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Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs) | February 28, 2024

You've probably heard me rave about my old Waratahs Cricket Club of Armidale: the deeds glorious and nefarious and the brilliant mates I had back then, many of them I have kept in touch with. Some of you might have been team mates, others opponents and some just beaten into submission as I raved.


Well you can join the new entity, The Tahs, who will not only seek to encourage the same mateship and sense of family in our dotage, not by playing but playing up. We'll be organising excuses to get together but also raising money for a scholarship to put an under 16 cricketer through a development camp each year.


It takes 90 seconds to join, requires a one off $2 fee (which we'll take from you with your first donation) and is only as far away as your next click.


Andrew Davis, Steve Hadfield, James Campbell, Michael Connolly and myself constitute the committee. We already have 40 members. You can be the next. Please share this post among your own friends and organisations.


"Under the Southern Cross we stand,

a sprig of Waratah in our hand ..."


The Tahs Membership Form

About Me

Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs)

Founder
Waratahs CC of Armidale; The Tahs Inc
www.thetahs.com.au
Armidale, Australia
The history of a proud club which grew men from boys through the simple act of trusting them with something very precious.

Favourite players: Life members: Alan Gray, Harry Deiderick, Graham Johnson, Ian Campbell, Syd Philp, Graham Patterson & Albert Hofkamp.

Favourite grounds: Wicklow Oval (Rologas Fields), Harris Park, West Armidale Park (Lambert Park), The Armidale Sportsground

All-time cricket hero: Any bloke in the Royal Blue cap.

Favourite bat: The one that scored the most.

Most memorable moment in cricket:
1952-53 A grade Final, beating Easts 2 outright after our worst A/1st grade total in the sixty year history of the club. Beat the very strong Uralla in the last round to just scrape into the semis and then Easts 1 in the Semi. Played one player short on the first day after a mix up with team sheets and made 163 in the sunshine, Ross Ridley 59. Easts 0-57 at stumps after four dropped catches. Didn't play the second day for two weeks because of the Armidale Show and then after four days of heavy rain. Wicket now a sticky and impossible to bat on. Easts all out for 95, Don Paul 6-24. Batting a second time, Waratahs still one short and Ridley now out injured, all out for 21. Easts needing 90 don't make it to halfway, all out for 43, Don Paul 7-20. Waratahs win their first premiership in only their third season.

What’s the best cricket advice you’ve ever received:
Join the new Waratahs! The Tahs memberships available by contacting https://forms.gle/oY26v79kETLzYxqH7