Scott Rogers

He's the Rowington captain, his name is Scott Rogers

He's the one responsible for our team of old codgers

He has a shirt for batting, a bowling one too

He likes to look smart, he thinks he's one of the chosen few

He bowls at the start and really tries his best,

But when the ball goes to the boundary it's time to take a rest

He comes back on when the batsmen aren't so good,

He gets out all the rabbits, hence his nickname's Elmer Fudd

He has to be on his guard to put up with all the wit

But early in the season his game was really **** poor

He couldn't buy a wicket and the runs came really slow

With scores of 0 and 0 and very few wickets to show

A blisteringly hot day at Ebrington and his dummy was on the floor

After umpiring 30 overs he refused to do any more

His confidence seemed to be at an all time low

So we quickly changed his nickname to James Bond's Dr No

But when the sun shone down on the Theatre of Dreams

He took out his frustration on all the other teams

Hitting fifty after fifty and nearly getting a ton

Wickets falling regularly, now he was having fun

He guided us up into the promotion places

A team of aged players, with a couple of new faces

An average age of 44, he couldn't really ask for more

Although a few of us ended games lying on the floor

But when he clicked into gear he made our team gel

Playing for each other, we gave the opposition hell

And with his words of encouragement plus the odd angry shout

Our season of promotion was never really in any doubt

Sometimes he wonders why we often deride him in a season of such fruition

But you only have to look at him to see he gives us so much ammunition

With his silly little beard he looks more like a musketeer

It's hard to take him seriously when he looks like such a bloody queer

He has a strange dress sense, it's a little bit amiss

The way he turns up sometimes makes it easy to take the ...mickey

The game at Long Itch and he turns up dressed in denim, he must have had his reasons

But we all thought he looked more like Shakin' Stevens

The only good thing was that he didn't burst into song

'cos if you'd seen him on the Karaoke you wouldn't have stayed for long

But what a great captain and a really true friend

I hope he plays for Rowington until the very end

In a season where promotion really made us beam

His name is Scott Rogers, the captain of our team.

The End