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A Legend is born!

Early in 2007 the silver and metallic-looking spherical alien craft sped over the Mearns countryside until it hovered over the trees of Mineralwell Park. The occupants concurred, the hallowed turf at the centre of the cricket square was indeed the centre of all human existence. The twelve foot lizard-like creatures set about disguising one of their number; he was instantly transferred into something akin to the short terrestrial creatures that inhabited the planet already, using DNA gathered from an earlier abduction of Jayne Middlemiss. The "male" version, it seems, has no hair! With the work complete a beam of light deposited the contents of their toils upon the consecrated ground beneath............ Who would have thought that 3 years later "Spender" would rise to the dizzy heights of 1st XI Captain for STCC. For 2010: Club Captain of Thistle.........tomorrow: THE WORLD!!!!! And thus, a legend was born! Maybe a few more " Legends" would follow!

2010 AGM

2010 Club AGM was held at the McRobert Pavilion on February, Sunday 21st at 6.00pm. A well attended meeting discussed Thistle's accounts, 2010 program and key posts on the Committee.

The full 2010 Committee is as follows:

President: Andrew Wilson, Vice President: Denis Garden, Treasurer: Alasdair Gardener, Secretary: Brian Campbell,1st XI Captain: Ali Milroy, 1st XI Vice-Captain: TBA, 2nd XI Captain: David Long Snr., 2nd XI Vice-Captain: Nigel King, Match Secretary: David Long Jnr, Junior Co-ordinator: TBA.

Junior Section 2010

Nigel Mackley has indicated that he will no longer be able to continue as Junior Co-ordinator for 2010, though he has indicated he will keep a keen eye on developments. The matter is due to be discussed at the AGM on the 21st February (see homepage for details). The Club would like to thank Nigel for his endeavours and hard work over the years.

2010 Indoor Training Dates

Indoor training begins on Saturday 27th February and runs to April 3rd with the first outdoor training beginning on Thursday 8th April. The first week is for seniors only with Juniors beginning on March 7th.

Date	Venue	1 - 2pm	2 - 3pm
February 27th	Stonehaven Leisure Centre	Seniors	Seniors
March 6th	Stonehaven Leisure Centre	Seniors	Juniors
March 13th	Stonehaven Leisure Centre	Seniors	Juniors
March 20th	Stonehaven Leisure Centre	Seniors	Juniors
March 27th	Stonehaven Leisure Centre	Seniors
April 3rd	Stonehaven Leisure Centre	Seniors	Juniors

2009 Nice Weather for Ducks!

2008 was one of the best years the club has had in their history and was always going to be hard to follow. 2009 started well enough for STCC 1st XI but started to go down hill when availability and weather appeared to go against us. Rather than taking Thistle to heights they had not previously seen we tended to spend the end of the season staving off the prospects of relegation. Some main players were unavailable due to injury and others had "other commitments " during the season.

This led to the inevitable knock-on effect for the 2nd XI , who had to scratch games for the first time in several seasons and consequently finished 8th out of 10. Nigel King upheld the club honours at the ACA bash winning the Grade 3 Bowling Trophy.

STCC first XI has the potential to give any club a run for their money and have beaten every club in the "top flight" at some point in the last 2-3 years. What we need to do going forward is be "hard to beat" firstly and secondly play to the potential we all have.

We have laid a platform for change in 2010 and with the chance of a few new players we should be able to take the club back to where it should be.

Junior team 2010 updates Club News Club Constitution

2006, 07, 08, 09 Seasons (For full match reports click here) 2010 Playing Objectives Having finally cemented themselves among the top clubs in the Aberdeenshire Grades the ultimate goal for Stonehaven Thistle Cricket Club must now be for the team to lift the Grade 1 title. The expansion and progression of the Juniors is also vital for the Club's future.

Senior Cricket 2009 Player Profiles Fees 2010