Hard to get everyone with their finger up at the same time...
Woolley claimed this was no 'white power' salute...
..he also claimed he was just trying to help when he groped Dunko upside down..
..There were reports of this man throwing darts at the Ray Inskip Memorial Shield...
..Which this bloke found quite amusing...
..But not as amusing as when this bloke showed up at the celebrations... It was the showdown for 08/09 and the Bemboka boys took the trip down to Pambula to front the minor premiers on their home turf. Just a few weeks previous, the Bemboka lads had dominated the Pambula team at the same venue and had some confidence coming in to the decider. With the twin threat of Glen and Southam in the top order, and just about everyone else showing form with the bat at various times during the season, it was without hesitation that we batted first following another genius toss call of tails.
McLoskey and Dunko strode to the crease and Sohaki Charky threw a few down at the stone cottage end. Threw three overs down without Dunko scoring actually, where as at the other end, Mcloskey had play some punishing shots before catching a leading edge just as he was set to explode like a wet dream. The dream soon ended for Dunko too He matched McLoskey's 6 and then was snapped up by a bit of a speccy in the slips off the chucker.
It was time then for the middle order to stand up in the face of the failure of the gun openers. the old saying of score 50 and we win was echoed in Davo and Jimmy's ears by the captain and more than 120 runs later it was realised- Jimmy with anither imperious 80 odd and Davo with 60 odd which really steadied the ship and took the game by the scruff of the neck. The boys played shots everywhere, and played them very well. Mick Boyne was hit out of the attack, Davo played some absolute classic cover drives and Jimmy used his power game to effect. It really was pretty to watch.
Barney was next, and he fell to the evil leg spinner, trying to hit him straight (again), but he won't have to worry about him again next year.
Maz came in to steady the ship and got a nice yorker chucked down at him by SoChucky. Dangerman out too.
Donnie, Bretto and Kamaldo hit valuable late order runs- Motty didn't, but stayed in swinging wildly anyway, and the boys ended with a respectable 239 from the 40 overs.
A quick nervous bite to eat, a quick nervous visit to the loo for some and off we went in to the field, keen not to repeat the looseness we showed against Wyndum that gave them a bit of a sniff in their chase.
And loose the boys were not. A couple of sharp chances in the gully from McLoskey and Dunko, a nice grab from Kamaldo, and a general sharpness that had been there for most of the late season was back for the 200 or so of the Bemboka supporters to behold. In fact it was Maz who topped off his day with probably the only missed chance- only a half chance at that. It did come off the captain's bowling though...
Mick and Donnie bowled well and straight- only offering any runs square of the wicket where some typically B grade shots were played. The only one to really dent the score for Pambula was Wrighty, who was suffering from arthritis, but managed to survive a plumb LB shout, that was adjudged to be going under from the ticketed umpire. At least we survived the two games without any shockers- maybe they save that for A grade...
McLoskey and Motty bowled straight and full- Motty doing more with the ball than a genital acrobat- and there was more of that to come later!
In the end it was the Bemboka boys who wore Pambula boys down- 180odd off their 40 odd overs was the best they could do, and it was a 50 run win for us.
A couple of formalities later and the gravy train departed for the Bemboka Sport and Social club and then onto a party at the showground where the Braves recruited a goalie, some tent sabotaging occurred, some male nudity/bonding took place, some face biting, cake throwing, karoke and a few other shenanagans to wrap up the season. Pez soldiered on as only Pez could emerging from a little power nap in Maz's car to launch himself straight onto the dance floor!
A great win for the lads. A few weeks ago the season really was looking shaky, and we stood up got our heads down and started smashing it. Should be a good night at the preso too, with Bemboka's sister club and mate's from Tathra pulling a wombat out of the hat v Eden and taking the shield. Empty trophy cabinent for Eden then:)
Some astute recruiting for next year- chilli, Wayno etc and Bemboka will be putting it to the A graders.
Goooooooooooooooooo Bemboka!
PS sorry for the tardy blog posts over the last couple of weeks. Hopefully my successors on this virtual newspaper will do better!
McLoskey and Dunko strode to the crease and Sohaki Charky threw a few down at the stone cottage end. Threw three overs down without Dunko scoring actually, where as at the other end, Mcloskey had play some punishing shots before catching a leading edge just as he was set to explode like a wet dream. The dream soon ended for Dunko too He matched McLoskey's 6 and then was snapped up by a bit of a speccy in the slips off the chucker.
It was time then for the middle order to stand up in the face of the failure of the gun openers. the old saying of score 50 and we win was echoed in Davo and Jimmy's ears by the captain and more than 120 runs later it was realised- Jimmy with anither imperious 80 odd and Davo with 60 odd which really steadied the ship and took the game by the scruff of the neck. The boys played shots everywhere, and played them very well. Mick Boyne was hit out of the attack, Davo played some absolute classic cover drives and Jimmy used his power game to effect. It really was pretty to watch.
Barney was next, and he fell to the evil leg spinner, trying to hit him straight (again), but he won't have to worry about him again next year.
Maz came in to steady the ship and got a nice yorker chucked down at him by SoChucky. Dangerman out too.
Donnie, Bretto and Kamaldo hit valuable late order runs- Motty didn't, but stayed in swinging wildly anyway, and the boys ended with a respectable 239 from the 40 overs.
A quick nervous bite to eat, a quick nervous visit to the loo for some and off we went in to the field, keen not to repeat the looseness we showed against Wyndum that gave them a bit of a sniff in their chase.
And loose the boys were not. A couple of sharp chances in the gully from McLoskey and Dunko, a nice grab from Kamaldo, and a general sharpness that had been there for most of the late season was back for the 200 or so of the Bemboka supporters to behold. In fact it was Maz who topped off his day with probably the only missed chance- only a half chance at that. It did come off the captain's bowling though...
Mick and Donnie bowled well and straight- only offering any runs square of the wicket where some typically B grade shots were played. The only one to really dent the score for Pambula was Wrighty, who was suffering from arthritis, but managed to survive a plumb LB shout, that was adjudged to be going under from the ticketed umpire. At least we survived the two games without any shockers- maybe they save that for A grade...
McLoskey and Motty bowled straight and full- Motty doing more with the ball than a genital acrobat- and there was more of that to come later!
In the end it was the Bemboka boys who wore Pambula boys down- 180odd off their 40 odd overs was the best they could do, and it was a 50 run win for us.
A couple of formalities later and the gravy train departed for the Bemboka Sport and Social club and then onto a party at the showground where the Braves recruited a goalie, some tent sabotaging occurred, some male nudity/bonding took place, some face biting, cake throwing, karoke and a few other shenanagans to wrap up the season. Pez soldiered on as only Pez could emerging from a little power nap in Maz's car to launch himself straight onto the dance floor!
A great win for the lads. A few weeks ago the season really was looking shaky, and we stood up got our heads down and started smashing it. Should be a good night at the preso too, with Bemboka's sister club and mate's from Tathra pulling a wombat out of the hat v Eden and taking the shield. Empty trophy cabinent for Eden then:)
Some astute recruiting for next year- chilli, Wayno etc and Bemboka will be putting it to the A graders.
Goooooooooooooooooo Bemboka!
PS sorry for the tardy blog posts over the last couple of weeks. Hopefully my successors on this virtual newspaper will do better!
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