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Far from the MCC fines 27.07.14 v Wootton & Bladon CC (a) lost by 31 runs

 

 

 

 

Recorded Fines

 

25p unless otherwise stated.

 

 

Name

 

Fine

Reason

Cost

Moo

Hypochondriac

Too many niggling injuries to mention

 

 

Losing his shades

Whilst in bushes [looking for lost ball]

 

 

Arguing x 4

 

£1.00

 

Kids too young

To play for The Mad

 

 

Hogging the batting

Taking up nearly 16 overs of bowling

 

 

Urination avoidance

 

 

 

Smug x 2

 

£0.50

 

Hysteria

 

 

 

Flirting with Spam

Admiring his face / eyes

 

 

Instigating a collapse

First wicket to fall

 

 

Melodramatic

 

 

 

 

 

£3.75

Bob

Cob on field

At poor fielding

 

 

Forlorn

 

 

 

Not Touring

 

 

 

Last wicket avoidance

He batted at #10

 

 

Delighting in his cob [on field]

 

 

 

Failure to bring team home

 

 

 

Flirting with Spam and Gary

Admiring their face / eyes

£0.50

 

Winking

In a suggestive manner

 

 

Self entrapment

 

 

 

Comedy fielding x 2

 

£0.50

 

Copying Gary’s footwork

In field [i.e shit]

 

 

Feeling stiff

 

 

 

 

 

£3.50

Russ

Forgetting family

 

 

 

No fucking idea

…What is going on most the time….

 

 

Kit avoidance

 

Left it outside pavilion the last game [for Spam to collect and wash]

 

 

Not dismissing Spam

 

Now a regular event either batting [runs him out] or whilst umpiring [triggers him]

 

 

Putting life in danger

Catching balls against his chest

 

 

Flirting with Salad x 2

Admiring his face / eyes

£0.50

 

Cob

 

 

 

Hysteria x 2

 

£0.50

 

Kitchen avoidance

 

Failed to navigate the iron shutter to gain entrance to ground

 

 

Wife avoidance

 

 

 

‘Henry the Eighth’ avoidance

Not having 6 wives at the match

 

 

Hiding

In his pint glass at Fines

 

 

Losing his car

His wife[?] stole it….

 

 

Foraging for food

Phat fuck

 

 

 

 

£4.00

Pearson

Dissing parents

In their absence

 

 

Failing to enact a plan

i.e  not getting out

 

 

Being sledged

By his folks

 

 

Impersonating ‘Sister Sledge’

He was sledged by his sister

 

 

Hysteria x 3

 

£0.75

 

Using Harry Potter’s bat

 

 

 

Smoking problem

Continually chugging away

 

 

Acting out of character

Not arriving in kit

 

 

Moaning

About fines

 

 

Smug x 2

 

£0.50

 

 

 

£3.25

Reeves

Refusing to comeback to bowl

For second spell

 

 

Opening bowler no wicket

 

£0.50

 

Bitching about tiredness

Again and again

 

 

Failure to bring team home

 

 

 

Embarrassing bowlers around the world with his non-commitment

For second spell

 

 

 

Looking puzzled

 

 

 

Moaning

About Tour organising

 

 

Chatting throughout fines

 

 

 

NASA fetish

Wearing a T-shirt with their emblem

 

 

Impersonating a loans company

Using Club funds

 

 

Confusing Jake

 

 

 

Airy ways

 

 

 

Organ failure

Not enough puff for more bowling

 

 

Cob

 

 

 

 

 

£3.75

Timms

Being incognito

Not recognised

 

 

Being glum

 

 

 

Bad moodswings x 2

 

£0.50

 

Hysteria x 3

 

£0.75

 

Confused by Jake

The indignation….

 

 

Failure to bring team home

 

 

 

Nervous energy

Continual biting of knuckles

 

 

Boundary ignorance

Think his boundary gave him 2 runs….

 

 

Gay triathlon

 

With Howarth before game [including moving of covers and sightscreens]

 

 

Flirting at Moo

Admiring his face / eyes

 

 

 

 

£3.25

Jake

Utter confusion

During the day as a whole

 

 

Comedy fielding

 

Some kind of football sliding tackle with his hippy-trousers [to ill-effect]

 

 

Drop

 

£0.50

 

 

 

£1.00

Stevie D

Pavilion abuse

 

 

 

Pub avoidance x 2

 

£0.50

 

Impersonating a Neo-Nazi

Crap skinhead haircut

 

 

National Front demonstration avoidance

The day before in Oxford town centre

 

 

Going back to old ways

Looking and behaving like a thug

 

 

 

 

£1.50

Psycho

Complaining

About a sore shoulder

 

 

Complaining

About a sore back

 

 

Drop

 

£0.50

 

Average protection

 

 

 

Umpire avoidance

Complaining he was too injured

 

 

Being a failure

 

Achieving fuck all and having an injury ravaged body

 

 

Impersonating Boycott

Playing for himself [not out]

 

 

Impersonating Stevie D

Always fucking injured

 

 

Flirting at Lee [Ainsworth]

Admiring his face / eyes

 

 

Uber-flirting at Gary

Admiring his face / eyes

£0.50

 

Hysteria

 

 

 

Drink problem

Continually drinking

 

 

Hiding behind beer

His pint

 

 

Being bummed

His bowling figures

 

 

 

 

£4.00

Ian H

Being a lady

Gay woman’s glass [Aspells cider]

 

 

Batting like a cunt

 

 

 

Losing the toss

 

£0.50

 

Gay triathlon

 

With Timms before game [including moving of covers and sightscreens]

 

 

Indecent exposure

No top

 

 

Putting Pearson’s sister off men

By wearing no top

 

 

Scoring the joint lowest score [4]

 

 

 

Bragging

 

 

 

Hysteria

 

 

 

Pathetic innings

4 . W

 

 

Poor strategist

 

Nothing he did today was of any fucking use whatsoever

 

 

Flirting at Salad

Admiring his face / eyes

 

 

Clock watching

During fines

 

 

Continuing collapse

 

 

 

Harbouring a cob

 

 

 

 

 

£4.00

Salad

Complaining

About being tired

 

 

Moaning aloud

About being tired

 

 

Being bummed

His bowling figures

 

 

Shaving avoidance

Looking feral

 

 

Smug x 2

 

£0.50

 

Peeping Tom

 

Staring at team over the surrounding Brasenose perimeter fence [with Russ]

 

 

Failure to bring team home

 

 

 

Bowling longest over known to mankind

 

The second ball was hit into undergrowth that took well over a week to find

 

 

Flirting with Russ

Admiring his face / eyes

 

 

Flirting with Spam

Admiring his face / eyes

 

 

Flirting with Timms

Admiring his face / eyes

 

 

Sexual thoughts about Timms’ missus

 

 

 

 

 

£3.25

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

£35.25

 

 

 

*

 

 

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 <25 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

Uber [anything] – particularly arrogant, smug or condescending

£0.50

Extreme [anything] – particularly Frowning

£0.50

Insulting the Fines Committee Chairman

£1.00

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