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July Update

Rain, rain, go away....a very wet last few weeks has failed to dampen the spirits of the staff here at otpchargers.com. Yet another action-packed month awaits our avid fans (all four of you).

Like an irritating fungal infection, Jim Dawson refuses to go away and instead returns with another directionless 'Jim Says What He Says'. In it, he discusses a few juicy tidbits of Cornwall gossip, as well as reliving of the glories and disasters of past OTP finals appearances.

Guest writer, Leon Vainu, has penned a great 'Classic Match' this month. We revisit the scene of a long-awaited win over the old foe, Mt Wellington, at their home ground earlier this year.

The late entrant for this month’s edition of ‘Spotlight On....’ is OTP stalwart, Chris ‘Hammer’ Whyte. Make sure you check this out around the middle of the month – some of his answers are simply hilarious!

The new season is one month closer. Rejoice!

GTC.

June Update

Tumbleweeds....followed by more tumbleweeds....followed by more tumblewee - well, you get the idea. Things are mighty quiet on the OTP Chargers front at the moment, but that hasn't stopped the dedicated staff at otpchargers.com from churning out some awesome stuff. AWESOME stuff, I tells ya!

Fat man, Jim Dawson, kicks things off with another entertaining edition of 'Jim Says What He Says'. In this month's column, the OTP skipper looks at the batsmen with the worst single-season batting averages. I bet a few of you are sweating on whether or not you're in it.

Classic Match guest writer, Shaun Pulman, has penned a superb reimagining of our semi-final defeat against Papatoetoe White from 2008. In his version of the game, the Chargers win by ten wickets and every batsmen gets a century! Magnificent stuff.

Cornwall Deputy Club Captain, Sean McWilliams, will be the focus of this month's 'Spotlight On....' column, coming later in the month. He discusses his five-season career with the OTP Chargers, as well as his plans to assassinate Tim Wilson and once again regain the Cornwall Club Captaincy in 2010-11. Cue evil laughter.

GTC.

May Update

That's it. 2009-10 is done and dusted. Cornwall Prizegiving and the OTP End of Season Bash capped off what was another excellent season for the Chargers, despite the fact we didn't get our hands on that elusive 2A Trophy.

The latest edition of 'Jim Says What He Says' is out. But not in a gay way. Although you might think that after reading some of the airy-fairy drivel this guy writes. Stephen Jones, he most certainly is not.

Due to a torrent of fan emails, the brain-explodingly popular 'Classic Match' feature returns for the 2010 off-season. This month, we take a look at a game full of cheating so blatantly obvious that it was actually quite funny. Click here to be magically transported back to 2004 and a wet afternoon at Glover Park.

'Spotlight On....' also returns this month. The other half of the legendary Orewa Connection, Karney Dawson, is the first to field the usual array of mentally taxing questions about his time with the OTP Chargers. Keep an eye out for it mid-month.

2010-11 is a long, long way away. So strap yourselves in, keep your browser address bar thing locked in to otpchargers.com, make sure the fridge is stocked full of piss, and pass the time by looking at every single post on this website. There's some quite good stuff in there. Honestly.

GTC.

April Update

Champions? Well, not quite. :(

Despite two commanding wins in the Top Four last month, the OTP Chargers narrowly failed in their quest to make the One Day 2A final. It was a slightly surreal way to go out, as perhaps the form team of the competition.

The verbal diarrhoea of Jim Dawson has once again been smeared upon this fine, upstanding website in the form of April's 'Jim Says What He Says'. As usual, it stinks the joint up big time.

Cornwall Prizegiving and the OTP End of Season Bash round out the thirteenth chapter of the Chargers' story. While the ending to the season on the field may have been somewhat bittersweet, there is no doubt that the team will go out on a high in Hamilton.

GTC.

March Update

February. Bad.

After four losses in a row, the OTP Chargers now find themselves fighting to stay alive in the hunt for the One Day 2A Championship. They are in the unenviable position of both having to win their remaining two Top Four games and having other results go their way.

Jim Dawson, who really is a grumpy old sod when he loses, has miraculously found time in his busy schedule to pen yet another eagerly awaited 'Jim Says What He Says'. In it, he gives details of who he is going to punch if the Chargers lose another game this season.

Let's make sure the title of next month's update is 'March. Champions'.

I dare you.

February Update

The first month of the new year has been a productive one for the OTP Chargers, with three commanding wins from three starts. With just three games left in the Round Robin (all against the other Top Four teams), the challenge now will be to finish at the top of the table - which would be an unprecedented achievement in OTP history.

With his outlandishly long Summer holiday finally at an end, you would have thought that Jim Dawson might have found something better to do with his time apart from spending it sitting in front of a computer typing a silly little column that no-one reads. Apparently not.

The next month will be a good indicator of whether or not the Chargers are true title contenders this season. Big performances will be required from the entire squad.

Let's do this.

GTC.

January Update

Happy New Year from everyone here at otpchargers.com! 2010 arrives with the OTP Chargers nestled comfortably in the Top Four. Task #1 over the next two months is to stay there and task #2 is to try and cement a top two spot, thereby ensuring two ‘home’ games in the Top Four.

Even though he is holidaying in Melbourne at present, where he has been labelled a ‘cricket tragic’ by some locals, cricket tragic, Jim Dawson, has still found time to pen an almost 1,500-word edition of ‘Jim Says What He Says’ in time for the New Year. Cricket tragic? You be the judge.

The Drive for 100 dominates the opening week of January, before the One Day 2A competition resumes in the middle of the month. Business time is at hand.

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December Update

It has been a blistering start to the 2009-10 One Day 2A competition by the OTP Chargers. A couple of demolition jobs against Birkenhead and Mt Wellington have been accompanied by two gutsy wins over Eden Roskill Punjabi XI and Auckland Cricket Society. The team's solitary loss came last weekend against Eden Roskill White, a side that looks destined to be in the thick of things at the business end of the competition.

OTP captain, Jim Dawson, has not yet submitted his latest edition of 'Jim Says What He Says'. Although he has stated that work commitments have prevented him from completing this column, otpchargers.com thinks his lack of commitment is nothing short of appalling and has fined him $7. EDIT: It's finally here, but really, it wasn't worth the wait. If you're having trouble sleeping at night, click here, press 'print', keep what comes out by your bedside and that insomnia will become yesterday's problem. You're welcome.

Three games until Christmas and two of them are against Top Four sides. A return to winning ways will ensure a place in the Top Four is all but secure by the Christmas break.

Ho ho ho.

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November Update

Finally....the 2009-10 cricket season is here! Despite our pre-season games not really going to plan (a complete washout against Mainstream, the loss of the ‘Trophy of Smut’ to the Rockafellas and a soggy encounter against the CTs), the team came out all guns blazing on the first Saturday of the competition against Birkenhead.

Local simpleton, Jim Dawson, has contributed another bunch of words in his latest ‘Jim Says What He Says’. Some of them are English, some are not. One thing is certain – none of them make any sense whatsoever.

The standard on the field has now been set. The key between now and Christmas will be maintaining it.

GTC.

October Update

We are down to a matter of days until the commencement of the 2009-10 season. Cornwall Mainstream is first on the menu and the Chargers will be hoping to demolish their appetiser, before embarking on the main course that is the One Day 2A championship.

Jim Dawson has wasted the best part of his school holidays by locking himself in a cupboard and penning another insignificant column about something or other. I got bored after the first few words and went off to make a sandwich. Ham and cheese. It was rather nice. Uhhh....what were we talking about?

This month’s Classic Match has been penned by Steve Martin. Get ready for craziness. No, really. Get ready for craziness.

Later this month, the final instalment of our stupendously popular ‘Spotlight On....’ column will feature none other than OTP wild child, Greg Laws. Both the Classic Match and Spotlight On features now take a break and will magically reappear in May 2010.

The time for talk is at an end. Now is the time for action.

Lock and load.