What did you have for your tea? Pasta.
Why don't I just make something else?
I literally could have said anything then, couldn't I could
have said roast beef. Yeah, roast beef had roast beef
for me. For me.
Tea. What did you have for your
pudding Pizza? Ice cream?
No, I didn't have any pudding. Gelato.
But I did genuinely have pasta for me tea.
What kind of pasta? Pesto and.
Cheese. Mushrooms and cherry tomatoes.
Coming on, He's dialled in. He's here.
All right. You're in a prison cell.
Gav I. Don't think I have.
I'm not losing my room. Well, your hair cut like that
and sat on the bench sat. On a chair, and we're all doing
all right. All right.
How are you? Thank you.
Can't smile wide enough for you, Joseph.
No, you're fantastic. Can't smile wide enough.
That's good. That's good blood, right?
Who's blurred your eyes? You were blurred when you were
batting. I hadn't shot Jess.
Anyone more than 60 mile an hour.
That weren't you? I was.
Tracking this just. So everyone, welcome to lower
house Cricket Club podcast the house cast.
We've already had a few little laughs and jokes.
I'm sure it'll get edited appropriate list.
But it's good fun to see the three lads.
We've no guests on this week. Just got the three old fair
falls with myself. So we'll go around the room.
We're going to discuss the last couple of weeks.
We've got a really great draw to draw and and discuss how things
are going and I would feel on the build up to to know cricket
in winter. So the to Joe, Joe Martin, how
you doing Joe? Very well, Jess, how are you?
Yeah. Oh, good.
Thank you. A bit of a strange weekend I
found. I mean, they've been remarkably
uneventful these past couple of weeks, aren't they?
Yeah, just everything though. You've got the weather, you
know, the warning of some real good heat wave and some nice
days, and then you get rainy one day, then it's a bit really
sunny the next. But it never really got that
warm. And I had a day or two at
length, went down watching the Hampshire game and then have
the, what's the best way of describing it?
There's 33 hours at Clitheroe on Saturday morning, which was a
bit of a shock but we'll go into that later, so I have no doubt.
So we'll go to the next one. Gap.
How you going Gap? OK.
Thanks, Jess. Yeah.
Oh, good. You're looking.
You're looking so cool in there Gap.
Well. You're just too cool for school
mate, you know that? Yeah, too foot, too cool for
school. Super cool.
I'm Duke. How you doing?
You're better, Duke. All right, Jess, all right.
Just one very quick thing to report.
I went to Enfield briefly yesterday, sat in the rain and
the first person I saw when I drove on the ground was Chippy.
Oh yeah. Sat in his car on his own, took
him to a McDonald's and he said he had to eat the McDonald's
because you were a little bit delicate.
Because somebody on Saturday got him pissed and and made him made
him drink a lot more than he wanted to drink.
Any ideas who that could have been?
Well, I had A and that was a little chippy.
Well, he was sort of, he was sort of accident.
You made him get pissed and he were a bit worse where it were
all your fault. That's what he was saying.
Well, first of all, there's a couple of things to just
dissect. He stopped over hours and we
went out for breakfast, late breakfast.
We didn't take the last 12 and he had a massive, I think they
call it brunch. And so then he's having
McDonald's. Yeah, it's supposed to be an
athlete. We didn't have a great deal.
We watched some football, we watched Clitheroe.
We only had one pint over at Clitheroe and then drove back.
You're good to catch up with him.
Really. The top one.
He's funny one, Yeah, stories. You were telling me that and we
can't even repeat them. It's a shame that we talked
through some of them. But yeah, we had a good day.
We had a good day. So let's let's kick in straight
away. I don't make no apology about
this. I think we should go straight
into Saturday, T20 finals day. The team have played really
well. I've thought the last couple of
years that the team have, you know, have up the game in the T
20s. You know, they're obviously a
good side where they are in the league and winning the cup and
then to get the T20 in the finals there.
It was called off the weekend before for those who didn't
realise and then played this Saturday in great weather.
So what I'm going to do is Joe Martin, if you can just explain
to the listeners about the build up to it and how you as players
felt and and then we'll talk about the game once you give us
that insider information. Right.
Yeah, OK. What did we do?
I think we trained us. What happened on the Thursday?
We went somewhere we. Went for Chinese.
Yeah, that's right. Thanks, Joe.
No, I just went for it if. You bring it back to food, I'll
be able to. I'll be able to remember it.
So I went for Chinese. It's rained on the Tuesday,
Yeah, we didn't train and then we trained on the Thursday a
little bit earlier. Then we went for a team,
Chinese, if you like. I think I've never been before.
So yeah, we had a we had a good time.
Then a few of us trained on the Friday and then we set off
pretty early to get together up. Some people had a few hits there
and warm up and whatever. And that was pretty uneventful
really as a as a build up. I think we were in a, we're in a
good place to play and actually, I think I actually think we
played pretty well. Yeah, yeah.
But I must agree, it was, they were great to see Cliff.
They're all, you know, all set up the Marquis there everything
we're we're looking grand that the you know, they got
everything right and you know, it was a good set up.
It's early after 10 what? 10 O clock start aren't it?
Yeah. It's early, but I don't think
the pitch changed much at all. Well, no, I mean, we can we can
go on to that later, but it is early Jazz.
It felt like I was getting ready for an under 10s game of
football again on a Sunday. When you.
Use the time of the team meet Joe. 8:45 it.
Is early, that isn't. It, yes, yeah, yeah.
So yeah. But I don't think you know the
weather, you know the ground was was good.
I don't you know you whether you think it's going to be loaded
due on it or whether it's going to affect anything.
But I thought it looked a picture.
I thought it was they were good for for Clither all the way
they've done it and for the league because they're all won
the toss and decided to to have a bowl.
There's one really interesting. Selection.
Around that team though, Joe. Sorry, Crompton.
Yeah, sorry. One really interesting selection
around the team for you lads and score.
It was a it was a particularly difficult weekend for all
selection and where. Right.
There there was the quite a number, a good number of teams
out over the weekend and people away last week of the school
holidays and whatever. So I think for the first time in
quite a while numbers were a little bit tight.
So the people that would usually fill in for, for the scoring,
we're playing. So Frank NT did a marvellous job
and came in and and scored for us.
Lovely stuff, I mean. Probably, yeah, he did well.
Yeah, he did well and he stopped off the BS.
So congratulations to him because he did say he was going
to be on it early. That was, but he stopped off it
so. So that was all good.
But I'm I'm not included yourself, Gav or Dutch yet
because I don't think you go at all.
Did you? Were you there towards the end,
Duke or or Gav? No.
No, I was coming over for the final if we if we got there,
but. Obviously.
I went on turf watching Super Clarence and then obviously
weren't going to go over when when we were when we didn't get
through. So we were just following it on.
We were just trying to follow. Yeah, on the social media, well
don't hesitate to jump in and and ask any questions as as Joe
and myself were through it. So when the toss, a relatively
good start, I think Joe Martin, Johnny Whitehead would be and
with four fours in the first over, it just seems to be
hitting through the ball. Very true wicket.
And I guess that's how you you plan to play.
Job was was there any change in that system the way that it was
going with Johnny and the pro opening?
No, just being nice and positive.
It's a good scoring ground. Clitheroe fast scoring, no, but
it's not that big a ground either, I don't think, is it?
So it's kind of ideal for for AT20 game to get a reasonable
score and wickets are pretty good too.
So I think it set it up, they set it up quite nicely where a
really good, really, really good, a really good start, great
partnership to start off with. And yeah, yeah, they just
started pretty well, didn't they?
Well, I thought so, yeah. You've been about as dynamic.
There's a snail. Yeah.
I thought they were. It was.
It was good the way they started.
Dan was working around well, running well between the
wickets. Johnny gets 8, only 33 balls
gets 40. I think the time in back quite
well and then Frankie came in, kept it going.
Ben came in looked as strong as ever and we we managed to get
151 in our 20 overs and I'll mention it now Joe just to you
come back, give us your thoughts and your opinion.
I don't they played well. They brought the grafted it back
around, but I do think we were 160 bangs, well, I think 16165
with about two or three others to go.
Yeah, I think, yeah, I think that's fair.
But at the same time, all three games were pretty much the same
scores, which would suggest to me that the wicket was probably
150 par. That's what everybody got.
So I think that we, I think that we were probably settled.
I thought they bowled really well in the last two overs,
really hard to score off and you know, a softer and a pink ball
stays hard for 20 others, but a little bit softer, you know,
bowled a few cutters and whatever.
So they they ball really well and, and, and restricted in that
to that 15151 mark. But we were, you know, we were
confident 151 that we that we'd be, that we defend, that we had
some strong plans and and you know, we could we'd execute
well. Yeah, but again, you're right,
they did bowl a real good consistent lining events for the
last three overs, you know, but we only, I think we scored five
in the last 2 1/2 overs and we lost that wicket and you're down
was starved a little bit the strike and you know, Henry
almost run a ball. But it just, and the reason I'm
bringing it up is not certainly not criticism, but it really
shows momentum in cricket, how things change quickly.
You know, if Dan, because Dan was smashing it, he gets us to
170 no time. It's all of a sudden the game's
out and maybe, maybe 165. Yeah, I mean.
But the momentum seemed to swing back to them.
Yeah, possibly. Yeah, I think, yeah, I think
that's, I think that's fair comment.
But, you know, they're allowed to.
They're allowed to ball well, you know.
Yeah, but and then I think we dragged it back in our opening
August. I thought we did well.
We seem to drag that back quite a bit.
It's so interesting watching it from the side and studying it
and and working it out. They've they've dragged it back.
So we end up 151 and after 20 overs.
Just talk us through, you know, the the first half of of their
innings then please, Joe. So I think we took wickets at
regular intervals, which was good.
We restricted their their room rate.
They needed probably 9 and over probably needed 90 off the last
10. But you know, on on other
grounds, you probably on well, some grounds, I guess you'd be
able to think that they'd get nowhere near trying to chase
down over. As I said, they're always really
fast scoring ground. It's not that big.
So we weren't complacent. Again, I thought that we bowled
bowled pretty well and their pro was pretty chancellor.
I don't can't remember him given a chance.
It just needed the rest of their batters to to not get out, I
guess, and you know it. I think we we went well for 99%
of that. And and you know, we can talk
about the the second. Well, we don't even really need
to talk about the second-half of it actually, do we?
I mean the last the last over, right.
It's one of those things where they need 25 off that last over
and I don't I honestly wiki keeping I don't think it
mattered who who bowled it. So let's just let's just talk
through the the seven or eight overs on the build up to that.
I thought you're right, getting the wickets, good intervals.
I thought that, you know, I thought Charlie bowled well
early on and Paddy bowled as well as he has done.
There wasn't really a sign of what was going to happen.
I don't think Jamal looked like, you know, he's clearly a great
matter and if he had that plan in his head then crack your
credit. I mean, at one stage I thought,
you know, we're going to bowl them all out here because he was
trying to keep the strike. I thought you did well with
like, but we did well 345 holes to go and limiting the strike
and consistently taking the wicket.
And as you said, then it's it's 25 off 6 balls.
All right, is is striking uphill, but it is a little bit
short straight that way. And you know, this is for allow
the first job. I'll come back to you, but I
want to just describe to Dutch and and and Gav.
It's a long time since I've been he seen hitting like it.
It was. It went over like a wide long
off, maybe extra cover. It went right out the ground.
You know you won't. The two fours he hit with great.
The six, you know the six at the end will will come on to that.
But it was really good hitting. What else could we have done?
I don't know, Joe, what's your thoughts?
You know, we can't just say I honestly did really well.
We've got. To think about no, I mean, I
honestly don't think that we I don't think we got anything
wrong. That's the thing it's really
hard to kind of analyse it. You know, it's easier to say on
another day, but on another day one of those goes straight up,
you know, and and we and we take the catch and we and we win that
game. It just happened.
And you know, we've done it. We've done it before at
Clitheroe. You know, Ruben did it, Ruben
Pretorius in the 2021 final in that last, in that last over,
you know, hit three sixes and a four and you know, whatever.
So it you know, it does happen and it can happen.
So yeah, it's it's just one of those, just one of those things.
As I said, I don't think, I actually don't think we got much
wrong in the game. And I don't actually think we
got the last over wrong either. I think it was just one of those
things that happens and yeah. Well, I've got 99 out of 150,
you know, the next day, the next day a score is 1313.
You know, it's a bit of an easy get out to say we got prod, but
it's such a remarkable performance by Ron Bloch.
You know, it's difficult to, even if you're going to be
critical and look, look at the game and obviously we weren't me
and Gab worked there. So you know, we're only doing it
looking at the car. But even if you're going to be
critical, it's very, very difficult to pinpoint anything,
isn't it? You know the lad's, the lad's
won it on his own, off his own bat.
Literally. Very fair.
Yeah, and I don't think he planned it.
You know, he wasn't planning or I'll try and get, you know, I
need over, over 22 off the last over.
He was obviously and that's why I thought we did well in, you
know, in alternating the strike and and moving things around a
little bit. You say that, Jess, but what
about his his clarity in in the run out in the in the second to
the last ball of the previous over to make sure that he was
going to be on strike. He wasn't interested in getting
that extra one run there or or or letting letting himself have
a crack at the last ball of that over.
All right, He probably wasn't. Sitting.
Up to get 25 off the last but. Yeah.
And then the batters. Would have scampered A1 there
and tried to tried to get every room that was on offer.
He wasn't interested. He he was clearly saying right,
well, I'm going to take this in this last over there.
The best chance was winning this game is me in 3 or 4 out of the
ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I love it. You know, when you see, you
think, what could we have done there that would have been
slightly different? What?
You know, even the last shot that went for six, Yeah, it was
bizarre. It literally landed 225 inch
over the boundary row and with two players near it and no one
got hand on it. No front.
It went right over, went right over Henna's head.
I don't think had a chance of catching it, Francois said.
And Henry and Henry caught a brilliant catch earlier in the
game. Really, really calm and and
collected taking that and taking that catch and Charles, I mean,
that's the other the other thing as well that actually set us up
really well for the for that innings was Charlie Cotton
caught an unbelievable 100 catcher extra cover full length
diving catch and then ran out another one of their batters 100
pick up throw at the stump. So, you know, they offer so much
in the field. Obviously we're disappointed to
lose, but the way that we played this year, it's it's, it's
genuinely been great to be involved in.
And you know, we want to win, you want to win.
But we said on on Thursday actually, that in the T20 game,
T20 is a massive leveller between between teams.
And as it shows, if a pro or one batter gets a massive score or a
big score, it gives you, it gives you a really good chance
of, of winning the game regardless of what your other
team mates do. So, you know, 99 out of 152 is
it's a fair effort in it. Yeah, we are, without a doubt.
Yeah. You know, I'm good on and, you
know, and then and went on to win the final.
Gav Did you have any observations?
Have you spoke to anyone about it or any?
I'm just wondering what, because it did seem a little bit, it
genuinely was a it was a shock that we got big, you know, I'm
sure everyone were planning where they're going to go and
have some lunch to come back and watch the final.
It was that we thought we'd won that much.
Have you heard anything from any of the fans?
Gav Not not. Really I was, I was planning on
going down watching twos yesterday, but whether we're
being as it were, eventually I didn't get down.
So we're going to have a chat with Fandango, two were there
and then have a catch up. But like Joe said, it's
difficult to comment when you know you weren't there.
But like I said, we were just following the scores and like,
it's difficult to do because you don't have any real insight.
Like when you're there just watching, but you look like
Johnson, you look at that score, you know, we're definitely in
the game and everyone seems to play well.
Everyone. No one's really seems to have
got stuck or anything like that, you know, and like say, you
know, the boys obviously played well.
He's a good player and credit, credit where it's due.
You know, they've, he's, they've won that game and every credit
to him, you know, they've won it.
We haven't thrown it away. They've won it.
And fair play, Absolutely. Fair play, yeah.
So you. Know and what's the?
Pro like afterwards, Joe was. I didn't.
Oh. Yeah, I mean, obviously
disappointed. And yeah, he was.
He was. He was.
Disappointed as anybody would be, but I don't think it.
It. Shouldn't, shouldn't, definitely
shouldn't take away from what he's achieved this year and the
difference that he's made at the point.
Not that, not that it not that it wouldn't, not that it would,
but I think it's. As I said.
It would have happened to any bowler, I think genuinely
doesn't matter who was bowling that last over.
I think, you know, when you get in that kind of frame of mind,
he was just ready. So, yeah, he was disappointed.
But it was back, you know, it was.
It was with us in the evening and then with us on the Sundays,
as as Dan always is. And he's, you know, great,
always great to be around. Yeah.
What was the crowd? Like Jess, out of interest?
There. Wasn't.
That many on early on, it just seemed to keep filling up and
filling up with plenty of spaces to sit.
But the tents around once I were all we're all full with, you
know, with sponsors and Rami had a tent of their own.
And you know, it was, it was a good atmosphere and I'm sure it
would have, you know, after we got beat, you know, me and
Chippy walked down Chapman Rd kicking a canal way down,
soaking. So, so we didn't see what it was
like for the afternoon or the evening.
But but no, all credit to them, you know, for what they've done.
Yeah, I mean, they wouldn't. Have won the final as well, you
know, so that's yeah, yeah. Absolutely correct.
Yeah, to to to Crompton. So then Sunday we didn't do we
need to talk right Sunday bit of AI mean.
Damp squid. Weren't it with the weather and
everything. Else yeah just yeah no yet again
yeah got another pro out yeah and he's yeah very effective
very effective bowler and and good to have good to have a
round when he's when he's free and available to.
To play. But yeah, toxic ball.
Well, yeah. Yeah, definitely Dan's.
You know, I think he's at the top of the wicket Takers and,
and, and Paddy's Paddy. 'S.
Well past 30 wickets now as well.
They bowled really well as a unit hockey ball.
Well, first up, really unlucky, really unlucky first up.
Could have could have had a couple really.
Yeah. So yeah, it was, it was a very,
it was very strange atmosphere because it was very end of
season feel to the game. But we but we bowled pretty
well. You know, I think we do.
I think we'd have been close to balling out for one 5160.
Yeah, Joe, I. See the their opener retainer?
What happened there? Were it a blow over it just a,
you know, Amy or what? No, not quite.
Do you? Do you know what happened?
Do you not know what happened? All right.
OK. And so their opener was batting,
hits the ball out to cover, deep cover.
Push. For a 2.
Henna's throws the throws the ball back to me, it's not quite
there, but as they're as they're running for the two, the batters
crash into each other more bloody.
Hell and. And collapse on the on the
ground. So they're.
They're they're out of, of the, of the Yeah.
So he retired her after that. Bloody hell.
Was he alright? Was.
He badly hurt or. I'm not, I'm not sure.
I don't. I don't think he went to
hospital, but I think they said he was struggling to breathe a
little bit and but he seemed he seemed OK.
And yeah. So yeah, we did.
We hoped he was all right. Well, I did.
I didn't look like a bit of a. Drama queen to me.
Just truth be told. Well, a good point dude.
Can he? Help you run him out.
I was. Just going to say he says down
here, he's retired here, he should have been run out well.
There was, well, there was a bit of controversy around that as
well, so I picked the ball up. I'm.
Running out? No.
Let me finish. So I pick the ball up there on
the ground. I go up to the stumps.
But I'll be honest with you, I'm running out.
I I. Couldn't.
I couldn't run him out, however Dan could, so he grabbed hold of
my hand and took the stump. But the umpire had.
Called dead ball and stuff and they were all you know.
And I don't think it should have been called dead ball from
memory. I think, I think, I don't know,
but yeah, it was. Yeah.
So I think you'd probably. Run them out and then Racine,
your appeal I think is the but I don't know if that's the right
rule. But yeah.
What would you have done, Jess? Anyway, I'm going.
To say I. Think I think we could all
answer that. Yeah, and I was once on the
other. Side of that, me and Stuart
Grant once ran into each other at church.
Yeah. And.
The church lads didn't run me me out.
No, they probably weren't too bothered.
They probably thought they were going to get out anyway.
Let's keep them in. Probably thought let's keep them
in. Yeah, yeah.
Let's. Keep these two in.
Johnny Russell's in at 11. I was involved in one of them
with Blaze. So I used to have a helmet, jazz
cricket helmet, the the nib on the top of the helmet.
I'm sorry. Well, I'll just explain it.
On top of the helmet had come off and it was a metal spark
like or some kind of knight or something.
So I ran into Blaze going for a tour at Richton and my helmet
had gone. I'd push over my eyes and my
nose as I tried to get up and I'd cut the top of my nose and I
couldn't see. Blaze had got in obviously and I
was and I was run out. But I'd sparked Blaze in his in
his stomach. So we wondered whether he needed
a tetanus jab after I'd after I'd stabbed him and with my
helmet. Oh dear, I couldn't see stabbing
Blaze with your helmet in his stomach.
But I couldn't see, my helmet got over my eyes.
And just. Bring taking it back to
something sensible for a second. We just mentioned a toxic there
and getting pros out. I mean it's only a small sample
size, but he's played 550 over games this year.
He's got three pros. Out.
And in one of the other two games they didn't have a pro.
Clues are all played without a pro.
He. Could have got.
Four pros out this year, and he's got three of them out.
Yeah. It'd be.
Interesting to see his record over the past few years because
it's uncanny. His ability to.
Do that, yeah. He.
I mean, I'm just looking at the, the averages.
I don't know. It's, it's not a great measure
of it, but it's, you know, he's right up there and the average
is Indiana. He's only played five games, but
he's, he's still a quality player.
But you know, circumstances dictate.
You know when he. When?
When he can play? When he can't play?
What one game to go? Joe Martin, what's the
aspiration? I think we're guaranteed to be
in the Lancashire Knockout next year.
Fantastic. Yeah, I mean the Lancashire
thoughts from the. Yeah, thoughts from the players
and you know what I mean? We'll.
Definitely be going out to win that last game of the season.
Definitely. I think there's a few, you know,
you always want to, you always want to win.
I think there's probably a few personal things in there that
people want to get, you know, if they're looking for north runs
or whatever. And that always contributes to
the team, you know, if you want to try and set yourself a target
to get in so many wickets or you know, so I think that that will
be if the weather, if the weather holds, it'll be a be a
good game. They usually are against Norden,
so yeah. Yeah, it'd be good that because
I think the forecast's a little bit better this weekend, so
people get down. What let's just.
Have a little chat about a few of you know the I think Frankie
can get 500. Obviously Johnny and Ben have
both got 500. Pros got 500.
You know Tom. Walker's gone, gone to
Australia, so he's not improved on his his guns.
I mean, what's, what's you as a player, George?
Thoughts on? I thought Johnny would be
pushing Blazer's record a lot harder than he has.
What she's, you know, can you see?
Because he has tailed off a little bit towards the end of
the season. Yeah, but I wonder.
Whether that's also kind of relative to how well he's
battered. So I don't actually think he's
battered. You know, it's not like he's,
you know, he, he battered in so incredibly well at the start of
the season. I still think he's batting
really well. It's just.
Just one. Of those things and you know,
Johnny is one of those players who could quite easily go out on
Sunday and get 160, yeah. Is that how many he needs?
I don't know. What's he on 700?
Something like that. So it'll be around.
That I think so, yeah. You know it it, it could have
been Ben's, what, 6? 600 and.
Something, Yeah, Johnny has been wonderful to watch this year.
Magnificent to watch, yeah. Yeah, and and.
The and the thing and the thing about it is that they have been
team runs. You know, he's battered, he's
battered for the team and and it's been not that it not not
saying that he hasn't always, but this year, I think with the
setup that we've been in, yeah, people have contributed at
different times when they've needed to and that's been really
good to watch. And Johnny did that at the start
of the year and and continues to do so.
So yeah, he's yeah, no problem. Yeah, I mean, I've.
Got to say, you know, certainly the innings at Middleton and a
few others, I am surprised that he hasn't got closer than it
has. I can't really put my finger on
why I know what you're saying, George.
You know such an outstanding start and he has battered so
well. I just, you know, I.
Did expect him to get, you know, 70 and, you know, a few 30s and
like you said, one big score in the last quarter of the season
and, you know, you can't put your finger on it sometimes
where there's been poor on it. Yeah, it's.
Gone a little bit poorer, yeah, but yeah.
Yeah, I. Don't know what it is.
You know, he certainly seems to be batting a little more
sensible, if that's the right word to use.
You know, he's got that, that attitude about him now.
But it's a shame really. You know, I don't know.
Bles will think the same. He's not bothered about.
Losing in that record. It's good that the more runs
they can get the better, but all the rest, I think after the
season, Joe will have a good round up and talk through each
individual players and and what they've done and maybe get Stan
on to talk about the seconds and and how they've struggled.
You know, really because of lack of experience.
Dude, is there anything around the second you can you can tell
us about? I think I think is that it for
the relegated? No, no, no live.
Good win. Good.
Yeah, good win against Enfield. Yeah, they won.
They won yesterday and a couple of other results that they are
still alive. If they win, they need to win
and some something else go their way next, next weekend.
But you know, they're still in their pitching, which, you know,
is as good as you can hope for at this stage.
Yeah, they've had a tough, they've had a tough year.
You know, they're very young, inexperienced team and they've
really struggled or suffered from sort of volatility of
selection, really of availability, not selection.
You know, they, they really struggle to get, you know, a
solid 8 and 9 players playing every week.
And I think, you know, in my opinion, that's, that's what's
cost them the most. Yeah.
But no, they're still alive. They're still, they're still
scrapping. And fingers crossed they can
they can pull the rabbit out of the hat on on Sunday.
Good, good. So, so Sunday that they're at
Norden, you know, if anyone wants to go along and support
them, please, you know, please feel free and, and help out the
young lads because like you said, there are all a real team
of youngsters that beyond Declan's done a great job in
trying to keep it all together with them in such difficult
circumstances and. So anything.
Else to talk about with regard cricket before I just give a bit
of a plug to something and then we'll move on to the the
sensational a lower house draw. I haven't.
Got anything cricket related Normie?
OK, we have got for those who want to wear, we did a podcast
with Anne Cochran and Paul Hargreaves, our our historians
who do such a great job in pulling everything together
from, you know, the archives, archives of the club and the way
that things are managed with them.
He's fantastic and Ann's got a got a display on it around the
the travel and and the celebration of the heritage
around, well not on the Lower House Creek Club but but Burnley
Football Club as well as how people travel to play.
So anyone that's on display at Burnley Library, people want to
go down and have a look at the building.
Padium Heritage open Day. It's running between 6th and
15th of September. I thought you might get involved
with that. Joe, you're Martin, you know,
because you like your history and like getting involved with
it. Is there any?
Did they ask you to to contribute to it?
No, but Anne does a great job. She.
Does finding all that finding? All the stuff and researching
and and setting it up. I'm off on Friday so I might go
and have a look down Jess. Yeah.
Yeah, I've come with you, but I'm away this week.
So so anyway, let's get back on track.
Let's get back on track and get this train moving to the August
draw. People who want to go down and
have a look, please do. And does a great job.
Everything will be be fantastic there and it will be going
apparently online. At some stage.
So we can have a look at the animal, put it on the on the
website so we can all have a look.
Right. 100 Club. I'll tell you what we've we've
got talking of of that. Joe Martin, if you just remind
me, I've sent John Briley to WhatsApp so I don't know if you
give me the wrong number. John Bradley, the lad who he
coaches used to play it. Todd, did you respond to them?
No, no, I don't. I don't.
Think he's read and I don't know if you've got the right number.
We can sort that out off air. People don't need to listen to
us. But he is.
He is the newest member at #27 or B.
He's not paid yet so it'll be a difficult call if he wins and
then the other one chippies in as well.
Chippies 1485 pound a month to. Work together.
As involved. So let's go to the spreadsheet.
Jomar Martin, get them shook up the shit you're both shook up.
Oh dear Oh dear. I'm just trying to work out what
I can get. Zoom.
On here we've got numbers from 1 to 177, we've got about 12-3
numbers within there, so there's a fair old number of balls in
your sack there. So if you shake them up, this
month's draw is the Bumper Summers Row five 100 LB prizes.
So it's not really. To be sniffed at.
So I've not won it in ages. John Martin.
So if you don't mind pulling that number, I don't know if
Gav's ever won, but I've. Got you.
If my knacker goes in, you want. Me to start, Jess, you can.
I'm just going to have a. Look at Gav Shields.
When he last won, the system's letting.
Me down a little bit January 22, your last time, Gareth.
From June, so it's over 2. Years, right?
Go on your drama. I'll write you down this time so
that has to re listen. #17 number. 17 You're joking.
Me. I don't.
Nicholas Hall. No.
Excellent, you'll be able to get. 50 Blue Wicked Jazz.
Yeah. Yeah, well, it generally has
about 10 each night, so it'll keep you going for a week.
You can have the jammy get all. Right next one.
Just spinning jazz, spinning round #53 that's quite
remarkable. Paddy Martin.
So hang. On 15 numbers, Ryan is Jess's
brother. My brother, my brother's not in
it, Gav. So it's going to come to a
square in all. Now we're all bloody.
Rubbish, Paddy said. I don't even think you're drama.
Now that's bizarre. Isn't it?
Yeah. Nice one.
That is bizarre. I'm dreading these next three
that the blue. One George How?
Many blue. Riggins.
Oh. Number 86.
Maureen Skerf Fantastic 86. Maureen Skerf Well done,
Maureen. We'll make sure we'll get that
to you as soon as possible. Fourth prize, please. 200
Squiders. Left.
Yeah, 2/1. 100 left a. 130. 2. 130. 2 is a free number, 0
redraw so draw again please. You're using a different ball
shake of this? I am, yeah.
It's taking far too long. He seems spinning.
In his eyes. 121. Did you say Yeah?
Feel like a test 3. Times as.
He won discuss from bad to worse.
This he can finally get to. He has no excuse for not going
bar. Then hang on a minute.
Hang on a minute Gav, whilst he shakes his balls up.
Let me just have a look. He won recently, felt like he
won. He's won twice recently.
I'm quite sure he won in June. That's.
A disgrace. Well, look at the draw.
And January, June and January is wrong deposit.
On his holiday. Ridiculous.
Right 5th and final prize 100 lbs.
The. 100. And 51 draw bumper.
Draw oh scrap 151 Arthur Hall, the oldest member.
Oh, that's. Nice.
That's nice. Fair enough.
Come on, Gav. What?
Does Arthur ever listen? You've been one.
Of buckles on raffle, those will all get.
Played out as soon as possible. I don't know if I thought, Nick,
you might be listening to this live or we might have had them.
He might have commented, but he's not done yet.
I wouldn't be listening. To it live.
Because Adam won't. Have sent you a message.
So I used the new ball thing then.
Douche. Too long.
Too long, yeah. It was a.
Full use that again you have to be.
Pre empty pressing it so we yeah, it was a full.
Spin it actually spun around. It would be good if.
It was if it was a visual. Oh, it can be.
Yeah, it could be. Yeah, but the podcast isn't.
So it's pointless. Have you had some grumpy pills
tonight, Rachel? Rachel.
Who knows? No, she hasn't.
Told us what he had for his tea. So anything else you.
Want to discuss before we go on. We'll do another one at the end
of the season and. Then we've got some.
Plans for some special events in the in the close season you're.
Going to leave it completely in the dark.
We can do. We're looking at doing a couple
of live events, then at the Cricket Club where special
guests will be invited. We're looking at pulling
together, albeit there is some. Objections.
To it, but bollocks to them around the picking between the
five, well the six of us really, if we go and get Gary on the 6th
of us to pick the best players that have ever played Flores.
But we've had a few. People objecting to the way
we're going to. Do it but.
Stuff. It's down.
To us, yeah. Who's objecting and what's the
objection? Yeah, Guangzhou.
I mean the objective should be an anonymous I think no, no.
No, no, no, yes. I could probably guess.
As well. Go on guess.
Stanley, Arthur. Matthew Eaton a bit.
Correct. It's a shame.
It's a shame that weren't for a little quid, yeah, because he
argues that each decade was a different type of cricket.
So you. Should pick a team of each
decade. Yeah, we've only got.
We've only got 7. Months to do.
It it's. Not, we're not.
It's not like super serious either, is it?
What we're doing? It's just a bit of fun, so and
we've got the house. Box on it.
Well, someone's. Clearly marked the card as well,
aren't they so and? We could get listeners to send
in their best ever teams. Or not we've.
Also got that? Don't.
Want to pick Tom Eden's best? Legs league, best ever team, no
more houses involved. We've got the house cast end of
season awards as well. They're the first time we'll do
those and I think we should do a quiz.
With questions like what out of? The season, Yeah.
What sort of? Questions, you know, like when's
black men holidays or who was the king of Spain in 1826 I
would imagine about. Lower house, Jess, What in lower
house? No, there's a lot of the.
Things that we could be thinking of and we could do it.
Benny was on our case when I was with Joe Martin that we can say
that he wants to come on a live podcast where there's only for A
cause of a so he can have a Curry, I think.
But so we've all sorts of things going on for that as well.
That's a good point, Chair. Should we go for a Curry?
Are we going to go for a Curry again, or are we going to go for
a different delicacy? What can you get as a takeaway
that's as good as a Curry pizza? Sponsored by JoJo could make.
Them for us, could we? Have a pizza party?
Yeah, I have no problem. With that at all, we could do
that. So anything else from anyone
before we we shut this up. No, no, hold on.
Thanks everyone for listening and thanks for all your comments
this season and people who have been got involved and liked and
and befriended and whatever else you do on social media, we
really appreciate the support. You know, if we got, we keep
going because of the people who want to want to want to listen.
It does get donkey work at times, but so many people listen
to it. But with that start we had last
week that hadn't come, do we, how many 10s of 1000 listeners
are we getting close to a milestone?
I thought you said, is that not? Oh, I don't know what it is.
Or on 97,000 downloads or something.
Yeah, yeah. So maybe the 100, 1000 download.
Yeah. So it's 97 thousand.
I've just had some inside information so maybe whoever
downloads it for the 100,000 time could get a prize.
Remarkable actually, isn't it, the number of downloads?
Because, you know, we're very niche.
Yeah, yeah, in. In November, it's five years
since we started Douche Oh. Douche, You were on the first
one, weren't you? Yeah.
I'd be interested to listen to that.
I mean, we could have, you know, someone downloads 100 thousandth
episode on our anniversary in November.
We could get him a free trip on a steam train or something.
Come with us, that one. That runs from rotten soul to a
wood. That's always now, eh?
Thanks Railway, couldn't get him on that.
We could record them managers for our for our five year
anniversary. I don't record on a steam train.
I think after the. We can have a meal on it in.
This last five. Minutes.
I don't think we'll reach 100,000 lessons.
For switching off. In the thousands.
I think we're just one.
More stat coming in from Stato, OH.
No, I can't read. That one.
So anyway, thanks. Everyone for listening and we'll
catch up. We'll be doing another one in
within the next fortnight just to finish off the season.
We'll get possible with Stan and other some of the guests on to
talk about the junior cricket and the 2nd 11.
But thanks everyone for listening, Gordon.
Gordon send more hosts to save the house.