Congratulations Surrey CCC

[onlyagame]

Strictly speaking N/W but I know a lot of Wall follow them in a fashion.
Clinched the County Championship title today and we’ll deserved. They haven’t lost a game all season

 

[Stowwall]

 

[Terry_Hurlock]

And the Pikey's from the 'Garden' of England finished where?

 

[onlyagame]

And the Pikey's from the 'Garden' of England finished where?

They actually won today (beat Hampshire) which is why Surrey got over the line with a match to spare

 

[Terry_Hurlock]

Well they serve us well then

 

[Wippa]

I always associate the county of Surrey with the stripeys. I know the cricket team play in Kennington but still couldn’t bring myself to support them for that reason.

 

[Ralph the mouth]

I always associate the county of Surrey with the stripeys. I know the cricket team play in Kennington but still couldn’t bring myself to support them for that reason.

I first read that as strippers instead of stripeys,whole different context altogether
Remember some great ones in a pub near Chelsea bridge at lunchtime when working on the qvc building

 

[Stowwall]

Followed them since I was a tilt in my dads kilt. Always chuffed when they do well.

 

[onlyagame]

I first read that as strippers instead of stripeys,whole different context altogether
Remember some great ones in a pub near Chelsea bridge at lunchtime when working on the qvc building

Not exactly cricket old boy but we’ve all been there (mine was a pub in Clerkenwell back in the day)

 

[partisan_lion]

I first read that as strippers instead of stripeys,whole different context altogether
Remember some great ones in a pub near Chelsea bridge at lunchtime when working on the qvc building

Might be the Chelsea Reach on the corner of Battersea Park Rd and Queenstown Rd, use to get my pay cheque and cash it in the Midland bank on the oppo corner of the same two roads on a Friday as 16 yr old in my first job and spend my lunch hr watching the strippers with my much older work colleagues.

 

[Phlion54]

Spent many a day at the oval when young.....great news and up all the Essex fans round me ...nearly as bad as the wet spam

 

[BigPaul]

Spent many a day at the oval when young.....great news and up all the Essex fans round me ...nearly as bad as the wet spam

Me too, from 1964-67, I was there at every available opportunity.

 

[King of The Jungle]

I first read that as strippers instead of stripeys,whole different context altogether
Remember some great ones in a pub near Chelsea bridge at lunchtime when working on the qvc building

We used to go to the stripper's pub on a Friday afternoon when I was working as a gravedigger years ago... Dermot, a philosophical Irish fella, used to muse "after working with dead bodies all week it's nice to see some live ones". There was always this bloke in there who would grab a table right, slap bang front and centre of the 'stage', and sit there staring forward intently at the girls... Creepy he was... Dermot used to say of him, "that fella there, he's gynacological".

 

[Phlion54]

Me too, from 1964-67, I was there at every available opportunity.

Always remember the scorecards & filling them in , great to watch the likes of Edrich & Barrington bat

 

[BigPaul]

Always remember the scorecards & filling them in , great to watch the likes of Edrich & Barrington bat

And the quickest scoreboard in the world, by the gas holders.

 

[Gerry]

Me too, from 1964-67, I was there at every available opportunity.

I used to go there at around the same period. There was a young spin bowler named Roger Harmon..do you remember him? Around 30 years later I worked for a French company that had a production site in Fareham. The bloke in charge of the Customer Services with whom I used to work with and have verbal punch ups was also named Roger Harmon. One day I had lunch with him and a Dutch customer who started talking about the funny game of cricket that nobody on the continent understands. I said I used to go to the Oval to watch Surrey during the summer when I was kid. I then asked Roger “ Do you follow cricket”? He said I played professionally for Surrey!. Fuck me it was the same Roger.!!!

 

[rooferboy]

From the team I supported from a kid Hampshire, don't ask me why as I'm from New Cross, think it was when Barry Richards and Gordon greenage that I liked as a kid.

 

[Brusselslion]

From the team I supported from a kid Hampshire, don't ask me why as I'm from New Cross, think it was when Barry Richards and Gordon greenage that I liked as a kid.

Arguably the greatest ever opening pair. Greenidge was English qualified but opted to play for WI.

 

[PurleyLion]

Yes, we’ll done SCCC, all the sweeter because my Son-In-Law supports Hampshire

 

[onlyagame]

Just to add that Surrey lost their last match by an innings & 130 runs.
Cricket’s equivalent of “already being on the beach” I suppose