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Club Free Loaders
« on: September 29, 2014, 05:31:42 AM »

Any of you struggle with free loaders on your clubs ?

There are a few folks on our club that don't own a bat. Half the club relying on one guy for sunblock.

How do you deal with it ?
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2014, 06:10:34 AM »

I'm the one who ends up with no bat tape left etc. Decided to not bother bringing it to cricket anymore and just sort my bats out when I'm home!
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2014, 06:59:12 AM »

The biggest problem I had with freeloaders was first team players not paying their membership fees...
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2014, 07:30:35 AM »

Sun cream, shower gel, bat tape, grips & anything else you need - apparently my bag is a help yourself zone!

What really p*ssed me off one week was when I got back from batting, someone had "hurt my wrist" making a duck, so helped themself to my zinc oxide tape and used a full roll! That left me unable to strap my foot (plantar fasciitis) to field.

Now i have a duffle bag I have an excuse to to carry half that stuff, and anything like that I do carry will live at the bottom of my bag out of sight!
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2014, 07:51:18 AM »

There's the odd guys you can class as this but there tolerable.

Bat lending is the norm. But then the few off us that are bat badgers don't mind lending them out.

I'd rather lend a decent bat to the college guys or unemployed guys the land them struggle to buy one.


Sunblock and deodorant tend to be items used by many but it's always asked to borrow.

Nobody I know just goes in people's bags and takes stuff. That ain't on.
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2014, 07:58:07 AM »

At my old club, for some guys, it was help yourself without even asking. Some guys didn’t even own a box. I never mind sharing stuff but when you start borrowing my brand new bat and start dragging it across the pitch, it is not cool. So I was carrying almost two of everything at one stage but later resorted to just saying NO.

There was a guy who will ask for a bat change half way through his innings and ask for mine, first few times I didn’t bother then when I saw him bashing my bat when he got out, I just had to say NO to him next time. It was quite funny because no one wanted to lend him their bat and he kept shouting for one from the pitch.

With the new club, I am yet to see anyone borrowing stuff, club kit is quite rich so they don’t need to really. As for borrowing myself, I cannot remember if I ever borrowed any of the kit, may be pads a couple of times.
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2014, 08:37:11 AM »

We have club kit that we have purely for this situation. Still, the freeloaders can't be bothered to pick it up for an away game (which they should, because they obviously need it) and then borrow anyone's kit then.

The worst example of this is padding up to bat at 5 and I can't find my strippers anywhere. I assume I must have forgotten them or something and so didn't bother wearing any, only to get pinned by a lifter 3rd or 4th ball. End of the over comes and I walk down to my partner complaining about being stupid enough to forget them, only for him to admit he'd borrowed them without asking and was wearing them right then! I was fuming! Fortunately he got out before I had the chance but I would have called him through for 1 whilst leaning on my bat. 
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2014, 10:59:12 AM »

I'll have to hold my hand up and admit to being a free-loader when it comes to sun cream, shower gel and deodorant... I just keep forgetting to pack them!
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2014, 12:08:49 PM »

Have been asked by someone to borrow my box before!..  :o
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2014, 12:15:08 PM »

I just keep forgetting to pack them!

lol a typical free loader excuse.
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2014, 12:21:43 PM »

Have been asked by someone to borrow my box before!..  :o
I have an emergency box just in case this happens, it's surprisingly frequent...
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2014, 12:25:52 PM »

We have club kit that we have purely for this situation. Still, the freeloaders can't be bothered to pick it up for an away game (which they should, because they obviously need it) and then borrow anyone's kit then.

The worst example of this is padding up to bat at 5 and I can't find my strippers anywhere. I assume I must have forgotten them or something and so didn't bother wearing any, only to get pinned by a lifter 3rd or 4th ball. End of the over comes and I walk down to my partner complaining about being stupid enough to forget them, only for him to admit he'd borrowed them without asking and was wearing them right then! I was fuming! Fortunately he got out before I had the chance but I would have called him through for 1 whilst leaning on my bat.

Inevitable! Only time I've ever been nailed on the thigh pad was when I loaned mine to a teammate. Never again...
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2014, 12:28:15 PM »

Have been asked by someone to borrow my box before!..  :o
I keep a very specific Box for when that question gets asked. It is a 1970s hard plastic with perforations and no cushioning. I'll find a picture. People soon learn...

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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2014, 12:31:11 PM »

I keep a very specific Box for when that question gets asked. It is a 1970s hard plastic with perforations and no cushioning. I'll find a picture. People soon learn...
The one I keep to lend out has some ominous stains and pubes from the last person to use it intentionally left in there, it even has a bag so I don't have to touch it and it never comes into contact with anything else in my bag...  ;)
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2014, 12:47:33 PM »

The one I keep to lend out has some ominous stains and pubes from the last person to use it intentionally left in there, it even has a bag so I don't have to touch it and it never comes into contact with anything else in my bag...  ;)

Thanks for making that clear, you are still better off sanitising it as lice have wings and can easily travel to your box.
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