Captain Blade - Joe Root

[Barmyblade]

 

[DifferentClass]

Me old mate

 

[Treeton Blade]

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Can`t be playing with a cross bat there.

Get up on thee toes Joe. straight bat it back like Boycs would have done

 

[ucandomagic]

Brilliant photo. Get it on the cover of UTB asap.

Magic.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

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Is that really him? Brilliant if so.

 

[YES Blade]

Is that really him? Brilliant if so.

Can't you tell? He still looks about 10 now!

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

I would never have thought that little blond kid would one day dress as a pirate and be on the pitch before every home game.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

I would never have thought that little blond kid would one day dress as a pirate and be on the pitch before every home game.

Are you suggesting that Captain Blade isn't a real pirate?

TBH with the belly and lack of movement I always assumed that it was Higdon in there.

 

[FTPE]

Seems a nice kid, plenty of personality, not to mention one hell of a cricketer.
Really proud and really chuffed for him.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Are you suggesting that Captain Blade isn't a real pirate?

TBH with the belly and lack of movement I always assumed that it was Higdon in there.

Have I got to be the one to tell you that Father Xmas is not real either? Though now we have Wilder, I'm not so sure.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Have I got to be the one to tell you that Father Xmas is not real either? Though now we have Wilder, I'm not so sure.

West Yorks, if the above has come as a shock, feel free to PM.

HBT, you're a monster......

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I went to the same school as Root (King Ecgbert). Probably before he was born, though!

 

[Bayingblade]

Good luck Joe lad and unlike the last England captain raised in Sheffield, a real Yorkshireman!

 

[Barney]

Who's sending this into the editors of UTB then?

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

West Yorks, if the above has come as a shock, feel free to PM.

HBT, you're a monster......

How do you think us oldies pinched all the money...? The young'uns have hard lessons to learn.

 

[dublin 10 blade]

Can`t be playing with a cross bat there.

Get up on thee toes Joe. straight bat it back like Boycs would have done

Then take a run that's not there ,
run out the other batsman ,
then look perplexed when he gives ya grief .

 

[Sean Thornton]

Then take a run that's not there ,
run out the other batsman ,
then look perplexed when he gives ya grief .

Doubt if Sir Geoffrey ever worried about what the bloke he'd just run out thought of him.....

 

[Treeton Blade]

Then take a run that's not there ,
run out the other batsman ,
then look perplexed when he gives ya grief .

Slag Utd off all you want.

But King Boycott is beyond reproach, any run out was always the other batsmans fault, ask him and he`ll tell you that

 

[JohnDenver]

Great piece on BBC News from Abbeydale Sports Club. Spoke with his grandad and showed the Root clan's stickball heritage. Great stuff.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

West Yorks, if the above has come as a shock, feel free to PM.

HBT, you're a monster......

Father Christmas is an obvious fake - I'm not that naive. But if anyone tries to cast doubt on the tooth fairy - I'm smashing the lot up.

 

[Minty]

Played against him when he was about 12 or 13 - he opened the batting for Collegiate 4th's. He got 0 but you could tell then that he could play!

Well done Joe and best of luck to you.

 

[ShockingBadBuy]

One of my very favourite cricket memories is skippering a team, in the field, on an adjoining pitch to Sheff Utd v Collegiate 1st XIs at Bawtry Rd, maybe 6 or 7 years back. Laddo wasn't a regular in the county side yet, and was playing Yorkshire League instead that weekend. Big buzz that he was playing. Collegiate were batting: he made 100 and retired, in what seemed like the blink of an eye. I don't remember much about the match I was supposed to be playing in !

 

[I should coco]

He was only wearing that old rag because his new Wendy shirt was in the wash.

Everyone knows they are the biggest club in the land and all right thinking people support them.

Deluded Fact2TM

 

[JonnyRed(WCFC)]

Doubt if Sir Geoffrey ever worried about what the bloke he'd just run out thought of him.....

Until Beefy ran him out himself!

 

[west_yorks_blade]

He was only wearing that old rag because his new Wendy shirt was in the wash.

Everyone knows they are the biggest club in the land and all right thinking people support them.

Deluded Fact2TM

Who is the other kid and what shirt is he wearing? - just need to know how much I should hate him.

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Who is the other kid and what shirt is he wearing? - just need to know how much I should hate him.

Brother Billy?

 

[I should coco]

Who is the other kid and what shirt is he wearing? - just need to know how much I should hate him.

I think it is Billy Root.

No need to hate him just yet, but if he goes on to play for England, the Massive will undoubtedly claim him as one of their own. You can take a view then on the appropriate hate level.

 

[prince albert]

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That's his brother behind him wearing a coventry City shirt you can just make out the whistle in his left hand

 

[BushBlade]

That's his brother behind him wearing a coventry City shirt you can just make out the whistle in his left hand

Is his brother complaining?

 

[west_yorks_blade]

That explains the tennis ball.