Fanatics

Dancing up a storm, literally

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:33:37 -0800

To start today's blog I'd like to give a round of applause to our English mate Alastair Cook. Ol' Cookie, in the wake of Super Gil's blistering second-fastest Test century of all time, deserves a mighty big thank you for his 116 off 290 balls.

So thanks for balancing out the excitement factor, Cookie. I don't know what we would have done if we'd have had two days of excitement. ...

Move over, Superman!

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:26:06 -0800

The English have their super Fred. Yesterday, the Aussies had a super team.

It was as if Marvel Comics had written a brand new edition where all their greatest heroes banded together to demolish any hopes the evil, odorous enemy had of conquering the good guys. ...

England snatches defeat, again

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:49:52 -0800

It was a strange sense of history repeating itself. England once again threw away a match they should not have lost!

"Oooooooooooooooooooh...," the Barmy boys will say when they read this but they know it's the truth.

The Fanatics were reeling at 6-60 in our Twenty20 match on Wednesday, and even with a late 72 not out from our saviour Bleakey, we still had only mustered 149 in tough conditions. ...

England snatch defeat, again

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:46:59 -0800

It was a strange sense of history repeating itself. England once again threw away a match they should not have lost!

"Oooooooooooooooooooh...," the Barmy boys will say when they read this but they know it's the truth.

The Fanatics were reeling at 6-60 in our Twenty20 match on Wednesday, and even with a late 72 not out from our saviour Bleakey, we still had only mustered 149 in tough conditions. ...

Grounds for celebration

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:48:02 -0800

It was just like watching Bradman. That was the chorus pouring out from deep within the souls of Fanatics supporters as Mike Hussey victoriously punched the air after securing what could possibly be Australia's greatest test victory. It could never have been scripted. A lazily setting sun glowing behind the oval stands gleefully lit up those celebrating victory and intimately outlined those inconsolable in defeat. ...

An ode to the road

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:04:40 -0800

On the road to Perth I thought I'd jot down an ode to the bus trip across the almighty Nullarbor

The dirt is red and road is long,
And the CD player's skipping on the one same song.
The trees are dead and far between,
And our one lone girl is about to scream. ...

The greatest win ever!

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 06:50:33 -0800

Hungover, sick as a dog and happy as a clam. All fitting ways to describe how the Fanatics are feeling after what Punter himself described as the greatest win he's been involved in. EVER!!

And after postponing our trip to Perth until the morning purely due to celebratory reasons, Punter's excitement became pretty obvious when we bumped into the lads 'celebrating' on our 2am trek home from a mourning session with Barmy Boys. ...

Making our own entertainment

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 06:41:46 -0800

After another two days of having little to watch on the pitch, the Fanatics took to looking to the crowd for entertainment. We didn't have to look far, our attention fell was grabbed by the gaggle of curly pink wigs below us. This mob danced like a rusty Hills Hoist and stored beer like a camel with an empty hump. We approached the tribe, thinking its members could add a little arpeggio to the Fanatics' choir. ...

It’s Alive! Alive!

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:51:52 -0800

Victory was sweet. And the celebrations that followed were even sweeter.

That's right the real Ashes series, the one that is actually entertaining and alive, was squared up at one all with a demoralising win by the Fanatics on Thursday at Henley Beach. ...

Duneedoo does the trick

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 06:51:58 -0800

It all started with the search for the Holy Grail Like our cricketing counterparts we were starting this bus tour in search of Ashes Glory. And as we chugged out of Brisbane late yesterday afternoon, our acoustic version of the Hunters and Collectors classic about the same search for glory was the perfect exit music for our journey to the battle on the Adelaide front. ...