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LISTEN BACK TO SARAH GREEN,WILL TYE,MALCOLM PORTER AND ALWYN FERNADES TALKING ABOUT FOLKESTONE CRICKET CLUB. · The Folkestone & Hythe Sports Podcast

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: This is Kevin Sports very daily, bring you the folks
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: on a hive sports show on a radio Folkston. Today
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: we have a Folkston Cricket Club special. I should be
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: joined by three members to talk about how the club
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: has been recognized as the deserving winner of the Most
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: Inclusive Community Cricket Club twenty twenty five in Kent. I'll
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: be chatting to Sarah Green about the women's section, We'll
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: tie about the juniors and girls section, and Malcolm Porter
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: will be telling us all about the disability and a
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: walking cricket teams. And we're hoping to get all in
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: on to talk about the presentation night that's coming up tomorrow.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: Will we have time for any other sport? We'll we
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: just have to wait and see whon't we But don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be back on Saturday with a d between ten
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: and eleven. Then we can catch up then. So let's
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: get this show on the road. You know, I'd like
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: to start with the belter of a track, and I'm
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: going to tell you about this little song after we
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  Speaker 1: played it, So sit back and listen to this one
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  Speaker 1: from Elo Hold on Tight. All right, that was Elo there,
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  Speaker 1: and I must tell you that I have seen Elo.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: I've seen them the correct Ello if you like the two.
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: And the other night there was an Elo tribute band
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  Speaker 1: called the Elo Experience and we went to watch them
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  Speaker 1: at the Leecliff Hall the other night and honestly, you
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: could not tell the difference. They These tribute bands are
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  Speaker 1: so good nowadays. But yeah, so if you get a
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: chance to go and see the Elo Experience, then take it.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: That's enough of that, So we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: sport now. And now I'm joined by a regular to
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  Speaker 1: the show, but today she has a cricket on. Good
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: to see you, Sarah Green.
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm very well, Thank you, Kevin.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for coming in, and Sarah, you're normally here
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: telling us about the fantastic work you do with the
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: schools in Chapway with the Sports Trust. But I've only
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: just discovered that you're a member of the Folks and
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: Women's cricket team. Now, when and how did that start?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it wasn't that long ago, actually, Kevin I got involved.
• 2:52
  Speaker 4: It was probably only in July, so I've only been
• 2:56
  Speaker 4: involved a few months. But I think that really is
• 2:59
  Speaker 4: testament to how welcoming the atmosphere is with the ladies
• 3:03
  Speaker 4: there that I've felt part of the team for a
• 3:07
  Speaker 4: long time and we've achieved so much.
• 3:10
  Speaker 5: I heard about it just through.
• 3:11
  Speaker 4: A friend and it's it's it's a little bit of
• 3:15
  Speaker 4: distance for me to travel, but the sessions have been
• 3:18
  Speaker 4: so worth it. I was asking the ladies last night
• 3:22
  Speaker 4: on the old WhatsApp group how they find the sessions,
• 3:27
  Speaker 4: and the words supportive and friendly atmosphere came up so much.
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  Speaker 4: I think for us the group, how welcoming they are
• 3:35
  Speaker 4: really makes it makes it really accessible and open to us,
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  Speaker 4: or we might not have played while we were younger,
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  Speaker 4: and it's it's a great environment just to go along
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  Speaker 4: and try something you've you've never tried before, and not
• 3:46
  Speaker 4: worry about making mistakes or bowling like you're throwing a grenade.
• 3:51
  Speaker 5: We just have a giggle, which yea.
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  Speaker 4: If any other ladies are listening, good afternoon to you all, guys.
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: Now you say you've only just been playing. By how
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: long was the women's section be going do you know that?
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  Speaker 1: Or is it a brand new Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Not very long as far as I'm aware.
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: No, Okay, maytime right, so it's still new then, So yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're a bit of a veteran then really aren't you
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  Speaker 1: my few months?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we've achieved so much so in that time.
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: So what made you? I mean, you obviously do a
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: lot of work in schools and perhaps there might be
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: a bit of girls cricket in schools, But what attracted
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: you to it? Is it because you've seen it on
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  Speaker 1: the TV and you think the game is getting more
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  Speaker 1: popular and you thought, do you know what, I will
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  Speaker 1: never go this?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what.
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  Speaker 4: It's something I've wanted to have a go out for
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  Speaker 4: me personally for a long time. But I have memories
• 4:39
  Speaker 4: of my parents watching cricket days on end, and to
• 4:42
  Speaker 4: be quite honest, I thought it was completely boring.
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: As I've got into work with schools, especially with the
• 4:49
  Speaker 4: pairs format, was so inclusive and accessible to all I
• 4:53
  Speaker 4: found it's actually a really exciting game where there's so
• 4:55
  Speaker 4: many elements you can take and improve on each time
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  Speaker 4: you play, and the inclusive nature of it just means
• 5:01
  Speaker 4: everyone gets involved. And through that, my son started playing
• 5:06
  Speaker 4: cricket this summer, and as you do working in sport,
• 5:10
  Speaker 4: I ended up umpiring his game. So then I got
• 5:13
  Speaker 4: to know the pairs format even more so that gave
• 5:16
  Speaker 4: me a bit of confidence to come and try out,
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  Speaker 4: and it's it's worked out really well so far with
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  Speaker 4: the women.
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: I understand that you had a tournament as well recently.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: Tell us about that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so so in August we actually went to a
• 5:32
  Speaker 4: festival at Mersham Cricket Ground. We were we had three
• 5:37
  Speaker 4: teams out of the twelve that were there, so we
• 5:39
  Speaker 4: had we had a big presence and we actually did
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  Speaker 4: quite well.
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  Speaker 3: We are out of twelve.
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  Speaker 4: We thought they've forgotten to read our name list out,
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  Speaker 4: but we actually came first, second and fourth, and we
• 5:52
  Speaker 4: we thought, hang on a minute, this is something that
• 5:55
  Speaker 4: we've really really enjoyed and we could do. You know,
• 5:59
  Speaker 4: we're around twenty five with them all very capable human beings,
• 6:04
  Speaker 4: lots of different strengths, and we thought we could do this.
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  Speaker 4: So we got in touch with Kent Cricket and had
• 6:12
  Speaker 4: a few sort of tips and pointers and a format
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  Speaker 4: of the softball version of the game, and yeah, we
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  Speaker 4: come September. We stretched out the summer as much as
• 6:23
  Speaker 4: we could and we had twelve sorry, we had nine
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  Speaker 4: teams come and compete, actually representing seven different clubs. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we organized them in pools of three. It took part
• 6:35
  Speaker 4: of the three hills. We had the barbecue go and
• 6:38
  Speaker 4: we had a few bubbles here and there. We had
• 6:40
  Speaker 4: a festival shark mascot which I had to pay my
• 6:44
  Speaker 4: daughter a fiver to wear, but she usually did it.
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  Speaker 4: And it was just great fun, great atmosphere and it's
• 6:50
  Speaker 4: something that we'd really like to continue into next summer.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So where did the rest of the team come from.
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: Mums that a prepzoy bought their children up were watching cricket,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly back in the day when I used to
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: watch cricket or it was on the telly, it was
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  Speaker 1: five days and it was yours. But there's so much
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: more exciting, isn't it.
• 7:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're a real mixture.
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  Speaker 4: I think some have got pairents, some children who play
• 7:13
  Speaker 4: and they've kind of sat on the side and thought
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  Speaker 4: they never have the confidence to do it, But here
• 7:17
  Speaker 4: they are now having a go. I think some are
• 7:21
  Speaker 4: looking to kind of be more active. We're various states
• 7:25
  Speaker 4: of fitness and so we had we were a sort
• 7:29
  Speaker 4: of finely tuned athletes by any means, but we were
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  Speaker 4: all support each other and it doesn't really matter what size, shape, color,
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  Speaker 4: any you.
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  Speaker 1: Are at all.
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  Speaker 4: We've all supported each other and yeah, we're a real mixture.
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: All right. So really, this group, it's not like when
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: you're a youth player, you play under eight tens, twelves,
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: you get to know who bond with each other. You're
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: all relatively strangers, aren't you.
• 7:54
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, Yeah, we've only really met on the cricket pitch.
• 7:57
  Speaker 4: I think we probably know our children teammates more than
• 8:00
  Speaker 4: when we do ours. But I think that's that's also
• 8:03
  Speaker 4: the lightness of it is what makes it so so
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  Speaker 4: great because you can you can dip in and out
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  Speaker 4: as you want, and there's no hard feelings, there's no
• 8:12
  Speaker 4: kind of you must be there for training at this time.
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  Speaker 4: If you roll up late, that's okay. We're really easy
• 8:17
  Speaker 4: going group and I think we really appreciate that with
• 8:20
  Speaker 4: you know, we're busy lifestyles, working or working mums or
• 8:24
  Speaker 4: or just mums, and it it's just something that we
• 8:27
  Speaker 4: can carve out a bit of our own time for us,
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  Speaker 4: which is really really special and really important.
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  Speaker 1: I think, And do you do you actually just I
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: know you've got these tournaments, but do you have like
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: once a week you have a lot of training, So in.
• 8:42
  Speaker 4: The summer we we do train once a week. We
• 8:45
  Speaker 4: started doing some nets practice as well, so some extra
• 8:49
  Speaker 4: practice at Three Hills, And in the winter we're looking
• 8:53
  Speaker 4: to go indoors to continue that those nets and then
• 8:57
  Speaker 4: we will come out back.
• 8:59
  Speaker 5: In the summer.
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  Speaker 1: Right, so there might be a possibility of entering the league,
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: you know, a little bit more competitive.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I mean I think there's enough of us
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  Speaker 4: that have different motivations. I absolutely think we are capable
• 9:13
  Speaker 4: of putting together a team to enter a league. I
• 9:15
  Speaker 4: don't think that's everybody's bug necessarily. So I'd love to
• 9:19
  Speaker 4: see a future where you kind of still have the
• 9:22
  Speaker 4: social sessions that we've had this year, and we're welcoming
• 9:26
  Speaker 4: new people in constantly, and then it becomes kind of
• 9:30
  Speaker 4: a foundation of women and then if you want to
• 9:33
  Speaker 4: go into a league pathway, then we would have a
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: league team. And if you just wanted to carry on
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  Speaker 4: the social dip in and out, throw a few balls
• 9:40
  Speaker 4: down the nets and then have a drink afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: And that's actually because you don't lose touch with with
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: you know, if you start a team to go in
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: the league, some of the moms might go, no, don't
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: want to go. But if you keep that sort of
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: social side together. That's that's great for the team spirit,
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: isn't it.
• 9:54
  Speaker 5: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 4: And I'm sure I'm not the only one when I
• 9:56
  Speaker 4: say I am a personal assistant to my children over
• 9:58
  Speaker 4: the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well exactly it will probably be on
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: a Sunday aspect, and that there's always someone to run
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: around somewhere, or isn't there absolutely? Yeah? All right, okay,
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  Speaker 1: So I mean getting back to the if you like
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: the nitty gritty of the game, as you play the
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: hardball or softball.
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  Speaker 4: So we play a softball version of the game, which
• 10:19
  Speaker 4: again is a massive plus for us because we can
• 10:22
  Speaker 4: just turn up with a pair of trainers.
• 10:27
  Speaker 5: We don't use no, no, I.
• 10:30
  Speaker 4: Mean we have got a couple of russ from the
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: ball but they're not too bad. We yeah, we say,
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: I think that's one of the good things as well.
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  Speaker 5: Can just turn up.
• 10:38
  Speaker 4: I'm me, I know nothing about cricket, or I know
• 10:40
  Speaker 4: a little bit or I know a lot, really doesn't matter.
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: The guys are so supportive you can fit in at
• 10:47
  Speaker 4: whatever level. And those are a bit more knowledgeable do
• 10:52
  Speaker 4: tend to help out the women who are new to
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: the sport, which is really helpful when like me, you
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: don't know what you're doing at the beginning, or like me,
• 11:03
  Speaker 4: you knew the rules but how to do it.
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: Or if the captain says, go to silly middle on
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: or something you got and before before we go Sarah,
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  Speaker 1: And what is your what are your family? What do
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: your children think about you? Especially your boy that plays cricket. Yeah,
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: you like it, like the idea.
• 11:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're really encouraging of it. I think they're happy
• 11:23
  Speaker 4: to spend as much time outside as possible. So I
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: think where we created our tournament and we had the
• 11:31
  Speaker 4: lovely welcoming atmosphere not just rapped our team but all
• 11:33
  Speaker 4: the other teams. My daughter actually had to go during
• 11:37
  Speaker 4: the during the tournament, which I never she never expressed
• 11:41
  Speaker 4: any interest in it.
• 11:43
  Speaker 5: She had to go and it was.
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  Speaker 4: Just lovely to know that we'd created that atmosphere where
• 11:49
  Speaker 4: people can just have the confidence coming up and if
• 11:51
  Speaker 4: they make a mistake, so.
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: You can sit around at home if there's lady's cricket
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: on there and all sit around the telly and watch
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: it altogether. Yeah, No, we do.
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: We do.
• 11:59
  Speaker 4: Did actually attend one hundred games this season, which was
• 12:04
  Speaker 4: great to see the kind of equality for the men's
• 12:06
  Speaker 4: and women's game, with the fixtures being on the same day.
• 12:10
  Speaker 4: I do pop up to Canterbury to watch the T
• 12:12
  Speaker 4: twenty and there's quite often an international T twenty game
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: with the England women each summer.
• 12:18
  Speaker 5: So I'm pretty sure New Zealand.
• 12:20
  Speaker 4: Are coming baut this year. I've got my tickets ready
• 12:22
  Speaker 4: for that, great, great stuff.
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, So what would you say to someone that was
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: one of the ladies that might be listening to this
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: now and she's sort of sitting on the fence. Should
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: I go? What would you say to her?
• 12:33
  Speaker 4: I think, just come along and just give it a go.
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: There's nothing to lose. Nobody's going to think anything.
• 12:43
  Speaker 6: In a view.
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  Speaker 5: If you cannot bowl, give it.
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  Speaker 4: Some of us still can't. So it's just it's more
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: than the cricket. It's come along, have fun and do something.
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  Speaker 1: It's good for your health to Okay, Sarah, thanks you
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: so much for coming in. And it's been great to
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: know that the women's game is out there in our
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: town in fact, because sometimes it's the big towns that
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: get all the all the pickens, isn't it. It's nice
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  Speaker 1: to know that a club and we're going to find
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: out a little bit more about inclusivity a bit later on, hopefully.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you so much, and hopefully next time we
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: see you can come in with your sports trust and
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: tell us all about the riots and things that are
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: going on at the schools. Okay, right, so we're going
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: to crack on. We've got lots to get through. And
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: this is a track from a group called you might
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: remember this one. It's one word, it's unbelievable.
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: Questions You're unbelievable, and it's funny how and it's funny
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  Speaker 2: how one song, one word can stick in your mind.
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  Speaker 1: Is just like you'll all be going run around the
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  Speaker 1: office now and around the kitchen going unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So now I'm joined now by Will Tie. Welcome
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: to the show.
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  Speaker 2: Will.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: How are you I doing?
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: Well? Thanks?
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: Good, excellent. Now you've got what sounds like a very
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: dangerous job. Actually you're involved in the junior and the
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: girls section. So let's talk about the juniors. First of all,
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: how many teams are that sort of thing just to
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: just to go for it?
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, certainly so. I mean the junior section of Folkson
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: is long established, and we have multiple teams that all
• 14:31
  Speaker 5: the age groups ranging for underlines right through to under fifteens.
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: It's a really vibrant punch as you like dangerous heard
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: them all. But myself and Matt's look after the under elevens,
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: and myself and Dan looking after the girls team as well.
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: So it's a really nice experience to look after the
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: kids and see them grow and thrive. But it's been
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: a great.
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  Speaker 1: Experience, all right. And have you got children involved with cricket?
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: What sort of drags you into getting getting this job?
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: So, I mean I played a bit as as a
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: child and in my like through about two of my twenties,
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: and then sort of family came in and work came
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: and then with my own two children, it was a
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: chance to kick back in again and live vicariously through them.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's two boys, is he boy and Henry?
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: And they both play both play.
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: Yes, their names Alana and Henry.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Well, hello Lana and Henry. Big shout out from your dad. There.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: I hope you're listening. Oh you're at school, but you
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: might be able to listen to the recording. I was
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: sudden they both play. That's cood.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah again, it's one of the great things that happens
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: at the club. Not only do we have the junior sections,
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: we run the Dynamos and All Stars programs, which is
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: a really good entry to especially the younger children to
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: get into cricket for the first time. And both of
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: them went through through those respectively, and then you just
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: roll into the age groups and it's been really nice
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: for them.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Right, So what are the age groups again?
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: So under nines right through to under fifteens fifteen. Again
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: we've got clubs teams in multiple teams at each level.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: So right, so when when when they hit the fifteen
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, if they're looking outstanding, they can go into
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: like the senior sides.
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, absolutely, yeah, and we're quite lucky again that we've
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: got five senior teams with the fifths being much of
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: a development squad, so anyone who wants to carry on
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: gets the opportunities, and some not even waiting to get
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: to fifteen's you know, if they're young enough, Yeah, then
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: they get the chance to carry on.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: So okay, So I mean the juniors, let's get back
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: to basics. How many in a junior team if they've
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: got to play an opposition, how many in the team.
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: So for the age groups, that I'm with the under
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: levels were I'm we have eight per side and we
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: have a pairs game and they can The benefit for
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: that is they multiple dismissal, so if they lose their wicket,
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: the day's not over for them. They carry on until
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: their pair has finished. The amount of overs, oh I see,
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: just encourages them.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: To okay, And it is the actual pitch not is
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: it not twenty two yards?
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Is it? No?
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  Speaker 5: So we play off seventeen's seventeen yards and then the
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: under thirteenth jump up to nineteen yea, and we have
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: obviously bring in the boundary a little bit, so we
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: still have yar and sixers from that time.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: And when will that genuinely be played local Sunday?
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so early on a Sunday generally. We also have
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: in the season just gone the Ashford Leaue played on
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: a Monday night, so yeah, bit of evening.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Ah right, Yeah, So you just mentioned the Sex and
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Shore League. Now I ever heard of it, but I
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: don't know much about it. Tell me about that. What
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: area Sex and Shaw sounds like at Whitstable Way?
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so, I mean it covers all of the local
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: area folks, and we have teams like Saint Margaret's and
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: Dlvick's and Sipton Park and all these local clubs. But
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: the real great thing about Saxon Shore League it is
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: presented as a development league, so it doesn't matter if
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: you've never played the game before or you've never played
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: hardball before and you're keen. It's at a level that
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: you can get started into. So it's a really good
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: entry level for that, right.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: And do you find that? I mean, the children start
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: young and they're all enthusiastic, but do you get them
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: any light dropouts as you as you as you creep up?
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I mean certainly when it comes to like fifteen or
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: sixteen as girlfriends and boyfriends getting away. But you know,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: do people have you always got a lot of players,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: new players coming.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: From Yeah, I think we do get people turning up
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: throughout the age groups. But you are right, there is
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: there's always a drop off as well as people's experiences
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: change or their lives change and they want to do
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: something else. So I'm an example of that. I got
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: to about fifteen sixteen, then took a long break till
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: I was twenty, So it's it does happen, But we
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: do get people coming in all the time, which is great, right.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: So.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Tell us about tournaments and stuff like that. I mean
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: it seems like you've gotten into a club sessions. If
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: you like that, you could play against other clubs, but
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: you'll do you get together a lot like the women
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: do another tournament so one day.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so it depends on the edge. We've focus on
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: the league primarily for the under elevens, but in say
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: the under nine setup, we also do these softball tournaments
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: that come around and that's a really great day out
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: actually for the undernines. They all get together for a
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: whole day. They play lots of short games, yeah, fire games,
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: so they keep their interesting it.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a nice day. Oh great, okay, So moving on,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: unless there's anything else you want to talk about the
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: juniors that you want to add.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: No, just to reiterate that the leagues that we have,
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: the Section Show is a great entry league. We also
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: take part in the canterbur League and the Ashvid League
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: where the skill is a bit higher. So I think
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: we're the only club actually that enters into all three.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: So we really do offer everything for any young player
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: that wants to come to play.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Right. Excellent, Okay, So moving on to the girls team.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Has that been going along or was that a new
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: adventure relatively new.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: It's only it's third season, just completed, another creation from
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Malcolm to get the girls section up and running, and
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: important I think for her to mention Heather that was
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: with us in the opening couple of seasons really kicked
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: it on and really got the interest going. And this
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: core group of girls that we've got now really thanks
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: to a lot of effort put through from there.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: So where do they come from? I mean, is it
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: just word of mouth or is there any schools contact?
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I mean these days certain sports that we used to
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: play at school they're not played anymore. I mean it
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: was talking to Amy from the hockey club and she
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: said hockey is not played in schools. There's a I
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: don't think there's nipball played in schools.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, again, it is difficult, especially cricket is a game
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: we need plenty of space, and not that schools have
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: got the facilities to do it. But we have been
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: fortunate enough to go to things like Folks in School
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: for girls and bring some players out of that. And
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: again it depends on everyone's path is slightly different. So again,
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: my daughter went through the beginning dynamos and found our
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: way that way. Others we pick up from the schools,
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: and a lot of it that comes from my friend
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: is playing and they try and bring all There's lots
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: of friendship groups that turn up together.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: And are they more responsive than the boys? You think
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: or it's a bit of a tough question in that one.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it can be tricky, Yeah, especially as and the
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: different age groups as well makes it makes it interesting.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: But they're a great bunch.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I do remember once watching I've told this story
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: a few times on here, but are watching them. There
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: was in Victor, girls were playing and the trainer said,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: to right, you lot go over there and do five
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: minutes of handstands. So they went, I did handstands, And
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: when it had all finished, I said, why did you
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: send them off to do handstands? He said, because every
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: time I turn around and tell them to do something,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I look around and they're doing handstands. So I thought
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I'll give them five minutes of handstands and get it
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: out of this system. I mean, so the girls, so
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: do they play the same rules as the boys?
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Is it seven sign short.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Almost exactly the same? Where it is exactly the same.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: It's the same pairs format, so multiple dismissals and eight
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: a side. Everyone gets a fair turn to do as
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: much cricket on the day as they can.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: And how's the age range with the girls? How many
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: teams have you got with the girls?
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: So much newer in set up as the dedicated girls section.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: So we've currently just this season only went with the
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: under thirteens, but we've had under elevens. Obviously, the group
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: are moving through the age groups and I'm hoping to
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: bring some new players in for the next season, but
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: ideally we were have an under elevens under thirteen's again
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: next year. Any success, we're a junior side, I would
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: say in the league, so there's a couple of junior
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: size like us and then a couple of very well
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: established so the results can be one or the other,
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: tend Yeah, but I think the important thing is that
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: everyone gets the experience to grow into the game and
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: have a real good chance.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think we were asking off here. I mean,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: if you've got any promising young girls at what age,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: did you know how old they've got to be before
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: they go into playing I don't know, Ladies senior quick here.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, again obviously comes a lot down to skill and ability,
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: but as long as you're twelve or over then you
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: can already start to move ahead. So again it's much
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: like the junior section. There are opportunities but all skill
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: levels to find their way through the game.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Brilliant. And what about sort of training. I mean it
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: must be jumping at the bit for space on training nights,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: you must be all like sort of fighting over the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: times bound. How does that go?
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: I mean we're quite fortunate at Three Hills. We've got
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: two large pitches and we all sort of section off
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: into various areas, and then we have the nets as well,
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: so I think between thirteen's down to nines and the
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: girls and now the ladies all playing on the same night.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: But that does really add to the community feel of
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: how it is on a Friday, as it was this season.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: But yeah, so we can't out our little area and
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: try not to be anybody else, yeah, and just try
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: and keep everyone happy.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Really yeah, I mean the facilities, well, the facilities have
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: made clubs grow. It's like the hockey club's grown, the
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: cricket club's grown, you know, the athletic club. They've all
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: grown since they've had three hills, So it's a tribute
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: to the building itself and the fact you've got the
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: facilities and possibly, as you say, you've got two pitches,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: so if you want to put on a tournament, you
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: know you're not worried about thot bumping into each other.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: So I don't know anything else to add about the girls,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I mean the parents. If you've got to get to
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: other games, they all have to muck in and yeah
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: do on the car.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Again, the parents are great. Obviously, they play such a
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: big role in getting the players to the to the
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: to the venues, and they're very enthusiastic helping out every
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: game is you know, get the flags out, get the
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: stumps out, and everyone's willing to muck in and tapeart,
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: which is which is excellent. And again I think we've
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: we've mentioned it a little bit already, but the key
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: thing for us will be now to grow that section
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: even more and try and encourage new players. So if
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: anyone out there has girls or girls listening that want
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: to come along, yeah do get in touch. We've we've
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: got the website. You can come along and check it out.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: Our training indoor will start again in January. Really great
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: to see some of your faces.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Great, right, thank you so much, Will, And it's been
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: a good introduction to me anyway about what goes on
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: for the juniors, because I love hearing the fact that
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: these clubs have got junior sides, any club, you know,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: because it's so important that anyone you want to hang
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: on to them. All right, they get some of them,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: as you say, are going to drift away, but it'd
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: be great to keep the hardcore of youngsters growing up
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: into seniors and all playing together. All right, anything else
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: is well before.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: You go, no, I think that's great. Thanks for us.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, right, okay, well, thank you Will for coming in.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Just say there a sec because we are coming up next.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: We've got Malcolm. We're going to play some bit of
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: music and then we're going to get Malcolm on and
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: he's going to talk about walking cricket and disability cricket
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety six. There Savage Garden to the Moon
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and back. Nice gentle song for this afternoon and because
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: we're talking about cricket. And I'm joined now by Malcolm Porter. Hello, Malcolm,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: how are you right? Excellent? So now welcome to the show. Malcolm.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Now I understand you're involved with the walking and the
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: disability sections of the club. So let's talk about disability
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: section first of all. I mean is that a well
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: established thing? Was it a new venture?
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Well it's yes and no, I've got well established set up.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: I do a after school club at the Beacon School, Folkston,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: and that was set that set up by Doors Tabernas
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: they called Lord Tabna's Super Ones and that's a nationwide
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: set up that as it said, the Lord Tabna's sponsor
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: and they have a setup of centers throughout Kent. And
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: then we were closely allied with people in Surrey, Hampshire
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: and and Sussex. So between them they get together all
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: the less able people to do tournaments. And so I'm
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: involved with the with the hub that's at the Beacon.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Right okay, And I mean what's the structure of the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: game if you like the disability level. Do you have tournaments,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: training nights? Do they come to three Hills?
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: No?
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I do it at the school.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: At the school. It's so because disability is a huge area.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: So most of the people that I get in contact
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: with that comes to the after school club are learning disability.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: So there'd be a down syndrome sufferers and various disability
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: learning disabilities that they have to cope with on a
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: day day basis. It's a sixteen to twenty four year
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: old age group that and that's all designated by Lord
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Taverner's but I've always been we've been given the Disability
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Champions Club status which we give them some money and
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: some kit but be so it's our responsibility now to
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: to reach out to the local community to provide them
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: with with activities based around cricket for people that have.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: So there's all sorts of different disabilities that are going on.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, does that affect the way that the game
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: is played? I mean is it kind of uneven sometimes?
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: I mean we go from what's called table table, which
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: is literally a table where they have little paddles they
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: roll the ball down a slope a bit like you
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: show cricket.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: It's that sort of idea, and then they it's mainly
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: played with people that are in wheelchairs.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: The lack of actionbility. Yeah.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: So uh, I just have a session and each time
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: it's the same because they like it that way. They
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: know what they're going to do and they're going to
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: do some catching, and they're going to some hitting, and
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: then we're going to a game and they're happy. I'm
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: you won't remember what he did last time, but they very.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: So how long do these sessions last? An hour or
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: an hour and a half? Yeah, yeah, yeah right, And
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: do you find that they might lose interest after a
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: while or they or they get more into it?
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: No, they're yeah, well if that's up to me to.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Keep going, Yeah, that's your job.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: That's my job.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: It's a tough job.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's more challenging, yeah, to than normal.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: So if you go up to the beacon and you're
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: doing a quickie, do you get any of the teachers,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: just keep an eye and in cases any issues with
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the kids.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: You know, I've got Alice who is a t a
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: at the school and she's also a coke folks. Okay,
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: so between us, we we look after it. There's a
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: chap who who was tell the injured and is now
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: partially disabled and he comes and helps as well. So
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: it's given him.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: A oh I see, so he's although he's disabled, he's
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: sort of acting as a sort of second coach or yeah,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: yeah that's the word.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: It gives him something. Look forward to this week as well.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: So a win win situation, brilliant.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: And how many do you handle at a time? How
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: many in the class.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Recently we've been handed about six? I mean we can
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: up there are if they all turn up to about
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: ten of them, Yeah, and can be quite boisterous.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I bet they're great.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Love.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I bet they love it, letting off steam and smacking
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: them all around it.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, But the worst is when there's three siblings that.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Come Oh is therema is it?
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah? But because for the Disability Champions Club, I've got
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: to come up with well not me personally, but I
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: mean the club's got to come up with ways of
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: attracting more disabled cricket in our region. So I've been
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: going in to the Beacon to do some lunchtime clubs
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: and help with pea lessons and that, so that the
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: I take over the pea lesson the cricket centered. So
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: and that was primary schoolse of sort of nine ten eleven.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Year olds, right, okay, well before we move on to
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the walking football, is anything else you want to add
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: to the disability side of things?
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: If your child is is you know, it's looking for
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: something to do and they haven't been able to do
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: ending because they're disability. Get in contact with the club
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: and I'm sure we can find something we can set
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: up for them.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: To do because other people are much more aware. And
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I think this word inclusive now is really the buzzword,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: isn't it. They don't leave anybody out these days. Before
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: people like you're dealing with were pushed to one side.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: They weren't allowed to even go out on the playground. Possibly,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: but now there's a different train of thought. People are
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: encouraging it.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we do. We do play our form
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: of pass cricket, you know when I look game at
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: the end and I mean yeah, most of the bowlings
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: no balls each time, you know, and they hit it
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: once out Yeah yeah, but they're enjoying it joy. Yeah.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, so walking cricket now once again, is this a
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: new idea? It's not a new idea, but.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Right What happened was that ah U k oh Yes
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: come up with in with help from the chargeable Kent
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Cricket Child Trust of providing cricket and tea opportunities, and
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: they asked Folkston to do the post the first one.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: So we had I think about eight about eight people
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: turn up to Folkstone and I basically did a as
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: if I was coaching the under nine. So I sort
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: of went through a coaching session and and then we
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: had a little game in the end again pairs cricket
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: and so. But the the sort of the idea behind
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: it was was that there are the there are men
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: out there who who perhaps lived just living on their
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: own and they've lost their wife, uh and there's not
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: so many opportunities for them to get out of the
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: house and and they get slightly fit. And also I
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: think there's always with men. You know, I'm not doing that.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, So I just need a little
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: you know, some of them just need a little bit
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: of encouragement, a little push. Once they get a taste
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: for it, they'll bet they come back. Oh god, yeah
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: What what I do is called I called it inclusive
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: cricket because there is walking cricket and that has rules. Yes,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: and we have played against other counties. We play against Surrey,
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: we've got this annual annual match going on, and we've
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: also played at Lord's where they had a national walking
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Cricket festival as well. Whether they invited all the counties
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: in sort I think it's about four or five groups
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: of you know. So we were playing Derbyshire and oh brilliant,
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: and these some take it very seriously. We don't, but
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: they have defined rules. Literally you can't walk, can't run,
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: and it's a seventeen yard yard pitch and you can't
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: run when you're fielding, you know, you bowl off two
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: paces and and and when we've played it at Folkston
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  Speaker 3: where we started it, we didn't like it. So we
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: just play indoor cricket, pays cricket. If you can't run,
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: you people from run. If you can't run, you.
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  Speaker 1: Run halfway or and does that work? There's the strict
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: not the strictness, because there's more more of a flexible game.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Now is it absolutely totally a flexible You bowl under arm.
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  Speaker 3: If you can't bowl under arm, just throw it. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we've got a lady. She's a tired lady. She'd never
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: stayed play sport in her life. And she turns up
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  Speaker 3: and she just to go halfway down the wicket to
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: throw it together to the other end. But she's one
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: of these people that is always traveling. You know, suns
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: are in America and she's got relations in Philippines and works.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: She's always out and about, but every times she's in
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: around she comes and games as it goes. So we
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: but we've had people with ms, we've had we've got
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: people Debentier and there's an even newer form of it
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  Speaker 3: called New Diversion Cricket for people with Parkinson's. Yes, and
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: they they can't run very well, so they've divided the
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: game where they just have to hit it into areas. Yeah,
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: they've broken up and.
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  Speaker 1: Once again it is like bending the rules. But because
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the audience is out there, isn't it bending the rules
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: to suit the audience. Rather if the audience can't play
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: to the rules, they never get a game. At least
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: everyone gets a chance, don't they.
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  Speaker 3: We've had a tournament at Canterby Polar Farm where we
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: had a couple of ladies sides, we had a couple
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: of New Diversion sides. We had the walking It's well
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: the folkusing a group made up of the various centers
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: of in Kent, because we've now got center at Folkston, Canterbury,
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Sitting Born and somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just catching on anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Maystone, that's right. So yeah, yeah, So we've had a
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: couple of teams made up for people from there and
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: we just divide a format that everyone could.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Play and it was great, brilliant right. Okay, Well we're
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: cracking on and I'd love to get another little guest
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: in before. But is there anything else you want to
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: add to, Malcolm, to your your little chat there?
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Yes, turn up. Yeah, although it's the way it runs
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: is it's part of the over fifties Active Sessions at Folkston.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: So if if you're already part of that set up,
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: it's free. But if you're not, you just do walking, cricket,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: or you can join the whole thing. You can do
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: what's it called.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've had guys.
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  Speaker 3: And plates and fitness.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, lots going on there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so male, female, any sort of gender. Yeah, you
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: can just turn up. It's supposed to be over fifties,
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: but we've had younger people that have got you know,
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: learning difficulty. Yeah, yeah, come and join us.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: And that's really good. It's just it's just makes everybody
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: everything available to everybody, doesn't it, And that's that it
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: should be.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's team and biscuits afterwards.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, okay, no chaffa cakes cakes Okay, Malcolm. Well,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: we just want to move on there and stay where
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: you are for a sec. We're just going to play
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: this song. This is from nineteen ninety four. It's Sheryl
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Crow disc show Crow down a bit there because we
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: are running out of time and I do want to
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: speak to this gentleman, and so it's cricket. I don't
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: like cricket. I love it right, okay, so welcome to
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: the show. Allwin?
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: How are you allwin?
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Okay? Excellent? Now what is your role at the clubs?
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Then? Right?
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: The junior coordinator. That basically means I'm kind of responsible
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: for the admin work for the various different sides we have.
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: I also maintain our website, which is useful for publicizing
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: all our various events that we have. So if anybody's
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: keen to get in touch with us, if you contact
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: us at info at folks DOONCC dot com, that will
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: get straight through to me and I'll get back to you.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: And then you can point so if someone all these
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: things we've been talking about, So if someone says, oh
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: I heard it on the radio that you do walking football,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: if they go to Info Cricket and then and then
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: you can point them in the rather for them.
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: Okay, their message the relevant parties.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah right now, Now you've got a big night coming
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: up tomorrow, tell us about that, and tell us about
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: an award that you have won the club has won.
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: Yes, it's very exciting. We're hosting our annual Junior Awards
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: tomorrow three hills from six still eight. So tomorrow it's
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: going to be the first time we've incorporated the women
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: into our Junior Awards, so it's going to be a very.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Busy telling us what to do. Then.
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: Indeed, we've I believe to date we've sold over thirty
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: five pizzas for.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: The night half all right, the women, I think it is.
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: And the bar has been fully stocked. So it's going
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: to be a rocket event.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Oh great, okay, yeah, but you've he came to my attention.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: You've won a massive award for what the club has
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: done as a whole. Tell us about that.
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: Yes, so we were very proud to have won the
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: Southern Enterprise Award for the most inclusive cricket club in Kent.
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: This is like a fantastic achievement for us and it's
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: all down to the hard work of all the people
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: at the club really, not not any one individual but
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: as a as a group, we've we we now offer
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: cricket for from boys and girls from six years old
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: to up to eighty and it's it's it's a fantastic
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: feeling to have won this award.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Brilliant okay, and now, oh when I'm sorry to side,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: we've only got a minute left, but we did want
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: to drag you onto the mike kicking and screaming. So
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: is there anything else you want to add to that?
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: It's been such a busy show.
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: Just only to say that we are a very welcoming
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: club and if anybody wants to give cricket a go,
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: please contact us at info folksancc dot com. We offer
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: two free sessions, so just come along, give it a try.
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: You've got nothing to lose.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: And it's fun, right Okay. So honestly, when we've got
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: to go now, because there's just this little snippet of
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: a song I want to get in for you as
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: you're a Crystal Palace supporter, so let's never a little
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: listen to this one, okay. So that's all. When he's
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: a Crystal Palace supporter, and why not he was in
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Poland not so long ago supporting him and he's lost
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: his voice, but he's going to get it back, so
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: we've only got a few seconds. I'll be seeing you
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: all on Saturday, so tune in the won so you
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: then