Well where do I start? It’s all happening less than a week from me leaving I give you the red hot tip. Lots going on, it’s ridiculous. I’ve just started packing, and well that’s all good, but yeah few things just making me a bit nervous and screwing me up a little.
It’s finally starting to sink in I’m leaving everything I know and have always known for 5 months. It’s a bit surreal, but yeah, you can imagine how excited I am at the moment.
My blog today anyway will be about our end of year dinner for the Glenorchy Magpies held on the 8th of April. My first obviously for my new club and it was a top night. MC Brett Geeves kicked off proceedings by giving us all a quick rundown of the evening’s events, and thanking the life members and in particular Emerson Rodwell and his lovely wife for attending.
Egg then gave a very emotional speech about the late Noel Diprose. Now I didn’t know Noel, but from the way Egg spoke and the way everyone responded to his speech said that this guy was extremely well respected. Later in the evening Emerson gave a speech about his good mate Noel, and also presented the Noel Diprose medal to Elliot Maher, a kid with bucket loads of potential as long as he keeps working on his game and keeps his head screwed on. Plus he is a Magra boy so he gets extra kudos from me. He also took home Outstanding Junior, and the Under 17 Bowling Award, which he gained by taking a club record 42 wickets in a season for the Under 17’s.
After Egg’s speech we ran through the batting, bowling and fielding awards, Best Clubman award (won by David Maher, Elliot’s dad), and the President’s Perpetual Appreciation Award (Sladey Struggled with this one) won by Steve Absolom – top bloke old Steve and well deserved by all the winners.
We then had our meal, an excellent feed I must admit; thoroughly enjoyed by myself I give you the red hot tip.
We then moved onto the novelty awards. I was sweating at this point – 3 ducks in a row at the start of the year and it looked like I would be ribbed at some stage – but I was lucky to escape this time. The “DC” award for intellect of the year was won by Snooksy, quite obvious choice there. The best eater award was a hotly contested prize, eventually won by Michael “Beaver” Knight, our captain from last season, well done Beav well deserved there. The last Novelty award was the Inaugural Egg Appreciation Award, given to Brett Geeves. Now, I don’t know if Geevesy would have survived the night as Egg had a little story about when he was painting out Geevesy’s house. Now, his girlfriend was in attendance so one assumes Egg did water down this one – I won’t tell the story but let’s just say it had something to do with a young lady thanking Egg about the nice shade of Brett’s room – and it wasn’t his girlfriend thanking him, lets just say that!
Egg then finished with a little diddy called, “the pub at the club with no beer”, and had some nice little jibes there at some of the blokes at the club, some of the classic lines included something about Kelby’s goats, and another about Beaver and his salad rolls, and something about dishing them for pies. I can’t remember how the song went, but let me assure you it was classic and apparently topped Egg’s effort last year.
It was then announce Glen Hughes would be club coach next season, excellent news for us players who really rate Hughesy in that department and hopefully can guide us to some more Premierships this season.
At the end of the night, my youth league boys made a presentation to me. It had a card signed by them all, which was great, a toy Moose (going straight in my bag boys, good luck charm right there), and a Kangaroos Polo top – after a 69 point drubbing during the day, I wasn’t keen to get this one out and show it off. But those lads were an excellent bunch, and obviously they must think I’m an alright kinda bloke, and hopefully a half-decent super coach in the making. Those boys have bucket loads of potential, and I have no doubt they have long futures in the game. Look out for 3 names in particular, Chris Iles (batting award), Damien Butterworth (bowling award) and Alex Triffitt (fielding award) – These boys have got something, and I know if they stick at it could play a lot of top-grade cricket in a couple of years time. Not to say the other lads wont of course, back them in to make big improvements next year, great bunch of kids (I’ll upload a team photo shortly).
Well there is a wrap for the evening, we all proceeded to go out thereafter, I chewed everything I drank due to the huge amounts of beer I drank on Friday night with Paul (can drink, can drink) but all in all had a terrific evening, and hope to have many more with the Glenorchy Boys.
It’s finally starting to sink in I’m leaving everything I know and have always known for 5 months. It’s a bit surreal, but yeah, you can imagine how excited I am at the moment.
My blog today anyway will be about our end of year dinner for the Glenorchy Magpies held on the 8th of April. My first obviously for my new club and it was a top night. MC Brett Geeves kicked off proceedings by giving us all a quick rundown of the evening’s events, and thanking the life members and in particular Emerson Rodwell and his lovely wife for attending.
Egg then gave a very emotional speech about the late Noel Diprose. Now I didn’t know Noel, but from the way Egg spoke and the way everyone responded to his speech said that this guy was extremely well respected. Later in the evening Emerson gave a speech about his good mate Noel, and also presented the Noel Diprose medal to Elliot Maher, a kid with bucket loads of potential as long as he keeps working on his game and keeps his head screwed on. Plus he is a Magra boy so he gets extra kudos from me. He also took home Outstanding Junior, and the Under 17 Bowling Award, which he gained by taking a club record 42 wickets in a season for the Under 17’s.
After Egg’s speech we ran through the batting, bowling and fielding awards, Best Clubman award (won by David Maher, Elliot’s dad), and the President’s Perpetual Appreciation Award (Sladey Struggled with this one) won by Steve Absolom – top bloke old Steve and well deserved by all the winners.
We then had our meal, an excellent feed I must admit; thoroughly enjoyed by myself I give you the red hot tip.
We then moved onto the novelty awards. I was sweating at this point – 3 ducks in a row at the start of the year and it looked like I would be ribbed at some stage – but I was lucky to escape this time. The “DC” award for intellect of the year was won by Snooksy, quite obvious choice there. The best eater award was a hotly contested prize, eventually won by Michael “Beaver” Knight, our captain from last season, well done Beav well deserved there. The last Novelty award was the Inaugural Egg Appreciation Award, given to Brett Geeves. Now, I don’t know if Geevesy would have survived the night as Egg had a little story about when he was painting out Geevesy’s house. Now, his girlfriend was in attendance so one assumes Egg did water down this one – I won’t tell the story but let’s just say it had something to do with a young lady thanking Egg about the nice shade of Brett’s room – and it wasn’t his girlfriend thanking him, lets just say that!
Egg then finished with a little diddy called, “the pub at the club with no beer”, and had some nice little jibes there at some of the blokes at the club, some of the classic lines included something about Kelby’s goats, and another about Beaver and his salad rolls, and something about dishing them for pies. I can’t remember how the song went, but let me assure you it was classic and apparently topped Egg’s effort last year.
It was then announce Glen Hughes would be club coach next season, excellent news for us players who really rate Hughesy in that department and hopefully can guide us to some more Premierships this season.
At the end of the night, my youth league boys made a presentation to me. It had a card signed by them all, which was great, a toy Moose (going straight in my bag boys, good luck charm right there), and a Kangaroos Polo top – after a 69 point drubbing during the day, I wasn’t keen to get this one out and show it off. But those lads were an excellent bunch, and obviously they must think I’m an alright kinda bloke, and hopefully a half-decent super coach in the making. Those boys have bucket loads of potential, and I have no doubt they have long futures in the game. Look out for 3 names in particular, Chris Iles (batting award), Damien Butterworth (bowling award) and Alex Triffitt (fielding award) – These boys have got something, and I know if they stick at it could play a lot of top-grade cricket in a couple of years time. Not to say the other lads wont of course, back them in to make big improvements next year, great bunch of kids (I’ll upload a team photo shortly).
Well there is a wrap for the evening, we all proceeded to go out thereafter, I chewed everything I drank due to the huge amounts of beer I drank on Friday night with Paul (can drink, can drink) but all in all had a terrific evening, and hope to have many more with the Glenorchy Boys.
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