Squad 2019/20

[mike909]

1987/88

The guy who was in charge of post grade accommodation was an engineer and keen wicket keeper and their team (of engineers) was fun to play with in the summer. I mainly played cricket there - rugby was too high a standard! I didn't play again until 88/89 with a team of PE teachers back in Thames Valley.

A sports faculty lecturer got me and a student colleague to go and play for Quorn at cricket - which was fun - probably my favourite educational experience - shame it was only one year - but a good friend moved to not far off and I got to revisit a lot up to about 12 years ago. Been a long time since I last went

[Rifleman Harris]

I was there 1987/91 so I would have been around at a similar time. I did Chemical Engineering, played rugby once for my hall (Elvyn Richards)but never cricket. We didn't really mix much with the post grad except in inter year course competitions.

[mike909]

Small world! I was in post grad accommodation - Just outside campus - a row of houses Borrowdale way?? So I was living with post grads many from India and all cricket mad. Needed a seam bowler!

The opportunity to play sports was mad - I played volleyball and all sorts as my class was basically 32 sports mad people - wanting to be involved in recreation professionally - so if you didn't fancy sports - you were def in the wrong place!

[Rifleman Harris]

You are right. You could do almost anything.  I played mainly football and hockey and a bit of rugby (when sides were very very short of players!). Hockey was my thing back then and cycling. I recall even the hall standard was pretty good. I played for Derby 2nds, but only flirted with the 4ths at Loughborough.

[mike909]

I realised that I wasn't going to play cricket for the Uni when there were people in sponsored cars around! I played decent level league cricket but was nowhere near!

I only had a year - so it was running then cricket and drinking real ale!

[Rifleman Harris]

I remember Steve Backley being there in his car.  We were playing football on the top pitch and I went to get the ball which had hit his car.  It said 'Steve Backley Javlin World Record Holder'.  The very next week the same happened, but in the meantime there had been a Diamond League (or whatever it was called then) meeting so the car read 'Steve Backley Former Javlin World Record Holder'!.  We did have a bit of a smile.