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This weekend's local cricket

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Times have definitely changed.

I can remember when games started at 2:30 on a Saturday to give lads who worked half-shifts in the pits or shipyards time to get to the games. The downside was that, even in the height of Summer, many games finished in the dark - in the old Durham County League, if any time was lost to rain, you still had to complete your allocation of overs before the game could finish.

Leagues gradually moved the start times forward as people's working patterns changed to the extent, that in most leagues nowadays you actually finish at a decently early time to be able to have a Saturday night out if you so wish.

The exception now is the NEPL where, because of the location of many of the teams, and the rules about when you have to be at grounds prior to the start, you often hear of lads leaving the house at 9:30/10:00 am and not getting home until around 9:00 pm. In those cases, I can see where a double-header could destroy someone's weekend.
 

Gets on my tits the whole family Sunday excuse. As a kid my old man played 4/5 nights a week at the peak of summer, and I reckon more double weekends than not. The car would be packed up at 11am and me, my sister and parents would head off to the cricket. We had great times. Plenty of bait on the picnic, and huge open spaces to run around in, if we hit lucky the ground would have some nets we could take a bat and ball in. Even after the game it was great when we were allowed to hang around while they had a couple of pints after.

The whole thing has changed around completely and IMO is just a power trip from the women. Granted it wont be the same for everyone but I have seen so many examples where the woman just wants to make a point, and do something that was her idea rather than the blokes! Some of our lads don't play Sundays for family reasons, when they actually do bring their kids to the club when cricket is on they have the time of their lives, and can barely be dragged away when it is time to go home.
 
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Gets on my tits the whole family Sunday excuse. As a kid my old man played 4/5 nights a week at the peak of summer, and I reckon more double weekends than not. The car would be packed up at 11am and me, my sister and parents would head off to the cricket. We had great times. Plenty of bait on the picnic, and huge open spaces to run around in, if we hit lucky the ground would have some nets we could take a bat and ball in. Even after the game it was great when we were allowed to hang around while they had a couple of pints after.

The whole thing has changed around completely and IMO is just a power trip from the women. Granted it wont be the same for everyone but I have seen so many examples where the woman just wants to make a point, and do something that was her idea rather than the blokes! Some of our lads don't play Sundays for family reasons, when they actually do bring their kids to the club when cricket is on they have the time of their lives, and can barely be dragged away when it is time to go home.
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That’s all well and good mate if both the wives and children are interested in cricket, in fact that would be the perfect situation.

But believe it or not, all kids and wives don’t think the world revolves around cricket and rightly soo.

The club I was involved in, the first team had a fantastic cup side in the late eighties and early nineties,had games iit seemed almost every night, entered about 13 cups and regularly reached 5 or 6 finals a year, they would have had virtually no time with their families during the summer.

Times have changed the world doesn’t revolve around cricket.
 
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That’s all well and good mate if both the wives and children are interested in cricket, in fact that would be the perfect situation.

But believe it or not, all kids and wives don’t think the world revolves around cricket and rightly soo.

The club I was involved in, the first team had a fantastic cup side in the late eighties and early nineties,had games iit seemed almost every night, entered about 13 cups and regularly reached 5 or 6 finals a year, they would have had virtually no time with their families during the summer.

Times have changed the world doesn’t revolve around cricket.
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Take your point, but some of them these days don't even try. One lad at our place their lass has never been to a single game. One Sunday he ended up actually bringing the bairn to the cricket. The bairn had an incredible day, ran around with the other kids at the game, and didnt want to leave. I can only imagine seeing his dad playing at the same time would have increased the enjoyment, but their lass decided no!
 
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Take your point, but some of them these days don't even try. One lad at our place their lass has never been to a single game. One Sunday he ended up actually bringing the bairn to the cricket. The bairn had an incredible day, ran around with the other kids at the game, and didnt want to leave. I can only imagine seeing his dad playing at the same time would have increased the enjoyment, but their lass decided no!
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Think he needs to get the bairn to say to his mam how much he enjoyed it to win her round!

As I say it’s the perfect situation to get the whole family on board.
 
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Awful forecast tomorrow. Spenny 1sts supposed to be at home to Middleton St George 2nds. 2nds away to Cliffe 2nds. If we're off that will be the 4th consecutive Saturday without cricket for the 2nds FFS.
 
It is indeed haha.

Firsts rained off without a ball being bowled.
Seconds abandoned. Burnhope batted first declaring on 133 for 9. (S Laws 103). Rainton were going well on 32 for 2.
 
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I would have thought on Father's Day a dad might want to spend the day with his child or children, you know the people who he is a father too!!!



Maybe if they out all day every Saturday during the summer, they would like to spend the only other day they have available during the week with their wife and kids, just a thought like!

It was always a question of balance for me I have played loads of sport for years and years but when working all week, been out more or less all day both days of them weekends is tipping the balance too far.
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Cant remember you missing many double headers.
 
Voice of fair play said:
I think post 109 sums up your first question nicely.

It's not just 2 weekends in the whole year is it, you make it sound like doing nothing the rest of them, when in fact he is out all day every Saturday during the summer,

The wedding anniversary should never happen because any proper bloke would not get married in the cricket season in the first place:D

I remember my dad telling me his brother and best man left his wedding early to play cricket back in the day and he was totally fine with it, however times have changed

Sometimes they is more important things in life than cricket.
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Thats because he would have done the same himself
 
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