To celebrate
the glory days of the Pigs ICT and in memory of its speedy but painful death
beers will be had at the Gordon Club, Level 5, Mandarin Centre, Chatswood
tonight at 6.00pm (a short 15 minute train ride from the city). Each of you
who has been a member of this fine team did so so well and in a year when so
many great sporting teams (eg North Sydney Bears) have met their demise you
have all held your heads as esteemed members of a famous cricketing family
which has its origins as far back as May of this year.
From the early
days of glory until the last torid run was scored and wicket was taken the
Pigs ICT was a fine team of supreme and finely tuned athletes at the very
top of their game. You should all give yourself a pat on the back.
Anyway, please
try and come for a few drinks at 6.00pm or later if you want or earlier if
you are a drunk (I will be there at 5.30pm).
If for some
lame reason (of which I am getting used to now) you cannot make it Thank you
very much for giving up your time, money and skill over the past 6 months to
help out and/or play for the Pigs ICT. Thank you to all our supporters for
showing up and for those who could not come thank you for reading boring
match reports and for being supportive to a bunch of closet alcoholics who
used 1 hour of running a maximum distance of 5 meters at any given time
(which happened about 10 times a night) as an excuse to attend a pub and
drink way too much beer at the conclusion (although granted, it was a good
excuse)
Thanks to all
the girlfriends and friends and friends that were girls but not girlfriends
in that sort of way and friends that were boys but not boyfriends in that
sort of way (but not to the girls and boys who did not come because of
Melrose Place, Beverley Hills 90210 (the college years) and Party of Five
being on Tuesday nights) who made many attendances to a place in the middle
of nowhere to watch good (okay maybe not that good) cricket being played and
then to sit and pretend to be interested as seven semi alcoholic men (Jeff)
tried to suggest that they could actually play the game by providing
detailed anaylsis of each bowl bowled and run obtained and then watched
these men as they argued that it was an inswinging late cutting reverse
swinging leg spinner and not a pie (which invariable it was) and that the
partnership would have been a lot better had one not been bowled so many
times by a 10 year old one armed frog. Of course, Juliette gets special
mention for being there every week and looking the most believable when
asked does she enjoy going and saying yes.
Thanks to the
Larrikans for being alcoholics and giving us belief and hope and a free
beer.
Thanks to all
the firsts people and each of you know who you are and I (and we) know that
holding that First position will always remain in your heart.
And now, a
poem
Thanks for the
memories, thanks for the love,
thanks for
being beautiful and flying from above
Thanks for the
batting with fours and sixes and those little shots that we call flickets
but ease up a
bit on the thanks when we say there was too many wickets
Thanks for the
bowling, the hattricks and leg spinners
because with
wickets we are grinners and grinners are winners.
Thanks for the
crackerjack tucker at the Gordon Club
and combined
with the beer it made us a bit chub (by)
and Thanks for
the beer because without beer there would be no beer and without any beer
they would be no beer.
Hopefully the
Pigs ICT will resurface later next year but for the moment,