Far
from the MCC fines
13.08.09 v Louth CC (a) lost by 96 runs
Recorded
Fines
25p unless otherwise stated.
Name |
Fine |
Reason |
Cost
|
Steve P |
Nannying
the team x 10 |
Consistent
e-mails and phone calls |
£2.50 |
|
Hypochondriac |
Appendix
injury |
|
|
Self importance |
“I
am the ambassador for the team” |
|
|
Snobbish
behaviour |
(see
above) |
|
|
Tour
paranoia |
“Team
will let me down” |
|
|
Dissing
team x 10 |
“Bunch
of fucking slackers” |
£2.50 |
|
Dissing
team x 10 |
“Crap
batting team” |
£2.50 |
|
|
|
£8.50 |
Steve D |
Dictatorship |
Telling
Jake “to do what your told” |
|
|
Failure to
invite mates to golf |
|
|
|
Self importance |
|
|
|
Nannying
the team x 10 |
|
£2.50 |
|
Kim abuse |
Blaming
wife for accommodation |
|
|
Kim abuse |
Having
wife who thinks team are irresponsible |
|
|
Duck |
|
50p |
|
Impersonating
a pharmacist |
Giving
drugs to Moo |
|
|
|
|
£4.50 |
Matt |
Communication
avoidance |
Not on e-mail or phone |
|
|
Hating
Reevsie |
Not arranging lift for Mike |
|
|
TVR
avoidance |
|
|
|
Duck
avoidance |
|
|
|
Camera
avoidance |
|
|
|
Run-rate
avoidance |
Batting too slow |
|
|
Solo pub
crawl |
Not inviting mates |
|
|
Failure to
know sheep price |
Locals not impressed |
|
|
Willing
ball to boundary |
To save running after it |
|
|
|
|
£2.25 |
Dan |
Not
sharing his happy pills |
|
|
|
Puppy
avoidance |
|
|
|
Living in
denial |
Claiming he has good tunes on his ipod |
|
|
Bullying
Stevie P |
Trying to push puppy responsibilities
onto him |
|
|
Pissing on
pitch |
|
|
|
Cob |
Blaming jake
for drop |
|
|
Failure to
carry bat |
|
|
|
Hogging
golden hat |
Hat awarded to last person to drop |
|
|
Falling
asleep |
During “evolution” chat in van |
|
|
Poor maths |
Mistaking 143 for 243 |
|
|
Inability
to count |
|
|
|
Outscored
by overs |
|
|
|
|
|
£3.00 |
Dave S |
Pub
avoidance |
|
|
|
Vandalism
threat |
Dan’s door |
|
|
Vandalism
threat |
Leggate’s door |
|
|
Vandalism
threat |
James’ door |
|
|
Impersonating
Jack Nicholson |
Hairstyle |
|
|
Hogging
kit bags |
In van |
|
|
Mum and
dad avoidance |
|
|
|
Honey
avoidance |
|
|
|
Illegal
immigrants |
Van packed by people |
|
|
Awful
spell of bowling |
Second spell |
|
|
Imprisoning
Ian Leggate in van |
|
|
|
Being too
eager |
Wearing kit on arrival |
|
|
Builder
over-estimation |
|
|
|
Failing to
communicate |
Silence in field (fear of fines) |
|
|
Failing to
guide team home |
|
|
|
Over
quoting |
For fixing creaking toilet doors |
|
|
Impersonating
a repo-man |
Picking Ian Leggate up |
|
|
|
|
£4.25 |
Martin |
Failure to
invite mates to golf |
|
|
|
Pub
avoidance |
Evening before trip |
|
|
Text
avoidance |
Not answering texts |
|
|
Fine
entrapment |
Louth pronunciation |
|
|
Closing
door after horse had bolted |
Wearing helmet |
|
|
Impersonating
a boxer |
Black swollen eye |
|
|
Denying
wife a good laugh |
|
|
|
Precipitating
collapse |
|
|
|
Not
manning it up |
Wearing helmet |
|
|
Failure to
run single |
|
|
|
Blood
avoidance |
After getting ball in head |
|
|
Cob |
|
|
|
|
|
£3.00 |
Ian H |
Failure to
get haircut |
|
|
|
Moaning |
About back |
|
|
Fine
entrapment |
Fining at Dew Drop (evening before) |
|
|
OCD on
tour |
|
|
|
Boasting
about Lego’s fines |
Mumbles |
|
|
Moaning |
About jaundice at Mumbles |
|
|
Shitting
problem |
Ibuprofen for back |
|
|
Hogging
fines |
|
|
|
Rushing Thorn’s
drinking |
|
|
|
Trying to
impress |
Shot-gunning cider [and failing] |
|
|
Moaning |
Oldham FC crap |
|
|
Reminiscing |
Oldham FC |
|
|
Self entrapment |
|
|
|
Cob |
|
|
|
Losing
toss |
Pub round |
50p |
|
Losing pen |
When in pocket |
|
|
Claiming
to bankroll team |
Tour fines (and moaning throughout) |
|
|
Incompetent
fining |
|
|
|
Moaning |
Pen theft |
|
|
Cob |
At service station |
|
|
Poor
English |
Can’t pronounce Louth |
|
|
Being
judge and jury |
Self
appointed fines judge |
|
|
Child
abuse |
Bowling bouncer |
|
|
Umpire
abuse x 2 |
Swearing / heckling |
50p |
|
Setting
bad example |
|
|
|
Bodyline |
Bouncers |
|
|
Persistent
long-hops |
Crap bouncers |
|
|
Poor cob |
On dismissal |
|
|
|
|
£7.50 |
Mike R |
Travelling
in girl’s car |
James’ Porsche |
|
|
Poor
organisational skills |
Getting lift to Louth |
|
|
Boasting |
He could cycle to Louth quicker than
anyone driving |
|
|
Failing to
abuse courtesy car |
Driving to Louth |
|
|
Pub
avoidance |
Dew Drop |
|
|
Rain
avoidance |
Sunny |
|
|
Average
protection |
|
|
|
Helmet
avoidance |
|
|
|
Lack of
compass |
|
|
|
Inconveniencing
scorers |
Bowling persistent wides |
|
|
Bicycle
avoidance |
|
|
|
Dissing team |
|
|
|
|
|
£3.00 |
Thorn |
Justifying
Leggate’s attire |
Looking like a tramp |
|
|
Drinking
quick |
To enable cheap rounds |
|
|
Bicycle
paranoia |
Left at pub evening before |
|
|
Impersonating
Terry Waite |
Rusty bicycle |
|
|
Comparing
Billy to a slapper |
|
|
|
Boasting |
About VD |
|
|
Advocating
violence x 2 |
|
50p |
|
Living life
back to front |
Leaving school, work, then college |
|
|
Hogging
storytelling |
At pub |
|
|
Interrupting
x 3 |
People’s stories |
75p |
|
Talking bollocks |
|
|
|
Cob x 2 |
|
50p |
|
Treating
Billy like a lover |
|
|
|
Demolishing
James’ workbench |
For poker |
|
|
Aggressive
behaviour |
On waking up |
|
|
Impersonating
granddad |
Miserable twat |
|
|
Duck |
|
50p |
|
|
|
£5.50 |
Jake |
Failure to
get haircut |
|
|
|
Talking
shit |
Glastonbury |
|
|
Breaking
into Glastonbury |
|
|
|
Rant x 3 |
Councils, traffic, buses |
75p |
|
Fine
entrapment |
Chucking lighter |
|
|
Aggressive
nature |
When pissed |
|
|
Harrassing Billy |
|
|
|
Baby
confusion |
FFTMCC babies |
|
|
Cob |
|
|
|
Babbling
shit |
Since 11pm |
|
|
Smoke obsession |
Since 11pm |
|
|
Crap
“joint” jokes |
|
|
|
Using “C”
word at James’ house |
|
|
|
Moaning |
Lack of flip flops |
|
|
Moaning |
Lack of breakfast |
|
|
Poor
navigation |
Missing junction 21a |
|
|
Babbling
shit |
In morning |
|
|
Duck
avoidance |
|
|
|
Impersonating
Hannibal Lectar |
Face mask (keeping) |
|
|
Obstruction |
Dan’s dropped catch |
|
|
|
|
£5.50 |
James |
Being a
Scottish twat |
Buying Buckfast |
|
|
Poor
morals |
Offering driver Buckfast |
|
|
Driving a
woman’s car |
Porsche |
|
|
Impersonating
an MP |
Finger tapping and pointing |
|
|
Feigning
swine flu |
For sympathy |
|
|
Moaning |
About illness |
|
|
Stating
the fucking obvious x 3 |
|
75p |
|
Self importance |
|
|
|
Moaning |
About fines |
|
|
Cob x 2 |
|
50p |
|
Dissing
buses |
“I only get taxis” |
|
|
Reminiscing |
Southampton CC |
|
|
Poor self
esteem |
“My last match report was crap” |
|
|
Losing
toss |
Driving to Louth |
50p |
|
Moaning |
Hangover |
|
|
Singing
like a prick |
“Ride my bicycle” in pub |
|
|
Poor
attire |
Crap touring shirt |
|
|
Golden hat
neglect x 3 |
|
75p |
|
Poor
appeal |
For bump ball |
|
|
Willing
Thorn to drop ball |
|
|
|
Asking
skipper to come off |
|
|
|
Paparazzi-ism |
|
|
|
Hypochondriac |
|
|
|
Drop |
|
50p |
|
Moaning |
About busted finger |
|
|
Self importance |
|
|
|
Impersonating
a tourist |
Camera around neck |
|
|
Sea
obsession |
|
|
|
Lack of
orientation |
|
|
|
Dissing
team x 10 |
“You’re all blind” |
£2.50 |
|
|
|
£11.50 |
Ian L |
Stripping
in public |
Dew Drop |
|
|
Too eager |
Wearing cricket kit before tour |
|
|
Poor
attire |
Cricket kit with price tag on |
|
|
Wearing
cheap kit |
On offer |
|
|
Spoonerism |
“Tart of tour” |
|
|
Boasting |
First catch could have killed him |
|
|
Poor self
esteem |
Shock at catching ball (much like
everybody else on the pitch) |
|
|
Illusions
of grandeur |
“I’m the skipper" |
|
|
Illusions
of grandeur |
“I’m the wicket keeper” |
|
|
Boasting
and lying at the same time |
“I had worst swine flu ever” |
|
|
Hypochondriac |
|
|
|
Can only
bowl on drugs |
|
|
|
Self importance |
|
|
|
Lying
(quote) |
“I’ve never been to a pub” |
|
|
Moaning |
Fines |
|
|
Aggressive
nature |
Calling team mates bastards |
|
|
Pissed |
|
|
|
Chumba Wumba impersonation |
“I get knocked down…” |
|
|
Mothering
James |
|
|
|
Claiming
to bankroll team |
Fines |
|
|
Advocating
anarchy |
Society is shit |
|
|
Harassing
Billy |
|
|
|
Poor judge
of character |
“Landlord of Dew Drop is nice” |
|
|
Talking
bollocks |
|
|
|
Wearing an
Office’s tour top |
|
|
|
Shit
directions |
Dave / Dan |
|
|
Crap over |
“Get him off!!!!” |
|
|
Hogging an
over |
Lasted so long |
|
|
Presuming
to borrow Moo’s bat |
|
|
|
Poor
attire |
Non-cricketing hat |
|
|
Comedy
fielding |
Following ball like a dog |
|
|
Cob |
|
|
|
|
|
£8.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TOTAL |
£66.50 |
*
Special
Rates
Indiscretion |
Cost |
Duck |
£0.50 |
Golden Duck |
£1.00 |
Diamond or Platinum Duck |
£2.00 |
Out Playing Reverse-sweep /
Switch-hit |
£1.00 |
Dropped Catch |
£0.50 |
Opening Bowler No Wicket |
£0.50 |
Opening Partnership Avoidance |
£0.50 |
Smoking on the Pitch |
£0.50 |
Drinking on the Pitch |
£0.50 |
Missed Stumping |
£0.50 |
Missed Run-Out |
£0.50 |
Fines' Folder Abuse |
£0.50 |
Impersonating Billy Liar |
£0.50 |
Having a Major Cob |
£0.50 |
Having a Parkinson’s Cob (utter meltdown) |
£1.00 |
Insulting the Fines Committee
Chairman |
£0.50 |
Insolvency / Unemployment (maximum
limit) Known as the “Dobner Clause” |
£1.00 |
Swearing in Front of Kids |
£2.50 |
Bringing the Club into Disrepute (Ruled on by the Captain) |
£5.00 |
Dissent (to On-field Umpires) |
£5.00 |
Mongoose Multiplier (out using Goose) |
x2 |