Gosford Cricket Club is having a 40-year reunion for its 1983-84 First Grade Premiership winning team at the Elanora Hotel on the 16 March 2024.

We’re excited to confirm, as at today, all the eleven players will be in attendance.

Being a Gosford junior, I was lucky to be part of the previous year’s win as well in 1982/83 so to go back-to-back was a great thing for someone like me who started playing with the club at a young age as many of us did.

For myself, it happened only by chance.

In the 1982-83 season I was playing for Bankstown and a midweek training mishap during the season put me out with injury for 6 to 8 weeks. My spot in the first-grade team was taken by a young 17-year-old by the name of S.R. Waugh.

On returning from injury Bankstown couldn’t guarantee my spot in 1st Grade as the side was doing well so Gosford approached me to finish the season with them.

Whether that was right or wrong I don’t know but I got a clearance from the Bankstown and finished the season with Gosford where we beat Wyong in the Final of the Central Coast Competition.

In the winter of 1983, I was planning to play the 1983-84 season in Sydney when I received a phone call from a Gosford Life Member and well-known businessman offering what at that time was quite a large monetary offer to stay and play for Gosford.

After the shock and a week of thinking about it I accepted the offer, and we were fortunate to win the Central Coast Competition again that season.

As a kid growing up and as I said ‘a Club Junior’ so to play for Gosford on the hallowed turf of Grahame Park and win a couple of first grade premierships brings back some great memories.

For the club to have to merge after 108-year history is very sad but the memories will never fade.

Cheers
Greg Briggs.