The Fetcham Cannons ended a subdued, defeat-prone 2007-08 season with a moral victory when they were awarded the Good Club award for the Surrey League First Division.
Cannons veteran guard Rob Dugdale was there to receive the award at the Surrey League AGM at Chessington on June 10th.
The much-coveted award is a tribute to the adroit organisational acumen and hard work of Cannons GM Geoff Underdown. More importantly though, it ensures a reduction in registration fees for the club next season.
The Cannons received the award:
- For fulfilling all their fixtures by the end of the season
- For having the correct number of match officials (that would be two) in all possible games
- As a sympathy vote for centre Dy Gunasekara’s trip to casualty with a nasty cut to the chin
- For not playing a certain unnamed member of the team with a penchant for official abuse at any point during the games. The committee further noted that although the unnamed player was ruled out through injury, the Cannons took care to ensure that his mouth was secured with duck tape at all times when he was allowed to coach.
- For being the sort of people you could take home to meet your mum. If she was hard of hearing and didn’t mind her fridge being emptied by a bunch of sweaty basketball players, that is.
“It’s a great day for the Cannons and for Fetcham,” said a beaming Dugdale at the ceremony. “I hope the villagers and their livestock will be proud of our achievement. Maybe this time we should have that open-top bus ride we never got round to after we won the league four years ago.”
“For being the sort of people you could take home to meet your mum. If she was hard of hearing and didn’t mind her fridge being emptied by a bunch of sweaty basketball players, that is.”
lol @ this