TMGs vs Cutters Choice 17th May 2015 by Zack Dyke
It was a bright, sharp day; a stiff British wind swept up off the frigid sea, howling across the lush grass (for it is in East Brighton Park that our […]
It was a bright, sharp day; a stiff British wind swept up off the frigid sea, howling across the lush grass (for it is in East Brighton Park that our […]
“We are Greysmen of the Peoples’ Republic of Brighton, Southern England’s last bastion of brotherly solidarity, beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the Tyranny of […]
The fixture card said Warninglid, Alex said Brunswick Village Who were we to argue… Off to St James’ we toddled, fielding on paper a strong looking side, no Double D, […]
TMGs vs Hartfield 26th April, 2015 by Delbert Overs or time? The Hartfield transcript and a tribute to the great man (and his mate). (end of KFC commercial where family lick […]
The Missing Balcombe Match Report What usually happens is that we start the season well – everyone is available, Robbie and Rikki have had a winter to rest up their […]
TMGs AGM 2014 at Ian’s Alex’s house 17th October 2014. Dinner! yum! NO DINNER> Present and apologies. Present: Del, Riki, Dave Day, Biff doggy biff, Chiefy, Dave Hadrill, Ian – […]
Due to the increase in professionalism of match reports I would like to return us to the heady days of crap, ungrammatical badly spolt affairs with the added bonus of […]
Our club hasn’t become the most beloved, sought after cricket club in the world for nothing. The Mighty Greys (TMGs) is a collection of extra-ordinary individuals. The following link is […]
CATTY BAT GOES BATTY IN ‘SMARMY SPINNER’ RAGE MELTDOWN… SOLAR ECLISPSE AS WEEBLE APPEAL BLOCKS OUT SUN… JERRY PUTS MUFF FIRMLY BEFORE MATES IN PREMATURE DEPARTURE PRIORITY SHOCKER… KIM-JONG UN […]
The Hammerwood spring is quelled. “Skippering the Greys is very much like making love to a beautiful woman: you’ve got to organise a place for it to happen; ensure all […]
A warm August Sunday afternoon , a church bell sounds , occasional swarms of mods buzz past on their way to Brighton and Watts Cookin’ play a rocking set at […]
Arrested Decline and Fall. Match Report: The Mighty Greys C.C. vs. Warninglid C.C. By Otto von Abysmal. The Mighty Greys are a team of ageing non-athletes, who for years have […]
Decline and Fall. Match Report: The Mighty Greys C.C. vs. Selmeston & Alciston C.C. By Otto von Abysmal. The Mighty Greys, a team of ageing non-athletes, who for years have […]
Having foolishly spurned Alby Day’s advice to call heads the Greys skipper duly lost the toss and was asked to bat . Padding up alone in the pavilion it slowly […]
Ansty 27th July 2014. Dear Del, Alex and Jerry, Doncha just think it’s fab the way we talk to each other every week, with the rest of the world looking […]
Come 2pm on Sunday, they will have played 500 matches for the Mighty Greys between them. Tel, who holds the all time record for most capped greysman, will be playing in […]
And here’s the final one, the 4th, this time from 1996 and it can be viewed by clicking on an image below to then click through the pages, or you can […]
Here’s the 3rd fanzine in the series…they seem to get longer each year…The fanzine can be viewed by clicking on an image below to then click through the pages, or […]
Here’s the 2nd edition of “He Had To Go”, originally published in 1994 (5 years after the first edition). Again, thanks goes to David “Smudge” Smith for his secretarial efforts to […]
Here is the first ever Mighty Greys fanzine – “He Had To Go – A review of an OK-ish sort of season”, published way back in 1989 by the early forefathers […]
He’s trawled the archives for details, he’s travelled to the ends of the earth to track down our forefathers, he’s born the brunt of having to deal with me to […]
After all that trouble with Algerian hackers and rebuilding the site and finding all the old content I swore I’d never pay for a web service again. But now all […]
TMG vs. Streat & Westmeston CC Sunday XI Consultant’s Report Executive Summary Streat won the toss and decided to field. TMG 201 for 9 (45 overs). Streat 203 for 8 […]
TMG vs Lindfield, The Sequel. It was another glorious day as the greys arrived for the second game of the two match mini-series against Lindfield CC. The previous week had […]
Match Report: The Mighty Greys C.C. vs. Lindfield C.C. By John, aged 22¾ years. When my Dad first asked if I wanted to play on Sunday i was a bit […]
To Ansty. No Jerry, no Del, no EO, no Ricky, a crippled Robbie H… and, oh for a third umpire! This time last year we apparently numbered 12 on arrival […]
An Adventure with Biffo the Bear & The Grumpy Cowboy. “Yippee!” cried Biffo as he lept from his bed, it was a sunny Sunday morning and that meant he was […]
“Cricket is a team game played by individuals” – Geoff Boycott. The seventh annual Metro Man Festival of Mind, Body and Spirit rolled up the ramp into Luppitt and found […]
Match report v Sidbury. TOUR WE BAT JERRY R/O ANGRY BIFF GRAFT DEL CLASS DD ILL BUT GOOD BEN VITAL RUNS 158@T 2R’S OPEN UNLUCKY 1 EACH EO BACK2BEST WITH […]
The sun beat down as we approached our destination, the piercing blue sky streaked with sinuous cirrus clouds whisked into feather shapes by the high altitude winds of the English […]
Fearful of the Warning Lid. There was a whiff of expectation in the air as we arrive in the pub on yet another bright, hot, sunny day. Forest Row last […]
300. To some, a figure that conjures thoughts of heroic Spartans defying the odds in ancient Greece. For the Mighty Greys, it will spark memories of a rout at Wivelsfield […]
It’s that time of year again when we line our stomachs and boost our alcohol tolerance levels with some serious real ale training. The tour is only 3 weeks away, and while final […]
Run-cha-a-ase….everybody loves a run-cha-a-ase. 3.23 runs per over. Good cricket wicket, lovely sunshine. No problems. We arrived in the boozer – almost all us uncharacteristically early, to bask in the […]
The Complete Match Day Diet Even more than a ninety minute game of football, five sets of tennis or running a marathon, a game of Sunday cricket can push an […]
Destination Twineham, weather suspect, pitch plastic. Not words to inspire those amongst us eagerly longing for a day’s riveting cricket… Wet and windy The Mighty Greys arrived at a blowy, […]
The game at Warninglid approached with mixed feelings for those of us who take any notice of the emails from that hard working Professor of bat grips, bicycle frames and […]
TMG vs Hartfield 27th April 2014 It was the first game of the season, and unsurprisingly it was pissing it down in Brighton. Still, undeterred (well, a little deterred) the Mighty Greys […]
The Shadow’s Guide to: Health and Fitness That time of the year when we shed our winter coats and wander round in nothing but Bermuda shorts and day-glow flips flops […]
Our man has done it again, Alex (you star!) has found another great tour party venue for 2014. Check it out at: http://www.holidaylettings.co.uk/rentals/blackdown-hills/306064 While there are some that will […]
Newick v The Mighty Greys It must have been a steep learning curve for the Newick Sunday side as they strode out on another hot , sunny day to face […]
Balcombe, sunny, picturesque, lovely. Toss, won, bat, boo. Jerry 4, hurrah. Jerry 6, hurrah, ball lost, boo. Jerry 6, hurrah. Jerry 6, hurrah. Skip bowled, boo. Guy in, hello. Jerry […]
Roll up, Roll up, here yee, here yee; This year’s Grey-GM is the place to be! It’s set in chez skip, The Harveys we will sip, It’ll be a right […]
After celebrating Alex “fixtures ” Fenton’s 50th birthday with 2 halves of Harveys and a small roll up TMG felt the best way to blow away the cobwebs was to […]
And so to Hammerwood……a chance to arrest the slump the Might Greys had fallen into during the long mid summer. An end to the endless debate as to its cause: […]
Precisely Half the score True to the traditions of Sunday cricket the Greys once again ventured north on a hot sunny afternoon to the impressive cricket club that is Ansty […]
Well chaps as we all know the literary standard of Greys match reports has risen to such a level that it is apparently being studied for a Creative Writing degree […]
The land that time forgot. Something odd happens as you pass through the Cuilfail tunnel. At one end you leave behind the cold encroaching sea fret rolling in from the […]
50 Grey’s sheds No Dave Day on Sunday, so to make up for it…… Horsdean. Look at all those sheds up there. Once they were green or brown and now […]
Devon…home of idyllic villages, buxom wenches, cream teas, and the Exmoor beast, all very exciting I’m sure but what The Mighty Greys Go West for is CRICKET, and the most […]