A randomly generated report from years gone by…..
And a brief summary of our past seasons…
Seasons
The season to come…
6 months…
39 games (32 weekend games and 7 midweek T20s)…
1 tour to Devon (home of Brother Birch)…
1 new revamped London Premier League and finals day…
Many old rivals and several new home and away oppositions…
2022 was a year of change, a year of firsts, and a year of song for The Road.
For the first time ever, we beat the mighty Butterlords, following a spell of leg spin wizardry from Luke Shermer. We vanquished the mighty Unabombers with a crushing victory in which every member of the team contributed. We travelled to Missenden to finally hold our nerve against the Dors. And of course, we wrapped up our third LPL title after what might be this club’s greatest ever run chase, powered by the superb Dougie Fair and Connor McGilligan in their debut seasons.
It was a year in which we returned to the old ways, with teas making back in force, driven by our unsurpassable Andy Craigie. It was also a year blighted by the infamous stand down scandal – a sign of fantastic health for the club and fantastic headaches for the captain.
We racked up runs, wickets, wins and hilarity week after week. As captain, it was a total pleasure to lead the team in 2022. The atmosphere was fantastic throughout, many players put together some of their best ever performances, and it made for the perfect springboard into the 2023 season.
And of course, rounding it off with ‘We Didn’t Start the Collapse’ by T Birch on the lute was about as fitting an end to a Road season as is imaginable.
Allez!
Peter Jackson Eastwood, Captain 2022-Present
Games: 38
Wins: 23
Draws: 1
Ties: 1
Tours: Edinburgh and Portugal
Captain Chris Brown. 26 games played. More wins than losses for first time since 2011. Norwich Tour. RAMMING Speed.
Captain Matt Small. Tour: Bath. Definitely the year of the ringer, the fall of an icon, and the only way was up. Games 24, Wins 7 (sadface)
Captain Matt Small. Tour: Bournemouth. A team on the turn, lots of newbies, scores up, Mo’s up. Games 20, Wins 6
Sherman’s cat won the captaincy vote and then instantly resigned, leaving me to sweep in and claim power, we regained the South London Ashes from the badgers, James Couldrey was finally reprogrammed into a batsman and Rossi took a marvellous hattrick. We dined like Kings that night. Truly, it was a strange season.
Mark Isham, 2014 Captain