Eve of Season

Wednesday 4th April

Posted by Peter Davies

Headingley

The start-of-term dinner at Headingley, attended by all the YCCC players and many supporters and members. A very good occasion - and I'm saying that as a Lancastrian!

Ryan Sidebottom and a young second-teamer were sitting on our table and during the dinner I grabbed a word with Oliver Hannon-Dalby (wow, is he tall?! He'll write a foreword to the soon-to-be-published history of the Halifax Cricket League)& new v-c J Sayers(rather swarve-looking close up).

The meal was nice - soup, meat and veg, then fruit - and the speeches/interviews which followed were quite illuminating. The MC spoke with new coach Jason Gillespie (he's a good egg), Martyn Moxon (nice guy) and then Andrew Gale (with a new haircut). All good stuff - there seems to be a genuine feeling of optimism ahead of the new season.

The event took place in the Long Room - and it was easy to get excited with the lush green of the Headingley turf looking good in the background.

I'm staying overnight at the Headingley cricket hotel - a really impressive place and I can't wait to get up in the morning and see the lush turf over breakfast! Let the new season roll on...