Town player Vipul Patel provided us as with a laugh this week after several Town players confused the initials of John Lyon School (JLS) with the 'popular' manufactured pop sensation...here's what he had to say...

Fellow Club Members,

For minute there I thought Taz (Katira) and Sumeet (Khetia) were making reference to teeny bopper heart-throbs and balad crooners JLS; of the Simon Cowell X Factor mould. However I soon realised the error of my ways but have nevertheless decided to put forward a proposal to be considered at the forthcoming AGM - one such convincing, that the club simply cannot refuse!

Many of us no doubt secretly harbour a genuine fondness for the aforementioned boyband and regularly sing along to their tracks in the shower. Hence why not seriously think about adopting JLS as our NTCC Club Inspirational Mascots and House Band? We can play/make entrances to their songs during matches, invite them over to watch us, hold JLS karaoke sessions at the club house, ask them to play for us when we are short etc.

Just imagine how much inspiration (or lack of, for the pessimists amongst us) the following JLS track titles would provide the mighty NTCC (let me caveat this by confirming that I do NOT have a JLS album and do NOT secretly sing along to them in the shower).

Beat Again (when we're on a losing streak and want to hide away in a large cave, or indeed a winning streak when we want to smite down our next opponents and last year's League winners)

Do You Feel What I Feel? (for that bouncer that gave us a concussion or cracked a rib - in Ravi's case a brokwn jaw)

Eyes Wide Shut  (when the lightning pace of the opposition opening bowler leaves you quaking in your boots...or with a demolished set of stumps)

One Shot (every team has a one shot wonder - you know you're one when the opposition sets all the fielders (including the keeper) at square leg)

Only Tonight (after the very first winter nets session when you believe that your whole body will only ache on Sunday night, only to realise that in fact the pain subsides a whole week later, just before the second nets session)

Outta This World (for that six we dream of launching in a ballistic curve out of the village, but during the match sadly trace the ball's flight right into....the bowler's hands)

She Makes Me Wanna (generally after the cricket season when her indoors insists on making you do things (like making you take her shopping for handbags and shoes) citing the gross neglect you've clearly shown her during the entire cricket season)

Take A Chance On Me (for those looooong slow-motion moments when we've been done LBW and look pleadingly (doe-eyed like Puss in Boots in Shrek) into the umpire's eyes hoping he keeps you in....only to then see the finger slooooowly going up)