Fathers steamroll the top of the table

BACK TO BACK 4 SKIN WINS UNDER CAPTAIN SAO

The Founding Fathers steam rolled the top of the table Polar Bears on Tuesday night with match winning individual performances all around. Captain SAO was the man with the manifesto: "If it ain't broke don't fix it" said SAO after retaining the partnership sequence from the previous week's victory. But in reference to the Polar Bears: "Those blokes are badly broken... heh, heh."

"Our champagne run into the finals has started early this season" said Best and Unneededest Gilly who took five wickets and demoralised the third partnership who were on -33 after facing only 8 deliveries.

Late withdrawals from Billy the Kid, Gristle and Singer meant the side was unchanged with Nads, Itchy and Norris filling the breach. "I turned up just to drink beer." said Norris who top scored with 36 not out. "His innings was brilliant" said Nads "The way he deflected the quick
straight ones off his shins into the cover region was simply breathtaking."

Nads and Norrisses defence down the back was nothing short of spectacular. Itchy, the FFCC High Performance Coach was pleased, "We knew we'd done our job with the bat and put the Polar Bears under immense pressure. I gave Norris and Nads a bit of a spray before the second innings and they got the message - you'd pretty much have to credit me with their immaculate performance this evening."

With all Fathers contributing match positive figures (except Captain SAO whose bowling changes were inspiring) it was difficult to determine who was the most Unneededest. "It had to go to Gilly" said Gladdy who has reinvented himself with a clever leg stump line mixed with menacing bumpers: "They were already on the ropes and then Gilly taking those 5 wickets with nine deliveries was totally unnecessary".

But the bowling performance of the innings had to go to The Panther who introduced nothing but spiteful disdain in his second spell. "Cheesy cut that bloke in half so many times he looked like a pepperoni pizza" was all Norris had to say and The Mayor was snubbing the BBQ crinkles
preferring instead a quiet deep pan meat lovers on the way home after a couple of quick beers in the car park.

The Prez rounded out the night with a stunning car park catering performance including an esky designed and constructed by NASA. There was much rejoicing and the esky was completely drained.

An unchanged side has been named next week due to back to back brilliant performances and consecutive four skin victories. The Mayor is a possible late withdrawal but it appears the tight knit FFCC crew would rather play with 7 than carry an inexperienced up and comer.

Next Week - 6:50pm
1 Nads
2 Mr Prez
3 Norris (catering services)
4 Cheesy/The Mayor/The Panther
5 SAO - Retains the Captaincy
6 Itchy
7 Gilly
8 Gladdy

Up and comers: Gristle, Hugo, Billy the Kid, Choco. (let us know if you
are available next week)

Singer - OUT until further notice - message received from Singer indicated he was unable to play last Tuesday due to double booking with the Martha Stewart Sewing Tips Show on the Oprah Network.

The batting STATS
Mr Prez 30 not out
Nads 31

Norris 36 not out
The Mayor 16

Itchy 24
SAO -2

Gilly 11
Gladdy 12

The bowling STATS
Norris 2 for 28
The Mayor 3 for 3
SAO 3 for 13
Nads 2 for 18
The Prez 1 for 24
Gladdy 3 for 3
Itchy 2 for 7
Gilly 5 for -10