often in sport but this freak accident is now a real-life tragedy. Just shy of his 26th birthday, Phillip has been taken from us far too young.
As a cricketer, Phillip was an incredibly talented and dearly loved member of the Australian, South Australian and Adelaide Strikers squads and a former NSW representative. He also played county cricket in England and IPL in India. Without doubt he was a rising star whose best cricket was still ahead of him.
As a cricket community we mourn his loss and extend our deepest sympathies to Phillip’s family, friends and team mates at this incredibly sad time, and of course to the Australian cricket family and the State Associations. We are thinking of you right now.
I’d like to thank you and the broader cricket community around the country for your thoughts given to Phillip and his family. From social media to phone calls to our front desk, the support has been tremendous and I want to thank you on behalf of Australian cricket.
 Phillip Joel Hughes played 26 Test matches for his country. He will be sadly missed and forever remembered.

Yours sincerely,
JAMES SUTHERLAND
Chief Executive Officer
Cricket Australia

 

We have also been contacted by NSW Cricket requesting that all games of cricket in NSW this weekend be asked to observe a minutes silence and wear black arm bands in respect of Phil Hughes and his family.
 Could team Captains please ensure that each grade has black tape to be put on shirts prior to commencement of the game, and that each game does have 1 minutes silence to be organised by the umpire
CITY UNITED CRICKET CLUB.