Age (if appropriate): 29 Nickname: Shoota, Nashy, ‘The Nash’, Wheel Occupation: Health Inspector Favourite restaurant/pub: Mt Compass Tavern/Alice Memo Club Favourite drink/s: Beer, Cordial Cricket hero: Wasim Akram Football team : THE MIGHTY POWER Best cricketer seen at Rovers: Craig Murphy Why? : Great medium paced bowler who hated to give away runs. Couldn’t bat for shit but made valuable runs when we needed them! Sorry Murph Most admired sportsperson: Michael Wilson Why? To come back from two knee reconstructions and play in an AFL premiership would have taken a shit load of guts. What do you most enjoy about cricket? Being part of a team and the competitiveness of it all. Also being able to bat and bowl helps. It would suck to be an opening batsman and get out for a duck and have to then field for 80 overs in the stinking hot but can’t bowl (Pyle!) Most memorable moment with Rovers: Losing fricken 4 A-Grade GF’s in a Row! Best cricket performances and where?
Got 8 for ?? for Rovers playing against Westies at Anzac oval in season 97/98. Got two hatricks in two weeks playing for Mt Compass (SA) in season 2002/03. Made 134n.o first game this year for Mt Compass. You can invite 5 people to your Ultimate Dinner Party, who?
Kerry O’Keefe – just make him laugh all the time, but talk to him a bit about cricket!
Robbie Williams – listen to some of his bed stories!!
Miss Universe – she is HOT and a true country chick.
Osama Bin Laden – so I can get him in the head-lock and get the bounty that’s on his head!
Guvnor – so I can see him drink a Jamiesons at the end of the night and fall asleep! What is your ambition this year?
Win 3 A’grade flags in a row for Mt Compass and see Rovers get off the bottom of the ladder. Also catch up with as many old Rovers team mates as possible (starting with the Adelaide Test).
Age (if appropriate): 37
Nickname: Hattfield
Occupation: Chalkie
Favourite restaurant/pub: Memo
Favourite drink/s: Southwark Bitter Long Neck
Cricket hero: Doug Walters
Football team: Collingwood
Best cricketer seen at Rovers: Mark Laurence Nash
Why?: Cos I taught him proper
Most admired sports thing: Kingston Town or Dulcify
Why?: Classic horseflesh
What do you most enjoy about cricket?: After match festivities
Most memorable moment with Rovers: Meeting Rubbish and Murph
Best cricket performances and where?: Always consistent at the bar
You can invite 5 people to your Ultimate Dinner Party, who?: I do not do dinner parties my friend!!!
What is your ambition this year?:
1. Stop the ACB screwing around with Adelaide test dates.
2. Survive the Adelaide test.
3. Stop Stuart Macgill from ever representing Australia again.
Age (if appropriate): very bloody close to 40
Nickname: Thommo or Ronster
Occupation: Despatch Manager (Tankworld Swan Hill)
Favourite restaurant/pub: Carib Beach Bar (Barbados)
Favourite drink/s: VB & Kahlua & milk
Cricket hero: Brian Lara
Football team: Essendon
Best cricketer seen at Rovers: Craig Murphy
Why?: Ability to do freakish things on and off the field
Most admired sportsperson: Michael Owen Why?: Can influence a game single-handedly and won so many big games for Liverpool What do you most enjoy about cricket?: Drinking piss with the boys and watching a good contest between bat and ball
Most memorable moment with Rovers: Cooking the bbq under the scoreboard at Traeger Park on a beautiful evening at a day-nighter.
Best cricket performances and where?: 36 beers and countless rums on the Red Stripe Mound at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica (April 99)
You can invite 5 people to your Ultimate Dinner Party, who?:
Murph, Guv, Holby, Ian Chappell & Mark Taylor
What is your ambition this year?: Make it to Adelaide and catch up with as many of the Alice boys (past and present) as possible.
Age (if appropriate): 34
Nickname: Youngy
Occupation: Group Sales Consultant, Great Southern Railway
Favourite restaurant/pub: Alice – The Memo, Adelaide –The Alma.
Favourite drink/s: Coopers Pale Ale
Cricket hero: Steve Waugh
Football team : Sturt, Carlton
Best cricketer seen at Rovers: Nashy Why? Great catcher, good bat, a useful second string bowler who could get wickets bowling left arm absolute crap… Most admired sportsperson: Dennis Lillee Why? Never gave up What do you most enjoy about cricket? The friendships I have made over the years Most memorable moment with Rovers: The Guv shitting himself on Mad Monday a couple of years back Best cricket performances and where? Ball: 8/41 for Payneham v Immanuel Old Scholars back in about 1992,
Bat: 74 for Payneham v Richmond Clarence Park last season – My last innings before retirement! You can invite 5 people to your Ultimate Dinner Party, who?
Steve Waugh, Catriona Rowntree, Cameron Diaz, Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Barnes What is your ambition this year? Stay upright at the Adelaide Test
Age (if appropriate): 33 Nickname: Answer to most things Occupation: Electrician Favourite restaurant/pub: Parap Tavern (back bar for the tasteful dancers they have there) Favourite drink/s: VB Cricket hero: Adam Gilchrist Football team : Hawthorn. Don’t laugh you pricks we will be back Best cricketer seen at Rovers: Sean Williams Why?: Cause the rest of us were shit Most admired sportsperson: Any one of the fellas on the world surfing tour Why?: Have you seen the chicks that hang around those blokes? What do you most enjoy about cricket?: Completing a full days play without injuring myself, whether that be playing or watching. Most memorable moment with Rovers: Snapping an Achilles Tendon and then being run out while sitting immobilized in the middle of the pitch against Feds. That’s ok though, cause Waps offered to withdraw the dismissal and let me bat on if I got back from the hospital before the end of our innings. Best cricket performances and where?: See Above. It was a talking point for ages. You can invite 5 people to your Ultimate Dinner Party, who?: Adam Gilchrist, Richard Branson, Neil Finn, Sylvia Saint and Amanda Vanstone, cause I like poking fun at big fat ugly stupid people What is your ambition this year?: To get a job that allows me to earn stacks of money and do stuff all work
Age (if appropriate): 32 Nickname: Scotta, The Claw Occupation: Warehouse Manager Favourite restaurant/pub: Memo Club Favourite drink/s: Bourbon and Vodka (not together!) Cricket hero: Merv Hughes Football team: Mighty Crows Best cricketer seen at Rovers: Robert "Scoobie"
Cameron Why?: All 'round bloody legend Most admired sportsperson: That Bradbury fella.. Why?: Won the easiest Gold Medal ever!! What do you most enjoy about cricket?: All of it Most memorable moment with Rovers: The ones I can't
remember! Best cricket performances and where?: Too many to
fit here... You can invite 5 people to your Ultimate Dinner Party, who?: Hi-5 What is your ambition this year?: To finish the
year in one piece.
Name:Tom
Slattery
Age (if appropriate):
36(is that appropriate Scotta?) Nickname: Governor Occupation: Manager
Australian Liquor Marketers Favourite
restaurant/pub: Memorial Club
Favourite drink/s:
Jameson Whiskey and good red wine. Separate glasses please. Cricket hero: Rod
Marsh
Football team:
Adelaide
Crows Best cricketer seen at
Rovers: Mark Lawrence Nash
Why?
: Made runs and took wickets. Always valued his wicket and
played competitively, but left it on the field.
Most admired sportsperson:
Michael Doohan is up there.
Why?
Five consecutive 500CC World Championships, with a broken leg. What do you most enjoy
about cricket? The social side. Making great friends and
meeting new people. Most memorable moment
with Rovers: Too many - the Tied Test at Centralian when
Scoob tonned up and Ray Irwin bowled a hat-trick. The C Grade
Grand Final win. The C Grade Grand final loss. The trip to
Cairns
(vague memories). Mad Monday with Hoss and Nashy.
Best cricket performances and where? 27
not out… that’s right, double figures and not out!
Larapinta 2004.
7/16 in Stevie Trindle’s last game, Flynn Drive 2003 You can invite 5 people
to your Ultimate Dinner Party, who?Linx,
Rowan Atkinson, Michael Doohan, Rod Marsh, Bill Gates What
is your ambition this year?A
great Club year off the field and a better year on!
Name:
Shaun Lynch
Nickname: Tank Date of birth: 26/01/1971 Occupation: Screw Fave Movie: Braveheart Fave Band: Foo Fighters DJ Skinhead Fave Food: Steak & Seafood Footy teamsupported: Essendon Cricketing highlight: Captaining Laura A grade and making 100s. Cricketing disappointment: Getting sacked as rovers B grade captain for bat throwing Cricketing hero: Shane Warne Most admired person at Rovers: Craig Murphy
Name: Blayne Cornford Nickname: Bruce,Brian Crawford,Warney D.O.B: 18/7/82 Occupation: Fortune Cookie Writer Fave Movie: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Fave Band: Backstreet Boys- I want it that way Fave Food: Anything Footy team supported: Richmond Tigers and that's no joke Cricketing highlight: Watching my first day/nighter at the M.C.G. It got washed out but it was just good to be there Cricketing disappointment: Playing for R.S.L Cricketing hero: A toss up between Scott Muller and Hoggy Most admired people at Rovers: Hoody and Scotta. Scotta for putting the player profiles up and doing it right
