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felix

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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #30 on: September 29, 2014, 04:48:31 PM »
Quote from: smilley792 on September 29, 2014, 04:05:44 PM
The box issues. I can understand if someone asks every week. Buy if someone has genuinely forgot a box would you really kick up a fuss and try to see if he'll go bat without one??

This really happened to me once this season, I somehow managed to lose my box and didn't discover until I was padding up to open.  Truly mortifying and mercifully a teammate did bail me out  :-[
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #31 on: September 29, 2014, 04:51:13 PM »
Quote from: felix on September 29, 2014, 04:48:31 PM
This really happened to me once this season, I somehow managed to lose my box and didn't discover until I was padding up to open.  Truly mortifying and mercifully a teammate did bail me out  :-[

That's why I asked as I had similar. Except I was playing for the rep side. So didn't actuallying know any off my teammates. Thankfully a few offered. And I didn't last long to course issues if they needed it. LoL.

I'm glad there are people will to help others out there though.
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #32 on: September 29, 2014, 04:58:22 PM »
Our second team opener doesn't wear a box unless there is someone really quick bowling, only once this season! No thigh pad either, normally just pads bats and gloves!! We all can't wait until he gets hit
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #33 on: September 29, 2014, 05:11:01 PM »
I keep a spare box in my kit for these occasions. I also have my training/net gloves that I don't mind lending. However there is a bloke in my team who specially borrows my pads. I don't mind it on the odd occasion, but it's become a habit. Grates me.
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #34 on: September 29, 2014, 05:12:38 PM »
Quote from: smilley792 on September 29, 2014, 04:51:13 PM
That's why I asked as I had similar. Except I was playing for the rep side. So didn't actuallying know any off my teammates. Thankfully a few offered. And I didn't last long to course issues if they needed it. LoL.

I'm glad there are people will to help others out there though.

I understand that but when we provide 4 team kits with each kit having numerous cups available, along with everything imaginable you would ever need for cricket so players don't have to invest in gear, why would you want to use someone's personal one? additionally by the end of the season each and every cup from team kit goes missing due to people who can't spend 15 bucks at walmart for a box and jock strap
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #35 on: September 29, 2014, 05:25:43 PM »
I have a special spare "deep heat" box for free loaders ;)

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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #36 on: September 29, 2014, 05:45:17 PM »
I used to take a huge kitbag with a couple of bats, repair stuff such as grips, tape, scissors etc etc.

Now just take a duffle with my spikes, bat, gloves, helmet, box, aero strippers and that's it.

No more borrowing, I'm fairly generous and have done bat refurbs for nothing but not anymore as the gratitude for doing a good job doesn't match my time invested, it's like people take you for granted, hence no more freebies unless your a real good mate.
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #37 on: September 29, 2014, 06:12:32 PM »
Last home game of the season a team mate asked me as I got out 'you've got a nice bat can I use it?' 'No sorry mate id rather you didn't' he was genuinely shocked! He scrounges off of everyone to borrow kit and never pays match fees. Gahhh!!


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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #38 on: September 29, 2014, 08:07:21 PM »
One guy who used to be my childhood friend until I moved keeps on asking for my bat. It's a good bat and I don't mind lending him it if he's genuinely forgotten his. Thing is he always has his bat on him, I've only seen him use his bat in the nets. Even when we net together outside of training he still uses my bat.

During a match he was in to bat as he's a tailender and I just got out he asked for my bat, I was like 'no, you've got your own, use it', then goes and asks my mate if he can borrow his which he lent him.

Have had one person ask for a box, but he genuinely did forget his and wasn't out for long.

One that annoys me, is people not paying membership or tea fees. Luckily our chairman has adopted the policy of, if you haven't paid for a membership, you aren't playing.

Still needs to sort out the teas though, a fiver for two rolls, packet of crisp and some fruit is not worth it. Buys the stuff from Lidl which will only cost him £25, usually everyone pays and he makes a £30 profit!
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #39 on: September 30, 2014, 04:55:56 AM »
I don't particularly share the use of my gears. I'd be able to count on my hands the amount of times I've ever let anybody use one of my bats. On all occasions it's been my secondary bat as I just can't let anybody near my first choice as I wouldn't ever want to see it break in somebody else's hands. At least if I'm using it when it snaps, I can take the responsibility and not have that little thought in my head that the person in question should be the one replacing it just because it broke in their hands!

Grips used to be the issue, not anymore after I asked for a few quid if somebody wanted one. I think people forget that it did actually cost you money to buy your own things in general?

We have one player who eventually ended up owing around 4 or 5 weeks subs, with their excuse being they forget to get money out before coming to cricket. Ergh! It's a shame that it's rather difficult at times to adopt the policy of if you don't pay, you can't play. I can understand forgetting or not having the right money for one week's subs as I've done that on the odd occasion but I'll always end up paying up at either the next training session or the weekend after.
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #40 on: September 30, 2014, 05:46:24 AM »
You guys have no idea what it is like at school...
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #41 on: September 30, 2014, 05:48:22 AM »
But I go to a public school, so it is the norm
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #42 on: September 30, 2014, 06:29:06 AM »
Quote from: AverageCricketer on September 30, 2014, 05:46:24 AM
You guys have no idea what it is like at school...
I suspect absolutely everyone on here knows what it's like at school as it's mandatory to attend..... And while some of us are older than others, we still had to go.
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #43 on: September 30, 2014, 08:08:29 AM »

Quote from: tim2000s on September 30, 2014, 06:29:06 AM
I suspect absolutely everyone on here knows what it's like at school as it's mandatory to attend..... And while some of us are older than others, we still had to go.

Of course everyone has been to school. The kit situation at my school is horrendous, at one point we didn't even have keeping gear and I am in the 2nd XI!
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Re: Club Free Loaders
« Reply #44 on: September 30, 2014, 08:22:09 AM »
I've got another one. I recently visited home in Norfolk (I live in Watford now) and ventured up into the parents loft where I came across all my and my two brothers old kit from school. Mostly still in decent knick, I liberated it from its dusty confines, cleaned it up and brought it in to my club to add to the rapidly wearing out club stuff for the benefit of everyone in the club who might want to use it.

Fast forward two weeks and I notice my mate is using one of the bats I put in there. I didn't mind at all. This is the type of guy who says he doesn't smoke, but he'll have 5 of your cigarettes off you during the day. Always owes his match fee and needs to be chased at the end of the season to pay his accrued fees, usually to the tune of a couple of hundred quid. Anyhow, he's got out and wandered back into the changing room where I kid you not, the bat which I donated to the club which he was using has gone straight into his personal kit bag, where apparently it has stayed since I'd brought it down.

Is this on?
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