Teams to play West.

City United teams to play West in a two- Dayer match on 15th and 22nd February. 

   All players are requested to be at their prospective grounds half an hour before their match commences. If any player is unavailable please contact your captain. All players are invited back to the Tamworth City Bowling Club for a quiet drink and a BBQ after your match


Important message for all Players.

The TDCA has a Code of Conduct which every player is required to play to. Every City player has a personal responsibility to play within this code and the spirit of the game.

1st Grade Riverside 1 1pm start time:

Peter Mead (C)0427603558, Jack McVey, Ryan Hansen, Simon Toyer (2nd week), Tait Jordan, Terry Kampe, Brett Walsh, Dan Whale, Richard O'Halloran, Sean Hancock, Michael Bellamy, Dan Lawrence.

2nd Grade Riverside 2 1pm start time: 
Mark Fisher 0402931783,  John Miskle (VC), David Smith, Simon Bellamy, Rod Pryor, Ron Farrell,  Josh Bennie, Steve Ballentine, Ben Cederblad, Cory Calcott, Mitchell Morgan Glen Ryan (1st week)/ Sam Brown (2nd week), Dan Rogers(1st week)/Patrick Dwyer(2nd week), Terry Skewes Reserve 2nd week.

3rd Grade Riverside 3 1pm start time:
 Trent Balderston(C) 0431589787, Graeme Schwenke, Nathan Smith,  Scotty Hurn, Cooper Thompson, Tim Paynter, Paul Fisher, Tom Fitzgerald, Eddie Beattie, Danny Malpe, Josh Miles, Locky Cooke, Jesse Alken (reserve) 

4th Grade Riverside 7 1 pm start.
Anthony Fitzgerald(C) 0401177209, Josh Cooke, Neil Cooke, Brody Gregg,  Doug Truman, Robby Gregg, Mark Chew, Ron Benjamin, Gary Whale, Paul Lawrence, Russell Pitt, Noah Pitt.  

City prides itself on being a true club, not individual teams. We play for the club not for a specific team or grade, throughout the season there will be movement of players within the grades both up and down but always playing for City, that’s what being a part of a club is all about. Best of luck to everyone for the weekend matches.
GOOOOOOOOOOOO how will your chapter read in the story of this weekends match? CITY

The boys are in the hunt

 

Both our Terrific 3^rdGrade and Awesome 4^th Grade sides are both in the hunt for a semi-final spot with two matches remaining.  This weekend City takes on Wests in a two –day match. I know the boys will keen to rebound after last week’s disappointing lost.

It starts at training and selection this afternoon from 5pm at Riverside2.

GOOOOOOOOO see you there!!!!!! CITY

Sugar’s over on Saturday.

Towards the end of the 2^ndGrade match on Saturday,  Bective needed six runs to win with heaps of overs and wickets in hand.  Dean Hoy had just come to the crease and had scored 16 runs off 4 deliveries from the over before.
It was time to turn to our Sugar!!!!!
The ball was thrown to Sugar to have a bowl by his captain, with the cheeky words from Mark  “don’t you lose us this match, Sugar.”
The first ball of Sugar’s over.
With Dean Hoy on strike Sugar balled his first delivery. Hoy was surprised by the delivery and pushed it to the leg side for what he thought would be an easy single.  NOT when Sugar is bowling, he took off after the ball, Hoy then started to run. Sugar found that Hoy was now between him and the ball, so what does our Sugar do.
A/ Pull up and let Hoy pass and let him make his ground.
B/ Side step Hoy to collect to ball.
Or C/ Shoulder charge Dean Hoy who plays front row in Group 4 Rugby League.
You guessed it Sugar shoulder charged Dean Hoy and although Sugar ended up on his backside. Sugar did let him know, that Sugar meant business.
The 2nd ball of Sugar’s over.
You see it was a long hot day in the field. You had our President at 1^st Slip and Rodney Pryor at point, both of which are not your fastest movers at the best of time let alone after a few hours in the field.
Sugar bowled and the batsmen guided the ball between our two tired old fieldsmen. Both our President and Rodney looked at each other to see who would be the first to move and chase the ball down, when suddenly Sugar like a flash, like a strike of lightning took off from his follow through and bisected both Rodney and our President who were still having a stare off. Sugar fielded the ball at the 3^rd man boundary off his own bowling.
The 3^rd Ball of Sugars Over.
Sugar run-up was getting longer with each delivery. As he approach the crease Mark Fisher at Keeper, our President at 1^st Slip and Rod Pryor at Point were chatting SUGAR, SUGAR, SUGAR. The delivery was a bit too short and it ended up in the piles of gravel on the Sully Park hill. The match was over. 
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Sugar’s three ball over will never be forgotten.CITY

Leading from the front.

We are all astounded by the personal sacrifices that City’s newest Life Member, Peter Mead has made for our club. This season has been no exception, Peter was looking forward to a season in 2nd Grade but after we lost Harrison Kelly as our 1st Grade Captain at the start of the season the club turned once more to Peter as our saviour. Once again Peter didn’t let us down, not only has he taken leadership of our 1st Grade side but he has turned them into a very competitive team that play for each other and have a wonderful spirit of mateship and a common goal.

In 2nd Grade the same can be said of Mark Fisher. Mark has stepped into the breach as captain and has kept an understrength team together through difficult times. He has shown faith in his players and always encouraged them.

Our 2nd Grade didn’t have a wicket keeper for Saturday’s match and after ringing around could not find any keeping gear. So Mark went off and brought the entire keeping gear we required himself. He practiced Keeping during lunch and morning tea breaks in the offices at Council and had some office staff throw him catches, using his chair as the stumps.
Match day came, Mark had Josh throw him some catches, it didn’t look good. Mark said with a smile “I am confident of stopping at least half of them”.
We took to the field and like in every match that he has captain, Mark set a high standard for his fellow players to follow. The bowling as a bit over the shop and on occasions the ball would bounce just in front of him, sometimes twice. But NOT one catch was dropped and NOT one bye was given. Mark wore them on his chest, his legs, his arms, as he got behind every ball that came his way.
A Wicket Keeper he is not but a leader of men he is.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOO where some amazing people play CITY

A Dentist visit while on Holidays.

Our President and his wife interrupted their holidays to go to the dentist.
Our President's wife was so angry with this interruption to their week away. She stormed into the Dentist reception room and said "I want a tooth pulled, and I don't want any pain killers because I'm in a big hurry," she said. "Just extract the tooth as quickly as possible, and we'll be on our way."
The dentist was quite impressed. "You're certainly a courageous woman," he said. "Which tooth is it?"
Our President's wife turned to our President and said, "Show him your tooth, dear."
GOOOOOOOOOO good luck on the weekend, gentlemen CITY

It’s not in the spirit of the game.

I attended another TDCA Board of Control meeting last night as City United’s representative as every club has a representative. Last night was the third occasion this season that a player had been cited to appear “for bringing the game into disrepute” because of comments that he placed on Facebook. All player and supporters are reminded to be very, very mindful of what is posted on social media. The Tamworth District Cricket Association has from the start of the season made it an inclusion of the "code of conduct" so any inappropriate, derogatory and harassment comments made towards another player, umpire or official relating to the Tamworth Competition will not be tolerated and will result in action being taken by the TDCA.

The TDCA is also stamping down on inappropriate language, verbal abuse or dissent directed towards an umpire or follow players during the matches. This behaviour is not in the spirit of the game and will not be tolerated. City United fully supports the stand taken by the TDCA on this matter.

As my dear mum always says if you haven’t got anything nice to say, don’t say it.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO  where we play for the love of it CITY

What a wonderful performance from our terrific 3rd Graders.

Trent with his father Glen who was a long time City player also.

Our 3^rd Grade team lived up to their tag as being “Terrific” by winning both their 20/20 matches on Saturday. It was a wonderful team performance in both matches, where the bowlers continually took wickets. Our 3^rd Grade captain Trent Balderston was delighted by the team’s fielding in both matches during a very hot afternoon, he was also very impressed by his batsmen who were in total control chasing down the small totals in each match. .

The two wins have leapfrogged our 3^rd Graders into 4^th spot in the overall competition and 2^nd spot in the One-Day competition giving them every opportunity to play in the One-Day final if they can beat Bective this weekend.

GOOOOOOOOOOOO exciting time for CITY