Get to know your team mates
Name - Mark Simmerson - aka Simple, Clackers, Wendy
Hometown - Sheffield
Favourite Football Club - DLS over-40's, the Owls
1. Favourite Food - cheese and pickle sandwich
2. Favourite Drink - used to be Ward's, now Guinness, Stella and Ding dong.
3. Favourite Away Tea - Stanton
4. Favourite Away Ground - Ashford. Always seem to do ok there. Nice pub.
5. Favourite opposition - Hundall and SWD
6. Favourite De La Salle Player - Woody - the best player we've ever had and top bloke.
7. Best Game Played In - there's been so many! All three games on first Eymet tour. Put 'em in, bowled 'em out, knocked 'em off - 40 degree heat!
8. Worst Opposition - Sheffield Collegiate
9. Worst Away Ground - Parkhead
10.Most Memorable Performance - 16 2 48 4 at Beauchief against SWD 25/07/98. Got Passy and Nawaz with arm-balls. Defending 162-9 on a belter me and Swiss bowled them out for 141. Sweet.
11.Most Embarrassing Cricket Moment - I'm an embarrassment to all I play with, but chucking my gloves after a primary, seeing them land on the pavilion roof and having to get a step-ladder to fetch them down probably shades it. I was very young!
12.Coke or Pepsi - Coke
13.Kebab or Pizza - Keeebab
14.Blonde or Brunette - brunette!
15.Ps2 or Xbox - a good book
16.Apple or Pear - apple
17.Britany or Christina - Rachel Weisz
18.Brie or Edam - brie
19.Brimstone or Ding Dong - ding dong please!
20.Surf or Turf - surf
21.Favourite Song - Will the Wolf Survive - Los Lobos
Name - Tim Gill aka Sicknote, Rump, J-lo (anything implying injury or having a fat arse)
Hometown - Sheffield
Favorite Football Club - The Wednesday
1. Favorite Food - meat from a fire
2. Favorite Drink - a nice rich red
3. Favorite Away Tea - a sit down affair at Collegiate
4. Favorite Away Ground -
5. Favorite opposition - Hundall 2's
6. Favorite De La Salle Player - Matt Green, talented but a laid back mo fo- typical Salle
7. Best Game Played In - Salle Sixes pissed on cider
8. Worst Opposition - Transport
9. Worst Away Ground - Millhouses dogshit park (wicket is a disgrace to the league)
10.Most Momerable Performance - Matt Green using my bat properly, many runs.
11.Most Embarrising Cricket Moment - getting caught by a scrubber with bare feet at Millhouses and demanding to see the rule book while walking off OR Getting caught for a golden v Baslow by a ******* 5 year old, either way its not a good season so far!
12.Coke or Pepsi - coke
13.Kebab or Pizza - pizza
14.Blonde or Brunette - a ginner will do at the minute!
15.Ps2 or Xbox - Wii (for at least the next 5 minutes anyway)
16.Apple or Pear - pear
17.Britany or Christina - Britney pre baldness, post high school
18.Brie or Edam - brie
19.Brimstone or Ding Dong - brimdong
20.Surf or Turf - turf
21.Favorite Song - stone roses (she bangs the drums)
Name: Steve Dixon
Nickname: Snaprat / Rat
Hometown: Sheffield
Other Clubs: Are there any?
Favorite Football Club: Sheffield Wednesday
Most Memorable Game: All 2005 promotion season when we were happy.
Game I Would Like To Forget: All 2007 relegation season. Capped off with a record breaking defeat at Sheepbridge. Meh, crap sport anyway.
Most memorable performance: 50 against GNER. Only turned up to watch!!! Also day one of 2007 tour, oh no I don't remeber that. I salute you Panther.
Most embarrassing cricket moment: My crapness haunts me at every turn.
Cricketing dream: To play naked at the playboy mansion.
Favourite opposition: The oppostion at the playboy mansion.
Worst opposition: Laycocks. Theres a clue in the name
Favourite away ground: Baslow. Like being on holiday!
Worst away ground: Tinsley Rec. Home of Taxi Owners Association in the midweek league.
Favourite away tea: Everywhere, I'm a complete tea slag.
Salle legend: Andy Clark. Turned up pissed to his last game about 13 years ago. Bowled 7 wides in one over (in a midweek game where you have 8 ball overs to start with.) Had a lasting influence on my cricketing career. I'd like to find out who skippered that game!
Favourite band: Little Man Tate
Favourite singer: Alan George & Adi Brook
Favourite song: Just can't take any more- Little Man Tate, Lithium- Nirvana, Tender- Blur
Favourite movie character: Austin Powers
Favourite film star: James Wildfowler. Go on, google him!!!
Favourite film: Shawshank Redemption
Favourite TV show: IT Crowd, League of Gentleman, The Office.
Favourite song: Already had that question!
Ideal woman: If theres grass on the wicket, let play commence.
Name: James Hartley (Woody)
Hometown: Sheffield
Favorite Football Club: De La Salle B-team!! Sheffield Wednesday
1. Favorite Food: Osso Bucco (Calve's shins in gravy)
2. Favorite Drink: Water
3. Favorite Away Tea: Amazingly Hundall, I love a plated salad
4. Favorite Away Ground: Hundall again, doesn't happen very often but
when we win there it is so much more special.
5. Favorite opposition: Youlgreave, please come back!!!
6. Favorite De La Salle Player: Any of the folowing Matt, Martin, Los
or Phil Green. Four of the most talented players I have ever seen.
7. Best Game Played In: Captaining school team vs Manchester Grammer.
8. Worst Opposition: Some of the Mid week teams we used to play against, great to be playing midweek cricket again!!
9. Worst Away Ground: Win Gardens, if we have to play there mid week I am quitting.
10.Most Momerable Performance: 130 odd against Dronfield Woodhouse away. They scored lots, I felt out of form but battled on to knock the winning runs with overs to spare.
11.Most Embarrising Cricket Moment: Any game in Eymet, have batted & fielded crap in every game I have played out there....still love it though.
12.Coke or Pepsi: Coke.
13.Kebab or Pizza: Home made pizza
14.Blonde or Brunette: Bryony!
15.Ps2 or Xbox: Don't know or care.
16.Apple or Pear: Apple
17.Britany or Christina: Justin Timberlake
18.Brie or Edam: Brie
19.Brimstone or Ding Dong: Dry sherry
20.Surf or Turf: Both in large amounts.
21.Favorite song: Marrs - Star Trekin'
Name: Greg Calderbank
Hometown: Ross-on-Wye
Favorite Football Club: Bolton Wanderers (well someone has to!)
1. Favorite Food: Roast Beef & YORKSHIRE pudding (seriously)
2. Favorite Drink: Hawkes Bay Cabernet Merlot or anything from Craggy Range
3. Favorite Away Tea: Not really a fan of teas
4. Favorite Away Ground: Calow I hit three sixes, no really I did!
5. Favorite opposition: I find it best not to see the opposition as worthy of any positive emotion
6. Favorite De La Salle Player: Anyone who holds onto one of my long hops that is smacked at them
7. Best Game Played In: Calver Away 2003? TW invaded pitch after Squid hit winning runs over the pavilion, stinking fucking hot day - a great win!
8. Worst Opposition: Laycocks, the name said it all
9. Worst Away Ground: Some shitty park in Chesterfield, behind the fire station
10.Most Memorable Performance: 5-16 against Laycocks, that pitch made me look half decent!
11.Most Embarrassing Cricket Moment: How long have you got? Turning up late having 'lost' my replacement car must score highly
12.Coke or Pepsi: Pepsi pre antipodes but now Coke
13.Kebab or Pizza: Never eaten Elephant leg so Pizza by default
14.Blonde or Brunette: No thanks I prefer Gingas
15.Ps2 or Xbox: Can I ask a y7 and get back to you?
16.Apple or Pear: Apple(mac)
17.Britany or Christina: Christina – with bells on! (hang on that's not some strange fetish)
18.Brie or Edam: Cheddar - Extra mature
19.Brimstone or Ding Dong: What's Brimestone?
20.Surf or Turf: I thought the Surf 'n' Turf had been designed to remedy such conundrums
21.Favorite Song: Not too bother so long as it isn't being 'sung' by Alan George (either in or out of the shower)
Name - Richard Bulmer
Hometown - Billingham, County Durham, The World.
Favorite Football Club - Billingham Synthonia (No other football club named after a chemical fertilizer)or Middlesbrough (I'm not a very good glory hunter)
1. Favorite Food - A nice Ruby
2. Favorite Drink - Tetleys Imperial
3. Favorite Away Tea - Bank of England, Roehampton - used to get a classic tea loads of goodies in an old fashioned setting.
4. Favorite Away Ground - From my Billingham Synthonia days, there was real buzz playing at Feethams on a Saturday when Darlington were playing at home in the 4th Division, you would get 3000 football fans walking past the cricket and the away fans were completely bemused that cricket was played when football was taking place. The football ground was part Darliington Cricket Club, the football ground was owned by the cricket club.
5. Favorite opposition - Hathersage were very funny when they started having a go at me for smiling at them, I'd played and missed a couple times and they started sledging me so I just grinned at them, it made me smile even more and they got even more annoyed.
6. Favorite De La Salle Player - All legends
7. Best Game Played In - Enjoyed my first Salle 50 v Holmesfield a few years ago, I edged a 50 while Lee Blackett crashed 70 odd and we won.
8. Worst Opposition - Never enjoy anyone who beats us, sorry, I know that doesn't narrow it down.
9. Worst Away Ground - Loads of non descript grounds in South London when I played for Surbiton British Legion Cricket Club.
10.Most Momerable Performance - Scored 70 odd in the 2nd team promotion year in a tight game we won.
11.Most Embarrising Cricket Moment - My nose exploding when being told an Eymet anicdote by Ade, that story is a weapon of mass destruction, Blair would have been justified going to War in Iraq if Saddam had access to that tale.
12.Coke or Pepsi - Both globalised brands from nasty multinationals so it's Fanta!
13.Kebab or Pizza - Kebab (with extra e-coli)
14.Blonde or Brunette - Brunette
15.Ps2 or Xbox - What's all this modern technology.
16.Apple or Pear - A nice pair (I can almost hear the Sid James laugh)
17.Britany or Christina - Isn't Normandy meant to be quite nice this time of year.
18.Brie or Edam - Brie
19.Brimstone or Ding Dong - Ding Dong is responsible for too many aching heads
20.Surf or Turf - Turf
21.Favorite Song - Currently - Same Jeans by The View, but a long term classic would be The River by Bruce Springsteen.
Name - Paul Lally
Nicknames: Doo, Lal, and one from years ago....Madan.
Hometown: Sheffield
Other clubs: Are there any other clubs?
Favourite football team: The Owls, source of much pain and occasional joy over 50-odd years.
Most memorable game: Has to be the one at Baslow when I took the first nine wickets to fall, only for Aidan Brennan to take the last one with what I think was his only wicket for the Club!
Game I would like to forget: Several of last season's come to mind, as do most of my efforts over the years at Hundall.
Most memorable performance: Our first-ever friendly at Darton when we had 7 men, 4 of whom batted twice, and I top-scored with 30-something n.o. and then bowled unchanged through their innings, taking 6-34. And we lost!
Most embarrassing cricket moment: Spoiled for choice here--several c.& b. attempts come to mind, but probably the daddy of them all came many years ago at Hathersage when Vin Green and I as the last-wicket pair were trying to bat through the last 15 overs for a losing draw. We got through to the last over without difficulty, then I got run out going for a quick single! (We needed about 80 to win!)
Cricketing dream: To score another 50 ( in one go, that is, not in total!)
Favourite opposition: Anyone with lots of rabbits.
Worst opposition: I like nearly all the teams we play. Not too keen on Sheepbridge though.
Favourite away ground: Darton-----magic scoreboard and good memories.
Worst away ground: Has to be Hundall, where I've been hit for frequent sixes on three sides of the ground.
Favourite away tea: None! Waste of time, loads of hassle for someone, absurd to stop for a meal in the middle of a sporting fixture, just a cup of tea would do, and so play more overs! End of rant.
Salle legend: Bob West------captures the Salle spirit precisely!
Favourite band: The Beatles, by a huge margin.
Favourite singer: A tie between Connie ("Lipstick On Your Collar") Francis, Judith Durham of the Seekers, and Judy ("Both Sides Now") Collins.
Favourite song: "The Fields of Athenry", preferably heard live in an Irish bar with a pint of the black stuff.
Favourite movie character: The P.E. teacher in "Kes".
Favourite film star: Julie Walters---brilliantly funny with no apparent effort.
Favourite film: "Kes". (With an honourable mention for "Airplane")
Favourite TV show: "Heartbeat" (and I'm not ashamed to admit it!)
Ideal woman: Brilliant cook, who knows when to stop talking, doesn't nag, and lets you get on with playing your sport. However, as such a beast doesn't exist.........................
Motto for life: (Serious) You can never say "never"-----because you don't know what's around the corner!
Name: Mark Turner
Nickname: Dave (yeh good one)
Hometown: The City of Sheffield
Other Clubs: No one will have me
Favourite football team: The Blades
Most memorable game: Parkhead this season, im off my fence for this one. Made to stay in the rain cos there captains last game. Game reduced to 28 overs. Short game champs are we.
Game I would like to forget: Pick one of my ducks this season.
Most memorable performance: Has to be my ton v Transport. I love eating and facing the pies that they bowled at me.
Most embarrassing cricket moment: Dont do them. Always the pro.
Cricketing dream: Not sleeping well at moment.
Favourite opposition: Two words that don't go together in my world
Worst opposition: All of them
Favourite away ground: Not found one yet
Worst away ground: SWD, God i hate that place, fielding on concrete normally chasing the ball everywhwere
Favourite away tea: Have to give that honour to Ridgeway, a top tea
Salle legend: Squid, isn't he everyones?
Favourite band: Bonjovi, sorry
Favourite singer: Oo i do like Sir Cliff
Favourite song: Livin on a prayer, sorry but its a classic
Favourite movie character: Dumbo
Favourite film star: Richard Belling. Who? i hear you ask, i dont know, i've just made the name up
Favourite film: Shawshank Redemption
Favourite TV show: M*A*S*H
Favourite song: Any song that doesnt get ruined in the showers after a game.
Ideal woman: Anyone who can cook