Goat Herder wrote:puppet arms wrote:Copes didn't stick it out till the bitter end of TTG. He jumped ship a couple of years earlier.
Good the hear Crackers is still going ok. I catch up with him regularly but it's hard to get an honest appraisal of his own performance from the big guy.
Thanks for the input guys. I've been trying to get him back out to Glenunga to play LOAs but so far no luck. Maybe next season....
It's gotta be Bart' then??
Used to love the old PV vs TTG days when we were bitter arch-rivals. Plenty of sledging and some great contests. Just a shame half of those matches were played at Ardtornish Primary School. Remember trying to flick one off my pads towards mid-wicket off Crackers at Ardtornish, getting a leading edge, which duly sailed the 35m over his head required to clear the boundary. He was most pleased.
I remember the 97/98 GF at Modbury Heights where TTG & PV were so far ahead of Plympton & Methos after the completion of the minor round that the Assoc scrapped the semi-final and we played the GF when all the other divisions played their semis.
Fiercely fought, Copes and I watched the B Grade GF together over the next 2wks and had a good yarn. That B Grade GF was an amazing game in itself, with Modbury getting done by Dernancourt outright, by the barest of margins - played across both days and 2 innings per side. Some of the most ridiculous sledging and player behaviour I've ever seen on a cricket field in this comp too.
Very entertaining stuff..
Some 'luminaries' from that game included our Forum buddies spintwin and reggie05, Matty "I have an oval named after me now" Schmidt, Danny & Richard Fox for Dernancourt and Lee & Scott Hill and Brad "FIGJAM" Horsell for Modbury.
Barts hasn't been spotted out at the Rams for many a year. You've named 3 ex-TTG players and I've ruled out 2
We definitely had some great games back then. We ended up on the wrong side of the ledger a bit more often than I liked though, especially in the big games! Very true about being played with mutual respect though. It really is how cricket should be played. Hard and competitive but everyone shakes hands at the end of the game and no lines were crossed.
One of the biggest problems at TTG for a long time was our inability to find a suitable ground. Ardtornish was a joke!
Matt Schmidt was, and I assume still is, the biggest oxygen thief I ever played with or against.
