Nearly, But Not Quite The storms of recent times have relented, but the Wycombe ground has long-since succumbed to the incessant deluges of a few days ago. Good on them, however – they’ve secured a parks’ pitch to ensure today’s game goes ahead, t...

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‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (with sincere apologies to Clement Clarke Moore) Twas six days before the night before Christmas, when all round the ground, Not a creature was stirring, not even a hound; But then came the helpers, fresh out of their be...

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Persistence Saturday 8th January 2022. Gloucester 3 Sutton 2. Six thoughts about a memorable day – and their place in history: One While the season of goodwill has been and gone for another twelve months, the sieve that is Charlie Buckland benefitted fr...

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Saga (Noun: a long, involved story, account, or series of incidents). Saturday 8th January A day of almost perfect symmetry. Win the game, lose the pitch, Gloucester City draw. 1-1-1. Return to the pavilion at 5.30 to clean up, sweep out the various rooms...

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Solly, Folley It’s Saturday morning and it’s arrival time at GL2. Vaile is first on the scene, an impressive ten minutes before anyone else and reaches the mini bus with both a fluorescent green head cushion and a hairdo that would have qualified him ...

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Castle Vale 7.50am and, as most people are aware, Vaile has a season-long ban from all things yellow hanging over him. His crime was to extract Folley from the little plastic box and place him in Pew One (right behind the driver) in his first and only del...

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Toe Poke Following the intensity of the previous seven days, it’s been (amongst other things) a week of waiting for the wheels of government in the Channel Islands to finally declare that, after their bombshell of a fortnight ago, the Easter Festival in...

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Question Time Why were today’s matches switched to Newbury? Despite our pitch having recovered remarkably well following its annihilation on 8th January, playing on the hallowed turf of GL2 at the moment during, or following, any period of prolonged rai...

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More Calmer Behind the Scenes on the 2022 London Tour Thursday The day of departure dawns bright and dry and despite an early-morning detour to Abbotswood Road to collect The Photographer, we’re still back at GL2 five minutes before Vaile continues his ...

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Dislikes 5.50 Friday evening and it’s London prize-giving time. Here’s how it all pans out. Leo Folley: 1st = in the match marks, 1st in the bowling and 1st = in eating. 3rd = overall. Clark Vaile: 2nd = in match marks and a bonus prize for voluntaril...

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