Blurb Review

A New Year and mood of change is clearly with us. After the proposal to replace the club badge, KF now suggests that Mr Admin's 'boringly polite' blurb (see the left hand side of your screen) should be replaced with something more honest. Here is his draft; comments, amendments welcome:

We play on a council owned pitch which, early in the season is pock-marked by rugby studs and have no nets, sightscreens or covers, never mind a youth set-up (all under 18’s are fast tracked into the 1^st XI). We are surrounded on three sides by bigger and more successful clubs with better facilities. The ground is next to a main road which often encourages members of the public to hurl friendly slurs at us from passing cars.

Our spacious (if slightly decrepit) changing rooms with communal showers were boarded up years ago and we are currently waiting for some local youths to finish the job of burning them down. We now change in a poky metal shipping container with a leaky lav. Despite having more than 60 players registered, we often struggle to find 33 fit and available bodies every Saturday where we have teams in Divisions 1, 5 and 8 of the East League. We also participate in the first round of Sunday cup tournaments and regularly allow teams from lower divisions to thrash us in midweek 20/20 competitions. Promotion for our 1^st XI would be a disaster for the club.

There is a strict policy of only beating the best team in the league whilst surrendering meekly to the basement boys. In recent seasons our 2^nd & 3^rd XI’s have taken this policy a little further by successfully being relegated. Futile attempts have been made to improve all of the above, but we’ve been beaten down by circumstance and reality at every turn. We now accept our status and frown on any attempts to better the meagre resources we already have.

Whether you are resident in Edinburgh or just passing through, if you’d like to play competitive cricket (ability, or lack of, absolutely not an issue), with an eclectic bunch of so called cricketers we would be delighted to hear from you. We do hire (if not always use) nets just around the corner every week throughout the season and also run ‘winter’ nets during the close season. You can contact us via the website.