The Twelfth Man 2019

44 45 no longer feel able to get their cars out at night will come for an after- noon when they can be back on the car park at 3.30pm. That is not the end of the argument, of course; even if Monday gives us the cheap- est rate at the hotel it is still four times what we pay to the club. We really do need the Monday crowd to shell out for the raffle tickets and make extra donations - and some do. Treasurer Brian Sanderson, the workhorse without the glamour, is looking at subscription rates and the Committee will have to prepare a proposal for AGM. Though under our Constitution any change can- not take effect until AGM 2020. If we move to afternoons lock, stock and barrel we lose valued attend- ees who are still in work - and we have moved out from the Womb- well’s original heartland. The inten- tion this coming winter is to follow last year’s model while Chris leads a long, hard look at our future. My song shall be cricket and cricket my theme... so when and where should we sing it? The future can be bright - but we are at a crossroads. What a star-studded cast of former first-class cricketers we had in 2018-19 – Farokh En- gineer, David Graveney, Malcolm Nash, Robin Hobbs, Alan Hill and Alan Butcher - plus Yorkshire’s Bry- an Stott and the Wombwell’s own Martyn Moxon and back to the present day with Tim Bresnan, Ben Coad, and Tom Kohler-Cad- more as well as Richard Damms Academy Colts, Harry Duke, Har- rison Quarmby and Harry Sul- livan. We en- joyed the latest edition of Who’s Who of Yorkshire Cricket with stat- istician, author, archivist and music master Paul Dyson, and Brian Sander- son put down his Treasurer’s book and bag to talk us through Yorkshire’s Cricket Treasure and the Headingley Muse- um. George Dobell, senior cricket correspondent with ESPN CricInfo, gave us his pithy take on certain go- ings-on, and perhaps the only gap in the programme that we really do want to put right next winter was the Yorkshire Ladies Evening with Jane Hildreth. This was postponed while the Diamonds undergo their restructuring. I would like to thank Vice-Chairman Jack Tunnicliffe, always wise and dependable, and Committee men Richard Griffiths, Nor- man Hazell and John Howarth for their val- ued input to all we are doing and their un- failing support to me. Well done, meetings reporter Tom Hudson and all of the Twelfth Man contributors. We still retain nigh on 300 members because you can pick up this maga- zine and feel that you have been with us even if you are far, far away. Ali Saad as Member- ship Secretary does more than keep a file. He indicates where we are and how this will af- fect budgeting. One or two cricket societies in Yorkshire are becoming ever more worried about declining membership roles, and by compar- ison we are rich. Yet we are at a crossroads. Come along to AGM and say which way you would turn. If we move to after- noons lock, stock and barrel we lose valued attendees who are still in work - and we have moved out from the Wombwell’s original heartland. The inten- tion this coming winter is to follow last year’s model while Chris leads a long, hard look at our future. My song shall be cricket and cricket my theme... so when and where should we sing it? The future can be bright - but we are at the crossroads.