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The PCR Sports Show - Friday 10th April 2026 - with Club Captain David Clarke and Club Player and Comittee member Tim Over from Peterborough Town Cricket Club · The PCR Sports Show

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Welcome to PCR Sports, Good evening and welcome to the PCR
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Sports Show with myself, Dipam and Nigel this week and a very
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warm good evening to you and thank you for joining us as we
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start your sporting weekend on PCR FM and the PCR Sport Show
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here every Friday 6 till 7 and got a cracking show lined up
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this evening. Cricket is our subject and we've
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got the club captain from the Peterborough Town Cricket Club,
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David Clark with us and he's joined by Tim Overs who's on the
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committee there and also doing some great fundraising and plays
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for one of the sides as well. So we've got a great show lined
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up, they're going to talk to us about the impending pre season
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and the season ahead and how that's progressing and what to
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expect from the club and the teams this season.
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So yeah, real exciting stuff and we'll be speaking to them in a
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little while. But as always, let's start off
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this evening with these local sporting headlines and Nigel has
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them. Hello, Nigel.
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Hello, good evening and here is your headlines for the 10th of
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April. We'll start with Posh and Peter.
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United dug deep to claim an excellent point against
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Championship bound Cardiff City. Posh had to concede a plenty of
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territory in possession to a very athletic Cardiff side but
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shrugged off huge blows either side of the interval to come
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from behind to draw one one in a pulsating contest.
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Blow number one was the loss of key defender Tom Lee after a
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nasty looking challenge on the stroke of half time.
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And blow #2 arrived 3 minutes into the second-half when
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Cardiff Alex Robertson scored from a harshly awarded free
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kick. But Posh responded within 60
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seconds with a neat finish from Harry Leonard after a fine pass
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by Carl Lisby. And that's how it stayed despite
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both sides showing commitment to attack.
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This was a hard earned point with a level of performance
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which should generate more positive results in the games
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that remain this season. Next up for Posh is a trip to
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Lancashire tomorrow against the Blackpool side who sit just
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above the relegation places who are desperate for the three
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points. Posh could have a couple of
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surprise inclusions in their squad on Saturday.
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Posh Bosh Luke boss Luke Williams has revealed.
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Veteran centre backed Tom Lees is keen to play Despite that
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injury suffered on Bank Holiday Monday and Kiwi international
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Matt Garber is back in full training.
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If he comes through a couple of late sessions, he could also be
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involved on Saturday. Garber hasn't played since
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January the 31st defeat at home to Huddersfield across the City
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and Peterborough Sports. After Four Seasons of fighting
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against the odds in a division full of former Football League
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clubs with full time status. It ended with a time 2 nil
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defeat at Oxford City. Sports created very little in
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the game, which was disappointing after a rousing
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performance against Kings Lynn just a few days before.
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That left Sports 10 points from safety with just three games to
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go. Sports entertain Telford
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tomorrow and what will be their final game at Pym's Park this
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season. The return fixture back in
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September was a bizarre encounter with Peterborough's
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team bus breaking down and the home keeper getting sent off
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with no sub keeper on the bench. Telford still came out three two
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winners despite all the drama. Manager Michael Gash is hoping
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for a less dramatic game this time around but said yesterday
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that it was so important that his team set the scene early
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tomorrow and finish their home campaign with a win and three
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points. Meanwhile, Posh Women can cap an
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outstanding season this weekend by clinching a National League
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title. A win for unbeaten Posh at lowly
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Kidderminster Harriers will seal top spot for Jake Paul's side
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and with it promotion to the Northern or Southern Premier
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Division. Posh still have three games to
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play to get the three points they need and it will be a major
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shock if they didn't arrive this weekend.
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Should they pick up another positive result, Posh will
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stretch their unbeaten run to 20 league games this season and 27
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overall, a run which covers more than 450 days.
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Goalkeeper Neve Corrie could also sweep the the league's
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Golden Glove award on Sunday. She has 12 clean sheets and a
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closest rival, Lee Fields. Colette Bell is next best with
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10 with just two games to play, Peterborough Panthers have named
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their team for their Spring Triangle meeting against host
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Mildenhall Fen Tigers and the Rye House Rockets on Sunday,
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April the 25th. A successful trip to West Row
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last year saw the Panthers bring home the Simon Barton Memorial
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Trophy surrounded by a fantastic crowd and the club are looking
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forward to giving their fans another exciting meeting.
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Paul Stark, a former four team championship and KO Cup winner
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with the club, will again lead Panthers.
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He will be joined by Aaron Butcher and Luke Harris, who
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also played key roles in last year's success at Mildenhall,
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along with some fresh faces. Seth Norman, a 15 year old with
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a bright future, makes his Panthers debut alongside former
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Panthers mascot Mickey Simpson and former Fen Tiger Jack
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Kingston in BMX and jumping. Jess Maria of the Peterborough
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BMX Club finished an excellent second in a European competition
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in teal in the Netherlands. Marriott claimed silver in the
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female 1516 category. The city club also sent 29 races
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to round two of the East Anglian BMX Regional Summer Series in
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Ipswich. There were seven class wins for
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Peterborough riders with Frederick State claiming 2 of
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them. He was first male, 12 cruiser
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and 1st 9:00 to 12:00 cruiser. The other club winners were
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Charlotte Butbe, Lottie MacFarlane, Bradbury Golden,
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Dylan Dixon and Leah Pearson. City of Pittsburgh Hockey Club
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have reported there have been 2 promotions and no relegations
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after the final league tables were confirmed this week.
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The women's first finished champions in East Division One
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North and were promoted into the East Premier Division and the
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men's first finished 6th in their division.
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The other title winners were the men's sixth who finished top in
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the East Division 5 NW. And finally, local veteran
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athletes, including a number of over 70s enjoyed a successful
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Easter weekend. Peterborough Neem Valley
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Athletic Club had four athletes in action in the European
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Masters Indoor Championship held in Poland.
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Dave Brown narrowly missed out on making over 45 on the over
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45800m final after clock in a time of two minutes and seven
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seconds. I'm sorry, 22 will skip that.
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Maxwell placed twelve in the Over 35 pentathlon and the high
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spot of his competition was a second place finish in the shot
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with 11.6569 meters. Simon A Church finished second
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in the over 50s weighted throw and although it was an indoor
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championship, an outdoor cross country race was included in the
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itinerary and Paul Parking finished 20th in the Over 60
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Cattery, finishing the 4th. Great bitten runner, and that's
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your headlines. Very fast.
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He did. Yeah, I'm going to.
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I'm going to learn to tell the time I think.
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Great stuff happening in the city and the posh women on the
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verge of history. Absolutely.
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They've had a, they've had a great season, long, long
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unbeaten run played at London Road this year as well, or
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should I say Western Home Stadium.
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But yeah, they've they've done well and they can they can
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finish it all off this weekend. Absolutely.
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And you, you kind of OK. Do you rub shoulders with them
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at Pyms Park when you're doing your your Peter sports worker?
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Yeah, they train on a on a Thursday night most weeks and
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most of their home games, like apart from that one, the western
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homes have been played at Pyms Park on a Sunday.
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So yeah, seen quite a bit of the the posh women this year and
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they've they've just had an amazing season.
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They have them, they're absolutely superb.
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So yeah, wishing them all the best and odds on that they will
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get promoted and and as champions, which is brilliant.
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So yeah, wishing them all the best.
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Right, let's take a short break now and we'll be back in a few
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minutes talking cricket with David Clark, captain of
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Peterborough Town Cricket Club. And Tim over who's one of the
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club members and players there as well.
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Welcome back to the PCR Sports Show here on PCR FM with myself,
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Dipam and Nigel. This week we're talking
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on this station ever again. But yeah, tonight's agenda is
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cricket and we're in the accompaniment of David Clark and
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Tim over both from the Peterborough Town Cricket Club.
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Welcome gents, how are you both? Yeah, all good.
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Thanks. Thanks for having me.
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On yeah, Thanks for coming by. It's always good to see you both
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and yeah, the pre season and and the cricket season upon us,
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which which is good because the weather starts getting better as
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well, which is always a great thing.
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But yeah, how are how are things pre season about to start in a
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week or so And it's good to see the lads again and and get
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everyone back in in the dressing room.
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Yeah, absolutely. It's yeah, It's been a long
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winter. Yeah.
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We started training up in indoor February time.
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We've had a few outdoor, outdoor sessions as well at the hockey
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club, doing a bit of fielding and fitness, so it's been good
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to get the lads together as well for those.
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But yeah, our in earnest, our pre season starts this Saturday
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with a training session down at the club and then next Saturday
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we have our first pre season game against North Wales
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Academy. So yeah, it'll be a good gauge
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to see where we're at before the season starts properly.
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Which is a bit strange this year because we start with T20
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towards the end of May, sorry, at the start of May and we start
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the Premier League towards the end of May.
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So it's a little bit of a different format for us.
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So what normally happens? How's this?
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How's it different so? Normally we start the league
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campaign at the end of April and we kind of do that all the way
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through. But this year we're starting
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with AT20, which is going to be 3 weeks of having two games a
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day and then we're going to have a finals day on the Sunday.
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And then after that we start the league and it's a slightly
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different kind of format of the league as well.
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We're starting with colour kit, pink ball, win, lose and then we
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go into win lose, draw for the middle section of the season and
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then we finish it again with pink ball coloured kit to end
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the season. So it looks a lot different for
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us this year, but I think it's, yeah, I think it's a quite
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exciting changes for for the league.
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Yeah. And is that So what, what kind
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of brought those changes along then?
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Is that just a decision, a kind of regional authority level or?
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League level, yeah. So our league basically Tier
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One, which is the Premier League in Division One, voted in those
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changes in October. So our second team actually
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followed the similar kind of process.
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They don't do the T20 at the start, they do the pink ball
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coloured kit and then they do the whites and red ball for the
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middle part and then finish with pink ball coloured kit.
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So there's going to be a different kind of season for us.
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But I think All in all, exciting changes and I think ones that
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will bring, you know, better cricket throughout the summer
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hopefully. Yeah, fantastic.
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And the squad itself, how's it looking?
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Obviously, I mean, just as a reminder to the listeners,
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you're you're back as as captain.
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This is your second season back as captain.
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You spent a number of glorious years previously winning umpteen
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trophies and you're back now. And how's it feel?
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First and foremost, you know, being back as captain for the
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last couple of seasons? Yeah, now it's felt good, Yeah,
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good to be back in the hot seat and yeah, really looking forward
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to challenging the season and yeah, getting the boys together
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again tomorrow and and next week ahead of the season.
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So yeah, really looking forward to to the season ahead.
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I think it's an exciting season for us.
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We've obviously finished second last year, so we want to
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hopefully improve and, and, and push that title again hopefully
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and and also competing at the competition.
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So we did pretty well in the the national knockout last year, got
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to the last 16 in the country. We've managed to beat Brentwood
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who are the previous champion. So we can take a lot of
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confidence from that going into this season.
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And then also the T20 competition as well.
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So yeah, there's a lot of cricket to be played and we're
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all looking forward to it. Fantastic.
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And then as I mentioned, going back to the squad itself, then
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any new additions, any youngsters coming through on on
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the conveyor belt? Yeah, lots of youngsters.
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Hopefully this season a lot of them will play in the second
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team, which is in Division One, which is quite high standard.
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We're the only second team in Division One in the Northants
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pyramid, so it's actually really good for us as a first team
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where we can call on second team players who it's not that much
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of a step up for us. So yes, a lot of talented
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youngsters, Tim, isn't there like the likes of Joss and DJ,
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very young at the moment, sort of 1415.
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But we'll definitely go on to hopefully be good Premier League
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cricketers and beyond. So yeah, looking forward to
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seeing them sort of developing the seconds and getting a few
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scores and taking some wickets. But in the first thing we've got
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a new player called Jasper and Singh from Kettering.
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He's a left arm bowler who bowled against this last season,
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pretty good bowler and yeah, he balls at good pace, so it's
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going to be really interesting to see him in action this year.
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And having, having, having him on your side rather than being
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against him. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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Yeah, he hit hit a couple of us last year, one on the head and
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couple of wrapped on the gloves and the pads and stuff.
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So yeah, he's he's quite slippery to face.
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So yeah, we're looking forward to having him with us.
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And although Kettering went down, he had a pretty good
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season personally. So yeah, glad he wants to, kind
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of. Come to us progress as cricket
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and hopefully you can get some games for minor counties and
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beyond. So yeah, he's definitely got
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that potential in terms of some changes in the squad, editions,
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etcetera. Do you do you have a kind of a
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football style transfer window or can you sign players anytime
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during the season? How does it work?
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Generally it all happens pre season, but yeah, I think teams
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have got until kind of mid June, July time to do their final
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transfers and then you kind of set at your own club.
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Yeah. But yeah, generally a lot of
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teams try and get there transfers done early in the in
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the winter. Obviously with Jazz Graham being
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away in Australia, we had to wait until kind of March time to
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get that sorted. But yeah, really pleased he's
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come over to us. But yeah, a lot of clubs in the
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league of there's been quite a lot of movement of players and
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stuff. So it's it's going to be an
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interesting, yeah. Fantastic.
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And any overseas signings for you this season?
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No. So no overseas player for us
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this year. We had Hyatt last year, but he's
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staying in Norway this summer, so yeah, we're yeah, no overseas
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this year. Yeah, that's fine.
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That's not a bad thing. I suppose you can like say you
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can nurture talent from from local and regional and, and
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within the club as well, which is which is good.
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So in terms of, like I say, you're back as, as captain
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second season or second full season, obviously, I guess it
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holds you in good stead. The experience you had from your
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first stint as captain a number of years ago and, and, and the
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success that you had there. Has that kind of changed you as
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a captain in terms of your leadership style, your approach,
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your methods? What, what can you draw upon
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from from previous experiences? Yeah, I can draw a lot from
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previous experiences and different situations in the
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season, different games, different challenges you get
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thrown upon you. So yeah, there's a number of
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different things that have happened over, you know, 9 or 10
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years really that I can draw upon.
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There's a lot of experience I can draw on as well.
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So and a lot of players have still with us as well playing.
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So it's it's really good to to have those players by my side,
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the likes of Chris Milner, the likes of Jamie, all been playing
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at the club for a long time now. So yeah, it's yeah, it's a real
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honour and privilege to to catch in the club.
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Yeah, brilliant. And it's, I guess it's good to
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have that bit of call within the squad that have been there for a
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while because it, it kind of carries that fault, carries the
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kind of culture, the the sort of what the ethos of the club is
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and that kind of flavour to the youngsters and the new players
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are coming in to kind of continue have that continuation
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of what the club is about and how they want to be.
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Yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean the club coach is a
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really big thing for me. I think for me it's about making
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players feel really welcome and really comfortable within the
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the first team environment. And when players come in from
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the twos or we've got a new signing, yeah, it's really
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important to make them feel welcome and so they can perform
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their best. So yes, in terms of my
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leadership, I don't put too much pressure on people.
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Just go out there and try and play their own game and and
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hopefully you can win more moments than you lose and then
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generally you'll have some some good success if you do that.
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Yeah, absolutely. And is there a kind of a
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specific type of culture or club values that that that are being
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sort of promoted and and used as a benchmark effectively?
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Yeah. So we've got our club values
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which we we put together as a committee I think a couple of
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years ago, Tim. So yeah, it's all about
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preparation, unity, respect and excellence.
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So there are core values which we kind of have not just as a
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senior section, we have it for our juniors as well.
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So we feel it's a really important and some really
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important words and, and things to go by really so and.
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There's, you've mentioned those senior players, there's a lot of
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core members of the team that have been core members of the
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team for a very long time. And some of the younger lads
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who, who I predominantly play with see that example and just
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follow it. You know, it is such a, a good
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club to be a part of and we've got to, to embrace the, the
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leadership we give some of the, some of the kids as well, you
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know. Yeah, absolutely.
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And I guess if you have that thread constantly happening or
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or being present throughout the club, then soon as somebody
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comes in that's that's, that's that standard set, isn't it?
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They're not going to look any do anything different, be any, any
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in be in any way different. They just, that's just an
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expectation, isn't it, To come in and and be like that and
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display those behaviours and and and promote those values?
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Yeah, definitely. That's it, yeah.
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Includes and training matches, everything when you represent
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the club. So yeah, it's really important
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that we have those values and they're up in our changing room
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so everyone can see them. And yeah, it's really important
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that the the juniors and seniors do go by those values.
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So yeah, it's really good. Fantastic.
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So the club itself, there's multi level teams in there, men,
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women, girls, boys. So just give us a brief and talk
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us through the different levels that are are within the club.
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Well, I mean, Dave can speak about the elite level.
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Over the course of a weekend and throughout the summer, we can
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see upwards of 200 people playing cricket for the club.
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Fantastic. It's a really well managed club,
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there's six teams at the weekend, We've got a girl set up
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that we're keen to expand this year with the hope of generating
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some more fundraising which we'll go into a bit later.
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I hope so. Saturdays and Sundays primarily
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with training throughout the week.
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We've got youth matches throughout the week.
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Looking at the diary for, for the season, there's not a lot of
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time off and actually Dave's predecessor chap called Nick
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Green is now taking up the role of groundsman.
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So he's got a very, very busy, busy summer ahead.
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So yeah, there's always going to be some form of cricket going on
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subject to weather. But yeah, it's a, it's a
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thriving club and there's always something going on.
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And we're, we're grateful to be right in the heart of the city
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where, well, we're still growing as a population, you know?
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Yeah, absolutely. Lot of lot of action.
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Brilliant, fantastic and and I think that's something that
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we've noticed on the show because you know, you, you, the
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club has been friends of the show for a while.
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We in fact did an outside broadcast from there during a
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charity match with a with the England Legends 11, which is
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fantastic. So we've kind of seen the recent
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history in the story and how the club's progressing and it's a
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very proactive forward thinking club.
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And it's, you know, and you know, you get the sense that
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anyone like you say that the feeling of people being
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welcomed, the way the club is run, it's, it's done in a, you
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know, in a fantastic way, isn't it?
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Yeah, absolutely. I think we've we've got four
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teams as well on the Saturday now.
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Last year we introduced a a fourth team which has been
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really successful getting the juniors into play, obviously two
20:42
teams on a Sunday. And also the the girls who've
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been training throughout the winter.
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I believe they've been over at pizza for school doing the
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indoor sessions and they've not stopped all winter.
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So they're going to carry that on this year and they're going
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to do their training on Saturdays and Tuesdays, I
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believe. So yeah, that's a really growing
20:59
section for us and hopefully soon we can get our first
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women's team, but they'll be doing some junior women's match,
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junior girls matches throughout this season.
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Brilliant. So that's really.
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But again, it's, I think again, the way that typifies the way
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the club is running is that you're setting, you're not
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rushing into creating a women's thing, you're setting a
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foundation. So there's a pathway from a
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younger age into that senior sort of women's team, isn't it?
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And, and girls can play same team as as the the men.
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You know, we've already had girls representation in senior
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cricket that happened last season, if not the season
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before. So it's already happening.
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We've got to embrace it. We've got to expand the
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opportunities available for everybody.
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We've got various girls participation across the club as
21:43
Dave just mentioned. We've also got a girls
21:45
tournament coming up on the 4th of May.
21:47
So we're keen just to expand that and that's any team could
21:50
come and play, you know. So there's a currently a call
21:53
out for other girls teams across Peterborough and the wider area
21:57
to come and play on that day. I think you need a team of team
22:00
of I think minimum 10 girls to to come and participate.
22:03
Entry. And it's all the club over, so
22:05
a. Day so we're.
22:07
Keen to promote those sorts of events?
22:08
Host those events, you know, help however we can to to
22:12
promote the game that way. Brilliant.
22:14
Sounds good, right? Let's take a short break and
22:17
we're back with more cricket chats in a few minutes with Dave
22:19
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23:10
But back to tonight's guests, Dave Clark and Tim over from
23:14
Peterborough Town Cricket Club. We've been speaking to Dave in
23:16
the first half part of the show and just going over to Tim now.
23:20
Tim plays at the club and he's doing a lot of off field
23:26
activities as well. Tim, first about your playing
23:29
side of things, how long have you been with the club?
23:32
Of very long time, since I was about 13 years old.
23:36
So that's coming on 25 years or so.
23:40
That's amazing. You'll be getting a carriage
23:41
clock soon. Say again, You'll be getting a
23:43
carriage clock soon, Yeah? Well, it's no, it's been, it's
23:46
been great and, and in fact, I joined similar time to some of
23:50
the players that are still, you know, senior members of the
23:52
team. So it's a great place to play.
23:56
Yeah. And and and again, it typifies
23:58
the club isn't the, there is a lot of long standing players
24:01
there because the environment has been created there.
24:03
And yeah, yeah. And actually I've, I've been
24:05
down in, I've played down in Bristol for a few years as well
24:08
as part of part of that time. And to come back to Peterborough
24:13
and sort of just know what other, what other clubs are run
24:16
like and seeing Peterborough come back, you know, gives.
24:21
You a good kind of measure, doesn't it?
24:22
Yeah, it doesn't. Yeah.
24:23
Yeah, I see. So how's your how's your playing
24:25
career been then for those 25 odd years?
24:28
I mean, I've done some things that's good.
24:30
I've taken a hat trick for the club.
24:32
I've scored a scored a century last season for the club.
24:34
Brilliant. So I'm still improving I think.
24:36
Yeah, yeah, I've played for every team.
24:39
So that's quite a. Problem isn't.
24:41
It fact, actually. So is it a good fact I've I've
24:44
played for the ones twos, threes and fours?
24:47
Wow. I've not played for the girls
24:50
though unfortunately but I have been quite close.
24:53
To them, but I say if there's mixed teams you might get an
24:55
opportunity to play alongside. Girls I have, I have handed one
24:57
of the girls a debut. OK, so that's my, my
25:00
contribution. But yeah, I've, I've learnt
25:03
actually I've, I've moved from being a bowler to a batter and
25:08
for the last three or four years for some reason I've started to
25:11
open the open the batting. But being captain has probably
25:14
helped that. So I've I've maybe it's because
25:17
there's a shortage of volunteers to open the Bay.
25:20
But so you just select yourself a number.
25:21
One I'll, I'll take up. It's a, it's a thankless job
25:23
sometimes, isn't it, Dave? But yeah, somebody's got to go
25:27
out there and and see off the new ball.
25:29
And actually I don't mind it. The only time I do mind it is if
25:33
if you're off on the first over. If you get bowled out in the
25:36
first over, it's a long, long day.
25:38
Do you still bowl as well or you're just batting now?
25:40
I'm supposed supposed to not bowl, but occasionally if things
25:45
things are going badly, I might might turn my own off.
25:48
But if my doctor's listening to this, I don't definitely.
25:52
Don't bow. Doesn't that now make you an all
25:54
rounder then? Oh yeah, and I'll take, I'll
25:56
keep wicket as well sometimes if we're if we're short of a wicket
25:59
keeper. So I try and try and help out
26:01
where I can but. Fantastic.
26:03
You're what's known as a utility player.
26:05
Yeah. Can do anything, turn your
26:06
hands, anything. Something like that.
26:08
Yeah, yeah, yeah, fantastic. And you're the committee this
26:11
season as well. What?
26:12
So what sort of commitments and what sort of work does?
26:16
That involve so primarily fundraising, sponsorship.
26:19
We're we're blessed with some sponsors.
26:22
I'm going to I'm going to try and reel them off.
26:23
So Dow, Rod Fain Clinic, Antli Lettings are all really big
26:31
supporters of the club and we, we, you know, struggled to put
26:35
on the amount of services and, and support for the game
26:37
without, without their support. So we're really thankful for
26:40
that. We are open for, for more
26:42
sponsorship as well. And we're about to go live with
26:45
a fund rank fundraising exercise through crowdfunder.co.uk.
26:50
We'll we'll put a link to our fundraising when it goes live
26:53
next weekend and any support would be.
26:55
We'll share that. Yeah, and as part of that what
26:57
we're trying to do is, is raise £15,000.
27:00
That is then matched by Sport England.
27:03
So we've got an application in with Sport England and it's
27:07
supporting the growth of the game, growth of women's cricket.
27:10
Obviously we're in in the centre of Peterborough, which is
27:13
traditionally quite a cultural diverse place.
27:16
And we're blessed with, you know, currently a fairly good
27:19
setup that, you know, it's a good place to play cricket.
27:21
And we're keen to embrace that and grow our club so that
27:26
effectively our our large pitch, we can fund additional
27:30
artificial tracks at either end. We can put on more training
27:34
sessions, more matches, more equipment, you know, a girls
27:38
coach, for example. And that's what we're trying to
27:40
do with this, this fundraising effort.
27:42
Sounds really good because I know the club is developing the
27:45
girls side of of the sport has been for the last sort of few
27:48
years. And I know all friends of the
27:51
show, Bill Allen Dinesh who've been on before with with some of
27:54
the players and are doing some good work there.
27:56
And I think they could be going to be on on the show again later
27:58
in the year as well. So there is a lot of good things
28:00
happening there is on the girls side.
28:01
Oh absolutely. And we're keen to to back it.
28:04
The the whole reason that Peterborough Town Cricket Club
28:06
exists is to provide that cricketing service for people of
28:10
Peterborough to come play and doesn't matter what age group
28:15
you are, what gender it's, it's available for everybody.
28:18
Yeah, brilliant. In terms of the season ahead for
28:20
you personally and and the team that you'll be representing,
28:23
what's what's your thoughts? Oh.
28:24
I've got to dust my kit off is my, my pre season has been
28:30
limited. I've got a 2 year old daughter
28:32
that I look after on Saturday morning.
28:34
So I might not have been training as much, but she has,
28:37
she's been pottering around and learning how to catch.
28:41
I'll, I'll, I'll be there playing for the the threes and
28:44
fours. He used to be captain for the
28:45
last three or four years. So I'll be supporting the new
28:47
captain, a chap called Kasim, who's he's a really handy off
28:51
spinner to to really sort of bed in.
28:55
And as Dave mentioning, there's a lot of senior players and I
28:59
count myself in that group to sort of advise others during the
29:02
game. Let's try and be a good example
29:04
for for some of the youth coming through, but also pick those
29:08
those younger members of the team and say this person is
29:11
deserving of a chance. And it's great to see Dave pick
29:14
some younger players in his pre season games, you know, to have
29:18
a look at them and and you know, to give them a first team debut,
29:22
you know, 1516 years old is glorious.
29:26
So it's great to see that sort of continuity through the team.
29:30
That's brilliant. That's what preseason is all
29:31
about, isn't it? Giving those youngster chance.
29:34
You never know, one of them might take to it superbly and
29:37
maintain it throughout the season and it becomes part of a
29:39
regular player in the squad. Or at the very least it it gives
29:42
him that flavour and and holds him good stead for maybe next
29:45
season. We've got a good track record of
29:47
developing players. I mean, Dave can speak about
29:49
some of the players that he's had in his team that have gone
29:51
on not only to play well for Peterborough and help us win
29:55
titles, but to go and play for minor counties and counties and
30:00
some even playing for England and Australia.
30:02
Well, Alex Green. He was on the show a few years
30:06
ago. On the show, yeah, he went to
30:07
the World Cup with England and obviously got to the final.
30:11
But yeah, we've got, you know, a number of youngsters and a few,
30:14
you know, a core of our first team have actually grown up
30:17
through our youth set up. The likes of Silly Salim, Karen
30:19
Powell Singh regulars in the first team, likes of Scott
30:23
Howard and Kyle, slightly older than them, but they've also come
30:25
through the youth system. So it's really important, you
30:29
know, having those players come through in the like you say the
30:31
core of the club is made from your junior set up and, and what
30:35
they do to go on to to represent the club, not just at first team
30:38
level, but throughout the club. I just want to say like having
30:42
people like Tim at the club is great.
30:43
You know, he does everything. He he's like he says, he's
30:46
played in every team. He does stuff off the field.
30:48
Which a lot of available Saturdays Dave as well.
30:51
He's putting his hat in the room.
30:53
A lot of people don't see a lot of the stuff that goes on off
30:55
the field. There's a lot of effort that
30:57
goes on, particularly things like fundraising, setting up
31:00
these applications, just general running of the club.
31:03
So yeah, it's great to have people like Timmy who are still
31:06
involved and still have that really good enthusiasm for the
31:09
game, and it rubs off on players, it really does.
31:12
Yeah, and that's what it's about, isn't it?
31:13
It's just like like we spoke earlier, it's that continuation
31:16
of what the club is about. And then, you know, the players
31:19
like yourselves and then many others are there to to represent
31:21
and champion that and to make sure that that continues as long
31:24
as possible into the future as well.
31:26
You know, long after, you know, you hang your pads up and, and.
31:30
Yeah, that's it. You want to create, create a bit
31:31
of a legacy. And yeah, like you say, once I
31:34
stop playing and hopefully that, you know, we install those
31:36
values in the the kind of younger generation, you can take
31:39
up that mantle and keep the club moving forward.
31:42
I think that's the key thing really.
31:43
And hopefully we've put that in in place with the, you know, the
31:48
kind of committee structure that we have.
31:49
And yeah, it's, it's, it's just a nice sort of club to be
31:53
involved in really. I mean, how far does the club
31:55
think ahead in future and as a committee or as a club
31:58
organization, do you, do you think, well, OK, this is where
32:00
we want to aim to be in the next 5 years, next 10 years, How, how
32:03
does that kind of operate or do you kind of do it a little bit
32:05
more shorter term? Yeah, it's, I mean, we, we look
32:09
at what the situation in the club is, you know, we need to be
32:12
quite agile and, and respond to certain challenges.
32:17
We need to have an open eye on on the future as well,
32:21
generating things like we're speaking about launching our
32:24
fourth team last year, we weren't sure how that was going
32:28
to go, but the year before we looked at availability and and
32:31
worked out right, are there sort of 7-8 players that are not
32:36
getting a game. So therefore we need to do this
32:39
fourth team, you see. And because we launched the
32:42
fourth team last year, actually getting 11 players, normally
32:46
we'd we'd think that'd be quite a challenge.
32:48
But actually it's fine. And we're still having some
32:50
weeks where actually we could have had a fifth team.
32:53
So there's that desire to play cricket in Peterborough.
32:57
We're championing it in terms of sort of long term planning what
33:01
we want to do, you know, for the next sort of 2345 years.
33:06
It's nice to have a a plan. The plans can change, but
33:09
ultimately we need to continue growing the community game.
33:12
We need to continue challenging for the title and that tends to
33:15
replicate most years. You know, the types of things we
33:17
do will change, but ultimately that that aim continues.
33:20
Yeah. And it also having multiple
33:22
teams then starts to create AI suppose a style of play or, or,
33:27
or like say the culture that you want to promote throughout the
33:30
club and that creates that, that pathway and, and players playing
33:34
at that. You know, the fifth level,
33:35
fourth level, third level, you know some like some senior pros
33:38
are perhaps on on the way down to those levels, but a lot in
33:41
lot of cases youngsters in that level are looking to make it up
33:44
towards the seconds and the firsts and that.
33:45
So you kind of trying to replicate that throughout all
33:48
the teams, aren't you really? And and youth is is everything
33:52
right? Including the features.
33:55
That that so those three and the third team and the fourth team
33:59
primarily based or or made-up of youth players.
34:02
So from age 15, even some players that are younger than
34:08
that will make up half the team. Few senior professionals in
34:12
there and a couple of old timers for the experience, you know,
34:17
But ultimately that that is where the club's going to pick
34:19
it's first team from in, you know, 3-4 years time.
34:23
Brilliant. Yeah, it's important.
34:24
I think like for us as a first team, we've got to get that
34:27
balance right of having that competitive edge, having, you
34:30
know, firepower to try and compete for silverware, but also
34:35
have one eye on bringing youngsters through.
34:37
And I think we do get that balance right.
34:40
So yeah, it's more about doing that more this year and
34:43
hopefully for years to come. So yeah, hopefully we can do a
34:46
bit more and get get a few more players through this year as
34:48
well. Yeah, sounds good, right?
34:50
Let's take a final break there and we're back in a few minutes
34:53
with Dave and Tim. Don't go away.
34:54
It's PCR FM. You're listening to PCR Sports.
35:08
Good evening and welcome back to the PCR Sports Show with myself,
35:11
department and Nigel this week. If you missed the show so far,
35:15
you missed an absolute cracker with Dave Clark and Tim over
35:17
from the Peterborough Town Cricket Club.
35:19
But fear not, if you go to our website after 7:00 on
35:22
pcrfm.co.uk it will be uploaded and you can listen to it from
35:27
the very start. So back to Tim and and Dave.
35:31
Dave, if I can come to you, obviously captain for the first
35:34
team this season pre season about to start and then the
35:38
competition starts. You're saying is it early May,
35:41
late April, middle of sorry, yeah, our T20 starts starts at
35:45
the start of May and then our league starts at the end of
35:48
that's it in terms of expectations for the season.
35:51
I know like so you've tasted success in the past and and
35:54
you're always there challenging. What's your kind of feeling for
35:57
for this season? Yeah, also you came second last
36:00
year, a little bit disappointing of some of the games you lost,
36:04
but yeah, ideally want to be challenging for the title again.
36:07
That's going to be one of our aims and doing well in one of
36:10
the cups as well. So yeah, a a good run in the
36:13
national knockout as always is really good for the club and you
36:16
get to visit some nice grounds and play against some new teams
36:18
from different Premier Leagues. So yeah, we'll see how we get on
36:23
our first round. We're playing the winners of
36:24
Hornsey or Buckhurst Hill in the first round at home, so that's
36:28
on the 10th of May. So yeah, I'm very much looking
36:31
forward to the season. Got very similar squad.
36:34
The bulk of the players are all still with us and still playing,
36:37
which is really good. And then obviously a new
36:40
addition as well with Jazz Grand.
36:41
So yeah, we're looking to to hopefully challenge finding
36:44
again for the title. Yeah, so it's it's been a close
36:47
rival you find and I know and have joined the the pack in the
36:50
in the in the last few years as well.
36:51
And it's always a fascinating battle within between the three,
36:54
three sides. Yeah, it is.
36:56
And there's a couple more teams we've I know, recruited pretty
36:58
well this summer, this winter as well, and the likes of
37:01
Geddington, Kisenbury have brought a few players in as
37:04
well. So it's going to be an
37:05
interesting season. It's going to be probably one of
37:07
the most competitive the Northants Premier League because
37:09
I think the beauty of our league with there only being 10 teams
37:13
as a lot of teams can beat each other on on any given day.
37:17
So it's a yeah, it's a really competitive league to be fair,
37:20
and probably the most competitive I've seen in in a
37:23
long time. So yeah, we're hoping to to be
37:25
up there and get off to a good start in the in the twenty 20s.
37:28
And how do you kind of sense how strong an opponent is going to
37:31
be at this at this stage of the season going into pre season?
37:35
How do you kind of gauge who are the strong side?
37:37
OK, you, you're going to get your usual, you know, finders,
37:39
your handles, but how do you then roughly gauge what other
37:42
clubs might be doing in, in terms of strengthening or, you
37:44
know, what sort of performance to expect from?
37:46
Yeah, you kind of go on what they've done on social media
37:49
they're, you know, announcing some players.
37:51
Obviously the two of the teams have come up, Overstone and
37:53
Loddington we won't know too much about, but we're playing
37:56
Loddington in our first game in the T20 and in the league.
37:59
So yeah, it'll be, it'll be good to play against them and, and
38:03
see what they're about. But yeah, we're basically see
38:06
how the first few weeks goes really and, and go from there.
38:09
But yeah, if we kind of worry about our own game and try and
38:12
perform our best, I think, yeah, that's the main thing really for
38:15
us and. Is it, is it important to get a
38:17
strong start in the season and then set the pace or can you
38:20
norm, can you kind of make it up at other parts of season?
38:23
I know obviously not. The head to head games will be
38:24
key against findings and the angles are in it.
38:27
Yeah, yeah, those games are key, but I think the games that let
38:30
us down in the last couple of years of the teams tend to think
38:34
we should be. So we lost twice to Owens last
38:37
year, lost to Desbrah. So I think if we just cut out
38:41
those silly mistakes, we'll naturally be challenging again
38:45
anyway. So, yeah, I think it's all about
38:48
obviously the format of the league is a little bit different
38:50
this year, so it's going to be difficult to see and teams won't
38:54
be really in the rhythm for the league until, you know, end of
38:57
May, June. So it's going to be interesting.
38:59
Yeah, because I say it could, some teams might take to it very
39:02
quickly, some might it might upset their normal routine than
39:04
what they've been used to for many years.
39:06
And yeah, it's that transition from 2020 to league cricket.
39:09
It's going to be interesting because I think normally we we
39:12
have, you know, it takes three or four games for teams to get
39:15
into the season. But I think this year the T20,
39:18
it will probably be that we seen as more of a warm up for a lot
39:21
of clubs to for the league. So we might see some some better
39:25
performances at the start of the Premier League season.
39:27
So yeah, going to be really interesting to see.
39:30
And, and Tim mentioned he's played 25 odd years.
39:33
What, what, what number of years are you?
39:36
I think I'm 19 years. So I joined from Ramsey.
39:40
So I played well, my youth cricket at Ramsey, joined
39:44
Peterborough when I was 1516, played in the second team, did
39:52
OK in the second team, got into the first team back, started
39:54
banging at 8:00 and 7:00 and gradually worked my way up the
39:57
order. And yeah, I found myself opening
39:59
probably, you know, a few years in, in the top three, top 4.
40:04
So yeah, sort of been in and around top 3 or 4 ever since.
40:07
So yeah, it's been a, it's been a good journey.
40:10
Played with some fantastic players along the way.
40:12
Some really good players have gone on to do big things in the
40:15
game, some big characters. You learn a lot under some
40:19
certain leadership. So the likes of age as Mark
40:22
Yields, who I play with early on, you just learn loads from
40:25
those kind of guys and then hopefully I can put some of that
40:28
kind of stuff into my leadership as well.
40:30
Yeah, brilliant. Good stuff.
40:31
And just to kind of finish off last couple minutes, just going
40:34
just a reminder again of the fundraising team that's taking
40:37
place. Just reminder what that is and
40:40
how people can eventually donate to that.
40:42
The we'll have a crowdfunder website set up dedicated to
40:48
basically include more people that are able to play cricket in
40:52
in Peterborough. That goes to expand the girls
40:55
section and that will be launched through our social
40:58
media channel, primarily on Instagram, Peterborough Town CC.
41:03
And so that should go live in the next week.
41:08
That'll run for six weeks. And we are looking for
41:12
sponsorship, for players, for match balls, for all sorts of
41:18
rewards. And yeah, so there'll be rewards
41:21
as part of that. We're we're looking to try and
41:25
funnel membership fees through that as well, all with the aim
41:28
of of getting to this £15,000 figure which Sport England
41:32
should match, we hope. Fantastic sounds really, really
41:36
good. And just final one, Dave, back
41:39
to you. If anyone listening wants to
41:41
play cricket, have a go. Like we've spoken in the show,
41:45
there's many levels they can they can play at at the club and
41:48
and you know, male, female, girls, boys.
41:51
What should I do if they're interested?
41:52
Yeah, if they're interested, just drop us an e-mail at peace
41:54
with town.cc@hotmail.co.uk or drop us a note on any of our
41:58
socials and our admin will get back to you with all the
42:01
details. Just a bit of an overview.
42:03
So we have junior sessions on Friday night, every Friday
42:07
evening. On Saturdays we do our girls
42:10
Dynamo sessions. So they start on the 9th of May,
42:12
I believe, and they run for 8 weeks.
42:15
And then we'd also do the All Stars program, which starts on
42:18
the 8th of May. So I think signups are still
42:20
live for that. So yeah, everyone's more than
42:22
welcome to to join. All the details will be on our
42:24
socials if if you want to take a look at those.
42:27
Brilliant. And you prefer obviously people
42:28
get in touch so that that you know they're coming rather than
42:30
just to turn up so that you can manage the numbers better and
42:32
expect. Yeah, get in touch with us.
42:33
You know, we've got coach who leads our sessions and we kind
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of need to plan the sessions and but yeah, prospective members
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are always welcome. Friday nights are huge at the
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club as well, so we can have 100 youth members and they'll bring
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their parents as well. So it's really quite a buzz on a
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Friday night with the All Stars and and the Dynamos going on and
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that sort of goes across the whole weekend as well.
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There's quite a lot of energy in the summer and looking forward
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to to get into the club. Brilliant.
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Sounds fantastic, right? Time's called us up.
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So Dave, Tim, thanks ever so much for coming in, giving up
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your time and sharing your thoughts and your views on on
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the coming season and the club itself.
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Absolutely brilliant, fascinating chat to you both and
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wishing you individually and the club all the success this year.
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And do keep in touch, let us know how it's going and we'll
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give you a shout out on the headlines.
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Thank you so and thanks for listening and joining us this
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evening. Enjoy your weekend.
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We'll be back again, same time, same place next week on PCRFM.
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Other than that, have a great one and do it safely wherever
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you're doing sporting wise. And bye for now, take care.