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00:00to prove that cricket wasn't just for the elite.
00:02It's who this, isn't it?
00:04By creating a team like no other in his hometown of Preston.
00:07What has he got us wearing?
00:09Well, that's a shot, man.
00:10Over the course of a turbulent season...
00:12Seriously, I'm getting off with you.
00:14..and an overseas cricket tour to India...
00:16We're all going to find out something about ourselves, me included.
00:19Freddie changed the lives of his unlikely team in more ways than one.
00:23We can do this, all right? Yeah.
00:25We're all here for you.
00:26Inspired by the success of the lads from Preston...
00:29Are you messing?
00:31Freddie now wants to see if he can expand the project...
00:33That's a shot.
00:34..and begin a Field of Dreams cricket league...
00:36That's safe, yeah.
00:37Yeah, get a sense out of your depth.
00:39..with the hope of reaching even more kids across the UK.
00:42No, no, no, no, no!
00:43Not one bit of that is fun of.
00:45So far, he's started to build a girls' team in Blackpool...
00:49I see why my mum fancies Freddie.
00:52Why?
00:54No, no, no, no!
00:55..and a struggle to control his boys' team in Liverpool.
00:59Oi, oi, oi, oi, oi!
01:01You can't do that. Seriously, you can't do that.
01:03But despite the challenges, Freddie threw them into their first-ever cricket match...
01:07What a small thing!
01:09Right!
01:10..which they lost to the lads from Preston.
01:13What happened there?
01:14If we can just keep him engaged, then he's got a chance.
01:19But it could all fall apart just as quick.
01:27Plan for tonight.
01:28Everyone will bowl, everyone will bat.
01:30Yeah?
01:31Yeah.
01:31With two clubs already on the go,
01:35Kyle is running tonight's training session in Liverpool.
01:38Oi, do you two want to get your pants on?
01:41Why have you got your jacket on?
01:42It's not going to give you any extra protection.
01:44Need a bigger coat, you lad.
01:45What I've seen on the training pitch...
01:54..the boys have got some naughty potential.
02:00We're definitely different to your average cricket team.
02:03Right, Stevie, do you want to bat next?
02:05Yeah.
02:06Just the best, aren't we?
02:08No-one's like us.
02:09What do we need to wear?
02:11Get all the pants, gloves, everything on.
02:14Have you got a box?
02:16Definitely need one of them on.
02:18**** that cup.
02:20If I ever get this in the balls,
02:21then it'll be in the **** feel like that.
02:24Stepping up to face the hardball
02:26is 16-year-old Stevie,
02:28who's choosing to follow his own rules
02:30by not wearing all of the protective kit.
02:33You're in!
02:35Stevie's going to whack this one.
02:39That's why he wears a cup.
02:45Do you have a cup in, Stevie?
02:47It doesn't look like it, that one.
02:48Why's he not got a box on?
02:50He's got tools to put all the kit on.
02:52Oh, ****.
02:53Did you get it in the dick?
02:55Yeah.
02:57Oh, my kids aren't going to be happy in the future, you know.
03:02Right, get a tennis racket, get a ball,
03:05you go and take the lads for some catching practice.
03:07Right, put the cricket balls on the floor.
03:10Stevie, Stevie!
03:13It's hard work tonight.
03:15I think after the game,
03:17I thought they'd come with, like,
03:19a good attitude, wanting to try and get better,
03:22and it just shows out when
03:23Ryan and Stevie are not interested,
03:26it just brings the whole group down.
03:29No, no, Stevie!
03:31What are you doing?
03:32This is so much effort, lads.
03:34Everyone's fans are a bit boring,
03:36coming back to doing normal training.
03:38I think everyone wants to get back to playing games
03:40against other people,
03:41because I think they find that more enjoyable.
03:44Oof.
03:45You want to help them get them better, but...
03:47Oh!
03:48You know, if they're not interested,
03:50you're just banging your head against a brick wall.
03:51I've missed you.
03:52Thank you, I've missed you, mate.
03:53Good to see you again.
03:54I'm due.
03:55After a successful try-out session,
04:11Freddie's girls' team have started training
04:13at South Shore Cricket Club.
04:15You seem energetic, I look for it.
04:17I get a car!
04:18Girls!
04:19With word of a new team in the area spreading,
04:23more players are turning up for practice.
04:26Hi, Maddie!
04:27We've got a new girl tonight, Maddie.
04:29Has everyone met Maddie?
04:30Yeah, mate.
04:31Molly, are you already getting terrorised?
04:32How do you know each other?
04:34School.
04:34School?
04:35Worst luck.
04:37Yeah.
04:37Yeah, there's a bit of history here, I think.
04:39I just don't like her.
04:42I've never liked her to be far.
04:44Maddie!
04:45Come on, shall we go and have her back?
04:47LAUGHTER
04:47Yes!
04:49Yes, bro!
04:50Oh, this is waddling!
04:51That's funny!
04:53Oh, my God!
04:54Ah!
04:56Ah!
04:59Do you want to take this one, Kyle?
05:00No, that's you.
05:00That's one.
05:01Batting coach.
05:02It's not the easiest coaching.
05:04I'm not the type of coaching I'm used to.
05:05Keep your eye on it.
05:06Watch your eyes.
05:07Here you go.
05:07Up.
05:08Yes, Molly!
05:09APPLAUSE
05:09Run, Molly!
05:12Run!
05:12Not sure when they're going to play against sides or when we can step it up, but they're keen, aren't they?
05:18That's the biggest thing, and they're smiling and enjoying it.
05:20Can't ask for it much more than that.
05:23I'm scared to run at knees.
05:25As long as they're doing that, we've got a chance.
05:30What are you doing?
05:31Shut up.
05:34Cut, knees!
05:34Gloves are giving me weird feelings.
05:36New girl, 17-year-old Maddy, has grown up in Blackpool and has lived in care since the age of 11.
05:44I'm scared.
05:45What do I do?
05:49Oh, that one!
05:52So, currently, I'm not in no education.
05:54I'm not working.
05:56I did have a job, but I quit that because I didn't like it.
06:00Because if I like something, I'll stick to it, but if I know I don't like it, yeah, I'm gone.
06:04Yes, Maddy.
06:08Oh, great!
06:09Yes!
06:12Maddy, that's amazing.
06:13Are you sure you've not done this before?
06:14No.
06:15Josh.
06:16I'm being serious.
06:16Seriously?
06:17Yeah.
06:18Natural.
06:20Come on, Mad.
06:22Oh, this.
06:25Go!
06:25I need your back.
06:26I need your back.
06:27No, someone else can have that.
06:29Pissing me off.
06:30Can't hit the ball.
06:31I can get irritated really fast if I can't do something right, and if it doesn't go my way.
06:39It takes time to get used to.
06:41Someone else go back for a minute.
06:44My confidence goes down because I just don't believe in myself.
06:51Maddy.
06:52Give us a minute, please.
06:53I've been in care since the age of 11, and I think because of the way I've grown up,
07:01I'm very cautious about letting people in.
07:05You've just got to leave me alone, and just, I'll be back.
07:10You obviously play a bit of sport, don't you?
07:13What did you do?
07:14Football.
07:14Who for?
07:16Blackpool.
07:17Did you?
07:17In Lancashire.
07:18Really?
07:19Yeah.
07:19What, still?
07:20No, gave up without.
07:21Why?
07:22Got bored of it.
07:23So, what do you do then?
07:24Nothing.
07:26Sleep.
07:26Eat.
07:27School?
07:27No.
07:28You don't go to school?
07:30Got kicked out of it.
07:32For what?
07:32Messing about.
07:34What type of stuff?
07:35Mess, just calling teacher names and everything.
07:38Really?
07:38I'm not going to lessons, scything.
07:39So, what do you want to do?
07:42I don't know.
07:43Do you want to play football?
07:44No.
07:45Now you're done with that?
07:45Yeah.
07:47Enjoy being around the girls?
07:49Yeah, it's been all right.
07:50All right.
07:52Meeting new people.
07:53Not a big fan of it, mate.
07:55Can't lie.
07:57Yeah.
08:00Nice conversation.
08:01Yeah.
08:02Not giving me much, are you?
08:04No.
08:04No?
08:05Bit too awkward yet.
08:06Really?
08:07Leave it for another day.
08:09Come here, Maddy.
08:12Put your front foot here.
08:13I think she's got real potential.
08:16So, with this one, point where you want it to go.
08:19And as that comes down, just bring that other one straight over.
08:22It's obvious she's played sport before.
08:23And she's kicking the ball around, doing keep-ups with cricket balls.
08:27Oh, ****.
08:28It just seems like she's got no real direction.
08:31Hopefully we can help her with that.
08:34Oh, this is heavy.
08:35You know what?
08:36Maybe through this, we can inspire her to get back into sport.
08:39You ready for it to go over there?
08:41Yeah.
08:41OK.
08:42Stand there.
08:44Molly.
08:44Come on, Maddy.
08:45Keep going.
08:46Molly.
08:47Because if she smacks the ball...
08:48If she hits it and you're still there, it'll hurt you.
08:52Diddons.
08:53You're just not too cocky.
08:55Prick.
08:56Wanker.
08:57Yeah, I already knew her.
08:58I think it'll be quite interesting to see how me and Maddy get on
09:03over the next couple of weeks.
09:05Right.
09:06Come on.
09:07In we come.
09:10How are we all feeling about the girls' team?
09:13Enjoy that?
09:14It was all right.
09:14It was all right?
09:15You all right?
09:15Yeah.
09:17I can see the new Maddy and Molly clashing.
09:20You could tell there was something going on.
09:22Yeah.
09:22I think they're fighting for top spot, aren't they?
09:24Yeah.
09:24All right, there's a couple of problems.
09:26But I can see how this club could be the start of something quite good.
09:31Yeah.
09:32And hopefully, for women's cricket in the wider area,
09:35keep coming, keep improving, organise some games,
09:38keep practising, keep working hard.
09:41They're willing to listen, they're willing to learn,
09:43so I think we've got a chance for these girls.
09:45Right.
09:46Well done, well done.
09:47Everyone, let's tidy up.
09:50So far, we're in good shape.
09:52We've got a boys team in Bootle who've played the first match
09:54and done all right.
09:56We've got the girls team in Blackpool,
09:58but I want to do another one.
10:01I want to do a third team.
10:03How nice would it be
10:04if we could get all the teams playing against each other?
10:09I don't know if I'm a pioneer or I'm stupid.
10:12But we'll find out, aren't we?
10:16On the hunt for a third club to add to his cricket league,
10:19Freddie's heading to his adopted hometown of Manchester.
10:22The reason for three is we did one and we showed that could work.
10:26And moving forward, if we do three and we get them right,
10:31we've created somewhat of a blueprint,
10:32which can be carried forward to anywhere in the country.
10:36Irrespective of your postcode or how much money you've got
10:40or what your parents are to do, cricket should be for everyone.
10:46Four miles north-east of the city centre,
10:49Newton Heath has a rich sporting history,
10:51with its football club going on to become the world-famous Manchester United.
10:55Established in 1859,
11:00Newton Heath Cricket Club used to be the hub of the community,
11:04hosting famous sporting legends,
11:06with the likes of Sir Bobby Charlton even playing on its ground.
11:10But over the last few years,
11:12the 165-year-old club has seen a steady decline in interest.
11:17Oh, aye.
11:18He's in a terrible stare.
11:19And its ground has been left to rack and ruin.
11:22Doesn't really look like a cricket club, does it?
11:24As it stands now, it just looks a mess, doesn't it?
11:31Fred is meeting Graham, the team captain,
11:33who's been struggling to keep the club afloat.
11:36So what teams have you got now?
11:38Just one.
11:39One senior team.
11:40Just one senior?
11:40No youth, no women's, yeah, just a one.
11:42No kids?
11:43No kids.
11:44There's not been a kids' team since probably about 2000s, early 2000s.
11:49Yeah.
11:49Oh.
11:50Yeah.
11:51Not one, not like a...
11:52So no kids come down here and play on a Friday night or...?
11:56No.
11:57No?
11:58No, nothing.
11:59How many members you got?
12:00We've got about nine or ten.
12:02It's not a team, that.
12:03Not a team.
12:04Do you feel you've done well to get...
12:05Yeah.
12:06...keep it open?
12:07Are you sure there's your hands?
12:08Yeah, yeah.
12:08So this is our main function room.
12:11Yeah.
12:13Seen better days, but, yeah.
12:15Not too many weddings in here at the minute.
12:16Not in a minute.
12:18So if you come through, we've got cobwebs.
12:21Yeah.
12:21You've got cobwebs.
12:22The changing rooms.
12:24No electricity.
12:26Electricity being cut off?
12:27Partly for danger.
12:28Yeah.
12:29Cost as well.
12:29Yeah.
12:32Yeah, there's water there.
12:34You're on the floor.
12:35Oh, aye.
12:35And then through here, we go off.
12:39This gets a bit more real.
12:41So we've got showers, toilets, as you can see.
12:44Oh, wow, look at this.
12:50It's a job, isn't it?
12:52Yeah.
12:52It needs money, and do it not?
12:55Not if I want to, but should we go and have a look at the ground?
12:57Yeah, can do.
13:01Well, you come from this, like, it's a big place, isn't it?
13:03Oh, it's massive, yeah, yeah.
13:04It's one of the biggest grounds in the Northwest.
13:07I can kind of picture what it could be.
13:09He was immaculate.
13:10You know, he's one of the best wickets in the league.
13:12He had crowds all around.
13:14You know, it was thriving.
13:17I'm guessing, looking around here, there's a load of houses and things,
13:21but these people aren't engaged in coming here.
13:24No.
13:25No.
13:25So, as it stands now, then, there's nothing happening?
13:30No.
13:31Unless there's an injection or something, that's how it's going to stay.
13:33That's how it's going to stay.
13:36It's not nice to see, is it?
13:38It's a place where kids should be coming and playing,
13:42and it should be the hub of the community.
13:44But you look at it, and you can understand why people aren't coming, can't you?
13:48The doors are shut, the gates are locked.
13:50There's no pitch.
13:51There's no teams.
13:52But it's really sad.
13:55In the city of cricket, it's dying, isn't it?
13:57And we've got to do something, don't we?
14:01Because if something's not done very quickly,
14:04this place is going to disappear like a lot of others.
14:08And when you put it in those terms, it's hard not to try, isn't it?
14:11And have a good crack at it.
14:13Imagine what I'd turn around this would be for a local area.
14:21If Freddie has any chance of saving the club,
14:23he needs support from the local community.
14:25I'd have to go to old school here, haven't I?
14:28I'd knock on doors and walk around the streets and drum up support.
14:32You know, we want to do it.
14:32We want to get a cricket club thriving again.
14:34We want people coming down, we want kids playing.
14:36But it'll be dictated by if that's what the people around this place want.
14:42Hiya.
14:43Hi.
14:43Sorry to bother you. I'm Fred.
14:45I'm doing some work at the cricket club behind at Newton Heath.
14:49I'm just trying to get people in the local community coming out
14:51and helping us clear it up a bit, because it's in a bit of a state.
14:54I'm not surprised.
14:56Nothing's gone on there for such a long time.
14:58I don't think anybody's given it any second thought.
15:01Well, I wish you every look in the world.
15:03Hopefully we'll see you down there.
15:04We'll get you down there at some point.
15:05You never know.
15:06This whole project depends on the community.
15:10Getting involved and wanting that cricket club to do well.
15:13I just have to keep trying, wouldn't I?
15:15Just keep knocking.
15:17Hiya.
15:18I'm doing some work at Newton Heath Cricket Club.
15:20Try to get all the teams going, get the cricket club back.
15:22Have you got any kids here who'd be interested in playing cricket?
15:25Yeah, I've got 15-year-olds.
15:26Well, bring him down.
15:27Yeah.
15:28Thanks very much.
15:28See you later.
15:29See you.
15:29See you.
15:29We need players.
15:33I just hope there's some sort of appetite.
15:37What's she on the bag there?
15:38You're just doing all right, aren't you?
15:38Yeah.
15:39You're from Newton Heath, eh?
15:40Yeah.
15:40I'm trying to get kids from this area playing cricket.
15:44I don't think it's a good idea.
15:45No one's going to go.
15:47Are you all right?
15:47I want to get that club going again.
15:49I'm going to get teams.
15:50I'm going to get it thriving.
15:51Do you think it could work?
15:53No.
15:53No?
15:54No.
15:54Why?
15:55This is boring.
15:56It's just dawning on me, actually, the magnitude of what we're trying to do and how big a scale.
16:02And this is just one of them.
16:03This is Newton Heath.
16:04We're going to boot them in Blackpool as well.
16:06But I do like a challenge.
16:08But is this one that I've bitten a bit too much off here?
16:12I do, right?
16:13No problem.
16:13You're following me, mate.
16:14You and Fred.
16:14It's over there, yeah.
16:15Yeah, I'm Fred.
16:16Nice to meet you.
16:16You all right?
16:16Yeah, show me.
16:18Show.
16:19You're going to cut me off now, aren't you?
16:20Oh, here we go.
16:21He's going off now.
16:22He's going to burn me, isn't he?
16:24You're in the cricket club back here.
16:26Yeah.
16:27I'm trying to get it going again.
16:30It's got a lot of history behind it, but in recent years, it's just gone to the dogs.
16:33Yeah, it has, yeah.
16:33Well, you've got Michael Abbott, who's captain of England.
16:36Yeah, I've played with him, yeah.
16:37And I used to play there.
16:38Yeah.
16:38So.
16:40Oh, yeah, you and Ed's cricket.
16:41Yeah, I used to play a bit, yeah.
16:43OK, that's good.
16:44We're doing a clear-up if you fancy getting some fresh air.
16:47I'm going to go and start clearing it up a bit.
16:49Think about that.
16:49No, you're going to stick to your snooker and a pint.
16:52All right, I'll leave you to it.
16:53Cheers, lad.
16:53It looks like it's shut.
16:55No one knows anything about it.
16:57Hopefully through word of mouth it'll start spreading.
16:59Yeah.
17:00Thanks so much.
17:00I'll see you later.
17:01See you later, bud.
17:03It's a real reality check, you know, because it's gone well recently.
17:07And now we're just diving back in, even deeper.
17:12You know, he said, if they build it, they'll come.
17:14Something like that, innit?
17:16At the minute, we're not built now and no one's coming.
17:17What?
17:18It's going.
17:25With Freddie and Manchester, 50 miles away in Blackpool, England cricketer Kate Cross is
17:31back to help Kyle try and train the girls into a match-ready team.
17:36I think tonight, maybe introduce a hard ball.
17:38What do you reckon?
17:39It'll be interesting to see how they cope with that, because I know a lot of females get put
17:43off from cricket when it goes from softball to hardball.
17:45But if we're going to play some games, they're going to actually have to get used to a hard
17:49ball at some point.
17:50Right, Connor.
17:52Why did I lose, Mike?
17:54It's OK.
17:54Well, my grief would be green now.
17:56But my lips would be red.
17:58All right, hardball each.
18:00Well, these are the actual ones.
18:02It is hard.
18:02Do not throw this at somebody, whatever you do.
18:05It is hard.
18:06The first girls to face the hard ball are both newcomers to the game.
18:1017-year-old Maddie and 16-year-old Summer.
18:14Helmets.
18:14You need helmets.
18:15Can we have everyone watching the balls, please?
18:22Are you ready, kids?
18:24And if you get hit, you get hurt.
18:26Oh, no.
18:27Here we go.
18:31Oh!
18:33Ooh.
18:34OK.
18:36Mumma just got hit with a ball.
18:38You all right?
18:39Quite bad, actually.
18:41That was horrendous.
18:42Oh, I think that's nasty.
18:43You all right?
18:45Dangerous!
18:46It'll hurt for, like, 30 more seconds, and then it goes.
18:49You've got hit with a ball.
18:53No!
18:54I don't want to play.
18:56My leg hurts.
18:57I don't want to play.
18:59Oh!
19:02I'm not playing.
19:04You all right, Summer?
19:06Just a bit of a sting.
19:07The first one's always the worst.
19:10Mmm!
19:12Go on, then.
19:14These hard balls, oh, my God, they hurt.
19:17They hurt.
19:18Even catching it hurts.
19:19Um, yeah, maybe, I mean, I think we had to introduce a cricket ball to them, just so they knew what it is.
19:30Don't hit me!
19:32Ah!
19:34Too fast on me.
19:35Too fast.
19:36If we're going to play a game, we're going to use a hard ball, so it's a tough one to know what to do, really.
19:41Don't kill me!
19:44Don't want to die today!
19:45Um, might have to rethink our, rethink how we're going to approach it for the next session.
19:53Summer!
19:55Hey, girly.
19:56What you doing?
19:58What you doing?
20:02Can you come and join me back, please?
20:04No.
20:04Please?
20:05No.
20:05Just bowling without you.
20:06I've got a paycheck to take.
20:08Well, we can do some bowling together.
20:10No.
20:11Bowling?
20:11It's not anything?
20:12I'm good.
20:13Come and join.
20:15Come on, you're doing well, aren't you?
20:20No, you actually are someone.
20:23Come on.
20:25Me and Kyle or Freddie can say whatever we think's the right thing, but actually if it comes from each other or comes from one of their teammates, they seem to listen a little bit more.
20:34I feel like the camaraderie in the team is actually what's going to drag them along.
20:39People, on three, two, one, we're all going to cheer.
20:49Summer!
20:50Three, two, one!
20:54Yay!
20:57Summer!
20:59Come on, Summer.
21:00Come on.
21:04Come on, Summer, mate.
21:05You've got this.
21:05I'm doing one ball and that's it, right?
21:07Come on, you've got it.
21:08I'm doing one ball.
21:09You've got it.
21:09Well done.
21:14Well done, then.
21:15You brought her back from the dead.
21:16I know, mate.
21:17That was brilliant.
21:18What did you say to her?
21:19I don't know.
21:20I actually don't know.
21:22That's it.
21:23Bring the stomps in.
21:24Watch the dog shit.
21:42Shut up, you absolute muppet!
21:46Absolute f***hole.
21:48It's never a dull day on Grange, is it?
21:50No.
21:51You stoned off, didn't you?
21:52Yeah, I had my moment.
21:58Because I thought I didn't want to do it,
22:00but at the same time, I do want to do it.
22:02Well, what's the main reason why you don't want to do it?
22:04It's just, like, really, like, boost my energy down.
22:08Knocked your confidence.
22:09Yeah, that would.
22:11I don't know if I do want to go back,
22:13but obviously, it'd more...
22:15It'll be the fact of letting Freddie down.
22:19Letting your emotions win more, like.
22:21Yeah.
22:22With confidence affecting the girls in Blackpool,
22:30in Manchester, where Freddie is hoping to create a third team,
22:34there's been some good news.
22:36Are you all right, pal?
22:37Thanks for coming.
22:38You're all right, thank you.
22:39Thanks for coming.
22:41After weeks of spreading the word about his plan
22:44to restore Newton Heath Cricket Club,
22:46some of the local community have turned up to help out.
22:50It's a start, isn't it?
22:54Everyone's just getting involved and mucking in.
22:56Makes you think, actually, we're doing something that people want.
22:58But despite progress being made outside...
23:01Good to see you, Fred.
23:03..one of the longest-serving members of the club,
23:05John,
23:06is keen to show Freddie that things have got even worse inside.
23:10Oh, wow, look at this.
23:11This is the kitchen area now, which you can see.
23:16The water egresses.
23:17I'm not sure that's going to get too open safe, do you?
23:18No.
23:19I don't think you can cook in there.
23:20No.
23:21I mean, look at it.
23:22Has this just happened past three weeks?
23:24Well, this is a...
23:24Yeah, it's a flat roof.
23:27Needs repairing.
23:28So I can see since last time I've been here.
23:30Yeah.
23:31It's got worse.
23:31Yeah.
23:32So what is the plan, then?
23:34What is the plan for the club?
23:35The plan is to get Cricket back on here.
23:38How, though?
23:39Well, we're depending on yourself, in many ways.
23:47Cheers, John.
23:47We want you...
23:50Well, I think, basically, we're on our knees.
23:57Really?
23:58We're on our knees.
23:59Sometimes, though, I found this in my career.
24:02You've got to hit rock bottom before you can start going back up.
24:05It sounds like this is rock bottom here now, isn't it?
24:08It is, I think.
24:08Looking at the kitchen and the ground and everything.
24:10I think it would be criminal to let this facility disappear.
24:14I agree.
24:15I agree.
24:16Just need a start, don't we?
24:17Yeah, this is...
24:18Well, today, today, you've got all these people, haven't you?
24:21They're having a go, aren't they?
24:24As well as volunteers, kids from the local area have turned up to help out.
24:28Fred, nice to meet you.
24:29Dominic.
24:30Hi, Dominic.
24:31You all right?
24:31Thanks for coming.
24:31Go and join them.
24:33Fred.
24:33Nice to meet you.
24:34Nice to meet you.
24:35Go and mingle in.
24:36Thanks so much.
24:37Thanks for coming.
24:38You lads cricket us?
24:39No, football.
24:40No?
24:40It's your sport.
24:41It's football?
24:42Football.
24:42What else do you do?
24:43I don't really play football that much, though.
24:45What do you do with yourself, then?
24:46Just go out, chill.
24:47Just go out.
24:48Can you say you chill?
24:48What, doing what?
24:49What do you do when your mates do?
24:51Just go out in the street and...
24:52And do what?
24:53Just chill.
24:54It's a bit dead nowadays, isn't it?
24:55It's a bit dead?
24:56Yeah, it's just nothing to do nowadays.
24:59What's it like?
25:00Speak.
25:00No, I used to speak, man.
25:01Like, like, the youth and that.
25:04The youth?
25:04Yeah, yeah.
25:05What's wrong with them?
25:07What, are you rough?
25:08A couple of gangs.
25:08Yeah, a couple of rough stuff going on.
25:10Like, my boy got stabbed, like, seven months ago today.
25:13Did he?
25:14Yeah.
25:14Yeah.
25:14I knew the person that stabbed him and the person that died, didn't it?
25:18I was both close with both.
25:19Both friends with them and everything.
25:20So, it's a bit of bad.
25:21I was close with both of them.
25:22But it's just life, innit?
25:25Like, there's nothing you can do about it, seriously.
25:27Yeah, but it depends where you're putting yourself, though, isn't it?
25:29Yeah.
25:30If you're putting yourself in areas where you're susceptible to it...
25:32Yeah, but you're born into that area.
25:34Yeah, but my thought is with this person, if you create something where people can come,
25:39enjoy themselves and they're safe, good for everyone.
25:42Yeah, yeah.
25:44Do you fancy getting involved here?
25:46Could we get it going, joining the cricket team?
25:47It's semi-posh sport, though.
25:49Yeah, well, it was a posh sport, but trying to change it, I want everyone to play.
25:52Everyone have a chance.
25:53Yeah.
25:54Well, I'd love you to come.
25:56It's great to meet you.
25:57Hopefully we'll see you again.
25:59You're going to come, aren't you?
26:00Yeah.
26:00Bring your mates as well.
26:01Yeah, we are, don't worry.
26:02All right?
26:02Feel free to pick some litter up if you want as well, but you might not get much in your bag.
26:06No, no.
26:08All right, thank you.
26:09Cheers, boys.
26:10Have a nice day.
26:11All right.
26:13Cricket's a tough sell for them, but that's the type of lads we want.
26:19You know, so give these boys a chance.
26:21The more I speak to people, this place is crying out for somewhere that people can go to.
26:26And it seems that cricket is probably secondary.
26:30The cricket club is the hook, and then hopefully from there it can expand into more of a social club, let's say, and we can get kids off the streets.
26:42There is a crack in the wall.
26:44Right, OK.
26:45Yeah.
26:45You can see where it's all coming down off the flat roof into the gutter.
26:48To give Freddie an idea of the work needed to restore the club, he's asked Manchester Council to come down and conduct a site survey.
26:56What have you found?
26:58We think we've got some subsidence along all the back wall.
27:01It recommended that we have an asbestos survey done, so they'll come in probably next week.
27:06And then also, we've got a flat roof connecting this part of the building to the bit with the function rooms, and that is leaking.
27:14City kitchen.
27:15Yeah, it's a mess, isn't it?
27:16Yeah, and it's quite dangerous.
27:18So that's...
27:19What's the cost, then, do you reckon?
27:21So we were looking in the region of about £300,000 for refurbishing what we've got.
27:25And then if we were going to demolish and start again, then it would be in the region of £850,000, something like that.
27:34You're at £15,000, right?
27:35So what's your advice?
27:37We haven't got any money specifically, but this is about using contractors and reaching out to them.
27:42We need to identify all the needs and the requirements of what we need to do for the next few months.
27:48What sort of time frames do you envisage?
27:51I think, to be brutally honest, we need two to three months to get a planning application together,
27:57and then we've got another three months to get the application submitted and hopefully approved before we should be putting...
28:04So six months before anything happens?
28:06If we're going to do a new build option, yeah.
28:10Right.
28:12So it's quite a long process, isn't it?
28:16It's a date to start.
28:17It's a start, but I'm very impatient.
28:19Very impatient.
28:24Thanks very much.
28:26I was hoping they'd give us a few solutions, but just give us six months.
28:30Six months and we can do something.
28:32It's a club on its knees.
28:34Something needs doing now and it needs doing fast.
28:37It has to happen before the end of the summer.
28:41Has to.
28:41With plans for his Manchester club looking more and more complicated...
28:48Keep your head down.
28:51Freddie's headed back to his boys' team in Liverpool.
28:55There you go.
28:56But only six have turned up for tonight's training.
29:01I reckon you can hit that harder.
29:03Commit to it.
29:03Commit to it.
29:05Where's Ryan tonight?
29:06You've got to be doing anything.
29:08Him and Stevie.
29:09What?
29:10Where's Stevie?
29:10Sam, you've got to be doing anything.
29:14One more.
29:14One more and swap over and Kev can get a drink.
29:19There's not too many here tonight, is there?
29:23It is a disappointment.
29:25It would be nice if everyone was here.
29:27They are a team and they've played a game and they've been showing signs of improving.
29:31It's hard, isn't it, because things are going to be against us.
29:34But I think it drives you on, doesn't it, to think, this is important.
29:38We have to keep trying just to give these kids a chance of playing cricket.
29:42Yes, lad!
29:44One of the oldest boys on the team who has turned up for training...
29:48..is 17-year-old local lad, Michael.
29:54He hit the battle.
29:57That will follow that.
29:59You want your weight coming through.
30:00Yeah, so you want your weight forward.
30:01So it all starts with your head.
30:03Nice one, Fred.
30:05Sport's always been, like, a part of my life.
30:09Just keeping me in check a good few times, really.
30:11Just a safe, a safe place.
30:13Safe place to go, really.
30:16It's a shot.
30:18Do you know the nice thing about that, Michael?
30:19It's spun, but you've hit with the spin.
30:21Yeah, yeah.
30:22When I hit the bat, I felt the spin.
30:24You hit with it?
30:25Yeah.
30:26I felt the spin off the bat as well.
30:28I've always lived in Bootle.
30:30It's just a mental place.
30:31I'd say it is a rough at a lady.
30:33I feel, like, and the gang culture is a big thing in Bootle, like,
30:38doing cricket and being with Freddie.
30:42Coming at a good time, because I feel like
30:43the age you're at from 17 to 18 is quite a hard year, I think.
30:49And I feel like it's been a bit of a distraction for me
30:51for just being able to go and play cricket for an hour or two.
30:54Last one, Michael.
30:55Good one.
30:56There we go.
30:58That's the bat.
30:59I'll take that from me last one.
31:01That was a good man.
31:01Great effort.
31:03Freddie's decided that after training,
31:06he wants to find out how being part of the team is helping Michael.
31:12Firstly, how are you finding the cricket?
31:14It was.
31:14You enjoying it?
31:15Yeah, yeah.
31:15How come you wanted to do it in the first place?
31:18It's just an opportunity, really.
31:20An opportunity to excel, isn't it?
31:21Yeah.
31:22Take it with both hands.
31:23You're obviously from round here.
31:25Tell us a bit about...
31:27It's quite rough, like.
31:28Is it?
31:29In what way?
31:30Throw seven, really.
31:31Get caught in the wrong side of things.
31:36Been here quite deep, to be honest.
31:37Have you?
31:38Yeah.
31:39How does that all start?
31:41Just wanting to do better, really, you know what I mean?
31:44You think, oh, yeah, this is the high life, this is the good life, like.
31:47Out there smoking weed with your mates.
31:48And then you're going home and your man, she finds your bag of weed and stuff like that.
31:52It just causes arguments.
31:53And then it's, it's just, it's just a nightmare.
31:58Quite bad, really.
31:59And when you started doing this, what was your mid-team, early teens?
32:04Yeah, well, 13, 14.
32:0513, 14.
32:06It's not even real in your life.
32:08You think it's doing good for you, but it's not.
32:10It's what it's doing to other people around you, you know what I mean?
32:12Like, it's hurt me, ma, big time.
32:14It's not really fair, my mum and dad, because they've, like, took me and looked after me from a baby, if you get any of me.
32:21Mm-hmm.
32:21So.
32:22You said from a baby, so you've...
32:24Yeah.
32:25So they're, like, not, like, biological, like, parents.
32:27Oh, right.
32:28Yeah, they're, like, my uncle and auntie, really.
32:31So if you don't mind me asking them, what, your mum and dad?
32:34Yeah, my mum, my mum, passed away, like, when I was, like, six months old.
32:39Oh, no.
32:40She, like, killed yourself.
32:42On time, though?
32:43Nah, it's not like the money, though, when I met my mum and stuff.
32:45I didn't expect it to.
32:46Yeah, yeah, yeah, she, yeah, she stopped my life, my mum.
32:50And then I got put into care.
32:51What, when you was a baby?
32:52Yeah, when I was a baby, and then your mum and dad, now, like, call my mum, my dad, my auntie and uncle, they've taken me in.
33:01So doing all that to them, what I've done was wrong, because it was, like, shit they've done for you, lads, you know what I mean?
33:06Yeah.
33:07You talk to your mum and dad now about your mum?
33:10As a kid, as a kid, I was quite, like...
33:13I feel like that's why I was a bit of a loose cannon and went down certain ways and stuff like that, because I didn't really know who I was meself, in a way, if you get what I mean?
33:21Because that was, like, a big question to me, like, was it my fault or...
33:23Yeah.
33:24You know what I mean?
33:25Just little, like, my stuff like that, really, because it is quite a horrible way to go, really, isn't it?
33:31It is the worst way to go.
33:33Suicide.
33:33Yeah, yeah, so that's what I'm saying with you, but I was angry towards him, man.
33:38And I thought you...
33:39For doing it?
33:39Yeah, yeah.
33:40I think, I think my opinion of, like, suicide's changed over the years for a few reasons.
33:47One, I've had friends.
33:48Me?
33:49I've done it.
33:50Actually, it wasn't quite a reason.
33:51So I need to hear that.
33:52No, it's fine.
33:52But, so I struggle with my love.
33:56I struggle with depression.
33:58I had an accident 18 months ago, and I've been honest with you, like, I didn't want to kill
34:03myself, but I didn't want to be alive.
34:04Does that make sense?
34:06Yeah?
34:06I've been like that a few times.
34:07Yeah, I know exactly what you...
34:09I didn't know if I had it in me.
34:10Yeah, it's just...
34:11And then, and then also, actually, I've been quite reflective, actually, when we met recently,
34:15is that I always thought it was selfish, and I always thought it was a way out, but then,
34:20actually, I've come to understand it a little bit more now.
34:25If there's a level, which there is, underneath where I felt, and you can go lower, I actually
34:32really understand it.
34:33Yeah.
34:36So, so what, what is it you want to do now, then?
34:39Just keep going, and I just keep doing, be even, keep doing well for me self.
34:42Yeah.
34:42A few days.
34:44But, yeah.
34:46You've got all these reasons to be successful, and do well.
34:50I think the biggest one is for you, as well.
34:53You know what I mean?
34:54Everyone, like, tries to please and do this with other people, but I think you need to
34:57do it to yourself.
34:58From what you've been through and what you've experienced, you deserve it, you know what
35:02I mean?
35:03You deserve it, you've got plenty to offer.
35:05So much.
35:05It's all for these.
35:06I'm totally.
35:07That's a scouting thing.
35:12He's dealt with so much in such a young life.
35:14He's only 17, and I think everyone is guilty of being judgmental, whether it's kids and
35:22their behavior, or why kids hang around the streets, or they're doing some of the things
35:27that they're doing.
35:27And the more time we've spent with these lads, you realize, actually, there's reasons for
35:32people's behavior.
35:33And that's the thing that needs to be tackled.
35:37You know, I think we've got positive role models for kids.
35:40Show them a different way.
35:41Show them the opportunities that they could have.
35:43Which we're trying to do.
35:45By getting a group of boys or girls who believe they're a team, giving them confidence, a
35:54sense of belonging, and ultimately trying to apply them things into their lives.
36:01You've just got to prove it works.
36:03You've got to prove it's right, and it does make a difference.
36:10Who's confident of practicing with the hardball?
36:13In Blackpool, Freddie's hoping the girls will soon be ready to play their first ever match.
36:19So, if you're confident, you can go in the net.
36:23But some of the team are still struggling to get to grips with the hardball.
36:27Don't want them, you know, not coming to cricket because they're scared of getting hurt.
36:31But we also need to realize that if we're going to play a match, it's going to be a hardball.
36:35So, it's a tricky one at the moment.
36:37Right, get yourself a bat.
36:38I don't want to put them in a game against another team and embarrass them.
36:41I want them to compete.
36:42I want them to feel confident in what they're doing.
36:45If it goes well, it could bring some confidence out of them.
36:48But on the flip side of that, though, if it goes badly and embarrass themselves,
36:52it could be back to square one.
36:54Oh!
36:56Oh!
36:57My arse cheek!
36:59Oh!
37:01Do you think I am a professional?
37:03This feels like we're not progressing at all.
37:05We're not.
37:08We were even better than this on the first week.
37:12But it's not just the hardball affecting the team.
37:15Go on, Molly.
37:16No, do it properly.
37:17Oh, Molly, mate, do it properly. I beg.
37:18Oh, sorry.
37:19Don't get lippy, mate.
37:20Oh, shut up, Maddie.
37:21If you can't tell, I'm not in the mood.
37:22Oh, shut up.
37:23Go on.
37:24You know what?
37:25I can't be arsed in a bit.
37:26Don't be giving me mouth, please, mate.
37:27I can't be arsed.
37:28Can we just play a bit of cricket?
37:29Stupid .
37:30You're the stupid cow.
37:31I really just don't want them to seem to fall apart.
37:33I'm sick of bitchiness and drama and girls and blah, blah, blah.
37:37When you're playing a game, you have to get on.
37:39Like, everyone has to get on.
37:40And right now, that's not happening.
37:41Well, I don't think we're a team at the moment at all.
37:43No.
37:44No.
37:45I reckon we just got a team at the moment at all.
37:46No.
37:47No.
37:48I reckon we just got a team at the moment at all.
37:49No.
37:50No.
37:51No.
37:52I reckon we just got a team at the moment at all.
37:53No.
37:54No.
37:55No.
37:56No.
37:57No.
37:58No.
37:59No.
38:00I reckon we just got rid of her.
38:01We don't need her.
38:03With the girls, it's different.
38:06A lot more emotional than the boys.
38:08And that seems to be surfacing quite a bit.
38:10They're struggling with a bit of confidence.
38:12But then, one thing which is a bit more worrying,
38:15is there's been a bit of falling out.
38:17Different friendship groups.
38:19People getting young with one another.
38:21That's the funny thing about sport and in particular cricket.
38:24You know, even with England, you get put together a group of people
38:28that I reckon unless you're playing cricket, you would never meet.
38:32But, just respect them, just learn how to get along.
38:35You don't have to be best of mates with people.
38:37It seems to be a bit of falling out.
38:42Is that fair?
38:43What is it about the two of you that clashes?
38:46You just don't like each other.
38:47You don't like each other or you don't try with each other?
38:51No, I don't know.
38:52How can you solve it?
38:53Because the problem is with you two, such strong characters,
38:56is if you're kicking off or not getting on,
38:59I think it's going to affect everyone.
39:02I don't actually know.
39:04Do you think there's a world in which the two of you get on?
39:07No.
39:08Why?
39:09We never get on.
39:10Why?
39:11I don't know.
39:12Well, try it.
39:15You don't have to get on, best of mates.
39:18We can respect each other, can't you?
39:19Yeah.
39:21Try and not row.
39:23Kick off.
39:25Just be team mates.
39:27Yeah?
39:28They just can't keep going as they are, can they?
39:35We're meant to be trying to be closer as a team,
39:37so we can then play matches and we can do more things.
39:40But if they keep kicking off with each other,
39:42that's not a possibility at the minute.
39:47With problems mounting in Blackpool,
39:49Freddie's headed back to Manchester,
39:51where he's hoping to create his third team
39:53and restore Newton Heath Cricket Club to its former glory.
39:57Yeah, it's been about a month since we were here.
40:00Last time, there was all sorts going on.
40:02We had the clear-up, didn't we?
40:04So people had turned out,
40:05there were people in bushes picking litter up,
40:07doing every little bit they can.
40:10Coming back, you can see nothing's been done.
40:14The ground just keeps growing.
40:16The clubhouse is just getting slowly worse.
40:19It's just been left.
40:21It seems at the minute,
40:22everything's just come to a halt at this place.
40:24Keen to find out what's been happening.
40:26Freddie's catching up with John.
40:28Hi, John.
40:29One of the club's trustees.
40:31There's a problem with the lease, Freddie.
40:35The lease has gone missing.
40:39We've spoken to solicitors,
40:41we've received advice off them
40:42and we're going to act on that.
40:43What's the advice?
40:45Find the lease?
40:47Well, that's the first one.
40:49This is the original lease, which was from 1859.
40:54It's written in Old English and it mentions sport in there.
40:59Does it work?
41:00It doesn't actually mention Newton Heath Cricket Club.
41:04So we need to find the lease.
41:08But you don't know where that is?
41:10At this moment, it's misplaced.
41:12Right.
41:13It's one thing after another, isn't it?
41:14If you don't get it resolved...
41:17No, it will be resolved.
41:19No, it will be.
41:20Will be.
41:21I don't say you won't, John.
41:22Yeah.
41:23But, again, it's time, isn't it?
41:25It is time, yeah.
41:27That's the issue.
41:28Yeah.
41:30The way I understand it is,
41:31if we don't sort this lease out now,
41:35everything we're doing is in jeopardy.
41:37In some ways, it's not even a...
41:39It's a non-starter.
41:40Yes.
41:41We fully understand that
41:42and the need to get that sorted ASAP.
41:48We don't even know if you've got the ground.
41:49We don't know where we stand.
41:50You can't then go to people,
41:52ask them to help or give money.
41:55But why would anybody do that
41:56if you've not got a lease?
41:58Yeah, this is just becoming
42:00far harder than I ever imagined.
42:04It's just barrier after barrier.
42:06It's just obstacles everywhere.
42:09Also, as well, I'm...
42:10I'm going to go and try and get a team tonight.
42:12You know, we've put an open session out
42:14for people to turn up
42:15and come and try cricket,
42:17hopefully come and join the club.
42:19But what are they joining?
42:21With the clubhouse at Newton Heath
42:22still not fit for purpose,
42:25tonight's tryouts for Freddie's third team
42:28are being held at an established cricket club
42:30in North Manchester.
42:32Is it just us, T?
42:33No, it's going to be about...
42:34It's going to be more of you.
42:35No, I don't think they're...
42:36I need a couple more.
42:37Come in, lads.
42:39How are you?
42:40All right?
42:41Cheers, lads.
42:43The thing about this is,
42:45it's meant to be a tryout,
42:46but whoever comes is in.
42:49You know, it's not like a trial.
42:50It's not how good you are at cricket.
42:52If you turn up, we'll have you.
42:54We'll have you.
42:55Right, here we go.
42:59Yeah, who's looking over?
43:00There's another one there.
43:01Yeah, we'll have him.
43:04I think with everything going on at the club,
43:06and all the problems,
43:08I think this is probably even more important now.
43:11You know, if you're going to say,
43:12what, there's people waiting to play.
43:15You think I'll be the next Freddie Flintoff?
43:23Hiya, Kyle.
43:24Nice to meet you.
43:25You too.
43:26You all right?
43:27Let's get out on grass.
43:28Come on, lads.
43:32Great shot.
43:34Which one?
43:35Presley.
43:36Presley?
43:37What a name that is.
43:38Like Elvis, innit?
43:39My hero, Elvis.
43:40You all right?
43:41Thanks for coming.
43:42I'm Fred.
43:43You all right?
43:44You all right?
43:45Nice to meet you.
43:46You all right?
43:47Come join us, come join us.
43:48You coming?
43:49All right, first, I'm Fred.
43:50This is Kyle.
43:51I just want to thank everyone for turning up today
43:52and coming down.
43:53Throw yourselves into it.
43:54Whatever standard, whatever level,
43:55encourage each other and have some fun.
43:57It's not the hardest game in the world.
43:59You've got to throw a ball, catch a ball,
44:00and hit a ball.
44:01All right.
44:02Kyle?
44:03Yeah, should we get going?
44:04We head over to the nets in the corner.
44:05We'll do a bit of batting and bowling.
44:07Use these balls.
44:08You know, they're quite soft.
44:10It's not going to hurt or anything.
44:12If you've never bowled before,
44:13think of a windmill.
44:14This bowling arm,
44:16imagine a windmill coming over.
44:17That's going towards the batter.
44:19Just have a go.
44:20See what happens, yeah?
44:21Does that have to bowl?
44:22Yeah, yeah.
44:23Bounce once.
44:24Yeah, like this.
44:25Here he is.
44:26Come on, Hass.
44:27Look at what you've got.
44:28Oh!
44:29Boy, what is that?
44:30One more, one more,
44:31because that was nothing.
44:32Eleven boys have turned up for the tryouts,
44:35but some have never even picked up a cricket bat before.
44:38Out!
44:39Out!
44:40Out!
44:41Out!
44:42One up, down, over.
44:44It's OK, it's OK, it's OK, it's OK.
44:47Oh!
44:48I can't control it, wallah!
44:50It's so much harder than it looks for now.
44:52Oh, God, I can't control it.
44:53I can't control it.
44:54It's varying degrees of ability, but it's so far out.
44:57Come on, Presley.
44:58Come on, Presley.
44:59Come on, Presley.
45:01They're trying the nuts off, aren't they?
45:05Freddie, chuck a ball for me, please.
45:07Yeah.
45:08Well, let's see what you've got.
45:1116-year-old Presley is no stranger to sport,
45:14but he's never been part of a cricket team.
45:17I'm pretty cocky in sports and stuff,
45:19but it's the way to be, you know what I mean?
45:21Confidence is key.
45:22Most important thing, these.
45:24Yeah, yeah.
45:25Watch it as hard as you can.
45:27Send it!
45:28My favourite thing to do is going fishing
45:31because I'm not old enough to go out to a pub and have a pond,
45:34so that's my pub, the pond.
45:37I don't know.
45:39Teach them how to cricket.
45:40I'll teach them how to play fish.
45:44You ready?
45:45Here we go.
45:47I'm used to doing it with plastic.
45:50Yeah.
45:51It's more heavier.
45:52I'm blaming the equipment until I get better.
45:56Get yourselves a drink.
45:58I'm knackered.
45:59I'm dying now.
46:01Yeah, it's hard, isn't it?
46:02Freddie.
46:03Yeah.
46:04Honestly, I thought cricket was a lazy sport
46:05me until I played then.
46:06Huh?
46:07Lazy sport?
46:08Yeah.
46:09What do you usually do?
46:10Do you split a tiny?
46:11No, I just chill at home.
46:12I go fishing now and then.
46:13What do you fish for?
46:14Corp.
46:15Yeah?
46:16Yeah.
46:17How big?
46:18Do you want to tell you a lie, or...?
46:20You want to tell me a lie?
46:21No, like...
46:22Catching decent.
46:2310, 13 pounds.
46:24Are you?
46:25Have many of you played cricket?
46:26No?
46:27No.
46:28No.
46:29Is everyone enjoying it, though?
46:30Yeah, it's good, yeah.
46:31Yeah, yeah, yeah.
46:32Good.
46:33Hey, fancy doing more?
46:34Yeah.
46:35Yeah.
46:36You know, the nicest thing, after the day I've had, going to Newton Heath and listen
46:43to John's tale of war and leases and pitches, you know, I was expecting tonight nothing,
46:50but it was a good turnout.
46:51The nicest thing was, when you talk about putting a team together, you know, because you get a load
46:57of lads, they've got nothing in common, really, and you're just lumped together.
47:01And sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but definitely from what I've seen tonight, that
47:06is the makings of a team.
47:09Do you want me to catch a carp, or...?
47:11No, I've caught roach, bream.
47:14I think it was brilliant.
47:16Everyone comes back, made a couple of mates, exchanged numbers and that.
47:21Well, Morgana told me always to kiss the fish for good luck.
47:24My breath must have stunk.
47:27Something like a snog in the fish.
47:31Hopefully everyone gets better and we'll just start being the best that we can, the dream team.
47:41There's so many things that need doing, there's so many obstacles, but when you see what's just
47:46happened there, you think, yeah, we'll have to have a go at this.
47:49We'll have to do it.
47:50Yeah, yeah.
47:54Does anyone know what we're doing?
48:04No.
48:06In Blackpool, Freddie's still keen for the girls to play their first match as soon as possible.
48:12So in a last ditch attempt to bring them together as a team, he's taking them away from the cricket pitch
48:18and into the countryside to try and fix the rift in the group.
48:21One of the things we want from them is to become a team, a proper team and work together.
48:26I don't want to bond with any of you.
48:29I don't want to bond with me, God.
48:31Hopefully when we leave today, they become closer as a team and we can take that into the matches and what lies ahead for us.
48:39It sounds very easy, doesn't it?
48:41Putting white suits on, building a raft, cold water. What could possibly go around?
48:46You all right?
48:47No.
48:48How was the bus trip?
48:49It was a nightmare.
48:50Come on.
48:51Where are we going?
48:52What are we doing?
48:53I'm seeing a lake.
48:54Look at this, how nice is this?
48:55Yeah, I'm going back to do raft building.
48:56Are we actually...
48:57I don't like raft building!
48:58I'm not going in that!
48:59Oh my God!
49:00One of the things I want to work on today is becoming a proper team, working with each other, communicating with each other and spending time possibly with people you don't spend too much time with within the group.
49:20Go and get your wetsuits, off you go.
49:21Oh, there's a snail on my coat!
49:24I already feel like there's going to be so many dramas and I'm not in the mood for it.
49:33Hopefully it will benefit us and not make it worse.
49:36Right.
49:37Can you help us with this towel forward?
49:40Right, so under there is everything that you're going to need to build these rafts.
49:44What I'm going to do now, I'm going to split you into two different teams.
49:47What?
49:48Team A!
49:49Maddie, Summer, Amy, Carla and Mila.
49:52I'm not happy with you.
49:54Come on, in your teams!
49:55I don't want to be in this group.
49:57It's interesting, isn't it?
49:58Straight away, Summer don't want to be in that group.
50:00It's not the people she knocks around with, but that's the whole purpose of today.
50:06Honestly, when I played, I hated anything like this.
50:09I didn't like building a raft, but then you've got to realise other people do and I didn't at times.
50:15We're in it together, aren't we?
50:16Yeah.
50:17Oh, there's poo!
50:18I have a toe!
50:19Run over your toe!
50:20Both teams have been given an hour to build their rafts before testing them out on the lake.
50:25Right over there.
50:26Yeah, like that.
50:27They're getting it wrong with water.
50:29You've got to do it properly.
50:30There is a consequence to not getting involved here.
50:32Do you?
50:33Yeah.
50:34Right, are we lifting up a corner each then?
50:35Oh!
50:36Max!
50:37Kick that one under.
50:38Thanks.
50:39We need to flip it.
50:40Look at theirs.
50:41They haven't flipped it.
50:42Yes, they have.
50:43Yes, they have.
50:44Yes, they have.
50:45Yes, they have.
50:46No, they haven't.
50:47Yes, they have.
50:48No, they haven't.
50:49Yes, they've flipped the thing.
50:50Look at the long one going across.
50:51No!
50:52It doesn't matter.
50:53They've flipped the thing.
50:54Oh, no.
50:55What's happened?
50:56I think there's a bit of a head clash.
50:58Oh, my God.
50:59Oh, I want to go home, mate.
51:00This is dead.
51:01I want to go home.
51:02One minute you're enjoying it, and the next minute it's just all going off.
51:06I'm bored.
51:08Molly's given up.
51:09OK, whatever.
51:10This is just a joke at this point.
51:13So much for a team, isn't it?
51:15Everyone's against each other.
51:18Oh, my God, no.
51:19You know, we're going to play the first game of cricket soon,
51:22and we need everyone to be working together.
51:24Get back in, Molly, come on.
51:26Oh, can you not just do this?
51:28Wait.
51:29Wait.
51:34It's not moving.
51:35Molly, we could use your help right now.
51:37Come on.
51:38Molly, mate, come over here, mate.
51:39We need your help.
51:41Bloody hell, Mo.
51:44Right, get that one.
51:45That can go in the middle.
51:47I'll let you place.
51:49Right, you ready?
51:50Go.
51:51Go.
51:52How am I doing it?
51:53Well done, Molly.
51:54And Mo.
51:55Get that corner.
51:57This looks like a team.
52:00Teamwork!
52:01Nearly done.
52:02Now how are we going to tie them?
52:04Right, pass me that in, man.
52:08There we go.
52:09Here we go.
52:10Yay!
52:11Look, we built a wrap!
52:13See?
52:14We did it.
52:15It's hot.
52:16Well done.
52:17It's going to tip over straight away.
52:24Mama's scar is going to run.
52:28We've all obviously got to help each other to get in without panicking.
52:32Yay!
52:33Nothing to see.
52:34Just two 40-odd-year-old men.
52:35Right, we're forgetting that.
52:36Let's get these wraps on the water.
52:37Oh, that's not sitting on.
52:38Oh, my God!
52:39Imagine that, wouldn't it?
52:40That's so safe, isn't it?
52:41Mate, we're having a right nightmare.
52:42Ah!
52:43Ah!
52:44Oh, this water's funky, mate.
52:45No, wait, wait, wait.
52:46That's so cold.
52:47I'm scared.
52:48I'm scared!
52:49Oh, I'm scared!
52:50I'm scared!
52:51I'm scared!
52:52I'm scared.
52:53I'm scared.
52:54I'm scared!
52:55I'm scared.
52:56I'm scared.
52:57I'm scared.
52:58I'm scared.
53:01I'm scared.
53:02Go and get paddling.
53:04You're doing so well.
53:08Yeah, that's right.
53:09Oh, no!
53:11Sorry!
53:13Run!
53:15Here you go!
53:17No, delete!
53:19Everywhere we go!
53:21Hey!
53:23Oh, that got me!
53:25People want to know
53:27Who we are
53:29Who we are
53:31Where we come from
53:33So we tell them
53:35So we tell them
53:37We're from Blackpool
53:39The mighty, mighty Blackpool
53:41The mighty, mighty Blackpool
53:43The mighty, mighty Blackpool
53:47Today's been perfect
53:51It was so fun
53:53I think it's built
53:55Our confidence back up from when the last time
53:57We all had drama
54:01Yeah, we're pulling a lot closer together
54:03It was just hilarious
54:05It was so good
54:07It was so good
54:14It was incredible, wasn't it?
54:15They got in the water, they were enjoying it
54:17Everyone's smiling, everyone's laughing, helping each other
54:19Everything that we could have expected
54:29That was me!
54:31It was so good
54:33It was a good day, good day
54:37Whenever there's problems
54:39Round in the sky
54:41Brighter and the team of pups
54:43Come to save the day
54:45Why are we all singing it?
54:47I think it has helped us bond as a team
54:49We've all got like more comfortable with each other
54:51So if we need any help, we'll just ask for the help
54:55To be fair, I got on with Molly quite good today
54:57And I was quite shocked
54:59It's all about team yielding to be fair, innit?
55:01And just getting on
55:03I've really enjoyed it
55:05I've really enjoyed it and I hope you have
55:07Yeah, pushing you off, yeah
55:09That was the best part
55:11The pleasing part for myself and Kyle
55:13Is that when you turned up off that bus
55:15You saw what you was going to do
55:17And there's so many people saying
55:19We're going there, don't want to build a raft
55:21I don't want to do this, that and the other
55:23And then every single one of you bought into it
55:25And every one of you worked together
55:29This is the first time I thought
55:31Actually, we've got a cricket team here
55:33You were talking to people
55:35You don't necessarily spend a lot of time with
55:37Within the team
55:39And for me
55:41I've got to say I'm so proud of you
55:43And you should be so proud of yourselves as well
55:47Even Maddy's trying not to smile again
55:49Molly might crack one in a minute
55:51We feel like a proper team right now
55:53That is a team
55:59Everything that we hoped for from today happened
56:03And that'll put us in good stead going into a cricket match
56:07They've come so far
56:09They should be proud of themselves tonight
56:11I think, you know, me and Kyle are definitely
56:13We're the only two masked lesbians on here
56:15That's you, not me
56:17Are you joking? You're a masked lesbian
56:19I'm not a lesbian
56:20Yes, you are
56:21I'm not a lesbian
56:22There's no possible way you're straight, are we?
56:23I'm not a lesbian
56:26What is this?
56:29You're out
56:30Aw, mate
56:31Fuming
56:32Gotta run, you hit it
56:33Doing three hasn't made it three times harder
56:36It's almost made it ten times harder
56:38All we want is just a team to play with
56:41Who would they have to please?
56:43Someone's getting near
56:45How are you coming in here?
56:47Team back on!
56:49Team back on!
56:50Team back on!
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