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“It’s been a good journey” - Dadleh By Millie Thomas
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ith the recent celebration of the Roxby Rogues Cricket Club 10 year anniversary, The Monitor spoke about the eventful decade with recently awarded life member, Barry Dadleh. The Rogues was formed during the 2001 / 2002 season, as a means to ensure the association’s stability, with Mr Dadleh joining the team in the 2002/2003 season. The idea was to recruit players from each existing team and form a ‘rogue’ team to keep the competition going, sparking the idea for it’s name. Since inception, the club has hosted almost 170 players, consistent with the transient nature of Roxby Downs. “A few of the local lads that were playing for OD (Olympic Dam) at the time decided to help out start up another club. They sort of got it up and running and then it was a four-team competition until about four years ago when Andamooka came in,” remembered Mr Dadleh. According to published club history, Shane Barr and Paul ‘Knuckles’ Kuchel acted unofficially as the main organisers for
the club. “James Daly, a bloke that used to work up here kept pestering me about coming out to play and I was happily retired at the time unfortunately work kept me away from playing too much,” explained Mr Dadleh. By the 2003/2004 season, Mr Dadleh was asked to step up as captain by a fellow cricketer, a role which turned into his eventual presidency of the club. “I was captain for a couple of years and then slowly but surely, I took over a fair bit of the running of the club. “The only reason I’m called the president is because I’m a bit of a dictator! But yeah, we were in this position that we were enjoying our cricket and slowly but surely got more and more involved in the team and we’re at the stage now that Stacey (Dadleh, wife) puts as much effort into the team as I do. “She’s always supported me with it so that’s fantastic.” The Rogues became associated with the Roxby Districts Sporting Club (RDSC), and underwent a name change to The Roxby Rogues suitably. “Steve Ryan (RDSC President at the time) had a lot to do with that,
he was probably the main instigator,” explained Mr Dadleh. “We probably had four or five at least of our regular cricketers were involved with the footy. That made is easier and helped fit.” The Rogues’ only association premiership was won in the 2007/2008, an occasion that was furiously celebrated. The Rogues backed up their success, winning the twenty20 competition this year. “Slowly but surely as a club, we’ve gone from being easy beats in the early days to being in the last three grand finals. Unfortunately we haven’t won any of them!” laughed Mr Dadleh. “This year, unfortunately, I think we were by and large the favourites. But you’ve got to win it on the day not by reputation. “We celebrated our very rare wins fairly well.” Partying was one facet as a club the Rogues were very good at, hence earn-
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ing the title of the ‘party club’. That and some infamous karaoke nights in Woomera helped cement the team’s lively reputation. If it’s not the yearly club fundraiser of ‘Chicken and champagne breakfast’ or a story about naked players sitting on monumental rockets, it’s one of the many club barbecues held at the Dadleh house. Trips to Woomera have been a highlight for the team if not just for the chance to be able to play under lights, then for the wonderful company and late Saturday nights. “Woomera was a really big adventure for us and we’d really enjoy our games down there, the Woomera guys and we were pretty famous for our karaoke nights,” said Mr Dadleh. “I loved Woomera, Wo o m e r a w a s m y best time,” added Mrs Dadleh. One entire season was
played at Woomera following a pitch replacement issue at the Roxby Downs Town Oval. “That was an interesting season where every weekend was played in Woomera. “There’s some photos from those nights that will never make The Monitor!” he joked. Going into the future, Mr Dadleh would like to see both the club and the association develop it’s focus on junior cricketers. “From a club point of view, we’ve always tried to have younger kids playing. We’ve always tried to get some form of cricket for the young kids; unfortunately, junior cricket in the town is not very strong.” Ideally Mr Dadleh said he would like to spend more time on junior players next season, and step away from the senior side. “Hopefully next season, we’ll hopefully have a bit
more of a formal competition,” he said. “That’s what I’d like to see grow in the town that’s for sure, the junior cricket.” After ten years and a well deserved life membership, Mr Dadleh conceded he wasn’t sure he could ever leave the club. “It was a good time to step away from work and take in another interest. I’ve always been a cricketer but never had the time up here when I worked other than two or three times a year. “We’ve put a lot of time and effort into keeping the club alive.” Mrs Dadleh, didn’t let Mr Dadleh’s modesty get in the way of a good story, explaining Mr Dadleh has been the backbone of the team ever since they became involved. “Barry will never, ever step down from cricket,” she said. “He’s too modest but he’s held this team to-
gether and would give everything for them. He’s still the water boy, he still runs everything. “Barry and I are never going to step down because that’s what will happen (the team will dissolve). And we don’t like to see things that we started fall over.” Mr Dadleh complimented Mrs Dadleh’s comments by saying, “We sort of put ourselves out there and try to do as much as we can. Stacey puts in a huge effort each week usually doing the bar or the canteen, making sure people are looked after. “It’s been a good journey that’s for sure. “We’ve met some really good people, so that’s the main thing.” “Jill from Sportspower has been great, she’s always been good with the sporting groups or our team she’s been really good. “If it wasn’t for the sponsors, we wouldn’t survive that’s for sure.”
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many can relate to. “Andrew’s ability to combine serious themes of everyday life into a hilarious musical produces one powerful performance not to be missed”, said Mr Saffell. Through the Shows on the Road program Country Arts SA provides local communities with the opportunity to enjoy professional touring performances across a range of genres, including, drama, music, comedy and more. The Age Online states, “…One of the highlights is where the audience are invited to write and submit their of what it takes to be a man which Andrew reads out and elaborates on without recourse to humiliation or ridicule … excellent…see this show…” Similarly, The West Australian praises Mr Horabin for his show, “Andrew Horabin has a maturity and wisdom that belies his years … calls to mind Bob Dylan and the social commentary of Billy Bragg …” Please note this performance contains course language and adult themes.
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