For many years, Coastal's claim that the club once had a 4th XI - that played their home fixures at Jock's Lodge - has been met with much scepticism. Now the club's historians have unearthed a document (fixture booklet for 1987) which seems to support this notion.
An eminent historian has verified the booklet and stated: 'I am now satisfied that the document is authentic; that the history of their wanderings since 1950 is true; and that the standard accounts of Holy Cross' habits, of their personality and, even, perhaps, of some public events, may in consequence have to be revised'.
It will also be noted that the club had a junior side in 1987 (it also seems to suggest that cje's first appearance for the Cross was as a nine year old..) as well as a full set of Sunday fixtures.
Looking on the positive, now that we only field three league sides we could only suffer three thrashings on Saturday...
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Even more remarkable, as you can just see on the right of the lower photo, on several May Sundays we had TWO games.
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ReplyDeleteAlso note the 'Single Wicket Competition'-perhaps an alternative to the (non-existent) President's match...?
it's encouraging that Arbo has hosted two junior matches this season (one today)...unfortunately neither involving any Crossers...
Is the President non-existent or just his match ?
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