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Tribute to Frampton Cotterell cricket stalwart
FRAMPTON Cotterell cricketer
Stuart Moseley passed away at the age of 77 on February 2. Stuart was a prominent member of Frampton Cotterell Cricket Club for over 30 years, while resident in the village.
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He started playing cricket for Frampton at the age of 11, when the club was much smaller and youngsters were called up at short notice to make up the team: there was no club youth cricket in those days.
Stuart went on to become Frampton's premier batsman during the 1960s, 70s and 80’s.
He would generally open the batting and he was the club's leading run scorer for many years.
He spent the majority of his career playing first XI cricket, and was club captain for several years in the early days of league cricket.
Stuart was one of the main instigators of the dream in the late 60s to build a new cricket pavilion, and was heavily involved in the initial planning, fund-raising and the eventual building of the pavilion.
It's no exaggeration to say that much of the progress made by the club during the early 70s was down to Stuart's enthusiasm and hard work: he was the man who got things done.
He spent countless hours at the park, working on the wicket to bring it up to the standard required for league cricket, and continued to maintain it until moving from the village in the early 90s.
As a player, Stuart was well known and respected throughout local cricket, and will be remembered by his fellow club members as as not only a very good cricketer but a great clubman, passionate about Frampton cricket club.
Stuart's funeral will take place at 11.30am on March 1 at Weston-super-Mare crematorium.
Victor Cater
Club starts winter nets training
FRAMPTON Cotterell Cricket
Club winter nets have now begun in preparation for the upcoming season, for both senior and junior members.
Senior sessions are now taking place on Sundays from 1-2pm at Hanham Woods Academy.
New and existing members of all abilities are very welcome.
Keen-eyed folk will have spotted that preparations have already started on our squares and activities are planned for spring cleaning of the clubhouse, ready to host many of you throughout our 99th year!
We are requesting members of the community who wish to be involved, or have the capacity to provide any input to our 2024 centenary celebrations to please come forward and contact us via Framptoncotterellcc@gmail. com.
Sponsorship and collaboration opportunities at several levels are available. Up The Fram.
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Cotterell rugby round-up
Mike's a Frampton success story
FORMER Frampton junior player Mike Holden has returned to the club to present a shirt after helping England Universities rugby league side win the Student Tri-Nations cup.
Mike was coached in the early years by Mike Stiles, then in later years of juniors and colts by Mike Weaver and Mark Smith.
Mike's second passion was for rugby league and he played semi-professionally for West Wales Raiders in the summer months.
He then joined Cinderford, who play in National League 1, the third tier of English rugby union.
Mike was spotted whilst playing for the West Wales Raiders and was selected to represent England Universities v Scotland and Ireland for the Student Tri-Nations cup in Galway, Ireland, last summer.
Former Frampton junior Michael Holden presents his England Universities rugby shirt to coaches Mike Weaver, Mark Smith and club chairman Dave Ashwin.
His shirt was gratefully accepted by club chairman Dave Ashwin.
Mumby, Adam Nolan and Dillon Hill.
The win was especially enjoyable as it followed a narrow loss to Broad Plain at their Bedminster home before Christmas.
Captain Alfie Wall led the celebrations at the end, expressing huge pride in the team's performance, which included a dogged defence of the try line in the last ten minutes, stopping any ambitions that Broad Plain may have harboured to threaten the result.
Guest coach
FRAMPTON Cotterell Under-12s had a special guest coach in the form of Bristol Bears and USA international rugby player AJ MacGinty.
MacGinty, who lives in the area after joining the Bears from Sale Sharks last summer, was keen to help out at grassroots level rugby, and the club can only benefit from sessions like this.
Thanks
A WORD of thanks to the Simarco Worldwide Logistics based in Iron Acton.
Colts' fourth win
FRAMPTON'S Colts notched up a fourth win of their everimproving season with a well earned 17-7 victory at home against Broad Plain.
Tries came from Max
Simarco continue to be a supporter of Frampton Cotterell Juniors, and kindly made a donation to the club, which has funded 12 jackets.
The jackets will keep children warm and dry when they are substitutes during matches.
A big thanks to the Simarco team and Carl Pickett, who kindly organised this donation.
Mike Weaver & Matt Marsh