Senior Information

Senior pre season training times 2010/11 season

Sunday 1^st August          2.00pm – 4.00pm

Sunday 8^th August          2.00pm – 4.00pm

Sunday 15^th August        1.30pm – 4.30pm           (Batters 1.30 – 3.00 / Bowlers 3.00 – 4.30)

Sunday 22^nd August       2.00pm – 4.00pm

Sunday 29^th August        2.00pm – 4.00pm

OUT WE COME TO PLAY
 
How sweet it is to be a Bushman.
 
The 2009/10 season has been one of the most challenging, exciting and ultimately rewarding in recent memory, culminating in the "Miracle on Morala" or the "Bravado at the Bay", or the weekend we sucked up all the high, lows, anguish, abuse and hard work and brought the 1st grade premiership back to Nielsens Road. I don`t need to reiterate how proud we all are of our 1st grade, 6th grade, u/14`s and u/15`s for their premiership achievements, but I would like to spend a minute talking about that feeling  many of us experienced at 2.52 pm Sunday afternoon March 28, 2010, as Mitch Daley laid back and smacked a tidy little square cut to the point fence.

Mudgee isn`t like other clubs. We don`t have a senior committee and a junior committee. We have a cricket club. From Moses Garnham, leading his young charges through the trials and tribulations of the first grade season to Kev Veivers and his myriad of have a go disciples, everyone is equal at Mudgee. If the only team we had in the finals had have been the u/13 red, we all know that one hundred of us lunatic spectators would have turned up to cheer the boys on. That`s what we do. It`s part of our culture. It`s an indescribable feeling that WE all know. A great man once described it as the fever. I watched as Kevin Chapman caught a huge dose of it towards the end of the season. Josh Nelson and Josh Butler were probably born with it.

The under 13 team that I help out with has it in spades. They can`t wait to get to the seniors at this great club and put the fever to good use! An opposition club president remarked over the weekend about how many good "kids" we had in our first grade team. You can only imagine the pleasure involved in telling him that this was only the tip of the ice berg and we had plenty more to come - all with the fever! 
The members on our deck know the feeling. In fact, if the fever was a pandemic, the deck would be ground zero. Sponsors catch the fever on our deck. Chris and Lachie caught Le Fever on the deck!

So now folks, probably even more than during the season, the pressure is on. What WE, as an entire club, have achieved this season should be looked on not as the culmination, but as the start of something BIG. By virtue of having to put so many young sides on the park this year, we have reached a pinnacle years before we had planned and this should serve as motivation, not just celebration, because the next step is to repeat this throughout the grades, junior to senior.

I urge all of our players, members, supporters and hangers on to stay strong over the next few seasons so that we can all cash in on the solid foundations laid in the last few and especially this season.
Next year is the 125th anniversary of our great club, so be proud, be dignified but most of all, be a "BUSHMAN". 
 
Dave Bristow
Senior Vice President
MNDCC

Congratulations to the following players who won awards at the Best & Fairest Night 2010

2009/10 Peter Smith Medal: Wayne Phillips

1st Grade Peter Jackson Medal: Wayne Phillips

2nd Grade Peter Stormonth Medal: Jackson Smith

3rd Grade Russell Kurz Medal: Nick Gentle

4th Grade Arthur Auld Medal: Bevan Marks

5th Grade Charlie Veivers Medal: David Haupt

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