Ashfield News

Season fully underway today

2008-05-03T03:40:00.000-07:00

The 1st and 2nd XIs begin their league campaigns today against Nuneaton, with the 2nds at The Graveyard - best of luck to all involved.
The women play their first home game tomorrow at The Graveyard against derby 2nd XI.
The 3rd XI kick-off next Saturday at Solihull Blossomfield away.

The youth section practices are underway in earnest - enrolling now - 530 start at the graveyard next Friday - this is their third practice week - the club was a hive of activity last night.

Fixtures for May (fixture card is about to go out !)

MAY

1st XI Fixtures in May (all 1.30pm starts)

3 Sat Nuneaton A

10 Sat Atherstone H

17 Sat Bedworth A

24 Sat Kings Heath H

26 Mon North Warwickshire A

31 Sat Solihull Blossomfield H

Womens 1st XI Fixtures in May :

4 Sun Derby 2nds H 1.30

11 Sun Leicester A 1.30

13 Tue Moseley H 6.00

25 Sun Walmley 2nds A 1.30

27 Tue Five Ways Old Eds H 6.00

2nd XI fixtures in May (all 130 start):

3 Sat Nuneaton H

10 Sat Atherstone A

17 Sat Bedworth H

24 Sat Sheldon Marlborough A

26 Mon Bournville H

31 Sat Solihull Blossomfield A

3rd XI fixtures in May (all 130 start):

10 Sat Solihull Blossomfield A

17 Sat Redditch H

24 Sat Attock 4th XI A

31 Sat Water Orton H

Good luck to all the sides for the 2008 season !

Postcard from Dubai to all at MACC from Mohammed Azam

2008-02-03T00:27:00.000-08:00

25.1.2008 only 11 months to Xmas !!

Hello everyone at MACC. Its 18'C-20'C, v hot for me, but the locals are walking around with coats on. I get strange looks walking with a 1/2 sleeve t-shirt. Its a v. cosmopolitan city with loads of activities. and tall skyscrapers. There is hordes of Russians buying up everything. I was almost 'Red' with envy!! Food is great. Anyway - I'm off to desert safari, then scuba diving, then camel riding - all before lunch !! Take Care. See you at 1.00pm on May 5th.
Bye Mohammed.

Perhaps best Mohammed is a science teacher and not an English teacher. And one can only assume it is a 1.00pm start if he is planning to see us at 1.00pm !?! Anyway - good to hear from you Mo!!

Close Season - Annual Dinner

2007-10-13T10:08:00.000-07:00

With the close season upon us there's really not much to look forward to..... apart from Christmas.....and the start of next season!
However, two close season events may well help to lift the gloom.

Firstly......

Moseley Ashfield Cricket Club Annual Dinner

Friday 16th November @ Moseley Rugby Club, Billesley Common.

7.00 for 7.30pm

Adults £25.00

Juniors £18.00

Book your tickets or tables by ringing the

Annual Dinner Ticket Hotline on 07836 557061

ask for "Ticketman"

Secondly......

Winter Indoor Nets

Swanshurst School Sports Centre

Brook Lane Billesley

Every Tuesday 6.00pm - 8.00pm

Nets run all through the winter for Junior and Senior Members

Interested Juniors can contact Angela Brown by clicking the link below

or just come along on a Tuesday night.

Youth Cricket Chairperson - Angela Brown

Will it ever stop raining???

2007-07-22T01:44:00.001-07:00

Thanks to those who braved the elements on Friday evening. Catherine for preparing the delicious food for the barbecue, Tommo for cooking behind a tarpaulin sheet to keep the monsoon off the barbecue, the 2 Chelles for their impressive face painting, Neal and Bridget for their stirling service behind the bar as usual and those of you who turned up in your wellies to support the club! Surprisingly I had to cancel the bouncy castle, can't think why!!
In the vain hope that one day we may play another cricket match the youth section have purchased a water removal machine for the club which will remove water from the pitch making it possible to play cricket.
You never know that might stop it raining. We can but hope.
For those of you off on holiday have a good time and I hope you find some sun.
For those of you who are here the Club is open on Friday nights for training(weather permitting) any parents who'd like to help out when coaches are on holiday that would be much appreciated. The bar is open whatever so come along and have a drink.
First or Second Eleven matches take place every Saturday afternoon, Ladies matches and friendlies take place most Sundays. Check your fixture card for more details.

Michelle Hughes and Lewis Strong are aiming to run a cricket summer school weeks beginning 30th July and 6th August for more info click on Youth on the homepage of the website.
See you soon have a good summer.

Angela

School's Out 20th July

2007-07-15T11:11:00.000-07:00

Come along for a fun evening whatever the weather!!!!!!!
Barbecue , Bouncy castle , Face Painting , Bar ,

Training as usual.

See you there, just start praying for good weather, it has to change soon.

Angela

Quiz Night - Friday 29th June at the Graveyard

2007-06-20T22:13:00.000-07:00

What better way to start the weekend?
Teams of maximum of 6 players - £9.00 a team
First round 7.30 ish
Steve Hughes - Quizmaster for the evening
Supervised outdoor activities for the children
Food available
Only a limited number of team places available
so book yours now to avoid disappointment.

Further details contact - Angela Brown or Sue Smith

Warwickshire v Worcestershire 20/20 match July 6th

2007-06-15T23:53:00.000-07:00

A number of members have expressed an interest in going to the 20/20 match at Edgbaston so we have decided to cancel Youth training for that evening and attend as a club.
To book tickets contact Angela Brown - £15 adults £7.50 under 16s

Sunday June 17, Moseley Ashfield vs Moseley Rugby Club

2007-06-13T14:32:00.000-07:00

This Sunday, 17 June, we have our annual fixture against Moseley Rugby Football Club. It is always a fiercely contested game on the field, and a great social occasion off it, with plenty of refreshments throughout the day.

Lunch will be served from 1.30pm to 2.00pm. Tea will be taken from 4.00pm, and a barbeque will be served following the end of the game at approximately 6.00pm. Have as much or as little as you like - all meals will cost £5 per meal.

The cricket timings, as usual, will be relatively flexible. However, we aim to start at about 12.30pm and finish by 6.00pm, hopefully concluding with the much-coveted trophy being handed to the captain of the Ashfield XI (!).

Sunday June 3rd - Family Fun Day

2007-06-01T13:05:00.000-07:00

Sunday June 3rd - Family Fun Day

This Sunday is Family Fun Day at Ashfield.

Events and entertainment and some cricket all day at Yardley Wood Road.

Fun for the whole Family!!

11.00am - The day kicks off with an Under 11's match.

12.00 midday - The Bar and Barbecue will open for Sunday lunch. A wide range of BBQ favourites and specialities carefully prepared by our chef and his team! Vegetarian dishes available. And why not have a quick Sunday tipple to wash it all down in the newly refurbished bar area.

2.00pm (ish) - the Dad's XI v the Lad's XI.

Other entertainment throughout the day includes:

Tombola, Face Painting, Hook a Duck, Play Your Cards Right, Penalty Shoot Out, Cake Stall, Square Mowing Competition, Red Arrows Fly Over, Dancing Elephants and much much more!

Lots of fun, for the family, for the whole day! Don't miss it!

Yardley Wood Road from 11.00am - See you there!

Greeetings from Canada!

2007-05-19T02:31:00.000-07:00

The newsdesk recieved this e-mail from an old Ashfield member Robbie Sutherland, now living in Canada. Nice to hear from you Robbie.

"Hello there Ashfield, and I can see the club has really grown a lot since I left for Canada in 1957. Heartiest congratulations.I expect many of the players of my day, however, are no longer with us. I played 1st X1 - 1949-1956 when A Boyce, then Barry Hands were captains. Before he died, Barry kept me in touch, and I have been back to the club once or twice over the years.If Viv Watts, Michael Edwards, Michael Redding or Robin Shears and many others of that time are still around, it would be great to have a chat again (if anybody can be bothered), either by e-mail or phone if I could have their numbers.Have a great season, and best regards.B. Sutherland (Robbie)"

Any other ex Ashfield players living around the world, drop us a line and let us know where you've got to!

2007-05-07T03:55:00.000-07:00

2007 Season off to a great start after excellent launch !!

All 3 men's teams and the women's 1st XI won their first league matches, which is a brilliant start to the campaigns for the club.

This follows an excellent cricketforce effort and a great cheese and wine party at which we all watched the 1st XI beat Coleshill in a freindly. The picture above is of Angela Brown at the party, having been presented with the clubmark certificate.

The fixture cards are out, and the accompanying letter summarises all that has been going on at the club. Here it is....

We hope that you are able to get up to the club to support the many Ashfield sides and events as often as is possible, thereby getting the most out of your membership.

You will see the fixture card has been revamped for this season, and is just one of the many things that have been taking place to ensure the club goes from strength to strength. The club has been very busy this winter, and here are just a few of the good news items I have the pleasure to inform you about:

Clubmark
We are the 730th club nationally to get the ECB Clubmark award. This is a benchmark of safe and good practice in cricket development, especially at youth level, and is testimony to all of those who have been involved in the running of the club over the past few years – Angela Brown has led the drive to getting clubmark and is to be especially congratulated. You can view the certificate, framed (along with many other pictures) for nothing by one of our generous sponsors, Greenhill Galleries – please use your fixture card for a 10% discount on any of their services. The club development plan is available from the web, as are all the policies and protocols that the club operates within – please read them. If you wish to contribute suggestions to the development plan for next year, please contact me.

Natwest Cricketforce
(pictured, the youngest members of the Cricketforce - aged 6, 4 and 2!)
Over 40 volunteers have transformed the clubhouse – members of the women’s sides, youth section parents and players and other friends of the club, as well as the men’s sides, have put in serious effort – it has been wonderful to see the whole club getting stuck in, as indeed all sections did at the very successful dinner organised by 1st XI men’s captain Ian Carey in October (don’t miss this superb event at the end of this season.)

If you were not able to get involved in Cricketforce then there is still much to do ! For instance, Carol Crampton, one of our great youth section parent members has committed to fundraising for new furniture for the lounge, and as an interior designer she is then going to offer her services in sorting the room out – that is what a volunteering club is all about – please support her fully in her efforts !

Sponsorship
We have attracted new sponsors, and will be seeking more throughout the summer and also for next season. Every little helps, so if you would like to sponsor a match as a parent or friend of the club, please contact one of the committee. Boundary boards are still available for 2007 – so if you have a business, or are influential within one, then please support the club in this way by advertising with us. There are well over 100 matches on our grounds this summer – plenty of viewers therefore !

John Bright Trophy
A record entry to our business league this year – 17 corporate sides fight it out for the coveted trophy throughout the summer at the Centenary Ground, Britannic Park, with full coverage weekly in The Birmingham Post – Ross Reyburn must be congratulated for his superb work in making this community dimension to the club so successful, along with the ever hardworking Alan Thomas.

Communication
The website has undergone a major upgrade. Martin Sutton has led this. You will now be able to get match reports and other news, up to date, wherever you are in the world. 1st XI league games will be uploaded with full scorecards, and we ask all captains of all XIs to submit reports for all fixtures. The news section will carry events and other information – make it your homepage and keep up to date.

Email – most communication will be by email and the web – it is absolutely critical, to this end, that you complete the entire attached information sheet, and return it, along with your subscription, to our secretary, Kirsten Tompkins. Please do this, having finished reading this letter, and return it – please do not create work for the club by waiting to do this – you are thanked in advance for doing this.

Subscriptions
As you will all be aware the club costs a great deal to run, and has few income streams – we exist most importantly on bar profit (which we request you always fully support the bar when you are at the club), donations, sponsorship, ground rental and subscriptions – please pay your sub by return with the slip on this letter. We have readjusted, by popular demand, the vice-president (non-playing member) fee back from a chosen donation to a fixed £25 – all fees are listed in the fixture card enclosed. Subscriptions are not donations – they are a payment to have the right to enjoy the club, the facilities, the friendships and the cricket. If you wish to enjoy the club then please do not wait to be chased for your sub.

Accounts
These are available by request in writing from the secretary.

We look forward to a fabulous summer at the graveyard and the centenary ground – we are an amazing club, which is only a sum it’s members. We look forward to success on the field and off it, and to enjoyment for all who cross the threshold of either ground, either member or visitor. Moseley is a great place to be, and Moseley Ashfield is very much part of that for those lucky enough to be involved – enjoy the club, introduce your friends to us as guests, and as members if they like it. If you can do a little bit to help with events, sponsorship or the running of the club then please let us know.

2007-04-14T02:30:00.000-07:00

Cheese and Wine afternoon - 2007 Season Launch

Sunday 22nd April from Noon onwards

You are warmly invited to a Cheese and Wine afternoon on Sunday 22nd April from 12 o’clock to launch the 2007 season at the club.
Tickets are £5 for adults and £2 for children to include a drink and food. During the afternoon the First XI will be playing a match against Coleshill Cricket Club. What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon?

A lot of hard work has been going on behind the scenes during the winter. Sponsorship deals have been agreed with a number of businesses. The club achieved Clubmark in March. The clubhouse has been tidied, cleaned and painted. This weekend (14th and 15th) sees Cricketforce part 2 where a large number of volunteers (we hope) will be working on the ground itself. The website is now much improved as you can see.

This event has been organised by Moseley Ashfield Youth Section - please give them your support. Tickets will be available on the day but for catering purposes it would be useful to have some idea of numbers.
You can contact Angela Brown for more information and to reserve your tickets.
Let’s launch the 2007 season in style.

Looking forward to seeing you on the 22nd at Noon.

2007-03-27T10:14:00.000-07:00

THIS WEEKEND 31stMarch and 1st April

Natwest Cricketforce comes to the Ashfield - Spring is in the air !!

10am-2pm each day this weekend- all members are called to come and help.

The plan :

Re-do the entire inside of the clubhouse !

How ?

Women's section - tea room and women's toilets

Mens section - both dressing rooms and mens toilet

Youth - parents and players - bar, main lounge and patio

Why ? to support your club, feel good, and make a difference to the coming season

Bacon Sandwiches and drinks available - first 30 get a cricketforce tee-shirt.

Bring paint pots, brushes, tool kits and anything else you think may be useful ! Spare furniture ? Garden furniture you have been meaning to replace ?!

(We need a sander for the floor of the lounge if anyone has one?)

Please make sure you are there at 10am Saturday and get stuck in.

Contact Angela Brown, Guy Shears or Ian Carey for more information

See you this weekend !

2007-03-14T02:43:00.000-07:00

NOTIFICATION OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2007

I have pleasure in drawing your attention to the Annual General Meeting which will be held on Friday 16th March 2007 in the upstairs room at Patrick Kavanagh’s pub (Trafalgar Road/Woodbridge Road corner) commencing at 7pm for 7.30pm

Their will be some formal business on the agenda including

Amendment of Constitution
Adoption of Annual Accounts
Officers for 2007
There is plenty of good news to share at the meeting in terms of exciting developments in 2007.
The business will be kept as short of possible with the aim of a social occasion -Food is being provided by one of our sponsors Sabai Sabai Thai restaurant, Moseley - anyone who has eaten there will tell you it is excellent food. The food will be provided on the basis of a very small donation from you.

Diary dates :
Natwest cricketforce dates (more about these at the AGM and your chance to volunteer and support your club)

31st March/1st April (the big one - changing rooms etc!! - 10am-2pm each day)15th/16th April (outside)

Guy

AGM 2007

2007-03-13T13:38:00.000-07:00

The MACC AGM 2007, will be held at Patrick Kavanaghs, Moseley on Friday 16th March starting at 7.30pm.