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Match

Round 3

Day

2

Date

5th November 2007

 

Andrew Baker

Due to the wet weather last week the matches in all 5 grades were washed out.

 

An interesting quote was made over the weekend by Will Affleck. He said: “If we don’t win 24’s this year I will eat my hat.”

 

So there is no pressure on 24’s now that Will has thrown out this massive statement. But if they don’t happen to win I reckon there will be crowd to see Will chow down on his eagle hat.

 

Through the complete total lack of responses we are running the caption competition again. $10 on offer at Ned’s kitchen from me so email them through.

 

I received an email from Ray Gentles last week regarding one of the great characters that played for Auburn in the 70’s his name was Felix Molski and you can see a picture if Felix in the clubhouse and Ray reports this:

 

“A great profile is Felix Molski who opened the bowling in First Grade in the mid to late 70's.Among Felix's many antics some come straight to mind.  After some bad decisions went against him at Mona Felix lay across the centre of the pitch in protest and refused to move. The game was held up for a a number of minutes until we picked him up and carried him to deep cover so we could continue the game. 

 

Another time he got so angry with an opposition batsman he ran straight past the stumps, got half way down the pitch and hurled a beamer straight at the batsman’s head.

 

In another game he had a theory that by wearing batting pads it meant you got hit there more often so he decided to bat with no pads. He was LBW first ball!!!

 

Felix drove a red Monaro to the games and used to calculate the exact amount of petrol needed to get him to Mona. On a regular basis he ran out of petrol.

 

On the club gambling night fundraisers while everyone else brought beer Felix always brought a watermelon so that when we all got pissed he cleaned up everyone’s money late in the evening. 

 

By the way he was a fantastic bowler, who swung the ball prodigiously both ways. When he got it right he was almost unplayable, his 6 for 8 against Burwood at Rothwell was close to the best single spell I've seen in First Grade.”

 

Ed.  From these stories you might think Felix Molski had an IQ just above his batting average whereas he had a B.Sc. in mathematics which he taught.  Now that he has retired from teaching, he plays bridge at a very high, competitive level.

 

 

Package

 

This weeks player is long time eagle servant and self promoter Shawn Freeburn

 

What is your Favourite memory as an Eagle? 3rd Grade Premiership
 

Why did you choose Auburn? Close to home
 

Favourite Auburn player? and why? Ben Donaldson, cause when his on fire it’s just exciting to watch
 

Any changes to Ned's arvo tea? More LOLLIES, maybe some Pepsi Max
 

Word Association
Dewahs - Top Bloke,
Parramatta - "08 PREMIERS"
Parcel - Porn
Cam Watson - Fiery Ranga

Sweep shot– Easy
Waxing – Some areas shouldn’t be done
Playhouse - Good Times
Running Between the wickets- Lightning Fast
Winning - Better than losing
Losing - Rubbish

 

Most annoying teammate? Bakes
 

What did you want to be when you grew up? Dean Jones
 

Theme song for your life? Friday on my mind - The Easybeats
 

One rule in cricket you would change? LBW – That’s cause SOME umpires don’t know what it is
 

Sexiest team mate? Shane Cook
 

Who do you refuse to shower with? Collo cause I am sick of him showing me up
 

Who would you turn gay for? Helen Clark - NZ Prime Minister
 

Down to your last 10 bucks how would you spend it? A Block of Dairy Milk Chocolate, and a Corona.

 

 

ASK BURTO

 

 

Dear Burto,
 
I generally field in the slips and often next to one particular bloke who dead set farts all day long. Is there anything this bloke (Vella) can change to his diet to prevent this continuous flatulence?
 
DB

 

 

Mate, this is an age old issue for the slips & something that I, and many others, have had to deal with for years (Belly, we know you shouldn’t have had Thai on a Friday night, you don’t have to tell us every Saturday).  The worst case of this was in the 80’s when Greg Chappell was at 1^st slip and Rod Marsh was having a particularly flatulent day. In between overs, Greg was heard to say, “ Bacchus, if you horse & cart one more time, Greg Dyer will be playing in the next Test.” Marshy, to his credit, took the criticism constructively, however play was held up for 5 minutes whilst D K Lillee held Greg down so that Marshy could unleash one in Greg’s face. It’s no secret that Greg Chappell stood down from the captaincy not long after and Kim Hughes took over. But what isn’t well known is that Kim in fact roomed with Rod Marsh in that fateful series against the Windies. The tears in his eyes were in no way related to the teams poor performance but rather a long night in the hotel room with Marshy after he’d been out to Mexican with the boys.

 

Basically DB, just suck it up & hope that there’s no follow through, or stop bludging in the slips & get out & do some work in the field, as that situation is never going to change.

 

Congratulations to “Burto’s Man of the Month” for October – The Ginger Ninja – Charlie Leonard – 13 wickets at 9.5 including 2 five for’s, and a sensational 7 runs with the bat at 3.5. Well done Mr October!!!

 

Burto

 

CAPTION COMPETITION

A new feature this week will be a caption competition. Try to keep it clean send all responses to either andrewbaker@auburncricket.com or Daniel.burton@mercer.com.au