The Duck Cup is MINE!

We'd our end of season dinner Friday night, was great craic. 50 odd people turned up, which is more than last year I think. At that dinner one of our founder members provided the highlight of the night by singing a lament he had composed! Lamenting the fact that Sandyford had never won a cup in it's first 23 years. I was looking forward to the sequel this year now that we have 2 cups under the belt - but unfortunately he wasn't able to make it. Apparently being on the wrong continent is sufficient reason not to attend the club dinner ;-p I'm sure he was as disappointed as the rest of us, it being the first one he's missed.

After the dinner the awards for the season were presented. I was looking forward to picking up my Duck Cup - and my impatience was obviously showing, as it was the first award of the evening.

Duck Cup!

As you can see in the picture - it's LITERALLY a Duck Cup :D I picked it up amid mild heckling (Good-natured of course), and had just sat down before I was called up again! This time for 4th team player of the year! Yeah, I know - a real award! :D Despite averaging 1.25 for them with the bat, I'd also managed 23 wickets at 10 each, so that was pretty sweet!

To top it off, I was also given one of the league medals from the 2nds campaign - which I was completely blown away by! I didn't think I'd contributed enough to the Inter B campaign to deserve one of the medals, but sure, if the skipper thinks so who am I to argue :D I played with them 4 times, and was due to play another that were rained off. And there were another one or two games that I was down for but replaced late on - so I suppose, it's a medal for being dependable ::)

There's a ridiculous picture of me on the front page of our club site now too - behind a table-load of awards. They're not all mine, and I wasn't planning on stealing them - I swear!