When I arrived in the UK i decided to support Surrey.
This was because of two reasons, I don’t hate the colour brown and I live near the Oval.
Now with Surrey in the cess pools of human depravity known as division 2 with a captain i would rather punch that cheer, I have jumped ship.
At first I thought I would just remain team less, like one of those annoying football fans who says, “I don’t support anyone, I just love the game”.
Bollocks to that.
And when I thought of changing teams there was only one side it could have been, Yorkshire.
All the Australian cricket books of my youths made the English out to be a tea sipping team of pansies who wouldn’t get down and dirty for their country.
The one exception in these books was Yorkshire.
Cricketers from Yorkshire were given full warrior treatment, they were manly men not pansy public school boys.
They were, more often than not, good and tough enough to play for Australia according to these books.
This was my early indoctrination, but it went further, my dad was Boycott obsessed.
Not Boycott the man, but Boycott the batsman.
When people asked my dad if they wanted me to bat like Viv Richards he always said no, I want him to bat like Boycott.
I then spent years breaking my dad’s heart by hitting every ball in the air and giving my wicket away to any boy with a cute smile.
On top of all that I think I even read a Fred Trueman book when I was young.
It was all about Yorkshire.
This current Yorkshire team is not quite in that league.
Bresnan can’t take a fat joke, Adil can’t keep himself in the side, their best player is a South African pigeon killer and they appear in division 1 rather than really push for the title.
Yet I am still drawn by that great inbred arrogance.
It reminds me of home.
So it is Yorkshire for me.
For shame.
Should be Lancashire or Durham. Not Yorkshire, where men are men and sheep are nervous
Andy, Could have been Durham, but don’t like jumping on bandwagons and the Dean Jones connection bothered me. Lancs was a possible, but Freddie.
Len, more than I expected.
Ant, never warmed to Essex, could be Irani’s fault.
Ceci, Victoria have made about 8 of the last 8 finals in domestic cricket, so I’m not that much of a curse.
Sunny, not a bad idea.
Why not…great noodle bar at the ground I like to judge a County by it’s level of catering and quality of the Loos
There isn’t enough spare server capacity on the internet to list all the players, teams, and administrative organisations you must now learn to distrust/hate. But Rory Hamilton-Brown is an excellent place to start.
And yes, this is as close to a welcome as you’ll get.
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AndyinBrum, have you included a superfluous “r” in your name?
G’day, jrod and welcome to God’s own county.
Jrod when you first came over and disclosed you were supporting Surrey I was disappointed and knew it would end in tears. A team that plays in brown should have told you something! I suggested that Durham might be a better bet – but would you listen? And now you have blown it – you wouldn’t want to be seen as a glory chaser.
Obviously I like to judge a ground by the standard of the Ice Cream van, Yorkshire had an expensive ‘Walls products only’ one last year.
But they do have a good crop of home grown players. And if Harris actually makes it – they could be quite interesting this season. And we will get to play you [that’s when Harris, Shahzad, Rachid and Bres can be otherwise occupied]. So yeah, Yorkshire – your getting there.
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No man. Essex is where it is at!
Bet you lay on them the NiceBryce Curse and doom them to second div stuff in 2011 then.
Talk about one extreme to the other. Soft southern shite Suwwey to ‘plain speaking’ Yorkshire? ‘Plain speaking’ is just code for rude and depressed in Leeds.
Nah, Lancashire (or possibly Durham at a pinch) is the county Aussies should have the most affinity for.
Essex? Maybe. I supect half of Essex was in the hold of the first fleet so there should be something there but I’d rather hang on to my wallet at the cricket club.
You mean like this C350?
I had the same problem when I used to watch Transworld Sport as a kid and wanted to pick an Aussie rules team you liked. Essendon or Collingwood? Whoever hates Carlton the most…
you should have picked a county with sex in the name.
bring on the county season!!!
Can’t wait to get over there and start drinking my way around the country…
Obviously.
Gigi you should never support collingwood, ever
In the 90s I was made to believe Yorkshire is the most sacred club to be associated with for any cricketer. How true is that? Or, like Alex would put it, is it bcoz a certain Sachin Tendulkar was invited to play there? For some strange reasons, my dad is also a huge fan of Boycott the batsman. What’s with the old men and their fondness for stubborn batsmen!
cb
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I support Middlesex cos I live in North London and they are completely crap.
But coming from Western Australia, if Cornwall or the Outer Hebrides had a county team, I’d support them.
“and giving my wicket away to any boy with a cute smile.” I trust thats all you gave away to cute boys.
Boycs is a cunt – just ask Botham.
Swapping allegiance from Surrey to Yorkshire is like contracting syphillis after a nasty bout of gonorrhea.
Not to be recommended under any circumstances whatsoever.
I live in North London, I was born within the area of old Middlesex, Middlesex weren’t quite so bad then, they even had sex in their name. Never liked em. But there is a lot to be said for supporting a completely crap county team – I decided to get a team in 2004 and jumped on the Durham wooden spoon bandwagon. I don’t know where it has all gone so wrong?
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Good foryou jrod (said a Yorkshireman)
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