SPECIALEFFECT WEEKLY UPDATE

Well, what can I say other than WHAT A WEEK?

It was, of course, the week of the Fire and Glass Walk. An event in Witney Marketplace on Thursday night that saw friends come together for a common cause to raise ... well ... I'll leave it to the guys at SpecialEffect to tell you about it all. 

Follow the link below to read all about it and for the links to some fantastic coverage of the night from our friends at WitneyTV:

http://www.specialeffect.org.uk/pages/news93.htm

Thursday 29th March is Fire and Glass Day!

Mick and Baz are 'doing the walk'. You can still support Baz at http://www.justgiving.com/tiger-feet or Mick at http://www.justgiving.com/MickSpecialEffect 

See you in Witney Marketplace on Thursday evening!

MEET THE TEAM: STEVE 'ALAN' BRACKLEY

 For any of you familiar with the cult TV series, Modern Toss, you'll be familiar with Alan.

Well, its my pleasure to introduce you to the man on whom the character must have been based. An eccentric whose madcap behaviour is often interspersed with acts of total destruction ... often aimed at opposition batsmen but occasionally at his sister's Berkshire home too.

Yes, it's our mate Steve 'Alan' Brackley. Take it away Alan!

Name: Alan

When were you born mate? 8th February 1974

Can you remember where you were born? Sussex

And how do you earn a living? I'm not sure

What do you do cricket-wise then Alan? Trundle left arm half volleys (Blogger note to reader: this is a lie. He's bloody fast!). I do not bat - unless the 'proper' batsmen are **** and get out. 

So, that's LF, LHB? Yeah 

Do you have a favourite cricket team? Yeah. Whoever I turn out for.

And your favourite cricketer? Douglas Jardine

What's your earliest cricketing memory?  Being told it was okay to throw something very hard at someone else. 

What's the best and worst grounds you've ever played at? 'Good' grounds are all roads. Where is the fun in that? Arundel is a pretty road though.

Do you have a favourite fielding position? Shade

What's your favourite other sport? Pooh Sticks

Are you any good at it? I go with the flow

What sport do you find most boring?  Tricky. Either F1 or football. But I don't really consider either of them sports.

Who is your all-time sporting hero? James Ormond. Or Malcolm Marshall.

What is the strangest or funniest thing you've ever seen on a cricket field? I'm still waiting to see Cat Head Silver Pants take guard

You can have four people to dinner, past or present, who would they be and why? Hendrix, Wilde, Da Vinci and Pocket. Because the first three deserve to meet me. I wouldn't want to be there without Pocket.

Right Alan. We'll just remind the readers that Pocket is your wife. Now you've done really well. So here's your last question.

You've got £100 to spend. What do you buy? Rope. You alright with that yeah?

Yeah. Thanks Alan and please be careful with those live electric cables you brought with you. In fact, where did you get those from? ALAN ... You ... You ... You ................. little t*t!!!

 

DID HE REALLY SAY THAT?

'That's what happens when, in cricketing parlance, the wheel comes off and you can't steer the boat'

Bob Willis

Thanks to Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited

MEET THE TEAM: ROB WEBB

 

Today's Meet the Team sees us enter the strange and deranged world of our mate, Rob Webb.

Rob is probably the Tigers' unluckiest bowler. He's had more catches dropped off his bowling than all the other bowlers put together. Despite that, he always plays with a smile and accepts his team mates' blunders with good grace.

Yep, Rob's a good 'un. His language is as agricultural as his off-drive. A real Oxfordshire lad even if he wasn't born here. Okay Rob, I've built you up. Now its over to you mate ...

Name: Rob Webb

Date of Birth: 25th September 1973

Where you born Rob? Northampton

What do you do cricket-wise? SRA with a little spin if the arthric wrist will allow, RHB

Who's your favourite cricket team? Northants

Who is your favourite ever cricketer? Ian “Beefy” Botham. The last of the old schoolish cricketers. Liked a drink apparently?

What's your earliest cricketing memory?  Standing at the bowlers end of a full length wicket, thinking “No way” as my father prepared to leather his young son all round the park.

What's the best and worst grounds you've ever played at?  The best ground I have played on was a wicket up at the old Heythrope Park in Enstone. It wasn't the greatest wicket but sunday Afternoon was Ladys swimming only and the pool, windowed down one entire side could be seen from one end of the wicket. This acted as a good distraction to the opposing team. Not me obviously! 

Worst, Blenhiem palace. It's as dead as a hermits social life. Fact!!

What's your favourite fielding position?  Mid-wicket somewhere. I like to see the whites of their eyes

What's your favourite other sport? Football

Are you any good at it?  Fu*@ing brilliant 

What sport do you find most boring?  I'm with Cam Newton-Grain. F1. It's like sports equivalent to Dignitas

Who is your all-time sporting hero? Daily Thompson

What's the strangest or funniest thing you've seen on a cricket field? Any Tiger trying to take a catch

You can have four people to dinner, past or present, who would they be and why?

James Coburn, He liked a drink. That and he has lived a worked with some of the greatest actors and actresses of their time.

Bill Hicks, My all time hero and life model.

Hunter S Thompson, That would keep it lively. In a firearms, life threatening kind of way

John Cleese, Simply because he is John cleese. Intelligent, revered and would lend a touch of class to the whole debauched affair.

You have £100 to spend. What do you buy?  Drugs and booze in no particular order.

Well, apart from his last answer, that went far better than I'd anticipated. Thanks for thinking of our younger readers and keeping the language to a minimum Rob. Thanks mate.