Irby Cricket Club.

[daveh]

I'm not sure all of you out there will understand cricket. The cricket club is about 3/4 mile from my house.


What about rugby? Slightly further to the rugby club, but not much more than a mile.


This next photo is much nearer home. Irby village is at the top of the hill, and I live just off Thingwall Road, to the right.

[mickeyobe]

Dave,

Cricket. I dunno. Whenever I wore anything white it was grey or worse in minutes. I'd never make the team.

Rugby. If anyone ever grabbed me like that I would look miserable too. And I would kick him where it hurts. Hard. Very hard. Very very hard.

Thingwall Road. Beautiful.

Mickey

[nikonbob]

I'll second Mickey on that.

Bob

[pompiere]

I don't understand the rules for cricket, but when I visited Pakistan some years ago, I saw kids playing cricket in the street with scraps of wood and small stones for the wickets, and a plank for a bat.

Rugby players think American football players are sissies, with helmets and padding and stopping play every few seconds.

[daveh]

We are getting more sissyish here too: more and more padding is being worn for cricket and rugby. There also seems to be fewer kids playing in the streets and elsewhere. I think this applies to other countries as well. I believe it stems from the idea that sport is a serious business rather than something to enjoy: winning just gets too important. Instead of Joe Public (John Dow, perhaps) actually playing he goes along to watch someone else.

Dave,

[nikonbob]

I think fewer kids playing on the streets could be blamed on them being indoors on the PC.

Bob

[daveh]

It certainly is partly that, but even when, say, on the beach there are not so many spontaneous games breaking out. That too, though, could be a result of the computer with kids just becoming more sedentary after too much time in front of a computer.


This, spending too much time on the computer, doesn't apply to us of course.

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Aug 20, 2010 20:32:12 GMT -5 pompiere said:

I don't understand the rules for cricket, but when I visited Pakistan some years ago, I saw kids playing cricket in the street with scraps of wood and small stones for the wickets, and a plank for a bat.

Rugby players think American football players are sissies, with helmets and padding and stopping play every few seconds.

Sissies? If you get hit by someone weighing 240 pounds who can run 40 yards in 4.4 seconds, Ya better be wearing some pads and a helmet. And I'm not even going to comment on the "assist" that rugby player is getting from his teammate.

W.