The outlook is fine(s)

By Ant the FM
Well lads, we are ready to come out of the blocks this Sunday (Ed: Err, that should be Saturday - $1 fine to you) after a nice week’s rest. You would think that a week’s rest would mean no fines - well think again. Fines have been updated and we are sitting at $172 so far. Almost enough to throw down the deposit on our Hamilton Island end of season trip. A few notable fines:
Fergus $2.00 for Teachers Pet Award in the trial
John $2.00 for calling off training because he’s scared of thunder
Tony $1.00 for introducing Blake Thomas to Coastal Hogs training (lucky it’s not $1.00 from everyone)
Anthony & Matt $2.00 each for overachieving in trial and scoring
Sean $2.00 for being the keenest player out of all Hogs in training 1 and then never to be sighted again
Now I’ll pop up to the shops this week to get a money bucket that I will bring with me to each game. Hopefully this way people can keep throwing their gold coins into the tin so that they do not get too much in arrears.
As you can see I’m just trying to have a bit of fun with this, the aim being for us to all have a laugh at the end of each game in awarding the fines. I’m really not that serious about fining people for mistakes or anything like that, as I said just a bit of fun.
I have been involved with this with Helensburgh Cricket and we raised enough money to fund a trip to the Gold Coast for an end of season trip. Now I realise Gold Coast may not be the aim here, but I’ll liase with the Social Organiser (if I can ever work out what his email address is – Dave refer fines) to see if we use the money to put towards an end of season dinner or trip maybe down to Kangaroo Valley.
One thing to note is that family members can get you fines so all those who have wives who drink are in trouble, then again those wives that don’t turn up in case they get a fine are in trouble also. . . you get my point!