PLENTY TO CHEER ABOUT AT OUR VALLEY CHRISTMAS PARTY

The Moonee Valley Thirds put on a great show as the main entertainment for our 2013 Christmas Party.
We didn't win, but an excellent late innings effort ensured that our opponents, Reds, couldn't get us all out, and as a result we took a point away from the game.
It also happened to be Bede Gannon's 100th senior game. Bad luck we couldn't salute your milestone with a victory, Bede, but it was still a worthy contribution to a career which is still young.
Senior and junior players, parents, family and supporters gathered for the Christmas party, in the clubrooms on Sunday, December 22.
We must have been 'cricketed out', because we struggled to find interest in the intraclub Twenty20 game we had planned for the adjacent oval.
Many thanks to Life Member Danny Terzini for his tireless efforts in organising our big raffle and booking and collecting most of the food.
Thanks also to Mick Cumbo for cooking the wood-fired barbecue, to Pat and Jessie Taylor for running the canteen, and to Simon Thornton and his group of helpers for staffing the bar.
It was also a big weekend for team success, with all of the six senior teams competing, other than the Thirds, recording wins. And the Fifths won their last pre-Christmas match the previous Sunday!
To top it off, the Under 16s, Under 14s and both Under 12 teams also brought up victories.
This leaves us all in a positive frame of mind to start the second half of the season.
Shown above are Moonee Valley parents L-R: Doug Cumming (a current player and parent of Jack), Alan Thomas (past player and parent of current
seniors/former juniors Matt and Ben), Sandra Thomas and Adele Walker (past player and parent of current seniors/former juniors Murray and Nigel).
***For more pictures from the Christmas party, click here.  

Wardy's wed!
Congratulations to Moonee Valley's Stephen Ward on his wedding in December.

Wardy's nuptials, and his preceding buck's night out, meant a fair bit of juggling with the Moonee Valley teams as we needed to ensure that we weren't left short of players.

Mission accomplished - both with the juggling and with Wardy's marriage to Fiona.

It's part of the reason why we haven't seen Wardy on the playing field quite as often this season - as we all know that he is keen to pull on the whites at every opportunity.

As well as captaining our inaugural Winter Comp team, Stephen captained the Seconds for the 2012/13 season. He was always first to put his hand up to play a second game on a Sunday, and was also inked in for every Twenty20 fixture.

Now he's officially got other responsibilities - but we're sure Wardy will be building on his games tally at Moonee Valley after Christmas - and will continue to be the committed clubman he's been since joining us from Sydenham Hillside some four seasons ago.

Congratulations from all of us! ****For more pictures, see our News pages.

Brock solid effort

Where there's smoke,
there's ire

Moonee Valley Cricket Club committee member and Second Eleven captain Jacob de Niese is firm in the need to enforce the ban on smoking in our Ormond Park clubrooms.
Jacob helped fix a large "no smoking" sign to the door of the visitor changerooms, after evidence was found recently of tobacco use.
We reported the transgression to Moonee Valley Council - which bans smoking in all Council pavilions - and requested the sign as a reminder to visiting players.
The Council was appreciative that our Club takes its responsibility in this area seriously.




Enforcing our smoking ban in our clubrooms: L-R Senior players and former Valley juniors Daniel Comande, Jacob de Niese and Mitchell Evans. 

 Club season membership and affiliation payments
We're asking Moonee Valley members to finalise paying their season membership and affiliation fees, to give the club some ongoing money in our account to meet the usual costs such as balls, association affiliation fees and such.
We got a good boost to the account with prompt payment on junior registration day, but need to build on it.
**For details on the fee structure and information on how to pay, go to the "Club News" section on the menu bar at the top of this page

 Main Club contact details:

Charlie Walker - President 0409 237 543; 9370 1802
Peter Golding - Club Secretary 0419 009 721
Simon Thornton - Vice President 0417 570 779

Email: mooneev@club.cricketvictoria.com.au


For more contacts, see " Office bearers & Officials " under "Club News & Info" at the top of the page

Last updated: January 2, 2014.

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