Morden, Morden, send more house to save the house.
Come on the House, I'm. Just a bit squeaky.
Come on now. Really.
Because we're not in the point. Is it worth a quick test to see
if we're a little? It'll be fine.
We're recording on 2 devices. So we don't mess it up.
Yeah, should me and Bless do it as well?
Well I did ask him to do it once and he forgot was.
Gary dialling in I. Haven't heard anything.
I just thought he just said all good.
I didn't know him really what that meant.
We've not sent him the link anyway, so I.
Haven't had one, that's unfortunate.
So everybody, you'll see that we've started the house cast a
little bit early. We didn't realise that we're
recording but but anyway, welcome to another episode.
It's only about two or three weeks since we did the last one.
And so we've got but we've still got quite a lot to talk about
and we've got guess the win again.
So Joe, thanks for coming down. It's in person recording.
Thanks for coming down. Have you are you warming up?
We're in the club and we've put the heater on.
I've. Still got my Kagoo on.
Right. But I think I'm warming won't
this radiators that's good. It has been hailstorm.
That's good. Yeah, we've just had a a massive
thunderstorm with hailstorms everywhere.
So if people who are listening, it's the Wednesday 13th of May.
We came down to recording the point with two special guests,
but it was a little bit cold and we were near the window.
So we've come away from it. So Joe, just a quick resume, big
game on Sunday. Have you got over it?
Obviously we're going to go into it in some depths.
Great win, Obviously fantastic. I was watching it on the on the
live stream, which was which was really, really good, really
entertaining the team come down from it.
Is it something that you've that you've you know that you've
expected to do and that you that you thought you were going to
win quite easy or not? I don't think we, we thought we
were going to win quite easy because they're a, they're a
really good team I think. I think if you, if you finish
above, if you finish above Burnley, you won't be too far
away I don't think. But it was a really good team
performance. Lots of people contributed and
especially with the, especially with the bat because you know,
it wasn't, wasn't an easy wicket to bat on.
So we batted all the way down to #10 Not quite sure I remember
that. Well, we can talk about that
because I would like an explanation.
I've spoke to me to Matt about it and we would like, you know,
a bit of an explanation off you later, but I think it's worth
now introducing our two guests for this evening.
Really good of you both to come down lads.
Thank you. And like we said in person, so
there's four of us sat around a lovely table in the lower house
knew. I mean, it's it's almost an
executive room where we start. One big executive.
Room 1, big executive room, so we've got Chris Blazard and
Paddy Martin. Paddy, how you doing?
Very well. Thanks, Jess.
Good, good. Thanks for coming down.
Did you get yourself? Did you get caught in that
storm? Just sent a note.
No, I got to watch it happen. Right.
From the window of the CF Lounge slash Executive suite, but I did
get caught in the car earlier. Yeah, it was a bit of a downpour
but but we move on. We'll have some good
conversations going through the last two weekends of the cricket
party. So thanks for coming down.
And another guest is the the legend.
That's Chris Bliss. Odd after another milestone.
Chris, thanks for coming down. If did you come in the car or
did you walk across? A Shanks is porny.
Just sex is porny. Brilliant.
So I want to start with your achievement, Chris, and just
choke talk through, you know, if you know, does it make any
difference to you mean you've known each other for probably
probably play sport together for over 40 years probably and
they've never really meant a great deal to you as you're
getting older to the milestones you've 17,000 runs now that
you've just achieved. Does it mean anything different?
Well, it means anything different but it it certainly
was playing on my mind whether I'd actually get to 17,000 just
because I didn't know whether I was going to play much more
first team cricket being 12 short would have been.
Yeah, a little bit difficult to manage.
Yeah. Yeah, You don't mind.
Yeah, which is more than understandable.
And I think, you know, we can talk on here about how the the
1st 11 squad has developed and how it's got into this.
You know, it's really a monster that's rolled along certainly
last year, very few injuries. You know, you played a few games
last year. We're always available, you
know, to to contribute and to help.
Did it ever enter your mind to think, oh, I'm going to finish
here And I know you're not one to you're not bothered about
records and you don't bother about.
I understand the the few runs to get to 17,000, but what went
through your mind around that sort of period?
I really, I really miss playing last year.
Last year is probably the first year that I haven't played more
than 15 games or 10 games. Like I say, I hate watching in
terms of I still think I could contribute in some way, shape or
form. I don't like to be negative
about anybody's performance. I don't like to feel or I think
I could do better than that. Or so I spoke to Ducha after the
season and said, look, if it needs to, I'll, I'll play in the
seconds because I miss playing and I'll see how it goes and see
whether that gives me any sort of respite in terms of whether I
want to play or not. Played the first two games for
the seconds, did OK. And then with a couple of people
being unavailable because of work commitments and then
Johnny's wedding, I've got a, I've got a chance to play.
Got some runs in the first game and.
That is, you know, I suppose people, spectators, it was a a
big topic of conversation for the last couple of years.
You know, you would get a section saying oh bless you be
playing. Because you know, certainly when
an individual had not really performed or the team had been
beaten, you know, some people say, oh bless you be playing.
There are other people. Well, you know, we've got to get
the young lads through. So it was quite an awkward
situation, I would imagine for you and for for the club.
And also, I mean how I don't know if he's either a YouTube.
You look at the squad last year, you know you weren't what use 15
players maybe? Maybe, and even then, 15 people
would. Be one game, probably 2 games.
Yeah. So that's that's unfortunate for
you, Chris, you know, but for the first team squad, how strong
it was that the lack of injuries, you know, that's
somewhat I wanted to talk about later because obviously Charlie
Ganzel has been injured that we we seem to be really good in not
getting those injuries, which is unfortunate for you, you know,
But I've got to say, you know, you were still watching, you're
still supporting the team and everything.
And it's come through to the way it's gone this season with some
injuries, with people missing and you've got that 17,000 runs.
So I know there's a lot of people out there and I've seen
on Facebook some real old names saying congratulations, Chris.
So, you know, it's congratulations from me and from
the rest of the House cast team and long, long may it continue.
Thank you very much, Jess. Much appreciated.
As I've said to most people who've texted me right here,
Yeah, yeah. We made copy and paste.
There were a few times, yeah. Yeah, so that is that that's
good work And and and it's important part in to you know,
I'm aware, you know, we've still got not got the full squad.
If we had the squad of say you know, shortcuts playing, you
know, he's played a couple of games in the first team and
obviously Johnny's wedding and Joe Hawke's Mr Few and Frankie's
Mr Few. You were getting down to 1718
player squad, which we'll all understand and we'll come on to
how well the seconds have done does cause issues for the second
team. But it could only, you know,
we'd only get more young people in the second, young players in
the second I. Mean we we played the first two
games in the second team, we played Ramsbottom down here and
it was a pretty decent performance with the ball.
We had a half decent performance with the first half with the
bat. Then we had a bit of a collapse
but we managed managed to sneak over the line and they really,
you know, really buzzed about it.
Then we played over at Rochdale, just got 200 with people
getting, you know, a decent score, people contributing
towards the end to get us over 200 with KIRO and Charlie
pushing us on a little bit and then we bowled them out for 73.
So everything was sort of looking pretty positive.
Then obviously we missed the the cup game against Accrington with
the three players missing two players on the Sunday for the
league game and they won both of those as well.
So everything was going, you know, in the right direction.
Obviously the game against Burnley, they really were short.
Then you know, another couple of injuries, a couple of missing, a
couple of players like Simi didn't play against Burnley, so.
It isn't. But then you talk your talking
squad numbers, we're probably down to the 30th player, you
know, in the first and second team squad.
So it is commendable and whilst you know, as you mentioned
there, Jack SIM couple of years ago was probably in there in
the, you know, in the top 13 in the first team squad, he's in
the second team helping him out there, you know, Joel Sharp
playing. But he does.
Declan's doing a great job, you know, KIRO Yanni.
So they've still got the best of a squad there, albeit we have
all these players missing. Is it something you think about
Paddy, when you know you, you don't get hardly any injuries.
I know you play with some injuries of how?
Permanent injuries, Yeah, permanent injuries.
How we develop a squad, the first team squad, knowing that
you're regular, you're a regular in there, it's obviously got to
help the squad. Does it develop the players that
are coming through and they're waiting to to come and be part
of the first team squad or do you just play a game?
I never really thought of that, Jess, to be honest.
But for me, so if I was someone coming through now, you want to
sort of be looking at the consistency of the players in
the first team to say that's where I want to get to, that's
what I want to be doing. And the only way you're going to
do that is by playing cricket. And if it's in the second team,
you second team, you need to play it in the second team until
there's that spot. But bar play more, you give
yourself a better chance to take that spot when it's available,
Yeah. Yeah.
So I think that's something key for those second team is who are
wanting to push on is to keep playing and making sure they're
ready for when that chance comes and take that chance as soon as
they get it. And I guess that rolls on to the
young kids in the thirds when they see it, it's, you know,
it's progression into because the strength of the first team
scored last year, you know, blessed, you know, in the top 15
and with other players, anyone outside that with no injuries,
there's no chance of getting that team.
You know, it's such a strong team, Joe.
A few. Yeah, I was just thinking that
it's, I was talking to one of the parents about it at the
weekend. I'm not sure what it's like at
other clubs, but here a lot of the first team have an interest
in the seconds, thirds and fourths and how they're
progressing and actually take an active role in coaching and
offering advice, throwing balls, being out on the field with
them. So hopefully that kind of brings
an atmosphere or an awareness from some of those players that
it's, it's very achievable to get in, but you've got to sort
of work at it and you've got to put the effort in to be able to
get there. I'm not sure how many.
I'm not sure how many clubs have that.
I mean, Ben's very interested in Blaze, does a lot of work.
Me and Pat and Francois and Henry and Ollie Williams do bits
of coaching. And stuff and and.
When you look at you know, and again me and Bless can go back.
Donkey she is. That's so valuable.
I didn't really think of it that way.
The the seconds and they'll buzz off that when you or Paddy or
Frankie are, are talking them through game plans and different
tactics of, you know, not just natural cricket, they will buzz
off that. And I'm not sure, I don't know
enough about other clubs, but I'd say Blaze going back
probably over 15 years ago, we didn't have that hello Rice.
We didn't. First team didn't come down or
maybe before that. It's very difficult to think of
it time wise. You think before the before the
net facility was there and there wasn't the opportunity to to get
a bat or a bowl as quite as regular as it is now.
It was very difficult to to offer advice because, you know,
we were limited to one net with four or five bowlers tops.
But on the downside to that, I think the youngsters who were
around there were a lot, a lot better in the field because
that's an hour of what they had to do and with the first team,
with the first team and they were maybe, yeah, no good point.
Maybe 3 or 4 years ahead of where some of our juniors are on
the field just because you do what you can do in the in the
situation you're at. Yeah, we did.
I mean, we, we some proper war stories.
It took us an hour and half to put them Nets up, as you
remember, with Cairo. And then we went knackered and
then we went that as Bart. So we're going field.
Yeah, you know. Yeah.
And had to add competitions between ourselves and, you know,
and. Then maybe have a bit of bowling
or some throw downs and yeah, it's a good point.
But I suppose that's the evolution all round into it of
facilities and the standard of the coaching and everything
else. So I really appreciate that.
We'll go back into it. But again, Blairs, like I said,
well don't. I said you want to get into the
the games. I'd like us to go through the
Burnley game first. Can I ask a very quick question?
Of course you can, Joe. You were.
Talking to Blairs earlier and saying that if he missed out by,
you know, ten runs or twelve runs and it, you know, might
have bombed him not getting there.
I was looking at the bowling stats Jess, and you missed 600
by 5 wickets. I mean, I know that they were
like, I know that they were Wheeling you on.
When did you finish? Did that bother you?
No. No, no it didn't.
To be honest, I don't think I knew.
Did you know? No, the stats weren't like they
are now. You wouldn't know.
You wouldn't know within specifics, no.
And I was always a big believer and I used to count in a season.
I don't know what you do Paddy. I'd, I'd work out in a season.
I'd like to get 50 wickets, I'd like to get 60 including the cup
if we get a good run. And I value wickets and runs in
the cup as much if not more than the league because we were never
going to win the league. So I wish used to had my cup
back in my own personal head. So I always had over 600 when
I'd finished because I would had me cook once and he, you know,
you look at it now. I asked.
Timmy, then, as though I'd asked him so an abhorrent question.
I just thought you were a bit harsh to bring it up.
Right. Well.
It was in the, it was in the theme.
Oh, I would support him through that.
He'd get me again this year just to get forward, yes.
From in that game at Nelson Jazz for seconds when you push me
down the stairs. You didn't even remember playing
in that game. We talked about it last year.
Yeah. You played in the second team
game. No, I didn't.
You definitely did, I couldn't remember.
So happy at Mark whited to find all his home.
Yeah, just be careful Jazz, because I've been looking
through you're you're dipping batting average up to the next
thing it's. Not alive.
Yeah. Once I've gone below 12 that
were it I think finished at about 8:00.
But no, it's, it's you know, their achievements, you know, as
I mean, it's probably worth noting there as well.
And I've only just thought of this.
You know, the four of us around this table have never played for
another club, actually club, you know.
So I'm not blood sport. You know the wickets I've got,
you think a lad who's got 17,000 rooms for one club that is you
know, and I know Mike Lingam's played for Haslington and he's
got, you know, a few more at the moment.
But it's a big, you know, it's a big thought that players that
will continue to play down here and do so anyway, let's go on to
Sunday, get away from records and stats.
As I've said, I've spoke to numerous people who watch the
game. They really enjoyed entertaining
game. But everyone said that, you
know, 197 was a good score. They thought that, you know, the
wicket was not difficult but it was.
You couldn't go out there and smash it.
So we won the toss and decided to bat.
Is that a no brainer still this year from NAU three?
Do you know or do you not get involved?
I don't think Ben was actually that sure what to do, was he at
the start? I think he was quite happy to
lose the toss and go with what? Yeah, yeah, sometime was.
So yeah, I just think he chose to bat because it's perhaps less
pressure on your batters rather than chasing.
So it's a little, yeah, it's a little bit easier.
Really, I think yeah. And I think Ben explained that
when you had the podcast with him that, you know, we used to
be stereo tagged throughout the the league.
Or they always bat first if you win the top, which counter came
to productive for the opposition.
Whatever they do, they don't want Morris to bat 1st and they
and they make the wrong decision when they win the toss.
But now I think we're getting a little bit more even with it.
Yeah, I. Don't think we're wedded to it.
No, I don't. No, I.
Think we had a great chance against Enfield earlier in the
year so. Yeah, yeah.
So Ben and and Johnny, you know, a good start they've had and and
by all accounts, just talk us through that one of you quick
one. They were.
They were getting on with it. Yeah, Ben's done that all season
and he really plays. He's flown out the blocks and I
just think there's a a big score somewhere coming in these next
few weeks for him because he's just seems to keep finding ways
to get himself out when his I mean, his strike rate was 110,
if not more this season. And he's no, he's not got the
way to run to deluxe so far, but he's not far off and he's he
took Fergus out the attack on Sunday.
So straight away they're having to make a bowling change after
three overs first. Yeah, yeah.
Did you? So that means they're having to
change their plans after 5 overs.
So it's a big change for them. And also, Paddy, sorry for
interrupting, but they've been thinking about that before the
game. Yeah, probably they will.
You know, as a bowler, you think he's going to come after me?
I've got to get him early. And you, you, you know, they
would enjoy that battle, but when you don't, you're up
against it then, aren't you? And Johnny was John, I mean, he
I've been 35 and 32 balls as we know.
And we'll come on to what is carrying your bat and what is
not carrying your bat. And Johnny battered through, you
know, with with the rest of the the team.
Was there any concerns there? You know, Tom Walker's got out
quite early. Henry's out, Frankie's out.
Was there any concerns in the camp?
And I know you're going to say there wasn't, but just tell us
what it was like, you know, in your preparation, you 3 as
batters to come. Even when we're 6 down, we're
fairly confident that there's enough.
I mean, Blaze is coming in at 88.
Where it Blaze Eight. Yeah.
So if Blasey's coming in at 8, you're not exactly struggling,
are you? And I just think we back
ourselves to be able to bat all the way down.
And if we battle our own all 50 overs, we're going to get a good
score, whatever it is. Yeah.
And if we've lost six cheap wickets or 50 for six, we're
still back ourselves to go all the way and get some.
And that continually keeps happening and that and the
opposition will see that I've sit, you know, I sit there
watching, thinking one day we're going to get down and it's going
to be, you know, a, a, a crap run out or a really great
catcher, a lucky catcher. Then you're losing two or three
And, and before you know where you are, you know, and with all
respect, you 2 come in at 10:11. You can put under that between
you if you've got 20 overs, but you've only got 1 wicket.
So you know what I'm saying. But we always seem to pull it
off. We always seem to get through
that. And did you think 197 was
enough? I.
Had a repetitive it was. Par score, I think we left.
I don't know what you think. That's probably 40 runs out
there. Yeah, I.
Think 2:30 puts was really yeah. Just going back to the, the
favourite position, the start that Ben made, I think that's
been a shift over the last three years with Dan about trying to
get off to a positive start and backing yourself because, you
know, Johnny was quite quiet, but that he was facing Barrett
from the majority of that opening partnership, whereas Ben
had taken Ferguson. And, you know, even though we'd
lost the wickets in that clump in between, we were ahead of the
game. I looked at the I looked at the
the scoreboard when we were fielding and they were like 50
for three off 18 overs. I bet we were 50 for one off 8
overs or something like that. I.
Think we were. I remember walking around.
I think we were some. I think we were about that,
maybe 45. Once you've got that start on,
you can then consolidate in the middle a little bit.
If things have gone slightly wrong, you're.
Ahead of the game aren't. You and you know you're not.
You're not 30 for six, you're 80 for six, which makes a big
difference depending on you've still got 20 plus overs left.
I mean, you can then adapt to your game.
Whereas if you, you know, if you're going out thinking, oh,
it's going to be a bit sticky and not going to get out and you
get a, you know, get one that stops on you or you get one that
jumps at you and you're out through very little fault of
your own. You can be 50 for five off 30
overs and then you are really in trouble.
Then the pressure completely comes on the back end and.
I suppose that's where there is a shift change in modern cricket
in, you know the statue just given there lower ice with 50 in
11.4 overs, Burnley 50 and 22. So it's double overs lower ice
126, Burnley 134.2. So even with wickets in in in
the tent in the olden days you'd think, you know, we'll easy
score four or five and over if we've got 18.
But you generally didn't. Whereas now you know, people are
thinking shit they've got, they were getting 6 and over for the
last 10 comfortably. We've got to get this up right.
Well, you know, once it gets up to seven and half eight, it's
difficult then to maintain it, certainly on a pitch that's not.
And then if you think you you get the likes of Tom or Salpe or
Francois who get in, then you're then you're pushing on to
222-3250. I showed the week before.
Didn't he? Yeah.
Yeah, because if any of those top 6 get in, it's a big score,
isn't it? Yeah, straight win.
The the odds are that one of those top six will gain.
So when so just talk through Johnny's innings because
obviously Johnny then asked to steady the ship.
Johnny has to steady the ship and people start batting around
him and start batting sensibly. And I'll come on to yourself,
Blaze. You know, Toxie looked, you
know, he looked indecent enough. Nick, he gets himself fired.
We've obviously lost Henry and Frankie before that.
And then you come in Blaze and Johnny's not blasting it.
We can see that he's he's. What was the mindset between you
both Then? You know, you've still got
probably 10 overs left you you're 6 down.
Was it a case of one of you ready for go?
In it was more than that. I think I got out with 7
overscore 8 overs to go yeah and I've been there a fair, I've
been there a fair while. So it probably was 18 overs, 20
overs maybe I don't react on I remember.
Looking at the score, I I think we were something like maybe 100
and 160 when you were out. Maybe.
Yeah. 62, Yeah, yeah. And we'd had a sort of ended up
with some like A50 partnership that way because it just got to
the state where we couldn't really get out at that stage.
Because once you, once you get out at the with 15 overs still
to go, you feel as well you've let side down.
So we, you know, we took it pretty easy.
We know we if the bad ball was there, we were going to hit it.
Johnny was coming to me. He said what do you think I
should do to hockey? Where do you think I shouldn't
be looking to hit him? So I want to hit him over the
over mid wicket, but I think it's risky on here.
The other option is to go over cover.
So as I said, well, whatever you feel is your shot, Johnny,
that's the one you've got to play.
But don't do anything manufactured that's not in your
in your wheelhouse at the moment.
Wheel feels not in your wheelhouse at the moment.
Suppose that's where then start as well helps don't it?
Yeah, instead of being 31st 3 off 20 overs, you don't ahead if
you've got all that to. Try and you don't have to try
and catch up when so you can, you can.
I mean the scores were, you know, if you look between the
teams, the scores were pretty similar, weren't they at the end
and done in completely different ways.
You know, they were very slow to begin with and then caught up
and probably left themselves about right to do.
They weren't, there were only two runs off.
So they weren't, they weren't far off.
Whereas we're kind of front loading it and then and then
seeing where we can sort of. Yeah, and I suppose, you know,
Glaze hangs around for another 5 overs, then you're having that
old conversation, right? Who's going to go?
Yeah, I mean he got down, he got, he went down to the eight,
he went down to the 8 overs and and Johnny said what do you
think? I said, well, it's my turn now
to try and make the go. The go in, you know, Johnny had
speed up a little bit because he got his eye in.
A little bit of pressure would come off him because we'd got to
a reasonable total. And then he was a little bit
more freer to play shops, a little bit more freer in his
mind to hit with the power that he can do certainly to the park.
And, and you know, I thought it was, it was sort of the right
time for us to try and accelerate and get to that 2:30
and 2240. Unfortunately, first ball I did,
it went straight up in the air. And that again puts the pressure
back on Johnny when the next batter comes in.
Shortcut, young lad, you know it's not going to be fazed by it
because he doesn't get fazed by much.
Doesn't shortcut. He'll still play the ball on its
merits. It's a couple of lovely shots
straight to the fields and then chip 1 to get out and that's
again where the pressure is because now you've got Paddy
coming in but we've only got 2 wickets left so that's John.
So Johnny has to roll back again then and probably if if I'd have
stayed in with him and not you think about it again and not
really try to go on, he might have got 120 and we might have
ended up on the two 20s. So you think to yourself, should
I have done that? Should I have made that
decision? Well, if it goes for four, then
you do. That's a difficult call.
Bless. I don't think you can even think
about criticising yourself for that because if.
You come off bless you know, if you.
If you didn't exactly, just say. That you know, you.
Yeah, Yeah. Yeah.
Johnny could still end up getting under 20 renewal.
Four, absolutely. But that's the that's the
difficulty with batting. And when I first went into that
law order, when we sort of like decided in 2010 that me and
Charlie were going to drop down, the order didn't really know how
to play the game because you've been sort of used to playing the
game. And.
Then we, well, there's certainly less pressure to do.
You know, you've not got any outside pressure to do a great
deal. There's no game pressure at
3:00. There's just pressure on
yourself to get as many as you can, but there's no game
pressure at that stage. And then I can remember Graham
Lloyd coming back into the league and him batting at 5:00
and 6:00 for Accrington or 4-5 and six.
And you see the way that he played it and you just thought
that's what you got to do. You've got to stick it easy.
Take it easy, get down to 8 hours to go see what's going on
around you. Work out where you're going to
and. Then you go, and if you get out,
you get out. But at least you've got some
sort of talk. And that's where Johnny, again,
I was really impressed with his knock.
He didn't get impatient. There were some, you know,
there's some decent. Bowling.
He batted. He batted magnificent.
He did. He was exceptional.
Batting. Yeah, that's the right word.
He was exceptional. I think the timing, the timing,
the way he timed it to get us up to that 200, you know, was in
and then you know, you're OK, we will talk about the Berlinings.
You know Johnny would have timed that to to get.
If you know, do you know one of the reasons why he timed it so
well compared to what he could have done?
Because he's not feeling in Nick, right?
Right. Yeah.
He's feeling he's he's feeling that he has to concentrate and
if he's feeling that he has to, you know, he's not he's normal
flamboy himself with the bat. So he's working hard, he's
grafting hard and he's not, he's not being expansive too early
because he's he's a little bit. Yeah, right.
That's really interesting. Well, that that's my point of
view. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I think if. It makes.
Sense I think if it was Johnny, you know, last year when he's
got hundred 180 and 180 not out, I think he would have gone
earlier because he would have backed himself to do that.
I think at the moment he's still a little bit unsure of where he
is and you know, that focus meant that he could play that.
Innings and it and and so even being out of Nick he timed it so
well the actual. Innings only out of Nick in his.
In his. Yeah.
And his own, Yeah, his own mind. And he's.
And he's such an exceptional talent that it's, you know,
compared with others. Again, it's the timing of the
innings, which, you know, will come on to burn this.
But, you know, he could have got 100.
Could Johnny really just talk us through what happened there at
the end, you know? Well, I felt dreadful.
Can I ask? It was terrible.
I had three. I had three balls.
It was, it was, I mean it was, it's not easy, can I add, but I
had three balls. I genuinely did my best to try
and get a one. Oh, we know, you'd always do
your best. So when I didn't get it off the
first ball. Then you played the same shot
again, and then the third ball you played the same shot.
But you prevented them from getting bonus points.
Well, that's, that's by the by and that's, you know, fantastic
advice from someone who got out with three balls to spare and
sent, they sent me in. Yeah, it wasn't wasn't my
greatest moment, but it wasn't through lack of effort.
Exactly lack. Of talent.
No, I, I, no, I did. I felt you because you could see
what was happening and the beauty of it is the the side.
Is fantastic. The side is so well knit and
everyone knows what they're doing.
You know no one and needn't ask you the question.
With Johnny mad at you, with Johnny upset, because we all
know that he's not got a problem with any of the players.
I. Don't.
I don't think so. We probably got every right.
To be No, I didn't. No, no, no, as a team.
You did a fantastic job. I didn't know why.
Yeah. I mean, you could, you could
tell that Johnny wouldn't be upset because he took a one the
first ball. Yeah, yeah.
Because you could have easily went bathroom with Paddy, could
easily turn around and said yeah, no, yeah, I'm going to hit
this one before and I get. A winner.
Good for it. Yeah.
But he wouldn't do that.
No, no, Johnny wouldn't do that. Just to reiterate, it was
magnificent. In his he's had two great
knocks. Against Burnley he did that
last. Year.
Yeah. He got 92, didn't he?
Yeah, yeah. Never had a hundred against
Burnley, an amateur. Anyway, sorry about that Joyce.
You should rather giving you a stick there.
I think. So.
Burnley go out to bat, a bit of a slowish start.
Just just talk us through that. Paddy, you opened the ball in,
were you getting it to go? Was it?
Were you called? To a ball in I.
Wouldn't have said it was turning really Joe, was it?
So it was just a case of trying to sit in and not concede many
runs. But Tom was back opening the
ball in, so that was a bonus because you always feel like he
could get a wicket at any point, really.
And then he did. So that, that made it a bit
easier. Yeah.
And then it just sort of stopped the scoring straight away really
when they were. Two downward than.
Ten. Yeah, 14 for two. 14 for two,
yeah. You know, and the two good
players, Bedford and Sharp. Two big wickets, they're the
ones who can get them slightly ahead of the game.
Yeah, yeah. So if they get off to a.
Flying start, they're head on then it makes it easier for the
middle order then. Yeah.
And then, you know, I'll I'll come to you first Joe and then
to you Blaze and then it was a real grind fest.
I think it's got to be said. You know, Robert's there number
3 and and the pro OK, just seemed to grind it out and
whilst he brought it back to a certain degree, it was a big
ask. You know the one of them had to
go on and get a tonne either him or Cannon going on and getting
60 and the you know, they were up to 7 and over at one stage.
How would you? Could they have increased it any
earlier, as we said in that first third of their innings?
He's probably very similar to what Glen said about the back
end of our innings about when he was saying whether he it was his
turn to go or whatever. If you if one of them gets out
trying to up it a little bit more, it probably puts them in a
very, very tricky position from there where it's probably a
little bit like away from them, you know, to to try and chase
down. So I think from what I could
see, it was how close can we can we get us with 10 left and let's
see where we are and if we're chasing six or seven, that's
probably about what we can do, I think.
Yeah, how many, and I know it's different stages of games, but
102 ball, 100 and two runs in 200 balls, you know, from
between them both taking a big chunk of the game out of it.
I know Cannon came in and played quite well with with OCKE and
they increased it slightly, but he just felt there was always, I
was surprised they got as close as they did at the end.
Your observations blaze around that, that just before the
middle period of where it just seemed to go stale.
Yeah. I think we all know that when
Matt Roberts comes in, he's, he's not likely to take the game
away from you unless you bowl completely to his strengths, you
know, but wide full latim, you'll have a slasher.
But if you bowl consistent line and length, he's not going to
manufacture any boundaries, particularly hockey.
Pretty similar. You know, I was a bit surprised
that he didn't try to be a little bit more inventive with
his reverse because he's done that to us any number of times.
But again, it's, you know, with the wicket as it was not playing
perfectly. It's a I was shot.
I suppose so. But he's been so good at it.
You know, I was surprised that he didn't try that against Paddy
or Dan as much as I. Don't think he's done it much in
the last couple of years. I mean, four or five years ago
he was. A master, Yeah.
Sports teams are sort of just putting a man out there and it
is a risk for a one in. Particularly as it's so short
down there, you know, you'd sometimes if he was hitting it
well, you'd need two men down there to to cut it off.
And then when Planck came in with him, they just sort of
started to rotate the strike. More singles, more quick
singles, more pushing into gaps, more running twos.
So they got themselves back in hand if everything went well at
the back end and that's you know where they got to when you know
the game came in the balance with 8 overs to go in the needs.
The Canning wicket was big. One, yeah.
I was just looking then we got they only got so from 40 to 45,
they only got 21 runs cannings out in the middle of that.
Yeah, yeah. Which?
Well. From needing 6 and over to then
needing 9 and. All I was going to say, they
went from needing 6.7 or 7 and over with 10 left to then
needing 10 and over with four left.
Yeah. That's right.
Yeah. That's what it yeah.
And it's tough. Of course it is.
It is. It is tough, especially when,
you know, you haven't shown any any almost ambition to where,
where can I get these runs from? Where can I get?
And we understand that it can't be fours and sixes all the time.
And yet, you know, Barrett came out at Tom for that big six,
which haven't shocked us all. It was a bit of a but it was a
big half follow. It was a great shot.
Yeah, absolutely great shot. Probably should have.
Done that with mine. Really.
Yeah. Maybe still not.
That one good. But then the field out.
But then that you know, the last two overs in particular the last
over I was that what Joe, were you thinking we could have blown
this here? I mean, I don't think, I don't
think blowing. It's probably the right phrase.
I think jazz. Messed it up.
No, I don't think messed it up either.
I actually think, I mean if you if, if they get another two
runs, then you'd say the time that to perfection.
They've used the overs, they've they've got wickets in, they had
wickets in hand, they've won the game.
So you'd probably say that's about, that's about right.
We obviously wouldn't be happy and we'd be thinking there are
areas where we could have done, where we could have done better,
but you'd probably, I don't think it's a crash.
We've had a shocker there. No, but I think Hodge, I think
he's a boundary that seemed a bit of a shock and tripping it
in that 6 was a bit of a shock. And then I think hockey got got
7 off and over or something and I was convinced that, you know,
they're not going to get near this.
But then when they need 4 off the last ball, you know I was
thinking how on earth has this got?
Well, I mean, but actually when you think about the last over,
they needed nine off it. First of all, went for four.
Yeah, exactly. But just just rewind.
So how many did they need off the last two?
Can you remember? I think it.
Was 24 maybe and they hit the six four and hockey hit the last
ball for. 4 So that's really got them all back into it and and I
was convinced, I thought crack, this is going to go from us from
here, you know, which we don't. I don't think, you know, I know
what you're saying that they've timed it well.
They certainly didn't. You know, I think they've left
everything a little bit late and then you know, they need 4 off
the last ball and that we're never going to go for four.
No SO. What were that about?
I mean, is that what choice of shot?
I'll be frank with it. You know, I've watched it back
and there's been so much on social media or on WhatsApp
groups that wasn't going to go for four.
No. No.
It's obviously the shot he thought was most likely to but
think anyone else would have just tried to attend to.
I mean, you probably had you probably you probably had three
options, didn't they actually a reverse try and hit a hard
reverse through the field, the short boundary extra or maybe
like to cow corner the biggest part of the ground and then try
and run it. And I still try and run a tie or
whatever. I think they're the options.
Yeah, anyway. And also I think we've slightly
missed that Tom and Amble brilliantly.
Yes, yeah, exactly. I was just kind of, I was going
to come up to that. We should probably say about Tom
that he was exhausted. Yeah, and.
He bowled extremely well, really resilient.
Because it's not easy, is it? You know, just.
Bowling. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, yeah. Because any, any, any, any ball
can go to a boundary at that point.
So to keep coming in and coming back, I thought was.
And especially when he went, you know, he went for the big over
the next to last over. You know, he he's finished with
figures 839 for four from what we said, he went for 16 off the
next. So you know, it's a great point.
And I thought Damball very sensible, very brilliant.
I mean the last, but I know, I know we've said that that wasn't
that wasn't going to go for four that last, that last shot, but.
Well, that's interesting. Then he will tell us about it.
We kind. Of think where he, I don't
really know where he could have hit it because it was full at
his toes. It was a great, It was a great
last. Over.
Yeah, Yeah. What was it?
Well, I mean the the first, the first 3 dot ball, didn't it?
The first ball going the first ball going for four was one of
them when to the park and when you get an outside edge and it
just flashes pass and you're just thinking we're not going to
what's what's what's happening here?
You know, they need well, five off 5.
Then he bowls the first dot, which is good.
They bowl the second dot. Or was that the second dot and
then the stomping? Stomping.
Then A1. Remarkable.
Yeah, it's been given as a catch.
Is it on? The on the.
Scuff. OK.
And then I remember what Jack Brunk comes in and gets A1, gets
a one with a because that could have hit him.
Comes in, Yeah. Absolutely.
To be fair, he did the right thing.
Yeah, just got off right. Yeah.
But he's a great team performance.
Yeah. Great and a good win, Really
good win. Really good win.
So we've had we've asked for questions around particularly
that game and also of the two legends we've got sat in the
room and Andrew Peacocks sent one in for you.
Blaze, how's your gut? It seems you've got a few in the
stomach. Well done on the 17,000.
I'm not sure what what he's saying there.
I think I took two in the in the midriff days of off.
The. ABS yeah, Oh yeah, on the ABS
yeah, on the 6th. Part Yeah, and it breathes.
Yeah, no, obviously not, Breathes.
From the inside. You have a question for.
Blaze Yes please. How's your?
Arm from when it got. Hit and then we've got some
random questions we want to put to you.
But before we do that, on a bit of more of a serious note, do
you feel as players now feel in games like that, feel any
pressure or even think about that?
It's been live streamed. Brilliant because I honestly, I
can't. I was away.
I'm watching it. It's almost like it's exciting.
It's better with no sound. It's better.
I'm sat in a bar, Lisa's wandering off with a little dog
and I'm just watching it. And you can pause it and now you
have a chart you're watching. So what I'm telling you to
rewind it it. It's brilliant.
It's a really good addition to the Leaf A game.
Like action lease dealer is there in.
It I don't think it. Might ever thought?
No, no, that is a genuine question from someone yeah and
yeah you when you and again, I'm not going to smoke up your 3
backsize horses or any of the other clubs and players.
But when you get elderly people who can't get out to watch and
they know they get it on the YouTube, you get Gary watches it
a lot. There's people all over,
literally all over the world that can watch it so.
There's a lot of people who on Sunday who maybe go home at half
six and it's got too cold. Yeah, and watch the end of it.
Yeah, exactly, exactly. Silly question.
Yeah, it was a silly question, but I I just wanted to get it
out there. That's it for the Burnley first
team game. Let's go on to just some other
anonymous questions. In your view, Blaise only who
would win in 100 metre race out of Keith Fairclough,
Stannington, Roger Watson after 10 pints or Paddy Martin on 100
metre race? Scandalous is what it is, but
it's scandalous. Paddy would win it by a country.
I think it depends on if it was downhill because I reckon Roger
would go quick. It would after a few pints as
well with some rocket fuel. Paddy.
Paddy would have been hit downhill because none of the
other thing would get past 25. Metres in any state.
Your teeth are neither faggot, rolling, not running.
Brilliant, brilliant. So let's just we'll quickly go
through there's a second team game weekend and they will cover
the cup and the Enfield game, Clitheroe game the week before.
And you know, I think it's fair to say it's the first defeat for
the seconds, you know, resounding defeat.
They lost by 8 wickets with quite a few overs to go.
But it's worth saying as as you mentioned, Blaze earlier with a,
you know, really severely weakened side.
We only got 113 who were bowled out in 33 overs and they knocked
him off off off 22. But there's still some good
players in there and and they'll learn from that.
You know, Declan, like I said, will Norcross as well.
I forgot about Ian Keegan Bisson, people like that.
So they will learn from that the second.
So heads up and let's it was the.
Burnley side, yes, I didn't really look at it.
I spoke to somebody at the gym this morning and he's he said
the wrong 1. He said Phil Ed was still
playing and. Simon, Ed.
Well. Phil's playing in the 1st.
Phil's playing in the. First, yeah, I mean, I don't
know a great deal of the Simon Ed played, Gareth Harley played,
I don't really know any of the others.
So they're not. I was just thinking that if they
were a, you know, over the last three or four years, they've had
a really strong side and all Steve Brum was down here, he
said. He's not playing there.
Anymore. Yeah, and.
You know. Yeah, Gareth Halley got 5 for
Yeah. So Joe, can you give us any
updates on the 3rd, 4th and the junior sections?
How's that going? Yeah.
So I think the third's have had a tricky start.
They've played a couple of decent, decent teams.
I don't think they've, I don't think they've won yet, but we've
been some really good performances.
Joe Clark got 100 for the thirds at Great Harwood, so hopefully
that will mean that team can push on a little bit, get a bit
of consistency in who's playing and so on.
But. Yeah, Joe didn't play in the
second either. Joe Clark didn't play in the
second. He's been over in the batting,
has done. He's done.
Pretty well. On it pretty well, yeah.
For an under 15, yeah, you know, obviously he's got good
potential for being that in the length squads and things like
that, but he's he's out getting off to a reasonable start.
Yeah. You know, he's still a young
player, he's still working on the strength to.
Yeah, yeah. Really hit boundaries, but he's
been consistent in the games that he's playing.
And you missed out in a game like that, aren't you as well?
So it's so juniors are looking good.
Yeah, there's other and we had a an even younger hunter in the
fourths. They beat Todd and had a close
game at Darwin as well. But Abdullah got 100 down here,
which was excellent, was really good.
So the fourths have had a great start.
I said fourth game and then a win.
So yeah, they're doing all right.
And we will obviously, you know, probably a third away through
the season, get Stan on to talk about all the juniors.
And we've got three of the the mainstays for the All Stars
party that going seems to be going well.
It's it looks proper fun for everyone.
Yeah, it was an exciting start was we had 52 for the All Stars
and 22 for the Dynamo's. Since then, we've had a few more
sign ups. I think we're nearly at 80 all
in now, which is great for us. It helps us get the junior
section up and running, gets new members to the club through the
parents and inspectors, so that's really good and the
feedback's been great so far. I've seen a few of the parents
and the kids out and about them, also how much they've enjoyed
it, so that's great to hear. From the first week we had a lot
of helpers, which makes it a lot easier, so I'd like to say a big
thanks to them. Yeah, Blaze especially.
A lot of the helpers are from the juniors as well, so the
under fifteens, under 16 sort of age.
So they've been really good to help.
Oliver's doing the whole the older group of the All Stars
leading that were sharper. So they're a real dynamic jewel
leading that. Sharper than imposing figure for
a six year old. And then Henry is leading the
Dynamos, the older one with Keegan and Eliza and Taylor are
helping them too when they come with that.
So all bases are covered at the minute.
Brilliant. So we don't need to get Joe in
because he talks about doing it. Don't.
I'm just not. I'm just not.
I'm. I'm just not good at it.
Good at it. They don't think I'm fun, and
that's fair. It's fantastic Paddy, the job
you do in coordinating it all and getting it all together,
getting all the kicks here. You know people who are
listening. If I'm not suggesting you come
down and join with the old stars because it's probably full, but
if you want to come down, I'm more.
Welcome to come and help, yes? Exactly.
Come down and help or just to get a pint and just watch it,
watch the kids run around. It really is a pleasure.
It's been very good as well. We've had quite a few people who
haven't been down the club for a while bring their sons and
daughters down and I've really got involved in the club.
Yeah, and grandchildren, you know, people you know, Pinky
hadn't been down for a while, you know.
And there's no captain in. Captain in the Force.
Now we do every. Night.
Yeah, You know, that's fantastic.
You know, we see some old faces, Scottish crosses.
Yeah. So it's, you know, it's, it gets
different generations involved from the past.
You know some of the faces that you see, you know you, you got
to do a bit of a double take to recognise.
Them but yeah, it's it's yeah, it is good and it's like I said,
if it's if it's a nice evening and you can sit out and just
watch it. It is a pleasure and and the
bars always open when it's when the All Stars.
They secretly enjoy it. Don't be blessed, but.
Yeah. It's great putting the stuff
away, you feel like you're really contributing.
Yeah, brilliant, brilliant. So lads, we'll go back to the
weekend before Clitheroe Way. Biggish game, good side.
You know, I know you keep saying Joe, there was a hair
thereabouts this year. Cracky.
There's a good eight sides that, you know, you can't really pick
from. It is.
Yeah, it is. And then and they won the toss
and decided to field and we got 307.
Is it was it a poor decision to field or was a wicket at the
time that you would have expected to bowl on?
Pretty good. It was just a pretty The thing
is it clither are they usually good cricket wickets?
There's usually something in it for bat and ball, the hard.
Henry and Tom Batter. Brilliant.
Yeah, I think that's. What it was Henry batter really
well, especially coming up to open because of Johnny's
wedding. Slotted him really well, really
aggressive, played some brilliant, brilliant shots
against the spin, against the pace.
I actually thought he was like on track to get 100 and he were
unlucky in the end but he battered so well.
It was great to see and obviously Tom got 100.
And he battered brilliantly and then got 70 on.
Didn't know. Yeah.
Kept on ticking over. Yeah, some good partnerships
there as you've as you've said there.
Just to reiterate to the list of Johnny Whiteheads wedding was
that weekend. So congratulations, Johnny Henry
came up to open the batting. You know, he got 61 in a a 130
partnership with Tom Walker. And like you said, he Henry was,
you know, contributing, rotating the the strike.
Tom was looking to strike it very well and seemed to go in
bursts. He would, you know, he'd get a
big over and then they'd settle down for two and then he'd go
again, which is always difficult to bowl that.
So that's a big partnership there and then 130 partnership
between Tom and Dan. Tom it battered brilliantly.
It was, it was great. It was great to watch.
There was, it wasn't, sort of. I don't really think he'd give a
chance. No, again, he was probably a bit
of a shock when he's out, you know, but he's yeah, 118 off 128
and down 71 off 63. So we closed on.
Yeah, Yeah, he did. He's had a great start in the
end of the season, yeah. Yeah, very, very.
Good. So that's 307 we got, which is
competitive obviously. So he, he, he, he, he, he got to
either bowl poorly or someone of their side's got to get big 100
or very big two or three, you know, 80s they've come in and
you've done, you've done fantastically well.
Again, 12 for two Paddy, you've opened the bowl in with, with
Charlie Gansler. We've you know, we know and
we'll go into now what happened with Charlie.
Were you happy at the start that you could bolt to that sort of
score with the side we had? Yeah, definitely.
The defenders at the time. The day it was a couple the day
before, is that right? Yeah, yeah.
So Charlie bowled really well against Accrington in the cup,
so he had his tail up a little bit, came down the hill ball
really well and so yeah, confident.
Then Charlie gets a wicket, gets Miller out, caught behind,
looked a great ball, so good and quite a lot of pace in it.
And what's he done? I believe he's injured himself.
Yeah, he's. Broke.
He's broke his foot, right. OK, so.
He felt it on the wicket, he said he felt it as he as he
planted on the on the delivery, he said he felt a little crunch
in his foot, obviously took the wicket, came down, celebrated,
went back for his, went back for his next ball, got about 3 steps
and. Adrenaline stopped.
Yeah. Would you say Miller had a
chance? I'll say Joe, no, I dropped.
Him, to be fair. So what I would say, Jess, is
I'm currently horribly out of form.
I'm not wiki and your brother has to.
Bring you and that's fine. I mean it's fair, but I'm just
not wicket keeping that well. So that was something.
Don't know, but I'm doing my best.
You're still working hard. I've got.
That's what it is.
But you want. Too much running, but I didn't
do too much flash here. Very man, I don't ever change my
routine. As you know, just back to the
game, just Tom came on straight after that and got Ali Ross
first balls, which is a massive wicket.
For yeah, coating the slips. Oh yeah, of course.
Yeah, and a catching the slip. Coating the run saving position.
And that was a big slip. And that went, didn't it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. A good carrier.
A bit of a loosener, really. Well, yeah, I think Ali was
probably thinking it was going to be a lot faster than it was
and Tom was. Just running in, yeah, he was a
bloke walking around who told me that Ali's been out of form all
year, Despite that being the third game.
What happens to us all? He's not scored any runs this
year so. He's a good player, Ali.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's and their pro gets 107.
He battered well, but they never they're not in each other.
No. You know, could you, Well, you,
you tell me, you know, could he have if someone had stopped with
him? Obviously if someone had stopped
with him to the end, then I'm sure they would have been a lot
closer. But you know, he's got he's got
out with eight down. Yeah, he's.
And then the shocks he plays, then have more pressure on to
come off, don't he gets in a run chase and yeah, Topsy bowl
really well at him except for his first over.
Tell you what. He's got, he's really digging in
tonight, isn't he, Jess? Christ Almighty.
Well if if you want to bring it up, you your your fingers are 6
for none for 38. I know I just suffered from a
lack of confidence from a drop catcher.
It was strange, wasn't it, the first two overs?
The wicket was a bit, I know they're they're decent cricket
wickets, but Paddy got his first two overs, got a nice bit of
loop and a nice bit of bounce and then after two overs it just
stopped today, just as soon as the soon as soon as the any sort
of hardness came off, it just didn't didn't bounce as long.
And Norwick, it's really turned this year.
Was it to be honest with you? Not really Sure.
Can't. Yeah.
Bowl three of us You. Yeah, it's a good lad in there,
yeah. And it's hard and it's, it's,
it's not easy. He's bowling at a very, very
absolutely. There's a young lad, there's no
games under his belt and his bowling spin when comes out of
the wrong place because of nerves, you're getting smashed,
aren't he? There's.
No, there's no symposium. For you doing all right yeah,
yeah. Good.
That's that's I could see that. Seems to say things in his
stride. I don't know whether or not,
Sir. Yeah, a bit unfair.
Yeah, yeah. He just plays cricket.
Yeah, it's a good side, loves playing and wants to play first
team, which is great for us for definite.
So let's just go back the day before Wellesley Cup.
Accrington at home won the toss and battered, which was no
surprise. I don't think.
NO27158 again from Tom Pro 75. Toxic 68 talks through that.
Unconventional as I would describe, it's in unorthodox
places, isn't? It it battered.
Brilliant. But it was superb.
It was a really great innings and I think that's one of the
ideas behind it. If you send him in, they've got
to change something because he doesn't, you know, he's not
playing, you know, straight back down the ground is he?
And he's expanded his repertoire of shots to some leg side ones
now. Right.
So he's batted. I mean, he's battered well for a
few years. I mean, you know, and there's no
muck with the bat. Christ, he's having 600 run.
Five. He's done a double.
He's done the double. He's doing bat with.
Him. Yeah, he did.
Yeah, yeah. I was just going to come on
because he doesn't seem the type.
You don't seem fazed if you're fazed later on, if there's only
10 hours to go on with four wickets, if he plays two mains
back, he don't seem to bother him, he just gets on with it.
Was it was it interesting batting with Toxie?
I had a good time. I batted with him quite a few
times. So it's, it's, it's, it's good
batting with Toxie because you know, he runs the same pace as
me as well, which is, which is also good.
But he he doesn't. He hit towards the end of the
innings, he hit 2 fours. Both are thick outside edges,
both down to third man. But the baller just went, what
do I do? What do I do?
I'm not all the fields, all the boundary riders out in the
conventional places. And Toxies guided him through
Third man, 2 consecutive balls. And again, Blaze, you know, you
got, you got yourself 31 off 26, which pushed us up to 271.
You know Accrington, you know they're in the the, the second
division. If you all struggled a bit last
year, they seem to have a bit of form this year.
They seem to. Be clever to play some good
cricket this year. Top of the league.
I think they are, yeah. Yeah, I think they're certainly
up there, but never really got close.
Is that, am I being unkind? You know, 106 all out.
Yeah, I mean, I think. The pros are a good player but
so yes, he has to get a big. 100 But when we played them in the T
22 years ago, didn't we? And what did we get?
150, maybe something like that. And he got 100 and something and
they and they lost. But he could have easily won
that on his own if he wanted to. I mean the week after he got
195. Yeah, saw that.
Yeah, he gets 190. Five.
Yeah. Cheated 270.
You think you're going to win? You know, conceivably might have
a chance, so. Shortcut 4 wickets.
Yeah, but well. Brilliant, yeah.
Perfect time of the game to come on from that.
Yeah, yeah. Batters who aren't as confident
against Binman, Yeah, if he's spinning it both ways, they're
not. Going to know.
And he's, he's still unusual, isn't he?
And sometimes, sometimes people just aren't aware of what he can
do. No.
And they may get to the stage where they do.
Neither are we blessed. So yeah, it was a great effort
for him. And then, you know, to throw him
for the second team. The seconds were aware at
Accrington, we bowled them 809. Deck got 4 wickets, KIRO got
three. Good performance and we knocked
him off in no time. Incredibly, he had one stumped
KIRO. Bold KIRO he was.
KDV was the ball and the scorecard was wrong.
Right. So the scorecard and I like to
leave you somewhere. Yeah, I.
Don't think KIRO. And just back to our cup game,
Ben, what Ben's record was, most runs weren't it in the World
Cup. Oh yeah.
Hilarious. That, yeah.
That was it. The league ever.
Ever. Yeah.
Yeah, it. Is yeah, I.
Think so, yeah. As an amateur, I.
Guess so, yeah. No, I probably won't be smar off
as a professor because they don't play that many games.
I. Think it's, yeah, I did remember
to see that, right? Are you researching that for us,
Para? I can do Judge, yeah.
Thank you. That's good.
Don't know what to do. So we've gone.
I mean, it's that much fun. We've been going for nearly an
hour and a half and talking out of the game.
So thanks very much to the three of you for talking through the
games. We'll go on to do the April
draw. Fantastic if I can, but is he
any other comments? That music please, Adam.
Guess it right. Don't be a quitter.
It's time to play. Guess the winner.
Is there any other comments around cricket Please Paddy from
yourself first. It did take him to the old time
where the amateur run scorer. Amateur leading run scorer.
Yeah, some achievement really considering.
Is it each 100th year? This year you remember?
For Swan Blake, it's not. It's out of order.
Out of order. Brief First World War is good
effort. Right Blaze anything else from
yourself around the cricket before we go to Joe and then we
do the the draw. Not, not a great deal, Jess.
No, obviously everything seems to be relatively in rude health
at the club, especially the new addition to the facilities in
the club room that's been yeah. Yeah, you see.
Gone down really well. Lower house point.
Yeah, yeah. Well, the I believe there was
going to be a competition or naming it for naming it.
Yeah, yeah, there a few there, a few suggestions came in.
Should we try naming now? I'm not going to say the one
that I've got asked to say because we'd have to edit it.
Stan heating extension. Yeah.
Keith's Corner. Keith's corner.
Keith Corner. Yeah, that could be that.
Could be, although it's Matt Stanley's legacy, isn't it?
Really? So yeah.
Matt Stanley's legacy, that'll do.
So we'll yeah, if you get get yourself down, come and have a
look at the new, the new front on the big room, the great
viewing now all over the ground for it.
So we'll get yourself down and enjoy, enjoy the cricket.
Do we do a preview of this weekend's games at the end, Jazz
or no? We don't generally do 1.
I was just wondering what your thoughts are when I was playing
in Cumbria. Cumbria and Yorkshire in the
Lantern Cup so far. 60 our last three games.
My view how it don't matter to me because I have to travel do I
was I was thinking of going to settle on Sunday.
He's. Setting off now.
But the weather's not great, is it?
So it's not, I'm not. Maybe you get your league Rep to
put it into the the league committee that they should vote,
that they shouldn't burn it. Maybe.
I don't know if it's that I think it maybe just needs
regionalizing or if you're not in Lancashire, you play away or.
Fewer rounds maybe get. Your league Rep?
Who is the league Rep for lorries?
Stan. Oh, Stan.
Well, he'd he'd listen to you. Talking if we did mention one
thing that we have forgotten about Ben's architecture of
where we play games on the square.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah, we need to talk about
that. Yeah.
The pictures for which? Yeah, yeah, there's obviously
strangely enough jazz when we were playing there wasn't quite
as much detail went into which which wicket we were playing on
during the during the game, let alone.
During the season. Usually it was which one do you
want cut in 20 minutes before we play.
Yeah, so, so it's worth just mentioning now the the square is
in such a good name, we've probably got 2020 pictures on
it, 22 pictures of which 12 out of half decent.
So does Ben have a say in how we want?
Very much. I think him, Paul and Dan have
quite a quite detailed discussion of where's the best
to play certain pros, where's the best to play certain teams,
which is. Professionalising.
Yeah. And you?
Know they will. They will often communicate that
with the curator about which is the right the right pitch for
for a particular game. I know they had a discussion
with Stan about the position of the Accrington Cup game.
Now again, the weather wasn't great on the the Friday evening
of of of that game and Stan was unavoidably somewhere else at
Johnny's wedding reception. Oh.
Of course, Yeah, yeah. So I'd obviously given
instructions to the to the ground staff about where to put
the covers. Yeah, where to put the covers in
the case of inclement weather on the Friday?
So the covers were on, Everybody was quite happy the covers were
on. Then the the first team
management team came down and said why are the covers on that
wicket? I think somewhere along the
lines communication had broken down about which wicket they
were supposed to be playing on in the in the cup game.
There is a. Rumour jazz that because there's
17 wickets currently cut and ready for use, someone may have
got confused as to which one it was.
So Stan's left instructions. To the curator.
The curator, no names, has left instructions and the wrong
wicket's been covered. Is that what we're concluding?
That and then. In turn, played on.
That seemed to be the the depth of the discussion before the
Accrington game. So why was I?
I was as as sorry curator had some feedback and as he given it
to his merry mend of three. I imagine he has had some
feedback and I don't think anything will have happened that
said feedback. You might have told them to go
and boil the rest. Yeah, really.
That'd be fair. Bless I.
Think that's for some talk. Oh, I miss stuff like that
happening. Yeah.
Everything's, you know, I like stuff like that, Jess.
I do. I love that.
Yeah. Because it's always.
I think the comment was when when it was mentioned to said
curator was, well I can I can cut the wicket on the Wheeler
one if you want. It's not the same amount of
rolling. Haven't had quite the same
amount of covering right now and it's.
Went through brilliant, brilliant.
Oh well. So, so if people want to bring
that up with Roger, Dave and Stan and feel free.
Can I also say they do a great job?
They do we do we. They do get a lot of praise as
well. Sure they do.
Fantastically so. So marvellous.
This is the April 2026 Lower house Cricket Club draw.
We've got Have you played guess the winner before?
No room. For a treat.
I'll describe it to them in a minute.
So we have 177 numbers. Joe is getting his randomly,
whatever generator, randomly number generator ready for it.
I have seen a few people video this, Yeah.
So we might do that. Should we not give it a name,
Jen? It's like Ernie used to be the
one for the premium bombs. For the premium bombs?
No, It was called Ernie. Yeah.
So I think we need. Yeah, we do need.
A name for your own random number generator.
Can be Spanish. Boys.
Oh, can be. Yeah, I can.
Take that robot back out. Yeah, he could do reprogramming.
Let's see if we can have some. So we're up to 177 numbers that
I need please. Any new entries?
Yes. Oh, here we.
Go this is some and it's really appreciated this.
I was aware doing various things, but I'm getting these
messages in. This is Malcolm Moss has
requested to join so he's in the draw at #39 Thanks very much
Malcolm. Yeah, well done Mal for.
For you're Rolling Stone, yes. Willing to join.
I don't. I don't, I don't know enough
about because I've been away. I keep going down to Hugh
Birkinshaw. He's father of Faye, Faye Mason.
So thanks very much you for joining.
The system's not up to as up to speed as much as it should have
been. As up to speed as you, Jess.
And then we have got another one which plays a lot.
Mick Vince contacted me. Excellent, he he said.
I'm just led on the beach in Portugal.
This was weekend before last I think, and I've listened to the
last couple of podcasts to catch up and it really makes me day
keep them going. So it helps us that Joe and I
sometimes think that we you you to take the Mickey out of the
technology that we have here. And they were trying to keep on
top of it. You know they don't just do the
selfies. Podcasts, No.
Can you remember the the great MCBIN story, Jess?
Well, I I definitely know one about the comic, yeah.
Yeah, it was a great. Yeah, we played it as in in the
last game of the season of the second, so I must have been 14.
So there's a book Darren Taylor in the kit bag and zipped it up
and was booted in. Yeah.
Anyone. Like to do that?
As you as you do in those age their own in batsman got 175 on
his own, which was unknown of absolutely unknown.
He was called Cocker Ian Cocker. So this is 40, it's 40 odd
years. 40 odd years ago, yeah. And they must have got 270.
I don't think we ever got that in three goals at that stage,
let alone 1 innings. So we we were in tatters at the
end of the game. At the end, end of the innings,
Mick. Mick was a bit of a character.
We played football against Mick but he was a a funny man.
Good all rounder. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And he had he had the Tiger and Scorcher comic and in in it
there was a, you know, lots of things like Billy's boots and
stuff like that, lots of sporting related thing.
But one of the things was Jeff Boycott's tips.
So he had a little column with Jeff, Jeff Boycott's tips in it.
I can't remember exactly what Jeff Boycott's tips were that
particular day, but Binsey had cut it out, put it in his back
pocket before he went back to bat, took his guard.
Their baller comes in. He stops him halfway, takes his
back and gloves off and goes into his back pocket and says
the old buyer. Sorry.
Humph, I'm just reading Jeff Boycott's tips.
I'll play. Didn't laugh.
Yeah. Love listening to that, Mick.
Yeah, it was. We'll have to see if we can get
him on car. We had a few years, didn't he?
Because he was a good friend to stand to play football on
cricket with Stan. So thanks for joining, Mick.
Your number is 132. I don't know if I said Hughes.
He's 129. And then a further joiner is
Graham Waddington. He's requested his grandson
plays down here and he sent me an e-mail asking to join.
So his number is 150. Thank you.
Thank you very much. So 177 April draw first prize
£100 right? Paddy and Joe and Bless you are
invited to play Guess the winner.
OK. It's quite a difficult game.
Joe gives the number. Out.
You OK? You give some clues.
I'll turn my screen. There's been some complaints
about the standard of the clues. Vague clues.
Sorry, it's a tough, tough school.
Let's hope there's. Some women that come out.
Guess who told me that? Just it wasn't me.
No, I know you won't tell that exactly and I will give you.
Blame so I was blamed on the last one we should address that
blaze shouldn't we yes well I I was accused of calling blaze a
non player it's just gone past 17,000 runs and it wasn't me it.
Wasn't you? Well, I can thank you.
I'm not saying who it was, no. Merry Morris.
But and then whoever we get a point for each one that you get
right. So, so let's go.
What a number between 1:00 and 1:00 7/7 please, John. 149 I've
got. A funny feeling because it's
come out a lot. A 149 is Neil Taylor.
We're not playing guess the winner, are we?
I think, I think jazz. I've got a feeling 149 is Neil
Taylor. Correct.
That's not a vague clue. Tell him he's here.
At least tell his address. Right under a pound to Neil. 14
Neil Well done, Neil. Right, I'll concentrate this
time. Fantastic 80 LB. #48 right?
Don't say time, don't say time, don't say time.
I get a lot of stick for saying this, but this lad is a top
block. You will agree at the end of it.
You seriously? The three of you will agree, and
I'm not going to say a great deal else.
We've got loads of top blocks, Jess, you've got to give us
some. No, but this lad is what?
Era are we talking Jess with you player?
One second, let me just this lad you would.
I can't see that far. Blue Tech.
I don't think this lad has got one enemy in the whole world.
There's no one you know. I know we always say we're all
good lansom, but there's no one down this club whatever.
He's the nicest bloke you would ever wish to meet.
Played a lot down here. What's your number please about?
48. Keith.
No nicer. Is he still playing?
Oh no, he's older than me. And bless.
Oh. Wow.
Kiki No. Nicer, nicer.
I know that's difficult to bloody.
Hell and he doesn't play, but he used to play in the first team.
Anymore else? No.
He's a non player that's getting.
Getting back and Gary's older than me.
We played a lot. Yes.
In the first team. Yes.
And he's older than you. Yes.
I'll let I'll let you guys guess.
I'm surprised at you. No, I'm.
I can't. I can't express enough of what I
taught. Tommy, start Tommy's short not
start all around letters, Yeah. Yeah, right.
OK. What are you really talking,
Jess? Well, a bit older than me and
Jess. Yeah, there's not many left
after that, isn't? It still comes on to watch.
Yeah, odd occasions, odd occasions, odd occasions.
It played with me and Bliss. Tom Sullivan.
No, no. Yeah, whistles.
No, no, no. No, no.
That was me being being smart because you should get this
plays. I'm amazed.
After O bowler. I'm not to say yet.
Well, let's just think of the players we play.
When we first started, yeah, in that team, there weren't many
nice people. I don't mean.
That well let's. Roger.
Yes, Roger, bro, there you go. You are.
You are right. Thank you, Joe Martin.
One point I don't. Want to say this jazz?
But. But the reason I didn't guess
was because you said he was off. So you think Roger's younger
than me? Do you know the video laughing?
With that, Roger, same age stamp.
Yeah, same age. Yeah, things are exactly the.
Same. Oh, are they?
Oh, Unclean will be delighted with that, because every time he
rings me, he asks me how Brom is.
He's not beyond for ages. That's it.
No, yeah, I think last year I had apparently.
Yeah, he's he'd be on football as well.
Yeah. It was great on the He came when
he came on the podcast. #48 Roger Bromley 80 LB Cup coming
your way Brom. So £70 please.
Another number. 146. Oh, that's near 148.
Yeah. Shape them up.
Neil, Neil. Neil.
Neil Taylor's number 148. Annoyed.
Female. Han Cochran.
No. Judith Wren.
No, Laura Wren. No.
Louise Cotton, No. Have we opposed Steve Ladies in
the. Yeah, then yeah, we've.
Got Eliza Cotton. The females support support it
as much as a male. Linda Blazard.
No Jean Hay. No.
Adele Stansfield, No. Sharon Stansfield No.
Clues Now Jess 111 hasn't got us very close.
And then some clues. She's a great art.
What's? Your problem no.
Well, I can't. I can't not say it very very
close. Lisa.
No. Oh.
Diane. Oh, nice, Diane.
Good. Job.
Diane Turner. Die Oh I, also known as turns 70
LB coming your way. Dice up.
Keep it away from that. Yeah.
So Blair's one point. So Paddy has no points yet.
So. Let's not Neil Taylor.
You have that account, I'll give it away.
So for the last 150 LB, there's a number number. 80. #80 he's
been in since January 2020. Pre COVID.
He won January. He won in January 2025.
OK. Is he a top one?
Is this helpful for you? My first time he.
Won. I must be frank.
I don't know him that well. Is it called Frank?
Porter. I'm quite sure he was.
He's been a spectator for a number of years and lives he
lives around on around Rose Grove.
Right. Is he one of the fountains?
Yeah, he's he's been on, he's been on a few times.
You'll never get it. So I'll probably after this year
his initial, his initials. Oh, is it?
So if I give you his initials, let's see if anyone get it JL.
Jack. Lee.
Unbelievable guy. 50 LB coming your way, Jack.
Thanks very much listeners. We try to have some fun.
They're just checking the Mickey.
But we we try to have some fun in doing it.
It amazes, you know, great funds towards the junior coaching and
the way, the way it's going, we are going to have to review it.
Joe Martin and myself have a meeting every two months to work
out the prize money. So we might have to, we will be
up up in the prize money in the near future because of the
extra, extra members that have joined.
So if anyone wants to join then feel free to contact me or Adam
or go on social media and ask us so.
Jazz you do a wonderful job administering it as well.
Oh thanks buddy. So.
Including guessing it. Second nature that's been going
that long. Well done Neil Taylor and Tommy
start Tommy. Start.
I can't believe you didn't get it.
I knew you meant as well you can eat long gone.
So if anyone wants to join them then please give us a share.
I'll go around the room. I'll finish with Blaze and good
to Joe Martin first. Joe, anything you want to add
before we conclude this episode? No, no, everything all good.
Terrific, had a lovely time. Good, that's great.
They're great doing them in person.
We'll try and do these on Wednesday nights if we can.
After you lot have been out there and I've been down
watching Saturday. We could.
We might get a free Curry one night.
Who knows? Who knows?
We did last time. Yeah, we did.
Yeah, treated some. Pinky a beer.
So you could get pinky. Yeah, that'd be.
Fantastic. Getting pinky on, wouldn't it?
Yeah. 3rd to 4th, yeah. Yeah, and it is all Korea, you
know, a brilliant lad, Yeah. He's a great lad.
Paddy, anything you want to add before we conclude?
Just at T20 start soon, so get yourselves down for the, I don't
know how to describe them, chaos.
There's three this year, all be very excited.
And I'm writing thinking you're captaining.
I am captain. The T20 this year, yes.
Again me in the. Battle loosely.
Me and Jorgan are up in the bathroom.
Go on lads, go on. Thinking of Blaze opening the
bowling. Brilliant.
So. 29th of May Clitheroe at home. 5th of June.
Is that right, Clitheroe? No, Clitheroe away, sorry.
Clitheroe away, sorry. That's just 29th of May, Enfield
at home the 5th of June, and Darwin away the 12th of June.
It's not an easy group, That is it.
East Lanks at home the 19th of June and then Richton away on
the 26th of June. And I think it's right in
saying, Paddy, that, you know, the, the, the committee have got
a a band on. It'll be it'll be a really busy
occasion to get down and yeah. So it's a party and friendly
this Friday, Yeah. Bring your waders.
Yeah, I hope the hailstones melted by then.
So yeah, should be a good night. It's always a good occasion
against Paddy and raises a lot of money for charity, so yeah.
You get yourself down. Brilliant.
Yeah, thanks for that, Paddy. And we'll keep promoting that as
we go on. Bles, thanks very much for
coming on 17,000 runs. It's so much.
I was, I've been a little bit busy the last couple.
I was going to work out how many miles it was.
I'm not saying you ran every morning.
Yeah, I'd be really interested in how you're going to work that
out. Well, I was going to have a I
was going to ask her, yeah. Would you not?
I was going to say 1/2. Well, yeah, you typed, but he
didn't run them all. Wasn't some of them Some of
them, is it? He has some forms so I'll maybe
do it for the next one. But anyway, a fantastic
achievement. Congratulations on on getting
there. Is there anything you want to
add or mention to the listeners? No, Can I just say thank you for
all the messages of congratulations if I've not got
back to people with my cut and paste answers on my little
emojis? That will mean he's lost his.
I've got one part. I've put it in the wrong group.
And he and he's not the best at cutting and paste.
Can I? Can I just say one more thing,
Jay? You know, we had the, we had
the, the opening of the Keith's Corner or Math Matthews.
Like we had a, we had a band on playing for Dave Whited's 70th,
5th, 65th Dave, his birthday, his birthday.
Very, very much with a connection to you.
Yeah. Two people.
Do you know you know those two people?
Were were you aware of them? Michelle, Matt.
Yeah, Sean Rainford was singing. Yeah.
His nickname was Rainbow. Yeah.
And he was a lead singer of a group called Swells.
Yeah. I don't know any of them.
Who was the guitarist playing with him?
Well, Chris Whited and Mark Whited used to play.
But the other lad who could properly play?
Well no. Then Mark could play guitar.
I can't know his name. Ian.
Tony. Tony Yeah.
Big Brewery in Burnley. Heineken.
Well known Burma brewery Heineken.
Tony Morris, Tony. No, Tony.
Tony Massey. Tony Massey I weren't drinking
when Massey's were, right. Neither were I, but I know where
Burnley. Brewery Tony and a duet just
playing on the road. Yeah, brilliant.
Playing a bit of together, a bit separate.
That was Sunday. Yeah.
I wondered what it was for. Yeah.
Oh, brilliant. Yeah.
So that was great to see them. I didn't really reintroduce
myself to Sean because I don't think he'd remembered me from
Adam anyway. But he, he spoke to Matt when he
was on. Matt sent me a message saying he
was asking after you. Yeah, that was going back some
donkey. Yeah, and he was singing better
than ever. Yeah, strangely enough.
Yeah, seriously, that would have been 45 plus years ago.
Really. I can remember playing it.
You were. You in the band?
Sorry, Jess. Is that how you know them?
No, I wasn't I. Was a group group.
The original. Did you go and watch them?
The original. The original lineup had Mark
Whitehead. All right.
Chris Whitehead. Yeah.
Tony Massey and Sean Rainford. I'm a I'm the gun through.
Went through drummers didn't they in the past?
How would you compare them to complete control?
Different genre. They played at Jez's.
Yeah, when me and Trish got married, he they played there at
Cuba. She had no idea what year that
was. But anyway, complete control.
Have you spoke to your uncle recently yet?
Yes, I'm going on to see him in the half term at the end of May,
right? What else is he?
Talking Are you any news? No, not really.
He wants to know Brom's doing. Lovely lad.
He's been in the sea a lot in his wet suit.
So there's an image for you, Jess.
But yeah, going up. I'll be back for All Stars.
God bless. OK, I won't be here.
No for all. Stars.
I figured you'd be aware. So one of us would need to be
back. He the only reason I mentioned
about any news. He rang me right out of the blue
the other week saying that this might be some major news in the
offing. I don't know if I can say it on
here. He was auditioning.
Might be all. For a different bands for.
A different. Do you know about it?
Simple minds. Better, he hasn't said whether
he's got the gig or not. Nothing.
Nothing would be a better description of shesdo, would it?
Simple minds. He was being, well listen, I'll
tell you what it is this band and they're a proper band from
Burnley, OK, Going back he's in mid 70s, OK.
And they describe Ches to AT. Their name describes Ches to AT,
not sensibles. Oh yeah, yeah, another one with
Jez's favourites. Yeah, are.
They a punk band? Jazz.
Yeah. Well, he was getting kissed on
the head by Uncle Neil, being told that he'd made it.
By being they're not sensibles, possibly.
Wow. No, I don't think that should be
on here, but OK. So I'm not sure there's any
nonsensible things that they're listening.
Did you order him a hybrid jacket?
By the way, Paddy, because they are on.
They were on. He wanted a hybrid jacket.
I want 10. Yeah.
Did he? He kept trying Frank's on,
didn't he? All I.
Want one? Anyway did.
He try mine on and said I don't fit.
Yeah, that's right. Right, let's close this this
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Thanks all and good night. Good night, Holden.
Holden send more house to save the house.
Come on, the House.