CAISTER 2005

Weekend Report

After the superb time had by all at Caister 2004, including our only Caister win,   Cheam returned once more to the festival where everyone knows who Cheam are to see if lightning could strike twice...

The minibus trip to our home from home was swift and uneventful, having drunk all Leon's beer we decided to let him go off and play with the Stags who had the army the next day...  Fortified by the news we weren't starting until 12 noon we fortified ourselves at the mighty Neptune's Palace - the many wigs and new lettered (numbers are so tricky) T-shirts allowing some comedy spelling at the bar.  Several strange drinks were imbibed, wigs were admired, old friends caught up with.  It was going to be a good weekend...

Looking Good...	Yogic Meditation...	Not the Love Action was looking for...	Wig Tastic...	Cheam Lovin'...

Saturday morning brought the usual pain and tears but all managed to assemble at 12 noon for our first game against the Camberley Flat Caps.  Pre match comment from the team was mostly concentrated on feeling rough and discussing our time out hula-hoop specials.  It was at this point we realised that only five of our ten attendees were fit and uninjured, that Geoff hadn't brought any trainers and Pete decided to get injured in his first 60 seconds on court.  It was going to be a long day... Cheam got out to the slowest start ever and when we realised we were 29-7 down, Les came up with the novelty idea of playing basketball.  We fought our way back into the game for a creditable 47-36 point loss.  After a quick breakfast refuel we were back to play the Royal Logistics Corps at 4pm.  Piet and Geoff worked on a quick change strategy for the basketball trainer share through the game.   A hard run game (the last thing we wanted) ended up with another loss for Cheam, 55-30.  Curse that Army fitness.  Finally we came up against some Scabs in Leeds Reconstituted - who had 3 Cheam players running out for them.  There were no hard feelings though as a good spirited game meandered through Cheam trying to get Simon a score as he was the only player left without a bucket and ended up as a 54-20 loss.   Cheam were back to the usual Caister losing ways...  Special mention to Lenny though who top scored with 38 through the day on his first appearance at Caister.   After all the ball bouncing rubbish it was time to get back and get on with the proper business...

The Mighty Chargers Line-up	Ooo-ooh Lenny!	No look basketball	Did Nick make the lay-up???	Oh yeah, Chargers, baby...

Back to the palace of dreams with our drinking Guru, Kenny, we caught up with Leeds Reconstituted, City Stags, Bacardi Beavers and Moustache Hunters.  Fortunately the defeat of the afternoon wasn't replicated at the bar where Cheam scored heavily in comparison to Leed's efforts.  The school uniforms mandated by headmaster Piet went down a storm and Cheam managed to stay awake long enough to party the night away and decide that yes, next year the mighty Cheam may well come to Caister and show the world how to lose through the misuse of alcohol... and maybe bring some able bodied players next year too...

Hmmm....	Dishing out the drinks	Harry Potter Auditions	Still looking good...	Nick Analyses the Day's Play

"I'm a Laydee..."	What's that?	Larging It	Chargers get down...	Post event warm down...