Facing Allan Donald, I set off running when he set off running! (ft. Manage and Chippy)

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Gordon Gordon, send more house to save the house.
Oh my God. Oh.
My. God, happy days.
It's working. So let's get started because
it's I'm really looking forward to today's I've messed up

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already, but hello everybody andwelcome to lower house Cricket
Club podcast. The house cast bit of a swinging
by the seat of our pants. This one because I've been left
to send out the the link for thepeople to join to darling and I
messed that up. Eventually we've managed to get

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in thanks to Gary and Adam helping out Massive Duke just
didn't give us the monkeys, justsat back waiting for everyone
else to do it. So it's been quite funny.
We've still got a guess who's not on the, the, the, the, the
Zoom meeting yet, but hopefully he'll get himself on.
He's very technical. He's he's that he's coming on.

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So we'll see how we go. Is it as difficult as I'm making
it out guys? No.
Right. OK, good answer.
I would. I dialled in and then I realised
it had to be chippies. No, no, no, no, not chippies.
That's why you went wrong. Give the guest away.
I realised it had to be Joe Martin's account, then

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thankfully Gary sent it me and Imanaged to get myself in.
And then I'm asking you for a second layer of authentication,
don't it? It does Jazz, yeah.
So who's going to give us that? It's only going one place.
Donald Trump. Donald Trump, Yeah, but I didn't
have his number. So Joe Martin is actually

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online. I believe he's in Italy
somewhere. I don't know why.
I don't know what he's doing. Secret Undercover.
He's gone towards Bruce Springsteen again.
You're in Milan this time, the whole family.
All right, but he's watching the, the, the WhatsApp group for
us. So again, Gary, you'll know
this, but you didn't warn me about it.

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You only have 60 seconds to put your code in.
So I've got it on my laptop, my WhatsApp, and I'm searching
everywhere. How can we get this?
How can we get this this code into it?
And it was counting down. It went down to 9 seconds and
then 8 seconds and seven secondsand I've got fat sausage fingers
so I'm trying to type it in, butI got it in just with one and

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half seconds to go. Did you feel like Tom Cruise?
No, no, a little bit better. And Betty Cruise.
So anyway, we're in, We're in. And I've pressed record.
Is it? Yeah, it is recording.
I can see it up there. So.
So I'm all excited about today'sepisode and some 22 real

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characters who've been been around the block.
I think it's fair to say, and I can't believe I'd ever say this.
I'm going to come to Dutch in a minute to to just to confirm it
there would ever be not bored ora little bit weary of talking
about winning at cricket. But I just thought we needed a

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little bit of something different and it confirmed it.
When Mrs Lisa listens to podcasts, sometimes it other
room and she said the last threeor four have been boring cause
all you talk about is cricket. So when I told her it was on,
she said, oh, happy days, I'm gonna listen to them too.
They've they probably make me laugh.
So you've got a couple of fans. What do you think, Duke?

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Have you thought over the last, you know, 3 or 4 episodes that
it is, you know, deadly serious,How we've done well at this, how
we've done well at that? Or could you have that?
I feel like deeply upset that Lisa's called me boring.
That's the that's the first thing, that's it.
But we we all we all knew that Johnny whited were boring when
he ran. So maybe that's what she's

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getting at that how how boring Johnny were.
Yeah, it could be. Gav, obviously Gav's not been on
for the last couple. So maybe that's.
Yeah. Have you heard where he's
tonight? Is he?
He's having a haircut in there of polishing.
Something to do with his hair. Something to do with his hair,
actually, but he's not having itcut.
He's in Turkey this week. Or have his teeth done.
He's no, he's having his hair. He's having a consultation done

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on his hair. I heard him ask Matt Marquis
last week, He said, he said to Matt, Matt, you've had tattoos.
He said, do the urge and Matt said it depends where you get it
done. He said oh I'm going to that
place at the bottom of Manchester Rd.
Brilliant, brilliant. So dude, it's down to you about
cricket. So my thoughts are about the,

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you know, the game. I mean, the game on on Saturday
appeared interesting and then obviously the, the, the great
game where church beaters on on Friday night.
But I'm going to give you a bit of respite and get someone in to
help you with it. So I'm going to introduce the
1st guest who who wasn't watching at weekend, but it's a

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real character and I'm not sure where he is in the world at the
moment. And then come on to our cricket
guru. So the first guest, he's been on
once before, he had a bit of a sabbatical.
He went missing for about 30 years and then we found him.
We dragged him out and he's he'sback with.
This is full time Andrew Chippendale Chippy.
How's it going? Good.
Thank you. Thanks for having me on.

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Oh, that's good. Where are you?
You've got your shorts. All right.
We don't get too. I don't work.
Sunny Poland mate. I'm in sunny Poland.
Sunny Poland, just be careful, keep crossing your legs like
that. Yeah, I know, It's all right.
I've got shorts on. I can see right up them.
So you're over in Poland, temperature over there. 36.
My goodness, Oh my goodness. Warm.
Very warm. Yeah, I bet.

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And And I was the family. I was, yeah.
Yeah, good. Went to Italy at weekend for
three days into Joe Martin. Unfortunately all right, I
missed all the cricket but obviously kept up with the
results and stuff so. Yeah, yeah.
Oh, brilliant, brilliant. We've been chatting.
Chippy comes over, you know, lives in Poland, comes over for

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his work and then goes back to see the family and it's great to
meet up and we have a catch up and it's and it's great when you
come over to it because you're so intense, just like you were
when you were a player. You want to know everything.
What's he doing and how's he playing and and everything.
So that's it was an idea that wehad between us all around, what
it was like when you played and how how it is different now.

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So that brings me on to someone who's been in the thick of it
for both eras, really for the old days when, you know, some
might say, you know, we were poor and we were not great, but
we had great laughs to the days that we're at night.
So it's, I mean, he's got about 10 different nicknames, but I
think I can just call him Manage.
How are you doing, Stanley? I'm not so bad mate, getting a

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bit past my bedtime. This bowl like a giant Monica,
but I'm a big chair with my glasses on.
It's that plant getting watered.What?
That plant that you've just bollocked someone.
Phoebe's just brought a plant inand I don't know what she's
brought it in ice for. She makes the mum's told her to
water it, but I water it after, yeah.

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I'm only less less so. Stanley, thanks very much.
For coming before you go on, youknow his little enterprise.
Yeah. Oh yeah.
Where we were growing strawberries, me and Jess, and
we've grown 4, not 4 balls, 4 strawberries.
So I'll give him gear before Easter.
Dutch and we've got 4 strawberries so far.
All these planters. Well, there's there's two more

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just come through, but the slugsthat are for one.
Of them. I did think.
More gardening chat brilliant. Dutch, I've had to water my
grass than 8. It's that hot.
It took me two hours to water grass.
No, this was quite comical. Dutch Stanley got me some really
high tech planters and we had tohave a covert exchange at 2:00

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in the morning from from van to car.
So it was funny. But I promised him a big Punnett
boy. I haven't got him yet.
So Stanley, let's just go, if you don't mind, between you and
do, just let's look at this weekend's games and how that
went. I think, you know, it's fair to
say the church game, the T20 on Friday night was was quite an
interesting game. Stanley obviously didn't go as

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you planned, as as the team and the group and what's your
assessment? Well, first of all, we got bait.
And can I just pin that one all on Joe Beneducci because T20 is
actually nothing to do with me. I step aside for that one.
Joe. Joe Duch runs.
That's fast. Kim, what he got wrong?
I thought he would eat, yeah. Well, a bit of both.
A bit of both, but he keeps his eye on that one.

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Him and Paddy. So.
Sorry, Jess, from from what I saw and any any game we're
against the team we're pro in. If the if you give a pro a
chance and then he comes off, you're going to be up against it
no matter what team you're playing.
Church batting very well and times done that before he
passed. You know, it's not it's not a
surprise when someone like him you get to 60 like that.

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So I thought we've got enough when we're watching, but just
one of them days a couple of chances went down.
Did he, he obviously, obviously battered well and nearly said
did he bat well? But it was the you know, I was
watching it from the far. But did you see that happening
Stanley? Did you see him going on and
getting as many as he did? Certainly were because I think
the pro where I and they still needed 50.

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Yeah, like I say, Caitlin Florentines is it.
He has got a bit of a track record for doing things like
that. She gets in, he will score, it
will score pretty quickly. It's like churches all around
us. It's middle bowls and turn overs
every week. And it's a good point.
They're they're pro. I don't know, we're just playing
some check drives that were justgoing absolutely miles.
It didn't look like you're all hitting them, but they were

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going a long way from where I was stood.
And when I talked to some of thelads who played in the game the
day after, they just sort of pointed out that we probably
bowled a bit too full attainmentand it wrong areas.
We never really changed his planand it's it's sort of
capitalised on it and then when we thought we'd got him out and
won it, the amateur took over and he's a clean ball as well.

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I think that he took part of theSo yeah, I did think we won when
we got him out, but sort of weren't surprised when I
accidentally won the game as well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he, you know, he seemed like
he was timed quite well. Were you watching it?
Dudes with DJ, you know? DJ But I'm obviously, I'm
obviously watching the game likethat.
Pulse. I thought we had plenty at half

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time. I would imagine that one of the
highest scores we've had at homein the in the T20 for a couple
of seasons. Maybe I don't.
We will have had we will have beat it.
I felt it was a very healthy score.
You know, we had a strong bowling attack.
I thought I thought we'd have way too, way too many for
church. But like Stanley said, got to
give credit. And even when, even when the

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pros out, they carried on and Florentine played well, they
played well. They they celebrated it very
heartily as well. I don't know if Paul, if Paul
heard any of that. They were really, they were,
they were really going for it, changing him afterwards.
They had their music banging, they were singing and also, so,
you know, fair play to him. Yeah, yeah, got to enjoy your

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wins. And I think he's credit to us
that someone comes and plays, isn't it?
What ineffective was a dead rubber.
But don't get me wrong, I know, I know.
Sophie, Sophie and Paddy, they were desperately wanted to win
so it weren't treated like a dead rubber.
But it shows how far we've come when the team celebrates beating
beatings. We aren't even qualified or
anything like that. But they had a big celebration

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first leg to him. You know, we're a good win for
him. I bet we'd have swapped it for
for the defeat at Congo. I bet we'd have rather won at
Cone on Sunday in the league. But you know, you know, I've
enjoyed it. We deserve to enjoy it.
A good performance by what were they, 19 for four maybe?
Or it was than that. So yeah. 14 for four.
Yeah, 14 for four, yeah. Then put 100 on.

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You're right though, standing and see, you know, this brings
us on to you and Chippy. Times have changed, you know it,
it was a dead rule, but we realised, you know, we were
always going to going to go through to the quarterfinals and
but the team won't have seen it like that.
So like I said, selfie won't, you know, you got 85 and 56
balls. They want to win every game.

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So that is the progress that's that's going on.
I'm going to keep dropping in questions and just little
observations because I don't want to miss anything because
you 2 have got so many stories. Did you first of all, Chippy,
did you play any, any T 20s at Law House?
No. What was the Yeah, what was the
Express Cup with that 20 overs? Was that the first kind of thing

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like that? Yeah, we're a bank holiday,
weren't it? Where we played Berlin, Nelson,
Cohen and us. 16 overs Express Cup.
Yeah, 16 overs. Yeah, so that's only short
version I ever played. Right, Stanley, you played a
couple I think didn't. You.
Yeah, yeah, I've played, definitely played in at least
two of them, I think. Yeah. 22 easy two.

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Oh shit. Easy 2.
Oh shit. Rudra.
Everything. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, we're the other day out then, aren't we, but it's so
going back and it's difficult. I did play in a cup of myself.
They weren't a tournament to such and then Coleman had a had
a some sort of a fun day on and they had T 20s go and it just

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wasn't my cup of tea. I was nothing at all end of my
career. I didn't really want to bowl the
people that were just slogging. What were your memories of it,
Paul? Well, I've played in, I've
played in, I've played twice, Once at home to Nelson where I
didn't do anything and then one disastrous night at Tom Wooden.
So I think we've spoke about that before.

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I went through about 45 in two hours, job, job.
And she knows the exact figures.He knows everything about it.
Manny, why do you think? Why do you think Jess has asked
it you? As if he didn't know that
already. He's downed out on this one as
job and she thinks it's fantastic Yeah, I got I got Faf
de Plessio, but then went for fit 45 in next to over something
like that. So I'm new but it.

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Happens. It's not a bowlers game.
Stanley, these batters, no Gary and Dukes and Chippy, you think,
oh, it's all about it's all about oh, it's not it's the
batters who've got to win the games, but we're.
Calling Chippy A batter. Let's just get this.
Let's call it a batter. Remember I wrote over him for a
lot of this. Leave me.

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Out to that conversation and all.
Well, we can. Go into that because you know, I
am mindful that you 2 did spend a lot of time at the crease, no?
We didn't. Fun time.
Not a long time. Fun.
Time. Fun time.
So, you know, let's just let's just talk about those those
batting occasions, Chippy. We've you know, we've been

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through your career, which was so interesting of you know,
you're only the early days at Burnley coming down to lower ice
and proper making a mark. You know, top class wicketkeeper
with some top class stats, whichwe will go into.
But I just think the stories of YouTube, we'd be all deadly
serious. Stan won't be talking to anyone
because he's he's been given outLB in the 30th over a summer.

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I'd be sulking because you lot work second serious and it's
clear from you know the messagesthat we've had this week that
you two were just pissing about in background.
Just talk us through Stanley your your batting and
conversations with Chippy and how you thought about the games
and any memories you've got well.
I mean, some of them are short, some of them are long, but I

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mean there's one when we played against Alan, sorry, not Alan,
Donald Aslan done it cup. I mean Aslan hasn't come up a
lot because first had a quick ball and pro.
I mean everything to struggle getting us all like because
we're a good side and one particular one with the cup, one
with Chippy. I think we've both mentioned it
in past, but we're batting and we were, I think as I know about
200 and we were 90 for 9 and me and Chippy were plodding away

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against Barry Knowles and AndrewSidley and Bobby Grimshaw just
said I ain't watching this. And I walked down to the middle
and said to Chip face so to let's whisper a game of
soldiers. I'm not hanging around here when
we need 100 facing him and Barryknows got me out stumped very
next ball battering the arm tookhands and off we went.

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Chippy agreed with me, you remember.
That. Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Listen, it's not.
It's not like it is now. Me and Stanley were 10 and 11
for a reason, right? I used to laugh thinking
Stanley's coming in. I always used to think whose
gear is he borrowing because he would come in every week with

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somebody else's pads and gloves on, right.
He'd wheel this zenith and it would just potluck game a
lottery with me and him. The absolute game a lottery and
can't imagine we played against some probably quickest pros in
league in were in world cricket and yeah, we were no much for
them, me and Stanley. No, we just by who's going to
get most? Yeah, most.

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We played against Alan Donald and only advance that took
without set off running when he sets off running.
So that was that was safest. Yeah, we used to take a single,
didn't. We took a single to wicket
keeper and they got you What? You wanted to chip out.
He just he's. Glad.
I didn't used to say wait. I used to say what?
I used to pretend I couldn't hear him when down there.

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You're mad, but it. Is, you know, when you you know
Gary and I think you, you'll back me up on this.
Stanley would bowl a lot of overs.
He would always, he would constantly get good pros out.
He would he had this, you know, real knack of of bowling jaffers
to good players and and getting them all out.
But to be fair, Stanley, I thinkyou agree.

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You know, you're always going atthe the 9/10/11 sort of regions
within the batting. But Chippy did have you know, I
had some technique. I think early on what you're
talking about that chip is, you know, towards the end of your
career when Stanley's bowl is his legs off and you've you've
stumped all day. But I can remember that, Gary,
the Chippy potential, you know, we were pushing him for a top
six place. Can you remember that?

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Oh yeah, he. Looked $1,000,000 and just
never. He just never gave me a chance,
did he? Yeah, that's.
It no, not on his day. You know, he was more than
capable of holding his hand up. It weren't He's playing his his
abilities down a little bit, I think.
I mean, you know what said we'regoing to go and smash 50 off 25
balls or anything, But certainly, you know, I don't

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think any opposition would wouldsee him as a rabbit, no.
I had quite. A good few.
I think I had a few knocks of thought about him today and
again, some decent pros as well.But I always think because I
battered so late on and I'd get some, at times I may get
skittled out of higher score batting at 9:00 and 10:00.
But then I just think I'm just trying to stop and get in a

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bonus point or I'll just not play for myself but just try and
get some kind of nick going. And it is difficult when you
are, you know, you've stumped all, all the game, the bowlers
you know, bowled and and need a bit of a rest.
You need a run, don't you? If you're battered in the top
six, you need a good run. You know that you need a score

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to stop up there. And and as soon as you don't,
because you did open a couple oftimes for us, Chip didn't.
You. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Thanks for that.
Yeah. What?
Happened then, but. Actually, James.
Anderson took my head off. I think he got to open twice
against Burnley with James Anderson at one end and it's
skittled Yarra and somebody else.
I thought, yeah, really. They stitched me up here on

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there and I can't remember who other one were.
I think you're against Enfield. They ended season.
They they probably have somebodyquick as well, but you.
Were out there, you know, you were prepared to go out and, and
I remember whether it was Gary or me or Matt or whoever was
captaining would work out right.You know, when there's a spot
here in the top five or six and and we try, you know, we'd get

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you in there, but it is difficult, you know?
Even back then, Chippy, when youwere younger and this, you know,
you were so, so professional, ifyou will, you were really
dedicated to your stomp. Did you find it difficult then
to to go out and bat it top fouror five when you've been out
there all day? Yeah.
It's it's tough when you've kept, so it's tough when you've

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kept all day. These guys who can bat top five
and then keep the 50 overs, thatis fair play to him.
Like you say, these guys are open batting and keep.
It takes some doing, and I'm not.
Sorry, Chip. So there's some up.
Summers and stuff we've had and you could be drained coming off
keeping especially at law rightsbecause it's because it's a

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tough track to keep on and then you think you won't have to be
thrust think you're in top four,Top five, yeah.
Yeah, go on, Gary. I'll just.
Say, I was just going to make the observation some players are
more suited to certain positionsin this side as well, aren't
they? I mean, you know, Chippy gets
2530, not eight, 805 or something.
And the temptation is, oh, you know, he should be batting a lot

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higher. But like I say, having done the
keeping and then sometimes that pressure, that responsibility of
batting in the top five something, you know, it doesn't
suit everybody. I'm not saying that's cheap,
but, you know, people find it hard.
Maybe now they can go back to that law middle order or middle
order where they would maybe a bit more freedom, play the shots
and and, you know, sometimes thrive better there and suit

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better suited for the team in that position.
Yeah. I looked at my position as I
would just hold in and end up really, because it's quite a few
times I got to bat with Yarra. So you think when once they're
going through our team, I would sometimes just hold it and end
up for Yarrow and Yarrow's goes on and gets 100 nod.
That's my job. That that's how what I enjoy
doing. I'm never going to give me a
wicket away, yeah. Yeah, it is.

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And that is, you know, a lot of people don't understand how, you
know, how difficult that is. And and it it almost like when
we speak to to Salpe or to to Ben, that that mindset's not
there now anymore. It's more a case of, you know,
we go out and compete. What and you're doing a great
job in there, Stanley, with assisting Ben and and you're

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there for the team and and helping out.
What's it like from the inside out?
I know we've asked some players and we've had Ben on what
compared? To now and then Jess.
Yeah, yeah. How intense is it?
Now you know when you think, oh,it's.
Far more intense, it's far more intense.
But they, they put, they, they do look that what we've got now
is sort of with 11 match winners, every player who plays

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for us, every game can, can win as a match.
And I, no disrespect to a lot ofplayers who played in my era,
but I sort of look at us as survivors.
You know, we could get through aLancaster League game.
We could, you know, we could hold his own from week to week,
but we weren't always going to win you a match or we weren't
always capable. You know, we had about 3 or 4
players who could win as a matchand not making numbers or that's

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be harsh on us. But we're just we're just go
we're all good to have a good pro in it.
If we didn't have a good pro, westill got to hold his own
confidence to go quickly this slot now.
I mean, Chip, we're talking about by Macbatten stuff now.
I think Benny, I mean just go goin the changing room, you know,
and I think Benny he's got more backs in his back than every

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player that represents the law rights before about 1970
combined. You know, just the amount of kit
and and and things and protein shakes.
Like I said to you over there, my talk for to protein shake.
We're a dance. So you just got to, you just got
all these things going on supplements and they just, they
just, it's just, it's still amateur, but there's a lot of

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the professional things being brought into it, you know, and,
and the way you analyse stuff and actually, I think it's again
compared now and then I do thinkit's a better game.
But you, they do have to think about it a bit more of, OK, the
quality of the prose is not as good, but you'll never, you
can't play a team or stick RogerHarper on at one end and then
not have to worry about anything.
No, it's constantly, obviously we've got, you've got the apps

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to play cricket and cricket and things like that.
So you can, you can look at yourtactics that way while while the
game's going on, you know, you've got 3 overs left, you're
going to have to take him off. You can set your bat in order to
that. You can look what's going up and
they're going to have to bring spinner back on.
So it, it's the game's more advanced.
I'm not not not sure a better quality, but it's definitely
more advanced than what what they do and what people look at.

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Just on that. Sorry, Jess, just just on that
question to to Gary and Jess, from a captaincy point of view,
casting your mind back to when you were skipper, did you have
any input on where you played onthe square?
No, I don't. I don't think I did and
obviously that were a lot more recently.
Now that that's a proper thoughtprocess that they have most

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weeks, you know where we're going to be on the square, who
is playing against what does a pro do?
What what what bowlers have theygot?
How many left hands have they got right?
OK, all that information taken into account, we want to play
there on Square, so. That is, you know, it just seems
common sense when you think about it now, when you know me
and Gary straight away said no and you did Duke.

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You know, there might have been occasions where I would speak to
you know, sometimes it with me Dad, sometimes it were Dave
Blaze, you know, bless them both, you know, and if they had
Keith Arthur to him, we'd be trying to keep him away from a
short bang, right. You know, we did think it wasn't
just a case of let's wing it, but I know what you're saying
now, and he stand quite conducive to that with Ben.

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He was. Receptive.
Yeah, it does. It does.
Ask it last me or it last Ben orthe last selfie.
We generally spoke about it quite early, you know, we, we'll
already know where we're playingTombadin on Saturday, for
instance. We'll know that sort of four
games beforehand and Stan's got into the habit now of actually
asking us weren't weren't we didn't do that initially, sort

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of is in on the plan. He knows why we want to do it.
So it does put effort into repairing then wickets sort of a
bit quicker so we can get, you know, it's no secret now teams
must have worked work today. We prefer to be on that set,
that part of square at lower house.
Especially when we're. Playing against left handers,
yeah. And that's an advantage that you
use, Yeah, yeah. It's an advantage is it?

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There's another thing like we didn't never thought of this,
but we concentrate on what spareballs we put it on pies remember
at home and things like that, just little things like that.
So you know, we didn't. It is just something making sure
where Johnny and Ben back were Tom Walker balls.
If we're going to lose a ball early, we need to be using it
right ball straight away, you know, and it's just little

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things. And we saw something we've we've
taken on this season from from agame, a game earlier in the
season where the new ball got lost and we haven't put the
spares in the room. And then we thought these spares
aren't right. These aren't these are an
advantage to us at home. And yeah, it's just something
else. It sounds mad, but it does work.
I think. This is a lot down to the, the
manager's role as well. I'm not not blowing smoke up his

(26:56):
backside or anything, but I, I just think if this was purely
down to a captain, I don't thinkthey'd have the headspace to, to
think about all of that stuff and what team they're picking
and what batting order they're picking and where the fields are
going and everything else as well.
I just don't think any captain, even the most diligent, would
have the headspace to come up with all that.
So therefore the the team manager role is vital to sort of

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completing that that picture really and it's.
And I well, it's fascinating me and you know, I've been down
there for donkeys years. I'm sure there'll be some fans
listening to this and thinking crack.
I never thought of that. And that is, you know, is, you
know, credit to, you know, the, the, the cricket inside and with
you, Paul, to put that effort inthere.
Because I mean, between us all, we can go back and you think of

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some of the managers we've had and the, you know, the, the
committee man in charge. And, you know, it was more a
case of we've only brought two boxes and, and they're boxes
that protect your, you know, what's and, and we had to share
with them and swap them as we were going out.
You know, they were never, ever thought of what the, uh, of what
the spare ball were like. Chippy.

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I mean, I know you get you get too intense sometimes thinking
about all this sort of stuff. I didn't know that went on.
No, but when you when obviously I've had a long sabbatical away
from cricket and watching especially club club cricket.
But since I came back watching last year and you can see Stan
is like laser vision on game. You not get a word out of him

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till we're till we're battlefielding.
He's laser visioned, which is fair play.
He's he's thorough. Well, I just I can't get over
the professionalism of that team.
It's just bonkers to watch. It isn't like you watch it.
The teams of our of our era, right where we had a laugh.
I'd turn around and watch Stan and Stanley at fine leg and 3rd

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man just wandering around looking into the sky.
That next thing they'd be giggling to each other.
And I'm thinking we've got no chance.
If all goes up in air, laugh at gods Stanny be laughing Stan and
be laughing. If Stan drop 1 Stanny be pissing
himself laughing and it's like you're trying to be she's trying
to be serious. But then then you look at him

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now and you think Jesus Christ. I've seen drop catchers go down
and looks that could kill and I think this is how they do it
now. This is how professional it is.
I've. Told that tale of standard
Rishton. I mean not concentrating on game
and I mean falling out with sponsors and stuff.
Tell it again. Gary, even if you have so.

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We're getting run around at Rishton as usual.
Either sleep or Phil Simmons or somebody under Not not a red hot
day and stands at his usual sortof fine leg long on situation
but under back. For those who know the grind in
front of the pavilion and the sponsors have a balcony lava
look in the ground and and they'd been thirsty bunch so

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they were well tucked into to all the liquid and and they're
giving him a bit of jip and and he's not concentrating and one
comes down to him and he reacts late and he goes through his
legs for four. So these guys are just ripping
into him big style. And one of one of them who's a
bit of a ringleader says hey fatty, you should have closed

(30:13):
your legs and sound quick as youlike turns around and says yeah,
and so should your mother at that point.
So it's going to go one or two ways.
So fortunately, all his mates take the take the RIP out of
this ladder who's just been sortof like embarrassed.
Otherwise. I think he were on his way down

(30:35):
at off balcony to sort of have ahave a closer to who we stand.
But that were typical that were it all time you're shaking
across to not just that, but you're chippy.
You're right. Keep everybody on the toes in
them days. You know, it would that were
almost like saying the science we're playing in terms of like
the focusing and The Walking in and I don't know.
Yeah. Stanley, Can you imagine your

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lot now playing blind Slips no. No.
I mean, you turn, you turn up and have a net now we'll go and
have a net before we even start,I would think.
I was thinking out this morning,right.
I bet they have a net. We used to have a throw down,
right. And you'd miss off of them.
Yeah. You'd be.
Falling wide in warm up and I'd just have to walk away, mate.

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Jazz just warmed me up for keeping.
That'd be me you had to get you.You used to come out to Panama
Joes, pick your hearts up at Bibby's, then go and have a
yeah, you weren't thinking aboutgoing and have a net that was
used in out your net. You didn't want to.
Yeah, No, I mean, you know, there's a go.
Stumbles. And smashes Popper Dom and then
go with it straight to the ground.

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Yeah, I mean. The, the, I mean, the, the, it's
competitive on the field. It's it's fierce.
I don't think they have the samefun that we had.
I do, I do. It's, it's very more in, it's
much more in your face now. We always thought when we were
on pitch, you know, when Stan were going at opposition
players, it's a bit more humorous.
It's now, it's now a bit more ofa get in the red top mentality,

(32:01):
you know, really get to and really get to him rather than
have a joke with. Him how do you think how do you
think that intensity would rub off against the people who we
played against who were kind of you're making guns you're Mark
Lomas do you think our lot now would get in there we.
Are we're very careful now we dotalk.

(32:22):
It's what we talk about. We're we are quite an aggressive
team. We are, you know, just meant no
bones about it. We're unpopular.
Some people put it down to his winning.
I've heard people say we just don't like his attitude on
pitch. I think that's an excuse when we
beat him to be honest with you, but I hear that a lot.
But we are, we also, we also tryand not target certain people.
There's been certain players around this league and you do

(32:44):
know if you got into them, got into the ribs, you'd actually
fire them up and they they stickin and take you on.
So you've got to choose your battles.
You know, sort of know, we know,we know who to wind up and we
know who not to wind up. It's not, it's a bit, it's not
as I'm not saying it's humourless, but it's not, it's

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not as it was, you know, and Jess might be going to talk
about it. I know, I know.
Jess just thought it was an opinion in it and his role win
the league. But yeah, it's yeah, he.
Is Stanley. I struggle to compare it with
previous. You know, someone said about the
standard earlier. You know, I think the standard

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some of the top players at the moment in the top sides is
phenomenal on amateur wise and they're playing on good
pictures. And you know, certainly with the
early season last year and this year's been good pictures.
But I think it's more ruthless now.
You look, when we used to get battered by as Linden or East
Lamps or Burnley, it was men against boys a lot of the time,

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you know, we couldn't even get near him.
We're just thinking about havinga pint with him after.
Certainly for me, the has Lindena lot whereas now, and I know
what you're saying Stanley, but if if there is a weakness there,
whether it's a team or an individual players, not just law
rights, I mean, if throughout the league, we'll target that
weakness and we'll exploit it and you know, and we'll be

(34:10):
ruthless in that. We're going to do this because
we want to win, want to win now.We all wanted to win, but it's
almost like I think a lot of it is the attitude, the way Dan
comes across and you know, it's a positive mindset.
But what what outweighs this andwhat This is why I love watching
the cricket now, is that the, they still have fun.

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You know this, you know, they'renot, they're not hanging each
other's elements up in the treesor, you know, locking someone in
the box when they're going out to bat or anything.
But the, you know, they know that it's, you know, when things
have not gone right, they've done everything they need to.
They can improve slightly, but they move on.
And I think that's a lot to do with Dan's input into the side.

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I mean, did we have any other pros?
You've listened to him a lot, Gary and Duke.
I can't think of another pro even that we played against,
never mind that we had, that hasinfluenced the side as much as
they have. They are great players, don't
get me wrong, but he has made some massive influences there.
Dukes, do you agree? Yeah.
Yeah, he has. I mean, I throw Frankie in
there. We know, I think Frank, the

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impact that Frankie had on on the whole club at the time that
he came in was comparable. You know, they are different
characters. No getting away from that.
But in terms of an impact and sort of a change of approach
mentality, whatever you want to call it, Frankie was Frankie was
phenomenal. And you know, I'm not playing
with dance, but obviously I've listened to him quite a lot.

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But I, I, I, I throw definitely throw Frankie into conversation.
No, that's a great point, dude. It really is because we talked
about that previously. And I think, you know, as good
as the side was and the preparation and everything, you
know, there was a lot of great work from Renners there in
getting this young lad in and then the the development from
there of bringing everyone on. I mean, did you play with

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Cameron Williamson? Gary, were you with us then?
Well, we're going. To say that there were there
were a couple of pros who set off on the right with the right
intent and you know, Cameron wasone and he he sort of, you know,
setting targets and and working with individuals on certain
things that he could. I mean, to be fair, let's and
Stan is taught in to back standing up to some degree.

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And with all due respect, they didn't have a lot to work with.
So, so it was limited what they could actually practically and
sensibly try and push people to achieve.
But then we we, we gradually wore the pro dying and when, you
know, by end of May, middle of May, they were not thrash as
much as we were. So yeah, Cameron, we're good.

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I think he had some good ideas, some good intent, but he would
he was daft as anyone, wasn't he?
You know, legs was. A bit more on it and I think in
a little bit more it was obviously more intense, but I
think he he seriously had sort of mechanically plans and method
methods and tried to he still tried to improve practise no end

(37:06):
and things like that. Works, work, work we think, but
but not the sort of psychological that was.
I don't never other than the verbals in terms of getting
stuck in at a weekend, but the psychological things that Dan's
talked about and Ben and Stan a duche, etcetera, that go on now
with our own team and the unit and backing themselves and and

(37:29):
and mentally being in the right space and being clear about
their roles and all that sort ofthing that never really existed
to what I saw through the sort of 80s nineties, early 2000, no.
In fact, it probably the opposite Gary you know, we've
mentioned it before. I think some of our old tactics
and include myself and people around here, it were a bit

(37:52):
almost doesn't then, you know, batting unit, bowling unit and
and we didn't really sort of mixand the pros maybe, you know,
they were young lads weren't themotty and and flags and and
Cameron and even Ryan to a lesser degree, they were more
interested, not more interested.They were desperate to win, but
they were also looking for a bignight out.
And when you look at Sal P, who's who's got that little bit

(38:13):
of an age difference there, Chippy, you mentioned about
laser, laser vision the way Stanley is at the moment.
I remember you telling us a talea few years ago about when you
were a really young lad and you're working the bar.
I think you were behind the bar and, and there were staff
working and someone else had gotlaser vision, some on someone

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else. Oh yeah.
No, Matt. Matt Yeah, absolutely,
absolutely. What happened then?
You don't need to mention names,but well.
I'm not saying anything. I'm saying absolutely nothing.
I'm not dropping my ballet, no shit.
But I hope that absolutely not. Or was it?
Not something about you. You were left to collect talk
glasses. I will left to.
Collect talk glasses. Yeah, I must not.

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Have been working that night. Don't go wrong.
You were on that night. You were.
On you were on dance floor playing tonsilocki can't
remember. That young loser.
It's all right, Paul. I'll collect all glasses like
you crack on. Better be.
Edited OH. Brilliant.
And then I mean we can't. Not talk about this with you 2

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characters on, you know, we'll look at the way the Pro is and
we talk about how the the pictures have been have been
made and developed just back. Just back just back to the
social side of it yeah I didn't actually have to tell him to cut
him off on Saturday because I didn't get in till 3 morning and
I read it wrong. Ben wanted me to bollocking and

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I was saying why do you the number two I was drinking left
there. What were you doing going in at
3:00 completely misread the situation, but it went back to
me 1990s days and give him the wrong message so he might have 8
till 5 before it sent me on Saturday night.
Henry, Oh. Bless him, bless him, I'm sure
he'd still perform his fit as a butcher's.

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Don't. Don't get, don't get me wrong,
we do have a lot of, we do have a lot of funny changing rooms
and we do have a lot of fun whenwe're when we sat, when we sat.
But there is a there is a serious, there is a a lot more
serious element to what's happening in the game, but we're
doing a lot of fun in there. You know, you can't not have
when you've got Johnny in there.And.
Yeah, OK, you know, you've, you,you, there's plenty of fun to be

(40:23):
at, but it's a different sort. It's different.
Yeah. And.
There's characters, it's just a different era.
It's different. You know, when I you know, with
Charlie Gansler and with, you know, with with with Tom and
Henry, You know, the all they donow is take the Mickey out of us
lot about the podcast and I daftwe are.

(40:43):
And it's just, you know, it's fantastic to see that their
amateurs and they're having a laugh on a joke, you know, using
the weekend up to to improve lawhouse.
I want to just talk a little bitabout the, you know, the you 2
as a partnership when you were playing together and your your
wiki keeping chip and and and Stan is bowling.

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We you know, we've done a littlebit of research and we looked
and and I've mentioned it earlier about how Stanley, you
know, was such a quality ball bowler.
You know, you could land it on the scene, certainly early on.
And what was it like Chippy for you?
You know, we've talked about other pros and and other
players, but when Stanley were bowling, you know, he must have

(41:24):
been ideal. When he was getting it right,
you knew you had to be on your toes.
Yes. Good knit 1.
You had to catch it, Yeah, but. It's like when I asked for the
stats. Yeah, I I weren't in the game a
lot against Paul, caught the armwise.
And I'll tell you why. Stanley.
Stanley's doesn't give yourself as much credit as he deserves,
right? He's his own worst enemy.

(41:45):
He's his own worst critic, but Stanley bowled when it came out
properly the ball. This leg cutter was just
amazing. So he'd pitch it middle, middle
leg even outside like so if you look at them stats that were
given Blaze gets the most catches because he's at backward
point or is at point wherever because it's a lead edge

(42:05):
straight to Blaze because when Stanley got it right and he's
there irreplayable. And the the we we could mark
down on a piece of paper who were playing Nelson playing
Baker put on mark Roger Harper down for 100.
Mark scored down for 100. And in that season he got I
think he got scored once might be wrong.
Stan, he got might got him twicebold, but you've got Alper twice

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bold balls where Roger Harper turned around and thought,
where's that come from? What on earth's happened there?
Because you didn't ball Roger Harper, did you?
Let's be honest, nobody balled Roger Harper, right?
No. No.
And he had. Phenomenal like what it's
honestly, I didn't get many catches behind off him.
It's fantastic to keep to, but he and just yeah, just about.

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The Adam did the start chipping 11 catches off you Stanley and
blessed 12 you 10 yourself caught in bowls.
Yeah, yeah, I. Don't remember many of them.
I can't remember 1. I didn't know what caught it to
bake up. Well, that's.
What happened then? Peter Thompson Peter Thompson
levered it straight back at my next thing.
It ruined my hand. I couldn't believe it.

(43:10):
Making sure I didn't bust my nose probably but I just got it
right in front of my face but it.
Was, you know, it was that era where you 2, you know, were a
bit of a team and, you know, andChippy would always keep you
going standing and you would be working your nuts off for us.
And another start. Adam came up with you in your
career. And I know you had some face

(43:30):
when you were a young lad. You proper get it down the other
end. But you there's only ever been
you've only ever had one stomping.
Yeah, because. Scott Yeah, I'm a debut.
Yeah. What?
Happened there. Can you how old we are and?
18 I think Cameron will throw and I were closed at first team
but you I've said before you went route and write cop shop

(43:53):
and come up with PC web. No one had ever heard of me.
We didn't even know if you played cricket.
We didn't even know if you played cricket.
Anyway, you turned up weird thatone.
So just to put a bit of buffer between me at first team anyway,
it must have been on duty to this one Saturday and I got the
node. Weren't my debut.
Actually, I remember debut at East Lanks.
It was it was the second game, but my first wicket and I can't

(44:14):
remember if it were, if it were part Lord and making and we'll
have to look. Can't remember that, but I got
one of them 28. No, a little bit making them
because Pat Lowe were left-handed, weren't he?
So we're making them and they didn't play the legs hard wide
then. And it's just it did go around
legs. It weren't it wasn't a why it
wasn't a bad ball and such. It just went to flicking that
legs and just just went over andScotty was so fast, wasn't it?

(44:36):
And Scotty just stumped him in ain a flash.
But brilliant. That would be on stumping.
So Scott it when I first got into the first team, Scott it
did stand up to me. But I do think because I saw to
send it as my chance, I were probably at that point a bit
more careful with the bowling. And this is one thing I would
say to Joe Hawk now or Joe a couple of years ago when Joe

(45:00):
Martin used to stand up, used to, he used to sort of.
I always used to think he started floating it.
Did Joe we have to convince Hawkif it was job to knock Joe
Martin off his feet, just bowl out your ball.
Yeah, I didn't. I would never comfortably keep
standing up when I was bowling well up to up to being 26 when I
could bowl well, I would never comfortable with even if it were

(45:21):
a tactic I would never comfortable with because I used
to think I used to get really careful and but if you if you if
you have confidence and you keepthe state, whether they have
confidence game. I have confidence in myself.
But like now Joe Martin and would it who would have
mentioned it last week. I've been toxic on it with Joe
Martin stood up to Joe walk. That's a hell of a tactic

(45:42):
because Joe's still quick, but it did.
It did take a little bit of convincing the Joe at first.
Yeah, I understand it. Yeah, I get it.
And. I've spoken, I've spoken to Joe
Martin about it. It's all I just.
Yeah, Numerous. Yeah.
Stanley. It's it's a massive, massive
weapon. Stood up to a quick bowler.

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Massive. Yeah, yeah.
We've. Also got the stats out there
about your two batting dismissals.
Chippy battered 159 in Stanley 209.
One of you got stumped 10 times and one of you got stumped 4
times. Now Stan's not happy with anyone
ever getting stumped, so which one was which?

(46:25):
It's got to be. Stanley that was stumped 10
times. That's him swinging that massive
Zenit, Yeah. Yeah, I used to use my feet.
If you use my feet to missing. Used to use my feet to a drop.
Yeah, you got me a couple of times.
I mean this these aren't great stats run 81 of you has been run
815 times and the other one seven right I.

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Got good 8. I got the night going for my
record score around 10 at Ramsbottom and got the night
going for 11 I'm. I'm the 15, right?
But I'd like to know how many ofthem I was batting with.
Ryan Esker, I thought you. Were going to say no, no.
Ryan. Ryan Esker must have run me out
ten of them times and I'm sure they were all in one season

(47:09):
because he thinks he thought I was fast as he were.
No, I'm not Ryan. No, I'm a little fat wicket
keeper. Oh, brilliant.
And your LB 1212 times the pair of your 12 each.
So it was, it was interesting, interesting stamps we got.
Them have we got any red ink stats for them or not yeah we.
Have. Yeah, I forgot about that.

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Yeah, I'll tell you what, they're quite impressive. 1 of
them's got 67 and the other one 4360.
Seven, Yeah. That's got to be stunning, 167.
The wallet seasons I didn't score a run till July so that's
amazing. Didn't actually get a.
Three of all your innings, yes. Yes.
Do you remember the best both readings?

(47:53):
We both had played church at home, big church, church at
home. Last game at season they had
Neil Johnson as pro. Your Matt pulled summit in one
of his. Whatever it were, we've got
flags on as a runner. So this is the best 910 Jack
partnership ever in our decade. This is like the Martin Brothers

(48:17):
of the week. So I'm at one I'm 2030 whatever,
not a Matt's flogging it all. Matt's out.
Danny comes in, said Stanley. Just block it right.
So he's blocking it. John London comes back onto
ball. I said right Fanny, see this
over. I'll get him off next door.
We needed two to win. He went to me.
No, no, no, I'm going for it. Fuck this.
I'm going for it. How about you?

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What? He formed him for two covers.
We're on and walking back. I told you I'd win it.
I told you. Oh my God.
Well, that's Stanley. Good lad.
On the game at first time, everywinning runs that yeah.
Yeah, that's the time we'd ever won a game, me and him.

(48:59):
But the two. 109 innings and once you win the winning runs,
watch. Them.
Yeah, we're there once, me and man and.
I think we did this. With Johnny Russell, I think
they were not asked Adam to workout if Johnny never if Johnny
never win. Him on the adrenaline, the bulls
afterwards, I mean, they don't get the crowds, they get now.

(49:22):
The bulls when we were coming off honestly and we're on cloud
now. Me.
For. That I don't know this lot do it
nice. Especially like Worsley Cup
final, like Charlie Gansler is peppering into lane ends.
It's bizarre. Now, fantastic, but when we're
on top, the lads, they do give, they do give a bit what they do

(49:44):
actually. You can tell, you know once,
like when we got on a roll on, when we got on a roll on
Saturday early on and the tour made in, batsmen were walking
past one after other and the pelters, they were going off the
decking. But just keep it going because
it helps, you know, I think the the 4th lab where I as it gets

(50:05):
to get someone shakes, you have to wait.
It was a queue to get back into and.
Whilst. You know, whilst we can laugh
about other clubs that were thinking, Oh my God, you know,
it's almost like an extra player.
But that's life isn't it? You know, that's we've all been
there. We've been on the on the other,
on the receiving end of it. So it's well if they don't want.

(50:26):
To get out, Jess, because they don't come back and face that
lot. That's another.
That's a 12th man for us, isn't it?
Exactly. They are.
They were fighting gold at timeswhen it's not.
Yeah, definitely. Definitely.
I mean, that's a good point to to just bring me on Stanley to
the game on on Saturday. You know, Todd and you know,
they're good sides if they've got, you know, they've got some

(50:48):
depth and, and coming over to our place, the pitch look, all
right. You know, the weather's changed
a little bit over the last 10 days or so.
The pitch look, look good. You know, they they won the toss
and put us in. Yeah.
Let you into a secret, We were actually going to bowl and not
usually I was styled, but we were going to bowl.
Not because I had a pitch. Look, we just thought that

(51:10):
trolling that game and you know,all those hands up, we're
probably glad we didn't once wicket played how it played as
the game as the game went on, Johnny and Ben struggled.
But sometimes people are right to ball well at you.
You know, they're not as much asit's happening a lot.
They're not going to dominate every attack.

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And you know, Noah Priest has a good ball of and and we thought,
is he just giving Johnny a bit of an odd time?
Is it doing a little bit? You know how it recorded?
It was it was apparent very early.
There weren't much banks from the park and and as the game was
on, we've got it. You've got to sit there and
assess it. And when Charlie were batting,
he'd been there by Charlie Cotton, had been there about
half an hour, 40 minutes. And it's weird sort of Ben

(51:57):
Sophie probably aren't last aren't last, aren't last one
last one off the grid. But you do tend to think about
things at the same time and you sort of knew something weren't
right because we've all seen Charlie play for 30 odd years.
And when he's been out there half an hour and he's still not
middle in ball or he still ain'tgot on top of a particular
bowler, you know the wickets notquite right.

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And you also know that Ed Ed Moore, who's not a bowling pro
by any stretch, he's bowling some bad balls at Charlie and
and and toxin. And we just couldn't get him
away. And we were already on about 100
and we sort of made the decisionwe're probably going to be
better here being A130140 or like getting there then trying
to survive on here and giving 120 for 815 for eight.

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We might actually try and get what we can while we can.
So I get, I get some people get frustrated by some dismissals,
but it's not as reckless as whatpeople think.
It has been assessed as to what's the best way to get a
score on here. And I've spoke to a few people
whose opinions and respect and and they were saying to me, I

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said, I think 130 we've got, we're comfortable here.
No, no, someone could get 50 on off back of the bat was one of
the comments. I thought, well, yeah, it does
happen, but it weren't going to happen on that wicket because
we're not piercing it. So there's nothing.
It was just dead and to get 50 off back of your bat, you do
need it to be coming on to bat. And I was very, very, very

(53:23):
confident to talk down. We got a very big score on that
wicket and that. Is a great assessment Stanley
and going back to what Dan has said previously, first of all
around, you know the state of the game some games like Joe and
Patty have done previously. Let's see took the last 20 overs
because we're bound to get you know, and it's the last two

(53:44):
overs we can get 20 then it's a bonus.
But sometimes when you're just surviving, it is better to get
it up to that up to that 143, you know and just give it you
know you've got you've given yourself that extra chance who
cares about the bonus point. Let's let's battle with that
because you know, you look at, you know, look at the scorecard

(54:04):
everyone's got in, you know, facing, you know, over a dozen
balls right right down to Gansler.
And then, you know, then there'sa bit of a blip.
And again, Paddy and Joe, you know, the quality players, you
know, for a 10 and 11, they cannot have been.
I can't think of another 10 or 11 ever that I've ever watched
or played against then. There's.
Quality that's in there and again, the old, you know, it's

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only it's about 21 runs, something like that that they
put on and and then OK, you know, before that I think it
looks like OK and Paddy put on 12, although OK got none.
But it makes all the difference And and did the wicket change
much at all when we went out to ball?
Well, they put the other roller on it, which I want to done

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because I just thought it's going to deaden it even more.
What what what we felt it neededwith a shower, put a bit of zip
in it. So but you know, different teams
have different approaches. So it's not a criticism what Tom
and decided, but we definitely want to put the other roller on.
It's like what what I mean, thisisn't the term we use, but
what's what self is brilliant atand what is taught, taught us is

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to sort of flip a negative. So there'll be people saying
that people say, well, why don'tthey bat 50 overs?
We could put, we could have the bat in order however we wanted
and said to everyone, go and go and block shit out of it.
Don't don't guarantee that you're going to bat 50 overs.
So you've just, you've just got to, you've just got to, you've
just got to realise changing things don't, this is not

(55:29):
necessarily a guarantee. Winning a toss, losing toss,
don't guarantee. And so it's pretty simple.
If you bat and ball better than other take, you're going to give
yourself the best chance, yeah. Yeah.
And everything else is just sortof not a matter of fact, but
it's it's not as important as you saw your performance, your
performance on the day, Yeah. I mean, do you as a unit, you

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know, I don't include yourself in this and you know, if there's
a 12 through there or the squad that's there because the
spectators, me and Chippy of Winds do, I'll sit with Dutch
and we'll have a bit of a whingeabout certain things because
that's, you know, what we're entitled to do.
Obviously the players pick up onthat sort of thing.
What you mentioned there about oh, that weren't a great shot or

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does that affect the players or are they that zoned and focused
in on what the plan is? It's not.
Necessarily zoned it's because what we're working on, you can't
just change what you're working on, you know, so it's you can,
you've put it to one side and look, everyone's lied an
opinion, you know, and, and we might meet Ben Selpa CC when he

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puts in Frankie, especially whenhe's there, they'll be there
might be 5 opinions before you get to 1 you agree on.
So, so you know, we're, we don'tjust all think of same in sheet
every time. But you do seem to have the same
conclusion. And the job I do, I've done it
with Ben and I've done it with Ben and Charlie.
Completely different characters,completely different approaches,

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but the outcome is it's always the same.
It's just how you get, how you get to that outcome, you know?
Yeah. Charlie was.
Ben, Ben could we can go at it for a week with Ben where
Charlie were more out. Let me know what you think on
Friday night and we'll put it into plan.
But once it were Friday night, Charlie didn't miss a trick.

(57:14):
And so it's it's sort of different approaches, but the
outcomes the same. Yeah.
And that's just a different character, isn't it?
You know, and the, the differentways they play.
I mean, when you you're listening to that chippy and
like we said, when we're sat on the boundary edge having a laugh
and joke about it, you know, you've watched some great games
this year with us. And you know, the way Paddy and

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Joe, Joe Batt, they just don't seem like getting out or losing,
do they? You know, we have played against
that in our day. How would we have played against
this team? Oh.
Jesus, against the current team,yeah, I think would have
struggled big time, yeah. Would we?
Would we have fallen out, William?
No, because they're all nice lads.

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I think it's only team. I couldn't fall lightweight if
I'm honest and I could fall out with myself in an empty
warehouse. But I would we play against
them. I don't know, just to be honest
because they're just that good in every department.
I mean, we'll cut Paddy right asan amateur spinner.
I mean he's phenomenal. This gets better and better.
I remember an hour away this weekend and thought we've not

(58:18):
got enough rooms there and I flicked back on and thought why
are we in blue as a result or ifnot?
And then I looked again, I thought what 50 odd all out
Paddy 7 for. I thought there you go.
Just again. It's like when Selfie spoke
about the other week when he said he's the ball in pro and
the batting pro. I think you can throw quite a

(58:39):
few others in there as well because I think Paddy Martin
could could be up there as a ball in pro as well.
It's just an unbelievable unit. I don't see where the weak spot
is me at all. I don't know.
No, you'd have to just get into the skin, I think.
I think it would be a case of, you know, there's a couple of
loose cannons in there that we could get me.
Wrong, Jess. Don't get me wrong.
I'd have a go beyond stump, especially stood up.

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I'd see if I can get into a few of the boxes that.
But yeah, yeah. I'm actually 3.
Chippies are still away. It looks.
It looks like I know. Yeah, no, it's sun setting
behind me. I'm trying to create a scene
here. It's like.
When when they don't want to be known, he's changed his name and
his stuff. And he killed his voice.

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Chippy, played by the voice of an actor.
That's right. I.
Can see it's the sun setting lads.
I'm just trying to be a bit cultural, you know what I mean?
Cultural culture. Can just see my hands moving
like a one of them movies, aren't I so?
When, you know, we get were you at the game, dude?
No, no. But also when you get down to
the, you know, Paddy's obviouslystarted very well and you know,

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Tom's got a bass out and Jackie goes out early on.
And then there's, you know, whenyou look at the scorecard,
there's three ducks in the in the top five, you know, and the
the five runs for four wickets and game over.
Then Stanley was it is that the team but.
Yeah, for me, I'm not usually, you know, I'm not the most

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overconfident and I will try andwill try and look for negative
every now and then. But you just knew that wicket.
Once you get 4 down, you do needsomeone to bang away and knock
them off. Yeah, yeah.
You're not going to knock them off at 50 or 4 over on that
wicket once you're forward and it weren't a bad wicket, it's
not over. Criticise A wicket.

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It were actually, it were probably one of them wickets.
Well, if you went in and said I'm not going to get out, you
could probably bat for a long time on it.
But it was as soon as you tried to put your foot down, you were
out. And it's happened all day.
And no, no, no Priestly. I think it's a six and a four
maybe. But even he will wear it.

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Even if he played them shorts, you know, You know, I can't keep
going like this anyway, if he chips one straight back up to
Paris. So we're pretty.
I was pretty confident that, yeah, I was confident when we
got, for me, when I was seeing Charlie Max, I was saying to Ben
at the time, I think we need to change this.
We need to look at a way to score runs because Charlie was

(01:01:09):
struggling and and and we sort of sort of had a bit of a matter
about it. And rather than change order, we
sort of just give the lads of itgot just going positive and do
what we've been doing all seasonbecause it's going to end.
It's only going to end one way. This.
Yeah. Yeah.
And again, you know, like like you've seen there, I mean that
that speaks volumes that you immediately said when I asked

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the question, was it every day? You said no, going back even
five years would have all of been well, you never know if
someone gets in and someone graphs a 30 and someone smashes
a 40 or 50. But then like you said, Priestly
and record 18 and 15 and then three more ducks and wrapped up
in in 22 overs. And a lot of fed up Todd players

(01:01:53):
there and fans because he was a good crowd on Werner, yeah.
After after tea it got busy, although we didn't play for long
after tea but it did get busy. I think they look, they were
disappointed with a couple of umpiring decisions, but you
could break every single decision down and you're going
to you're going to get them and you're not going to get them.
And you know, we get, well, I just get a lot of decisions is a

(01:02:15):
thing. You're here and I well, yeah,
because we're good. We're both straight, you know,
that's that's why we get a lot of decisions and it's not big.
It just is, you know, they work.We work on ball is straight
talks, you know, and Paddy are going to get like before we get
the ball in the stumps and walkers going to get Nicks and
it's going to be fine here and everywhere.
So, OK, the umpires might be under a lot of pressure, but

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it's not on purpose. It's just because we're in pads
a lot and we're beating bat a lot and we've been.
There we've all been there in we've we've been.
On the other end of it, as it's the night we lost around.
Yeah, yeah. And it's that's, you know,
that's cricket and a good mention.
Again, as we've talked about with Paddy, Paddy's getting 7

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for 31 and he's climbing up thatthat honours board, which is
fantastic to see for him. Second team, another win.
Duke, have you a chance to have a look at that card or speak to
anyone? Yeah.
Both and sports Frankie on Monday about the game Frankie
played again for the twos. He gave me the rundown.

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So yeah, I know how the game went.
Fairly comfortable. We played very well.
Battered first, piled on the runs, not dominated cards, not
dominated by Francois by any stretch.
He dropped down the order a little bit and Will and Keegan
did the bulk of the damage and then as you would expect, the
ball the ball church out relatively, relatively

(01:03:40):
comfortably. Yeah.
Wills in some form there isn't he I mean, I know we had him on
and we had some real banter withhim, but he's you know, that's
good to see that that's standingin it.
You know you've got these players you know they're good
players, Keegan and and obviously Jack Sims in there
who's lost his way a little bit with with what games is
available. But with Frankie and you know
and Sharpie and these sort of plays a good squad there.

(01:04:02):
We you know we are Declan as well and and get Metcalf as well
at the top there That is that putting some pressure on some of
them players Yeah of. Course it is courses, it's
definitely looked at and there'sdefinitely one of the real
positives of and SOPA can take alot of credit for this.
And Ben is the first team and second team probably closer than
we've ever been for a long time.Going back, going back a lot of

(01:04:24):
years now. You know, there's a genuine
interest. I think there was six or seven
of the first team players. They're watching them on Sunday
at Greenmount. You know, you bought your Paddy,
your jaw, your Henry, your Joao were there, Ben were there.
So, so you you do good, you do good.
First team contingent watching second team and and and they are
close and selfie is working, is working.

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You know, the beginning of last season, it took a little bit of
while little while to sort out what we wanted to do and what we
wanted to be and it probably four or five games in and plus
cup games before we got that andand a lot of the concentration
on getting that right. But Sophie has taken a lot of
second teams to one side now andworks for him and improving him.
And one thing, obviously I do talk to deck about it.

(01:05:08):
I think for debt set, it'd been nice to have had this team all
last season because this team would have been nowhere near
relegated. I'm not I'm not saying they'd
have won the First Division of the second team league, but
they'd have been top off and youknow, it put up with a lot at
the beginning of last season with lack of players and
availability and and these it just shows when you get a good

(01:05:28):
group of lads together, decent cricketers, they win games, put
pressure on first team and it's it's good.
Yeah, we've. We've we've done that and we're
where we know what, what, you know, good form brings and good
team camaraderie and everything else.
And he he's quite phenomenal Halfway through, you know, play
22 games in a season, the secondteam have won every game, you

(01:05:51):
know, which is some achievement,124 points, you know, 2032
points above the team in second.So that's a fantastic
achievement. Let's you know, you lads out
there that are listening, Let's keep that going and, and great
stuff from the seconds. And I'm sure there's some of the
from the first team going to watch and there'll be some first
team fans watching you Where, when when the first seven got a

(01:06:11):
game as far as the the league table goes for the for the first
team. Stanley, do you as a as a group,
do you look at it? Is it something you study and
work out of who's playing who and concern yourself or just
game by game as the as the soundteller?
Everyone's different. Some of us do, some of us don't.

(01:06:32):
I tend to look at who we're playing, you know, saying it
sounds boring, but we do sit andwatch a lot of YouTube teams.
We're going to play and come up with plans and some of them are
working. In fact, quite a lot of them
work, but we're not on the TV. Does that support to other
people? Yeah.
So, you know, they do it's it's accessible, Nice.
It's there. Use it.
You know what I mean? It gives you it gives you
anything. But yeah, no, I, I'm not.

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I'm more look at opponents and tables because, you know, if
you're winning, you're doing well.
And I know with 14 points clear and things like because people
tell you it's, you know, I'm notcompletely oblivious to it.
There's other there's other people who will will play and as
soon as we go off the pitch, a look at what's going on at other
grains ranked, ranked league. And if that's what that's what
Mets and balls have no problem with it.

(01:07:17):
You know, it's, it's good, yeah.Yeah, is I think, you know, I
just look at Chippy from AI knowwe've chattered before, but from
afar, what's your you know, I was a bit unsure about the two
leagues coming in, but now you've seen the standard of it
and I know you've not watched any of the the second division,
you know, senior Lancashire League.

(01:07:39):
Are you for the 2 two leagues ordo you think it should have
stayed as it one with one with one league with no other clubs
coming in, No. Absolutely.
I I love it this season. I've been and last season I've
been to more grounds than I've ever been to a Miller and it's
just, it's just a fantastic standard.
I think even the teams that wentdown and the teams that have

(01:08:02):
come up this year, the everybody's a good time.
I mean, this, I know there's some sad lacking in that second
division through funding, through lose, loss of players,
pros, whatever. But yeah, it's it's different
than our day. I mean, I look at it now, I'm
just wish the pros in the league, in our day were in the
league now. Guys could play with some of

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these, some of the best players in the world that we played in.
Because for me, that's like going playing a game of football
now and playing on the same sideas, I don't know, Ronaldo,
Messi, whatever. We, we did that in our era.
We did it. And nobody can ever take whether
we're a good side and we're not a good side, can never take it

(01:08:43):
away from us. But now the only thing I ever
look at is who's the pro? And I can never found out,
probably because I don't know who they are.
Yeah. Who?
We've got a bowling pro this year, little fella.
I know how the pro you can climb.
Don't do much batting these days, but yeah, no, he says.
He's a bowling. Promo this year, isn't he?

(01:09:04):
Yeah, he's a bowling pro, That'sall he.
Is there's a few? There's a few things.
Smash A. Few hundreds now this year bats
like I did. There's a few things from a
nostalgic point of view that youyou might want to go back to,
but a bit like as old toilet paper one league isn't isn't one
of them. It's I think I think those days

(01:09:26):
are long consigned to the the 8 ball lovers and the time cricket
and you know, that's just a different era that people will
look back on and regale stories about.
You'll have some old duffers on podcasts talking about it.
Yeah. Definitely and it.
Is that it really interests me, Gary.

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It really makes me look at it, you know, look at some of my old
friends at Rottenstall and Bake Up and you know, it's the sign
of the times. You can't stand still.
You know, there's other clubs wanting to come in and, you
know, a little, you know, potentially sad to see those
other clubs. But the cricket, the stand of
the cricket and the clubs we're going to is fantastic.

(01:10:07):
You know, so you know, so good on the you know, the way that
it's been set up and you know, the league exec with Tony
Woodworth and what I've used forpulling it all together and and
and get it in where it is. Chippy is there some of the old
stories have we can't we can't not talk about the 1997 season

(01:10:28):
where you and Stanley and how you how you find that went.
I don't know. You've talked about it on your
own, but between you, you must have some stories around that
year playing with Corrie and howyou managed to to keep to him
and, and and keep standing on incheck as well.
Yeah. Well, I had an odd enough job

(01:10:48):
trying to sort myself out with that climbed in a real, let's be
honest, you're odd enough keeping to him.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I think he took my game.
I've said it before, I think he took my game to another level
and he did. I ended up being a far better
Wicked keeper after he played. But I think you've got to
remember our wickets were made for Corrie Jordan, whereas I

(01:11:09):
think for Stan here, for you, for Matt, you struggled on them
pictures because they're not. They're not the pictures for
scene balling, swing balling, that's for sure.
I mean, don't get me wrong, you've still got your fair fill
of wickets, but it's not. We're all about him, weren't it?
Let's be honest. Yeah, yeah, I.
Think I think we're done. It was a bad season for me.

(01:11:30):
I'd had, I'd have three good seasons on trot, you know, and
at that point I control things. But Curry came along and I got
shoved in seconds and just to sort of prove a .70 wickets in
second team, no over the season.So not all the second team.
I've come back at 70 wickets because I couldn't get a game in
first team, but I was still at that time the first team bowler,

(01:11:52):
yeah. There you were.
It was. Incredibly frustrating.
And I don't know if you rememberJess, but when he resigned, you
spoke to Brian Payne for me or you were going to speak to Brian
Payne. I don't know if your
conversation ever happened, but you were going to speak to Brian
Payne because weren't it? The rules weren't strict then
and you could you could go away for a season and come back.

(01:12:13):
And because players didn't move around like they didn't, they
and Rottenstall just had a little bit of a yeah, I do.
Remember, they were. Struggling a bit down there and
I can't play with him, Jazz because I can't still bowling
first time. I'm proving I can at the moment.
And then it could have only beena month later, if that, if he
decided not to be sad. How would the current first team

(01:12:37):
have caught with him? I don't know.
I don't know, because if he did his job, I mean, look, selfies
made a hell of a difference to that team.
And we've we've also had the good players.
But like Gary said about the psychology and and it probably
bring the worst side to them. Like he brought the worst side
to us, to be honest with his attitude and his approach.

(01:12:58):
And I'm not going to say what we're going to say is what about
this though? What?
About this, what about this for a curveball?
You know, I know I get what you're saying there and I
obviously never played with Corrie, but that that season
he's sort of gone down. I mean, folklore, but what, we
nearly won the league. How would how would he that
season have been viewed? And how would Curry's legacy be
different if we don't want it did a bit best?

(01:13:19):
Thing since last bread that restof us would have been Joe one
of. The reasons I put it down, we
didn't. We've done the stats on there
and and Chippy talked about the tick, the home wickets were made
for him. We won more games, got more
points away from home that season than we did at home on
proper cricket team wickets where everybody had it,
everybody could have a chance, you know, batters and same

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bowlers, our other amateur bowlers, and they took more
wickets and our partnerships andour batting partnerships were
higher away from home than they were.
Tommy scored more runs, took more wickets all round.
We were a better team away from home.
Who were at home that season? Yeah.
Yeah, well, I mean, answered your question, dude.
She it really don't bear thinking about.

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To be fair, you know, where thatwe won the first trophy 2004 and
then did so well in two and five, 2016 and seven.
I'd I'd rather have seen it. Like looking back, yeah, it
would have gone down as a great achievement.
I'm not sure that, you know, it might have only prolonged the
agony for the following season for what went on.

(01:14:24):
So I think fate works in mysterious ways, really.
And that it was meant not to be chippy.
Stanley, were you both part of the emergency players meeting in
the dressing rooms that midweek in 1997?
Yeah. What do you?
Recall about it, Chipper. Can you recall what happened?
I thought we. Were at Manor Bond no.

(01:14:44):
All. Of that another one are.
You on about the meeting when hesaid what would you do when he
had us all? Interesting.
Oh. Yeah, Yeah, no, yeah.
What would you? Do Ryan escripting has this sort
of but it was best one line of it one of the best one line has
ever. So he'd gone round and Ryan
would have 861 at line. What would you do?
Well, I don't know it's not working.
What would you do? I sort of agree with him.

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It's not working and got to Ryan.
So what would you do? And Ryan said I'd some more that
sort of, I think. There were only John Bushel who
said yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, it was a lovely back. Yeah.
And then, and that was after thetime when he fell out with his
chip because we thought we, he thought that we'd own you up a

(01:15:26):
tree. Yeah.
You don't go on the gear up in trees.
Yeah, it's what you used to put up with, aren't you?
Bloody buffoons? Workflow.
You did that. By the way, that's like.
Neil have been involved probably, yeah, we're.
Involved in that? Yeah, I see.
And I bet. Dave Walley were there.
Well, he's the only one that could have gone up there with

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that long neck of his, wouldn't?It Dave Walley, it was Dave
Walley and he won't mind me saying it was Dave Walley put
the hexagonal plaster on Stan's helmet when he was facing Paul
Rifle. I've did it to my head week
before but I'm. Funny were it when we went out
to bat against Paul Raffle and you could still.
See, Paul Raffle didn't think. Paul Raffle didn't think it was
funny. Did they stand still there?

(01:16:07):
Because on his helmet we didn't know where they didn't sit
funny. So I didn't Paul Raffle that
day. Oh.
Fantastic, fantastic, great memories, right?
So we've gone through the cricket side we've had.
No. We've we haven't got one due
till end of July now for for Sharon to win it.
What's she? Doing Oh, she, no, she.

(01:16:32):
I know, I know. The no, there's no draw tonight,
but it's good to go through and have a good catch up with some
of you 2 guys and talk through the, the, the, you know, the non
cricket bit and now and it's really good insights, Danny, to
explain what goes on in there. You know how important it is.
You mentioned about where the spares were, right?

(01:16:55):
Which game with that? It wasn't the, the game at home
was it? Where ball got lost in
Grantham's hope, Yeah. Yeah.
Well, yeah, yeah. Where did that ball go to?
Still not. Been fined is it?
We've heard a bit of a rumour that there's potentially a
dungeon in that grounds runs up that and it might have gone down

(01:17:16):
there, but there's only Stan gota key.
Is there any truth to that what we say?
What you're saying about a dungeon and Stan, we're going
down like Joseph Fritzl territory here, are we?
Well. It's just a rumour.
I've heard that ball's gone in there and it's never been
recovered. Be careful.
What we say here, No, I don't. I don't.
I went looking for it because you know what Ben's like.

(01:17:36):
Ben stood with his arms. I go and find that ball.
It was. Bollocking, weren't he?
Yeah. Yeah.
And and then someone has for a joke, so sort of shated it had
been fine when it happened and that backfired because they
stopped the game, concentration were lost and someone would
claim bold Johnny Mcclane. So yeah, we're a bit of a bit of

(01:17:56):
a bad one now. But yeah, it has, it has sort of
come from that because, you know, people do, you know,
people trying to help, you know,All right, I'll stick a couple
of spares in umpires room. It's the job done.
But we, you know, it's just someof us started looking at them.
We want them to be right. And the beauty of it is where
teams or people can listen to this and say, all right, well,
when Lorraine's come to our ground, we'll give them two dog

(01:18:17):
balls. But both captains have to accept
the space. So we can't be stitched up.
You know, we're limited. We can't have it all its own
way. But we can't.
We can sort of question if people are trying to take the
piss. So yeah.
Absolutely. And it's important, isn't it?
You know, it's happened like we've said umpteen times.
It's happened so many times to us.
Every little bit of of an advantage you can get then you

(01:18:39):
need to get it. So no, that's great work chap.
So I'm going to come round you all in a minute, just see if
you've anything else before before we finish.
It's been a fantastic hour and ahalf that I've really enjoyed
it. And just before we do a little
bit of feedback from a lad who used to play down at Cricket

(01:19:00):
Club, Anthony Heaton. He he won the draw just recently
and he's, he's living in Liverpool now and he still
listens to, he listens to every podcast.
He's say he wants to thank you all for everything that you do
and, and keeping him up to speedwith what's going on at the
club. So Anthony, thanks very much and
congratulations on your win and supporting the supporting the

(01:19:23):
club from afar. And if you get down this summer,
come and meet us up and meet up with us and we can grab a pint.
So, Gary, I'll come to to Gary and Duke 1st and then go to the
the guest for the last comments.Anything from yourself, Gary?
Good to catch up with these two comics, Yeah?
That's it in a nutshell, really.Just thoroughly entertaining,
yeah. Yeah, the top lads and it's

(01:19:44):
great to say, you know, you knowwhen Chippy comes down, you
know, to the ground. He's on most games these days.
Lads who who used to remember him as playing come over and say
hello. There's so many people walk past
him and think who's that? So come up and have a chat.
He's. Two clients, they come out with
a fair bit of sense. Really.
They do, they do. Duke, anything you want to add

(01:20:06):
before we we close it up? No.
Just obviously a massive weekendcoming up this weekend, 33 huge
games Friday quarter final of the T20, Saturday semi final of
the Wales the Cup and then Sunday Darwin League.
So tough, tough weekend for the lads, yeah.
Yeah, it will be. And it'll be it'll take a lot

(01:20:27):
out of them because they won't take any of them lightly.
Stanley will they'll. Absolutely.
For all of them, you know the T20, it's a big day.
I know the finals been drawn, aren't you?
That's at Littleborough and no, I didn't.
Know that is it. Is it?
Yeah, Littleborough and. Clitheroe, whoever wins that,
that'll be the Finals day. It'd be good to make up for
that. But after last year, Stanley, I

(01:20:50):
don't know. We'll definitely want to get
there. Yeah, it's hoping that I know I
have. I've seen the team, so I know
Ben's, Ben's playing all he's playing.
So they're going, you know that we're going all in because he's
like, we're going to have to play three games.
We're playing against Darwin on Sunday.
That's Darwin. Away, and he's Darwin.
Away on Sunday and just a littlefeeling free left arm spinners.

(01:21:13):
I think now they've sort of decided they're probably the
second best team at league for me at the moment, so that's not
going to be easy. Obviously a big one on Saturday.
We're ready for that, don't needthat, don't need building up at
all. Everyone knows what we're going
to do there, both sides, you know, Burnley seasons, Burnley
seasons, sort of hanging on thisone.
So they're not going to come andthey're not going to come and

(01:21:34):
take it easy. That's for certain.
Absolutely. Not no, it's going to be, it's
going to be a big occasion but you know, we've got the lads
there that can just do the do the job and, and play the normal
game. Chippy, have anything from you
before we we close it up? I mean, it's worth mentioning
about me and you having a full day out over at Clitheroe last

(01:21:56):
year for T20. Absolutely.
Let's hope we're doing it again this year, Jess.
Yeah, let's. Hope so, but not the same
outcome. We came back.
Yeah, I know. We watched a good game of
football low, didn't we? Yeah.
Yeah, but it was, it was a bit of a surprise over there.
So Chippy, really appreciate youcoming on all the way from

(01:22:17):
Holland, the sunsets looking beautiful there.
Gone. Now I'm in darkness, I think, Am
I sorry? I said.
Holland. Not I'm in Holland.
Yeah, yeah. And no great, no worries.
Mate to. To come on thanks very much
we'll get you on again towards the end of the season let's see
how how things go so thanks for everything anything else from

(01:22:38):
you Stanley before we finish offwell just.
One of my last memories of Tippyreally.
One last times we battered together before it all fell
apart and it's. You might have to check score
cards because it might not all be right.
But we'll play when our next in.So we'll be playing against
Alan, Donald, Joanne, Jill Rifle.
You know, quick guys, weren't they?

(01:22:58):
They were quick and you'd have. I used to sit on balcony with
everything cross thinking. And the reason The reason was
and we're always hoping the amateur would take the wicket.
So if I went in to join Chippy or Ryan or whoever, if I went in
I'd I'd be the amateur I'd be facing.
So this particular day I'm sat with everything cost somewhere

(01:23:20):
Aslan done on a bouncy 1 and Matt Work captain and we had
Amos Anthony with pro from West Indies and a bit of a
firecracker, weren't he? I mean she weren't.
They weren't dealing with a fulla full box of sandwiches where
they were. They were a bit of a bit of a
live wire and I said I said something Stuart Taylor.
I forgot who it were. Stuart Taylor.

(01:23:41):
I think it were Andrew Sidley got our got our man out.
So I thought real do. I'm going in facing a bit of
military medium here. If I just block them to 8, I'm
either 8 or I block them to 8. Chip is to deal with air Miss
Anthony. So we get I get seen players and
misses. Well, I sort of set off.
I used I used to take me back 8 because Gary said Gary and Matt

(01:24:02):
always told me I had to always thought me back was sort of
access luggage really just like wait, wait.
I didn't need to be carrying to be honest.
And then you. So I got there, played and
missed a couple of Stuart Priestley and I realised at that
point why he had me back becauseI'd seen Blaze, he used to pat
pitch, used to walk down pitch patting it and I thought, well,
that's what my bat must be for. So I walked down pitch patting

(01:24:24):
and by the time I got to Chippy at middle, I was patting last
week's wicket and I looked so. And on Horizon we're Amish
Anthony that stood next to its art screen, the start of his run
up and he's I'm like looking I'mthinking, bloody hell, that's a
long way to run. Is that to ball at my mate?

(01:24:46):
So I'm looking at Amish Hampton and Chippy regulars crop
clockwork when you come out. What did Matt give you as plan?
And I'm looking at Amish Hamptonand I said dots, 2's and four's
chippy doing's back right sets off, carries on patting wicket
not concentrating. I think by the time I stopped
patting stuff, I was stood next to Jack Simpson, patting next to

(01:25:07):
his feet, coming back. Right Anthony, Anthony said.
And he's absolutely tearing in and Chippy's jumping in there
and everywhere he manages to getone away into gap shouts yes,
I'm shouting what, hey, going down there pal sends him back to
my end and all the way back saysover in between.

(01:25:28):
I'm talking because we've got one with Azzy lads then so I'm
having an actor with Charlie Lord and Bat Lord and Crusher
and I was sat in that and while Chippy spending all these, well,
we're all laughing actually Chippy spending all these balls
off of me mid on, mid off and cover it all laughing at it.
And then we go we're constant middle again.
Chippy says what you doing? They were on there.
I said Chippy. I said not only it's me facing a

(01:25:50):
Miss Shantanette, an exercise infutility.
It's a fucking dangerous exercise in futility and I hate
doing it. And off we walked.
Andrew certainly got me out and off with Pops, but they were
just just good days. Yeah.
And and tipping of it other end,cursing and winding.
Well, they took his batting seriously.

(01:26:12):
Chip the Gary's right took it serious, but I didn't much
point. Brilliant.
Brilliant, I can see you both now.
It brings back so many memories with with you 2 wandering out
and well, we used to play. Against these guys with three
helmets to share that you didn'tall have his own.
Helmets NO3. Helmets.

(01:26:32):
So if someone had battered for more than 15 minutes, helmet
would piss through when you put it on?
Yeah. I think.
Around on your head, that was the.
Season Stanley, I think where itwas that daft year when you
could bat 55 overs and I think that game would have been.
Yeah. You were like, are we not
declaring? Are we not declaring?

(01:26:53):
We wouldn't. I mean, there are a few funny
things up in that game. We only eat Ryan over into
housing estate and into me and stammer on bound and stammer
shake did mine as it went into housing estate.
Yeah, we did 52. Overs we first in that game, did
we? You were red.
Ink, Sally, You weren't. You weren't right.
You were ready. Who got chippy Amish?
Anthony, Yeah. LB Yeah.

(01:27:16):
I give it. But you will get.
You obviously get any line chip.If you got the LBW, you weren't.
I don't back away, but get it. I get it.
Give it off with popped. Brilliant.
Brilliant. So good to hear some laughter
and it's not just all of it is playing really well, albeit we

(01:27:37):
are playing really well and seconds 11:00 and 11:00.
So that's fantastic. So thanks everyone for
listening. We will be recording again
probably next week bearing in mind the fixtures we've got this
week. So keep listening, keep liking
and subscribing and don't forgetjoin that draw, yeah, and I'm.
Off now in great forward to put people to sleep with Johnny

(01:27:59):
Wharton all. Right, we'll catch you all soon.
You an insomnia. With me and Johnny.
Good night. Everyone here.
See you. Thank you.
Bye, Gordon. Gordon.

(01:28:30):
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