Arbroath United Cricket Club

 These may bring back a few memories ladies, it certianly looks like you all enjoyed yourselves.

Chris ‘CJ‘ Johnston Arbroath United Cricket Clubs’ Professional for the last two seasons, has left and gone back to Australia.  CJ’s last game was against Forfarshire, but he had made the decision to leave a few weeks earlier.  CJ’s left the club for personal reasons and I’m sure the members of the club wish him all the best for the future.

Janey was born on 20th January 1961 and brought up in Shettleston, in the East End of Glasgow. Aged 19, she married into a Glasgow gangster family and 28 years later, she remains married to her husband. For 14 years, Janey and her husband ran a pub in the Calton area of Glasgow's East End.  During her years running the pub, she staged the first performances by comedian and magician Jerry Sadowitz. She later became a full-time stand-up herself, ran comedy clubs including Jesters in Glasgow and regularly compered at clubs in Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool as well as regularly playing dates in the Netherlands and successfully playing to Scots & Irish crowds in Queens, New York City. For a time, she worked as an entertainment correspondent reporting from London, New York and New Zealand for former MP Edwina Currie's BBC Radio Five Live show Late Night Currie.

Man seen leaving 'Club Swimming Pool'

Wanted for wearing Dodgy Underware 

If you see this man

Do NOT Approach him and

contact a member of the Club,

Councelling Maybe required.

Please do not dwell on the picture 

too long, it may cause harm.

 There were lots of winners on the night but also a few loosers

 Place your bets please!

 Calvin and Marc with some of their friends who came to support the night

 Eyes glued to the TV..... well for most!

Being sensible, taking it steady, big game tomorrow

Winners young and old

Another winner

Auction, Matty Gove gets a horse

Or was it a donkey

Is was a donkey, hang your head in shame

The bar staff looking serious

The cashiers with Fraser, Marc and Calvin

Meet the Simms

On the night

The morning after

Matthew Parker gained his first senior cap in Scotland’s 9 wicket victory on Monday against Norway in the European Championship.   Norway were dismissed for 43 in 21 overs and Matthew was first change bowler claiming two wickets for nine runs from five overs, both victims being caught by wicket keeper Colin Smith.

Arbroath cricketer Stacey Christie has been spending her summer playing cricket for Scotland Under 17's Women's Team.  As part of the ECB County Championships 2008 they have travelled to play teams from Durham, Cheshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire.  Having performed well in those games she was delighted to have been selected as 12th man (woman) to represent Scotland's Senior Women's Team against Durham, where she took part in the final four overs.  Stacey's hoping to get the opportunity to represent the Under 21's Scotland Women's Team who will be competing in next years European Championships.

Dear All

Comments have been made regarding the smell coming from the Changing Rooms with the Clubhouse at A.U.C.C.   

As a result of this, I have cleared out all the clothing and equipment within the changing rooms both home and away. I have particularly cleared the equipment/ clothing on the shelf above the pegs. It was not the most pleasant of tasks but had to be done.  I have not touched bags that are neatly stored despite the fact they should be in the shed at the rear.

The Equipment / Clothing has been put into bin liners and 2 other bags and put in the shed at the rear of the Club. It is in the equipment shed on the bottom shelf to the right hand side as you go in. Much of the equipment appears to be old and rather than putting in the bin, it is left lying around the Clubhouse. It will remain in the shed for approximately 2 weeks before I will take it to the dump. If you do find some thing missing, I do apologise, please feel free to reclaim anything that is your property. If you do search through the bags please replace them tidily. There are a number of old helmets, cricket boots, thigh pads, training shoes, football boots, pads, batting gloves, last years shirts, 2 bags, Scotland shirts, etc.

Players are once more reminded that the Clubhouse is not a dumping ground for their old or new kit. You might get away with it if you zip it up in a bag and leave it tidy.

Other rubbish, smelly socks and other underwear damp towels etc. have already taken away and dumped.

Parents

There were also a number of jackets that were hung up beside the Telephone. These have also been cleared and are again in the sheds.

Simon Pedgrift

The ladies Dinner will be held at the club on 29th August.  Lindsay Wood will MC the event and Willie Allen and Very Special Guest Jackie Bird everyone is sure to have a great time, so if you are interested, contact Gary at the Club for further details or call him on 871503.

 Your Maidens for the evening 

Ready and willing to serve

Close Freinds

Very Close freinds!

A gentleman resting between courses

CP giving a rendition of 'Oh Danny Boy'

A picture of pure innocence.................................... NOT!

 A big croud in for the evening's entertainment

Oh Dear Paul..................

Shall I or Shall I not..... that is the question

"Now, you see Webby, football and cricket are essentially the same game except one has a bigger ball"

Look at those Threads..........

Gary dong his rounds

 Surprise!!!!

 Some shifty looking character's here!

 Kevin, and exactly who is that girl?????

1.  Professionals & Overseas Amateurs                                                                        

            (a)        Clubs are reminded to register any professionals and overseas amateurs before

they play in any league match. If not, the offending team will lay themselves open

to matches being claimed against them and all points gained could be forfeited.

            (b)        Clubs are reminded that the regulations concerning professionals and overseas

amateurs (Rule 12.1) was changed at the recent EGM. For details, please refer to

the EGM notice or to the amended constitution in the Handbook (when available).

2.  Promoted Teams

                        Teams finishing 1^st & 2^nd in the lower divisions now have the right to be

promoted to the division above, if they so wish.

3.  New Playing Conditions

            (a)        Teams are reminded that there is no longer the draw option in any league match in

all divisions.

            (b)        The maximum number of overs that any bowler can bowl in any league match in

                        any division is 9.

            (c)        The length of matches in the Premier Division and in Divs 1 & 2 is 90 overs.

                        The length is 80 overs in Div 3.

4.  Match Returns

(a)        Some clubs were less than punctual in submitting their match returns to Ian

            Chisholm last season.    As usual, the Union Committee intends to apply Rule 13

during the coming season, if necessary.

(b)               Clubs are reminded that match returns may be posted or emailed to Ian Chisholm.   

E-mail should be a quicker process.

(c)                On all match returns, please remember to enter in the correct place (i) the number of wickets lost, (ii) the total scored and (iii) the players who did not bat. Please also indicate clearly who the not out batsmen were.  

5.  E-mail Addresses

If your club or a reliable club member has recently acquired an “e-mail address”, then

please notify me and I can send future communications by e-mail.

6.  Cup Draws/Neutral Umpires

The draws were sent earlier by email (unless you are on the postal list or in the PCA

Cup). They will of course appear in the handbook. Remember the notes are also very

important. Please note that we are again using neutral umpires this season. SNCL pros

can take part in the 3 Counties Cup. At the time of writing, the Cups are not sponsored

this season.

7.  Handbook Advertisers

If you know of anyone or any business, who wishes to advertise in the handbook, then

please contact Richard Miller on 01382 737592 for details asap. A full page advert costs

only £50.

8.  Balls

You may have already received your order from a committee member. If not, you should

in the next week or so. David Armstrong has the balls for Almond Valley, Breadalbane, Glendelvine, Kinross, Kirriemuir, Mayfield, Perthshire, Strathearn and Strathmore. Ian Potts has the balls for Coupar Angus and Meigle. Lindsay Ancell took responsibility for DHSFP, Kinloch, Northern and Rossie Priory. I have delivered the balls for Huntly, Mannofield, Stoneywood/Dyce, Arbroath, Brechin and Montrose. The rest will be delivered to Clubsport, Dundee for uplifting.

9.  Unpaid Dues

If you have not paid for your balls or your annual subscription, then our treasurer,

Richard Miller, will be on your case soon. You will receive an invoice for any unpaid

dues when the handbooks are delivered. The Union would appreciate prompt payment.

10.  Protests

            Clubs are reminded that the protest deposit has been increased to £20. If a deposit is not

            submitted, the  protest will not be considered. This means that the Secretary can be

            notified by phone that a protest will be submitted, but the official protest with details and

deposit can only be made by post or handed to the Secretary or a Committee member.

11.  End of League Season

            The final date for a league match in Divs 1, 2 & 3 is September 16^th.

10.  Website

The Union has been informed by Cricket Scotland that it may not be possible to include our results on their website.

11.  Neutral Umpires in League Matches

Once again, clubs will not have to reimburse umpires after games this season. Instead

each umpire is being given a float of £50. The umpires should then to submit their claims

for expenses at the end of each month to the Treasurer, Richard Miller. 

12.  Umpires

            (1)        Thankfully there were no reported cases of umpire abuse last season; however the

Committee would like to remind all captains that they need to keep their players

in check. This is a requirement as detailed in the Preamble to the Laws of Cricket

and in Law 42.18 of the Laws.

(2)        Unfortunately there were some complaints about blatant biased umpiring by a few

players. Please try to be neutral and fair when umpiring.

13.  Time Wasting

Captains are reminded that the Union Committee would like to see an over rate of 18 overs per hour. There was an excellent article in the 2005 handbook, which showed how easily time can be wasted (or saved) during a game.

14.  Financial Assistance

As always, the Union Committee is willing to consider financial support for any initiative which would improve the standard of cricket in the area, e.g. practice facilities, artificial pitches, umpiring or coaching courses, but not the cost of professionals/coaches.  

Here’s hoping for a drier and sunnier summer than last year. I hope to see many of you during the season. Good luck to you all but please remember that you cannot win them all and cricket is meant to be a gentleman’s game so let’s try and be fair in our decisions.

David.

Would you like to look cool, trendy and one of the team, if so then this is for you!!!!

AUCC are going to be getting new playing tops, if you would like to buy one of these tops, please contact Calvin Burnett on 871503

Alison and Cath, happy people

Thanks Bob a lovely presentation to the pub, The body line tour Picture. 

A Happy Barman, Dave was on the bar all night, well done Dave!

The Fillies in the Horse Race

And the Finalists

A Couple of punters at the bar

Oh Dear Jim, how much have you had to drink!

Now that Guinness MUST be mine

How's about a game of Poker

Roulette anyone!

Thats a fine looking bar, Notice the sets of stumps

The Casino Night was well attended

Look nice eh

Oh Dear!

ARBROATH UNITED CRICKET CLUB

CASINO NIGHT

(and Official Opening of our new Bar)

Saturday 15^th March, 2008

BLACK JACK, ROULETTE WHEEL, RACES, BUFFET, ETC

8.00 P.M. TILL LATE

Tickets £5.00 per person call 871503 Cath Burnett for tickets

PLEASE COME ALONG AND SUPPORT YOUR CLUB

This is a photo of the new bar, still a few changes to be made, but I think that you will agree it is a vast improvement on what we had

Pictured recently in the club house of Arbroath United cricket Club are four of the five young players to be selected to represent Scotland in South Africa. Fraser Burnett, Mark Petrie and Mathew parker have been selected to represent the country at U19 level and will travel soon to under take a two and a half week tour. Playing South Africa’s provincial and academy teams this will give the boys good experience for the season ahead. As part of the national structure Scotland U19 this year will enter a team into the National league this will work along side club commitments.

The ICC Women's World Cup qualifying tournament, was originally to be held in Pakistan in November. At that point Diane Pedgrift was awaiting an operation on a knee injury. She has now recovered from this and has been selected once again to gain national honours. The tournament has now been moved to South Africa and will be played in the Stellenbosch area from February 18-24. Scotland is one of the participants, competing with Bermuda, Ireland, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, and Zimbabwe - the top two sides going forward to the World Cup itself, in Australia in 2009.

Not pictured but selected for the U15 tour of South Africa is Ross McLean this team will play representative sides of the same age group.

Angus girls began their winter training in earnest on Sunday 13.01.08. The group has over the years produced many of the current U17 national squad have been honing their skills in preparation for the new season. An Angus select all girls’ side will represent in the local Dukes Strathmore U13 league for the first time in its history this year.

A photo of the mottle crew who played in the new year football game

A horrific event happened on the night of CJ and Gillies Benefit Disco.

People were asking how could such a thing be allowed to happen. As you will see below the shocked look on some peoples face is hard to bare.

This reveller thought it was a jaw dropping gruesome experience.

Others just thought it was unbelieveable.

The terrified look on this party goer, tells it all!

Some thought that it was an eyebrow raising event.

Others did too.

Not everyone thought that it was so horrific, in fact some thought it was quite amusing.

After SIZING up the situation some thought that it was quite hillarious.

Others just couldn't contain themselves.

And some just saw red.

And there was one or two who just went completely overboard, it was never that funny.

Some thought it was so horrific they could only bare to look with one eye.

There were a few who just couldn't care less.

And other who actually missed the event completely.

Some are now on therapy to help get over this ugly event.

Some were just utterly dumb struck by this sickening incident.

What was it, what caused this great dreadful event.

Well unfortunely the flash on the camera didnt work, only the people who were present will ever know how horrifying an ordeal this was.

The day Arbroath United had a payoff against Dunfirmline to avoid relegation.

Pauline and Alison, deep in conversation about the match, so deep they forgot to watch it.

Not very warm

Not warm at all

Even the guys didnt think it was warm..... thats why most of them were in the bar....

After the win, there was a small gathering at the club.

Member of the Jubilent first team, a thrilling game

The ceremonial Burning of Gillies shoes

Presentation of club ties to the Pro and Am.

CJ and Gillie's Beniefit Disco took place on Saturday 25th August after the win against Fofarshire

Here are a few memerable photos.  If you have any other suitable photo's please send them to the email address on the Home page, and I'll put them on the website.

The youth of the club look on as Gary does a speach

The presentation to Alan Paterson for all his hard work over the year with the Kwik and youth Cricketers of the club.

The bar staff

The bar patron

The revellers, what a happy bunch

Brothers in arms!

Who's tickling who

The band

Could of had a shave!!!!