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Stadium: N/A President: KD Kobain Chairman of Selectors: AD Funkotron Head of Recruitment: DR Armstrong Media Manager: DR Armstrong Championships: 2 |
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| How do you put the history of arguably the greatest Cricsim club in just a few paragraphs? Do you just talk about the on field results of the Season 3 champions, or do you go back further and discuss the mateship, loyalty and bonding that is a hallmark of this great club? Either way, a lot of names will be dropped, memories of great games relived and you can be sure some players at other clubs that have not had the privilege of being called an Allstar will turn green with envy. It all started back at the Sidhe forums. They seem such a long time ago when a few of the longer standing members formed a fledgling club that would go on to become the Allstars. AD Funkotron is the proud owner of this club, and was joined at the club by RST Downpipes, T Bullpitt, BJT Manera, and B Olsen. Upon joining the Cricsim family, D Armstrong, JP Gonzalez, PGEC King, KD Kobain and J Dempsey were just some of the big names that had the Allstars as favourite to take out the Season 1 NRLM Cup. Season 1 saw 5 wins and 5 losses and placed the Allstars second on the ladder to the other big guns, the Sticky Wickets XI. Downpipes registered the first double century in an Allstars cap with a huge 207 against the hapless Irish side in Round 6. Manera couldn’t quite match that effort, but still knocked up a massive 188 and topped the batting averages for the season. Funkotron and Bullpitt were the two outstanding bowlers for the season with 76 and 73 wickets respectively. It wasn’t quite to be a fairytale start to the Cricsim careers of the Allstars players with the side just failing to knock off the SWXI in the final. Injuries cruelled the club, with both Funkotron and Bullpitt failing to pass fitness tests before the final, and Gonzalez and Porter both being struck down as well. It would prove to be crucial. Season 2 saw the Allstars lose one of their favourite sons, J Dempsey to the newly formed Cyclones. It saw the Allstars without a regular top notch keeper and many pundits thought they would struggle after being so close the season before. To a certain extent they were right, with the final being played between the Redbacks and the Cyclones. The Redbacks were deserved winners of the NRLM Cup, and how could you write an article on the Allstars history withour mentioning their great rivalry with the despised Redbacks? Sledging and trash talking went to great new heights before, during and after Allstars and Redbacks clashes. One would suspect that they were great threads to read if you weren’t smack bang in the middle. With the Redbacks morphing into Crusaders, Cricsim’s greatest rivalry was cut down in it’s prime, but you can sense the hatred for each other’s club still simmers. And onto Season 3. The Allstars dominated the season, bar a few hiccups towards the end, but put it all on show for the record crowd that attended the inaugural Bannerman Shield final. A massive first innings score of 633 was always going to be a tough ask for the Cyclones to come up with a decent response. A Train and Manera both topped the 100 mark, but it was the consistency throughout the batting line up that got that score to where it was, with Downpipes, Armstrong and King all knocking up half centuries. King’s taking a club record 322 balls for his 68. It was a deserved championship for the players that had stuck loyal through the years, and will always be regarded as the best, no matter how many this great club racks up. Three members of the premiership team have now left the club, but AT Aydos, SK McNeill and C Man will always be Allstars Premiership players. A new side in the Vipers was admitted into the fold for Season 4. The buzz around the clubs was by how many would they finish last, and by how many would the Allstars finish first. But something strange happened. In the biggest upset of all time in Cricsim, the Vipers knocked off the champs in the first game of the season. The Cricsim community was shocked. Were the champs on the wane? Could the Vipers do the impossible and challenge for the title? The answer to both questions was no, and by the end of the season, it looked to be a case of beginner’s luck in Round 1. The Allstars once again made the final, and once again it was against the SWXI, and once again injuries before a final became a telling factor. This time, it was the skipper Downpipes and vice-captain Kobain who were struck down on the eve of the final. We will never know what might have been had the two played, but two scores under 200 in a Cricsim match is never going to be enough, let alone in a final. And now Season 5 is upon us. Two new clubs in the Ravens and Pumas have been admitted to take the number of clubs to seven. Squad numbers have been cut to fifteen, which has again seen the Allstars lose players to other clubs. King being the most notable, going back to the club he helped form at the SWXI. Unlike other clubs, the strong bond between the Allstars players means that they can take a Dempsey, a Gonzalez or a King leaving, and still have a nucleus of players that can contest for the title. Most, if not all, of the players have been offered richer contracts at other clubs, but have remained an Allstar. This mateship and loyalty is something that every other club can only dream of. It also affects the recruitment of players to the club, while Recruitment Officer Manera sounds out players, they must meet a stringent no-dickheads policy that has been instated. As a result, the Allstars have never been as active in the annual end of year meat market as the rest of the clubs, but continue to be perennial championship material. |
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