BakeFace & The 50 Raised

And the bat is waved to the stands in mild appreciation as the 50 post mark for the blog is raised. Has been an innings to date of mixed and variable quality but having reached this far surely we can progress to the centurion level.

Great weather all day, can finally plan and unleash a decent week of activity. Training on the hard stuff but at least everything is dry at last. Can use leathers without fear of dampness -hooray.

Arrive at the Planet, Skipper Dick completed a lazy ten laps with the shirt off to reveal a ripped upper torso. Surely a calendar opportunity or Mr Lions on Lions TV exposure awaits, he is positively glowing.

Set up organised, plenty of Lions heeding Panansonic prodding from last week for self activation. Lions 300 introduced, no times taken, just effort observed. Furious breaks the minute for both repetitions - 12 seconds faster than BakeFace. Charlie Eppes, could not even walk with shin splint affliction a mere matter of a month ago - now like one of Bart's frisky hopes in the carnival.

"What time did I get, how fast did I go?" he quizzed.

"Fast enough to last more than two balls to a part time medium pacer bowling straight dung," was thought but not announced to the public - Demons loss still causing seething within.

Man love fly balls, Furious completely confusing the Exotic Mauritian with co-ordinated challenged extensions that had the observant coaches not able to fathom who was actually catching. Gasbox, loves the grapple. If the instruction was to nude up he would be the absolute first in, whack that image on FB status after the chest shaving ritual.

Double ball, triple play circuit - not quite right, complete fault of the orginator (me!) in that start phase not quite right. Will have sorted by next week. Groups changeover and unfortunately the inner beast comes to the surface.

Debrief from weekend, wides must be fixed in 2nd XI group as all new ball options have passed double figures and attention needs to be paid to shot selection to challenging balls. We are able to leave early if unsure.

Lion cub of innocence has delivered one of the more unusual match day behaviours of the new generation. Technology acceptance is promoted by myself in every possibility, it does put food on the table in my house, but a player updating their status on Facebook during a game while not being far from called into bat. Am not quite understanding of this one.

So therefore young Bakeface was on the receiving end of a few, friendly words (emissions spewing forth as hostile lava) to kindly suggest that this was not really appropriate on game day, during the match. To further exacerbate the relationship of the moment, Bakeface had an egg on his leg due to a self inflicted fielding error ("coach, do you have any ice?" - my blank look in reply to indicate that I was sympathetic to his condition caused by his own mistake, that I do not personally carry around ice on Schramms 2, nor is my name Westinghouse). Sore leg or not, Lions 300 sets for you champ - and do an extra set as well because you need it as Tomahawk is 8 seconds faster - work that one out.

Bowlers separate - Vardichin, Tomahawk, Pirate, The Badge and Jingo - tunnel lane drills to get closer to the stumps, fix the wides. Remainder in direct hit to the color stump called, standard improving as requirement to be clean in handling escalated.

Darkness closing in, smash balls to Panasonic and Moose for repeats of in and out positioning, application creating loud grunts of effort. Pleasant to view around oval many Lions from all levels putting in the extras needed, running and ball handling.

Selection meeting held, Agents of Change have kicked in again with AJ Ninja withdrawing for study purposes and rotations debated with valid merit in every case. Absences are noted and quality of performances now truly kicking in.