Nets on Tuesday 1 May
Lads,
A minute’s silence for Anzac Day please, while you contemplate the following words.
Jack: What are your legs?
Archie: Springs. Steel springs.
Jack: What are they going to do?
Archie: Hurl me down the track.
Jack: How fast can you run?
Archie: As fast as a leopard.
Jack: How fast are you going to run?
Archie: As fast as a leopard!
Jack: Then let’s see you do it.
– Gallipoli, Directed by Peter Weir
It’s that time of year boys — when after months of sitting in our foxholes consuming only the meagre rations provided by Sky Sports commentary (or worse: BBC highlights) we turn to each other, fasten our kit bags to our backs and march over the top, screaming “AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIYYYYYY!!!!!” while we advance over enemy lines.
Now if you think this is melodramatic, just wait until we meet our first opponents, the evil men of The Blackheath Sunday 2nd XI. I have it on good authority that their hand-picked death squad is battle-hardened and baying for blood, so we need to be prepared come May 6th.
For this reason, chaps, I am calling upon you all to be present and ready for inspection at 5.45pm next Tuesday the 1st of May at the Churchill cricket nets. We will try to give everyone a bat and have some much needed fielding practice as well.
We will not be beaten.
Matt