Congratulations to the Revesby Workers for winning this years Masters Cup... The score does not reflect the nature of the game as it was won in the 2nd last over!!! Great game overall and the victory is a little payback to losing the Grand Final last year ironically to the same team, The Milperra Viking Berserkers!!! The pics are of both Grand Final Teams on the playing pitch before the game and the other is the Workers with the shield... Once again congrats to Revesby Workers and enjoy the spoils!!!

The Mud Crabs have been running for 3 years now and this year we finished 3rd... The highest we've placed thus far!!! Awesome work fellas... We probably did have the tools to win the comp but finishing in the highest place we've ever had will suffice and build a platform for achieving better results in the coming seasons!!! Finishing 5th in the first year and following that up with a 4th placing last year and a 3rd placing this year could, if we follow the process we could be looking forward to a couple of Grand Finals coming our way in the next couple of seasons so lets keep the upward trend going... Righto the finer details to our last match of the year... The playoff for 3rd spot!!! 93-86 victors against the Marauders!!! Batting first this time given our record of bowling first is very patchy we notched up a reasonable total of 93 runs... Did leave a few runs out there but when it comes to Finals as they say it's "Runs on the Board" !!! Contributing to the scoreboard was Leon Jordan with his highest score for the Mud Crabs of 19 not out and with that being 1 run short of his first retirement... And speaking of retirements Jim Gardner retired with a sparkling 22 not out!!! We did well with the ball and restricted the Marauders to 86 with Leon Jordan also chipping in with his bowling figures of 1-5 and taking a catch along with it... Fine all round effort from LJ!!! That being our last game for the year I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved with the Mud Crabs this season and I hope everyone enjoyed it and that we all come back next year to have another crack at it... Details for presentation day will come shortly so keep your eyes peeled to this platform!!!

All set for Grand Final Day... Absolute cracker day for it... 

There has been a time change for this weekends 3rd Place Play Off against the Milperra Viking Marauders... 1:45pm is the new time slot!!! The game is on a little earlier as to have the Grand Final start off on time this year at 3pm... So please turn up at 1:30 at the latest for a 1:45pm game time!!! Cheers!!!

LOST... Not the result the Mud Crabs faithful were looking for!!! There was a lot more optimism around this year more so than last year for some reason but the result was still the same... This loss making it 3 years in a row that the Mud Crabs haven't reached the big game!!! So as the saying goes better luck next year... Hopefully that luck comes in droves as if we play the way we did on the weekend we are gunna need a ton of it!!! Down to the match report... Revesby Workers batted first and put up 136 runs!!! A great effort on their part and the motor was humming all the way thru the entire innings for the Workers with not a speed hump in sight... 137 to get for the Mud Crabs with an over asking rate hovering the 19/20 run mark!!! As the Workers engine hummed all the way thru their innings, the Mud Crabs innings never got started... In fact it needed roadside assistance!!! Spluttered all the way thru to end up with 101 for the final score... A resounding 35 run loss!!! We will have to pick up a tails and get ready for the 3rd place playoff this weekend, the curtain raiser for the Grand Final between Revesby Workers and Milperra Viking Berserkers!!! Lets end the year with a win!!!

Mud Crabs 109-Berserkers 101... A great win against the eventual Minor Premiers in the last regular season game of the year!!! Went down to the wire in the very last over of the game which is a great way for a 1 v 2 clash to end... Bowling first we restricted the Milperra Viking Berserkers to 101 with a consistent barrage of wickets early on in the innings doing the damage!!! Wickets picked up by Andrew Divan, Da vid Thode, Craig Holden and with his best figures of the season with 2-3, Jim Gardner... All 5 wickets picked up in a sharp 4 over spell with a little fightback from the opposition getting them past the 100 run barrier in the end!!! In response there was a little wobble at the beginning of the innings with 4 early wickets falling in the first few overs but that was quickly steadied by some big hitting middle order batting that lead to the Mud Crabs claiming the victory... Amongst the runs were Paul Collins with 24 not out and Craig Holden with 20 not out with a couple more charitable contributions from Tony Porter and Andrew Divan at the death with the latter running out Tony very nicely when the game was home and hosed!!! Not fine if the game was still on the line but fine when its not...Lol... Next week we have the Semi Finals and we play the Revesby Workers at 3pm!!! Good luck gentleman!!! 

Mud Crabs 111- Marauders 59... A convincing win in our round 8 clash against the Milperra Viking Marauders!!! A win in this game consolidates our 2nd spot on the ladder and whatever happens in the last round it doesn't matter as second spot is now ours given the Berserkers are 4 points ahead of us and both Workers and Marauders are 6 points behind us in equal 3rd spot on the ladder!!! A second top 2 spot at the end of the regular season for 2 seasons in a row for the Mud Crabs... A very good effort considering we missed out on the semi finals altogether 3 seasons ago!!! Well done to all the boys and hopefully we can get past the semi final hurdle this year and make the big game!!! As for the match report for the last game against the Marauders we batted first and racked up a tidy score of 111... Given such a reasonable score its surprising only 2 batters retired... Craig Holden with 21 not out and Tony Porter with 35 not out coming back in at the end of the innings when everyone else got out!!! With the innings of 35 not out Tony crosses the 200 run mark for the Mud Crabs and becomes the 4th player to do so... The Marauders went into bat and struggled from ball one and never really got anything going and were all out for 59 in the last over!!! Wicket takers were Andrew Divan and Craig Holden with 1 a piece and Jimmy Gardner with his best figures ever going for 2-6... Next weeks game is at 2pm again but this time against the Berserkers!!! A top of the table clash with the result having no bearing on the ladder for the end of the season but it would be nice to get this one up as to have a bit of a psychological advantage come finals time... Good luck Lads!!! 

Back into the win column... 113 to 86!!! Bowling first we bowled reasonably well to restrict Revesby Workers to 86 runs... Pick of the bowlers was Craig Holden returning figures of 2-3 and Jim Gardner going for 1-10!!! The batting is where it all happened... Always hard to bat when in wettish conditions with the ball skidding but we managed to do very well considering!!! A total of 3 retired batters... Grant Holden 30 not out, Jim Gardner 21 not out and Tony Porter 20 not out!!! With this win it consolidates our top 2 position on the ladder... With just 2 rounds left this win could go a long way to helping our chances of winning the comp this year!!! Lets build on the momentum lads!!!

Top of the table clash against the Milperra Viking Berserkers didn't go our way... A 10 run loss with the score finishing up at 121-111!!! The game wasn't decided until the last over which was a perfect outcome for a top of the table clash but unfortunately the decision didn't go our way!!! With the bat both Craig Holden and Jimmy Gardner retired with 23 a piece... A useful contribution from David Thode with his highest score this season with 15 which included two huge 6's... One on either side of the wicket!!! On the bowling side of things Craig Holden, Jimmy Gardner and David Thode were among the wicket takers which rounded out a good game for this threesome!!! In the end it wasn't enough against the reigning premiers but nevertheless a good game of cricket especially given the atrocious weather conditions with the constant gale force winds!!! Next weeks game is against Revesby Workers so lets hope we rebound with a win!!!

Pictures from last weekends inaugural Masters Cup NRL Jersey Day... The concept of playing in our NRL Jerseys rather than the normal playing kit got off to a great start with most of the players donning their favourite teams jerseys!!! The concept was deemed a success and has been implemented as a permanent fixture into next seasons draw and beyond!!!