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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.
17:17He said, I'll do it.
17:24LAUGHTER
17:25With Freddie and Manchester, 50 miles away in Blackpool,
17:29England cricketer Kate Cross is back to help Kyle
17:32try 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,
17:41cos I know a lot of females get put off from cricket
17:43when it goes from softball to hardball.
17:46But if we're going to play some games,
17:47they're going to actually have to get used to a hardball at some point.
17:50Right, Conor.
17:52Why did I lose, Mike?
17:54It's OK, if you must.
17:54Well, my grief would be green.
17:56But my lips would be red.
17:58A 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 hardball are both newcomers to the game.
18:1017-year-old Maddy and 16-year-old Summer.
18:14Helmets, you need helmets.
18:15All right, are you ready?
18:15Yeah, they would have.
18:19Can we have everyone watching the balls, please?
18:22Are you ready, kids?
18:24And if you get hit, you get hurt.
18:26Oh, no. Here we go.
18:30Oh!
18:33Ooh.
18:34Are you OK?
18:36Mumma just got hit with a ball.
18:38You all right?
18:39Quite bad, actually.
18:41That was horrendous.
18:43You all right?
18:44Dangerous.
18:45Dangerous.
18:46It'll hurt for, like, 30 more seconds, and then it goes.
18:51You've not hit me with a ball.
18:53No!
18:54I don't want to play.
18:56My leg hurts.
18:57I don't want to play.
18:58Ooh!
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.
19:10Mm!
19:12Go on, then.
19:14These hard balls, oh, my God, they hurt.
19:17They hurt.
19:18Even catching it hurts.
19:23Um, 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!
19:33Ah!
19:34Too fast, mate.
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, Summer.
20:22Come on.
20:25Me and Kyle or Freddie can say whatever we think is 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.
21:10Yay!
21:11Well 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, but 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, but 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, in Manchester, where Freddie is hoping to create
22:33a third team, there's been some good news.
22:36Are you all right, pal?
22:37How are you?
22:37Thanks for coming.
22:38You're all right.
22:39Thanks for coming.
22:41After weeks of spreading the word about his plan to restore Newton Heath Cricket Club,
22:46some of the local community have turned up to help out.
22:50It's the start, isn't it?
22:51Everyone's just getting involved and mucking in.
22:56Makes you think, actually, we're doing something that people want.
22:59But despite progress being made outside...
23:01Good to see you, Fred.
23:03...one of the longest-serving members of the club, John,
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 egress is dreadful.
23:17I'm not sure that's going to get to help and safety, though.
23:19I don't think you can cook in there.
23:20No, no.
23:21Oh, man, look at it.
23:22Has this just happened past three weeks?
23:24Well, this is a...
23:24Yeah, it's a...
23:25A bit of weather.
23:25It'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.
23:48We want you...
23:51Well, I think...
23:54Basically, we're on our knees.
23:57Really?
23:58We're on our knees.
23:59Sometimes, though, you...
24:01I 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.
24:18This is...
24:19Today, 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.
24:28Well, Fred, nice to meet you.
24:29Dominic.
24:30All right, Dominic, you all right?
24:31Thanks for coming.
24:31Yeah, yeah.
24:32Go and join them.
24:33Fred.
24:33Nice to meet you.
24:34Nice to meet you.
24:34Go and mingle in.
24:35Thanks so much.
24:37Thanks for coming.
24:38You lads cricket us?
24:39Nah, football.
24:40No?
24:40It's your sport.
24:41It's football?
24:42Football.
24:42What else 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.
24:47You say you chill?
24:49What, doing what?
24:49What do you do and your mates do?
24:51Just go out and see them.
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.
24:58What's it like?
25:00Speak.
25:00Nah, you speak, man.
25:01Like, the youth and that.
25:04The youth?
25:04Yeah, yeah.
25:05What's wrong with them?
25:07What, are you rough?
25:08Couple 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 of them.
25:19Both friends with them and everything.
25:20I was close with both of them.
25:22But it's just life, innit?
25:25Like, there's nothing you can do about it, seriously.
25:26Yeah, 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 buying into the area.
25:34Yeah, but my thought is with this person,
25:36if we create something where people can come,
25:39enjoy themselves and they're safe,
25:42it's 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, it was a posh sport, but trying to change it.
25:51I want everyone to play.
25:52Everyone have a chance.
25:53Yeah.
25:54Well, I'd love you to come.
25:55It'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,
26:04but you might not get much in your bag.
26:06No, no.
26:08All right, all right, thank you.
26:09Cheers, boys.
26:10Have a nice day.
26:12All right.
26:13Cricket's a tough sell for them,
26:16but that's the type of lads we want.
26:19You know, so give these boys a chance.
26:20The more I speak to people,
26:23this place is crying out for somewhere
26:24that people can go to,
26:26and it seems that cricket is probably secondary.
26:30The cricket club is the hook,
26:33and then hopefully from there,
26:34it can expand into more of a social club,
26:38where they're safe,
26:39and we can get kids off the streets.
26:40There is a crack in the wall.
26:44Right, OK.
26:45Yeah.
26:45You can see where it's all coming down
26:47off the flat roof into the gutter.
26:49To give Freddie an idea of the work needed
26:51to restore the club,
26:52he's asked Manchester Council to come down
26:54and conduct a site survey.
26:56What have you found?
26:58We think we've got some subsidence
26:59along all the back wall.
27:01It recommended that we had an asbestos survey done,
27:04so they'll come in probably next week.
27:06And then also,
27:07we've got a flat roof
27:09connecting this part of the building
27:10to the function rooms,
27:12and 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
27:22of about £300,000
27:23for refurbishing what we've got,
27:26and then if we were going to demolish
27:28and start again,
27:29then it would be in the region of £850,
27:32something like that.
27:33Yeah, you're at £50,000, right?
27:35So what's your advice?
27:37We haven't got any money specifically,
27:39but this is about using contractors
27:41and reaching out to them.
27:42We need to identify all the needs
27:44and the requirements
27:44of what we need to do
27:45for the next few months.
27:48What sort of time frames do you envisage?
27:51I think, to be brutally honest,
27:53we need two to three months
27:54to get a planning application together,
27:57and then we've got another three months
27:58to get the application submitted
28:01and hopefully approved
28:02before we should be put in...
28:04six months before anything happens?
28:05If 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.
28:20Very impatient.
28:24Thanks very much.
28:26I was hoping they'd give us a few solutions,
28:28but 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
28:36and it needs doing fast.
28:37It has to happen
28:39before the end of the summer.
28:41Has to.
28:41With plans for his Manchester club
28:46looking more and more complicated...
28:48Keep your head down.
28:51Freddie's headed back
28:52to his boys' team in Liverpool.
28:55There you go.
28:56But only six have turned up
28:58for 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 could be doing anything.
29:08Him and Stevie.
29:09What?
29:10With Stevie.
29:11Sam, you could be doing anything.
29:14One more.
29:14One more in a swap-off
29:15and the cow 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
29:27and they've played a game
29:28and they've been showing signs
29:29of improving.
29:31Yeah.
29:32It's hard, isn't it,
29:32because things are going to be against us,
29:34but I think it drives you on,
29:37doesn't it,
29:37is to think this is important.
29:38We have to keep trying
29:39just to give these kids
29:40a chance of playing cricket.
29:42Yes, lad!
29:44One of the oldest boys on the team
29:46who has turned up for training
29:47is 17-year-old local lad, Michael.
29:54It's a 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?
30:03Sheldon.
30:04Nice one, Fred.
30:05Sport's always been, like, a part of me 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.
30:27I've always lived in Bootle.
30:30It's just a mental place.
30:31But I'd say it is a rough little lady.
30:33Like, I mean, gang culture is a big, big thing in Bootle.
30:37Like, doing cricket and being with Freddie.
30:42Come 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.
30:48And I feel like it's been a bit of a distraction for me
30:51for just to be able to go and play cricket for an hour or two.
30:54That's what, Michael.
30:55Good one.
30:56There we go.
30:57That's bad.
30:59I'll take that from me last one.
31:01That was a good one.
31:01Great effort.
31:04Freddie'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?
31:14Of course.
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.
31:20Opportunity to excel, wasn't it?
31:21So, take 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?
31:30Through seven, really.
31:32Get 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, then?
31:41Just wanting to do better, really, you know what I mean?
31:44You think, oh, yeah, this is the high life,
31:45this is the good life, like,
31:46out there smoking weed to your mates.
31:48And then, you're going home, and your man,
31:50she finds your bag of weed and stuff like that,
31:52it just causes arguments, and then it's just a nightmare.
31:58Quite bad, really.
31:59And when you started doing this, what was your mid-team, early teens?
32:03Yeah, well, 13, 14.
32:0513, 14.
32:0513, 14.
32:06But it's just really, it'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 here,
32:12you know what I mean?
32:12Like, you just hate me, man, big time.
32:15It's been really fair, my mum and dad,
32:17because they've, like, took me in and looked after me
32:20from a baby, if you get to me.
32:21Mm-hmm.
32:21So.
32:22You said from a baby, so you...
32:24Yeah.
32:25So, they're, like, not, like, biological, like, parents.
32:27All right.
32:28Yeah, they're, like, my uncle and auntie, really.
32:31Me, eh...
32:32So, if you don't mind me asking, what?
32:33Your mum and dad?
32:34Yeah, me mum, me mum, passed away.
32:37Like, when I was, like, six months old.
32:39Oh, no.
32:40She, like, killed yourself.
32:42Oh, I'm sorry, Mum?
32:43Nah, it's not like the only one.
32:44I'm up and so...
32:45I didn't expect it to.
32:46Yeah, yeah, she, yeah, she's up and on, like, me 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...
32:54My mum and dad, now, like, home,
32:56I called my mum and dad, my auntie and uncle,
32:58like, eh, they've taken me in.
33:01So, doing all that to them, what I've done,
33:02was wrong, because it was, like,
33:04shit they've done for you, lads, you know what I mean?
33:06Yeah.
33:07You talk to your mum and dad, now, about you, mum?
33:10As a kid, as a kid, I was quite, like,
33:13I feel like that's where I was a bit of a loose cannon
33:15and went down certain ways and stuff like that,
33:17because I didn't really know who I was, myself,
33:20in a way, if you get to me.
33:21Because that was, like, a big question to me,
33:22like, was it my fault, or did what I could...
33:24You know what I mean?
33:25Just a little, like, my stuff like that, really,
33:27because it is quite a horrible way to go, really, isn't it?
33:31It is, it's the worst way to go.
33:33With suicide.
33:34Yeah, yeah, so, to an sound weird,
33:36but I was angry towards him,
33:37and I thought you...
33:39For doing it.
33:39Yeah, yeah.
33:40I think my opinion of, like,
33:44suicide's changed over the years
33:45for a few reasons.
33:47One, I've had friends.
33:48Me?
33:49I've done it.
33:50Actually, it wasn't quite a reason.
33:51Sorry to hear that.
33:51No, it's fine.
33:54But, it's like, I struggle with my love.
33:56I struggle with depression.
33:59I had an accident 18 months ago,
34:00and I've been honest with you,
34:01like, I didn't want to kill myself,
34:03but I didn't want to be alive.
34:04Does that make sense?
34:05Yeah?
34:06I've been like that a few times.
34:07Yeah, not me.
34:08Oh, exactly what you mean.
34:09I didn't know if I had it in me.
34:10Yeah, it's just, yeah, yeah.
34:11And then it also, actually,
34:12I've been quite reflective, actually,
34:14when we met recently,
34:15is that I always thought it was selfish,
34:18and I always thought there was a way out.
34:20But then, actually,
34:21I've come to understand it a little bit more now.
34:25If there's a level,
34:26which there is,
34:27underneath where I felt,
34:29and you can go lower,
34:31I actually really understand it.
34:33Yeah.
34:35So, what is it you want to do now?
34:39Just keep going,
34:39and I just keep doing well for myself.
34:42Yeah.
34:42But, yeah.
34:45You've got all these reasons to be successful
34:48and do well.
34:51I think the biggest one is for you, as well.
34:53You know what I mean?
34:54Everyone, like, tries to please
34:55and do this with other people,
34:56but I think you need to do it to yourself.
34:58From what you've been through
35:00and what you've experienced,
35:01you deserve it, you know what I mean?
35:03You've got plenty to offer.
35:05So much.
35:05It's all of 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.
35:16And I think everyone is guilty of being judgmental,
35:21whether it's kids and their behaviour,
35:24or why kids hang around the streets,
35:25or they're doing some of the things that they're doing.
35:28And the more time we've spent with these lads,
35:30you realise, actually,
35:31there's reasons for people's behaviour,
35:33and that's the thing that needs to be tackled.
35:37You know, I think we've got
35:38positive 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
35:49who believe they're a team,
35:52giving them confidence,
35:54a sense of belonging,
35:55and ultimately trying to apply them things
35:58into their lives.
36:01You've just got to prove it works.
36:03You've got to prove it's right,
36:04and it does make a difference.
36:10Who's confident of practising with a hard ball?
36:14In Blackpool,
36:15Freddie's hoping the girls will soon be ready
36:17to play their first ever match.
36:19So if you're confident,
36:21you can go in the net.
36:23But some of the team are still struggling
36:25to get to grips with the hard ball.
36:27We don't want them, you know,
36:29not coming to cricket
36:30because they're scared of getting hurt,
36:31but we also need to realise
36:32that if we're going to play a match,
36:33it's going to be a hard ball,
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
36:40against another team and embarrass them.
36:41I want them to compete.
36:42I want them to feel confident
36:43in what they're doing.
36:45If it goes well,
36:46it could bring some confidence out of them.
36:48But on the flip side of that, though,
36:50if it goes badly
36:50and embarrass themselves,
36:52they could be back to square one.
36:53Oh, my arse-cheek!
37:00Do you think I am a professional?
37:04This feels like we're not progressing at all.
37:06We're not.
37:09We were even better than this
37:10on the first week.
37:13But it's not just the hard ball
37:15affecting the team.
37:16Go on, Molly.
37:17No, do it properly.
37:18Oh, Molly, do it properly, I beg.
37:19Oh, sorry.
37:21Don't get lippy, me.
37:22Oh, short, Maddie.
37:23If you can't tell,
37:24I'm not in the mood.
37:25Oh, shut up.
37:27Go on.
37:28You know what?
37:28I can't be arsed in a bit.
37:30Don't be giving me mouth, please, mate.
37:31I can't be arsed.
37:33Can we just play a bit of cricket?
37:35Stupid f***.
37:36Mate of the stupid cow.
37:39I really just don't want
37:40they seem to fall apart.
37:43I'm sick of bitchiness
37:44and drama and girls
37:46and blah, blah, blah.
37:48When you're playing a game,
37:50you have to get on.
37:51Like, everyone has to get on.
37:52And right now,
37:53that's not happening.
37:54Well, I don't think we're a team
37:56at the moment at all.
37:58No.
37:58No.
37:59I reckon we just get rid of her.
38:01We don't need her.
38:03With the girls,
38:05it's different.
38:06A lot more emotional
38:07than the boys.
38:09And that seems to be
38:09surfacing quite a bit.
38:11They're struggling
38:11with a bit of confidence.
38:13But then,
38:14one thing which is a bit
38:14more worrying
38:15is there's been a bit
38:16of falling out.
38:18Different friendship groups.
38:20People getting young
38:20with one another.
38:21That's the funny thing
38:22about sport
38:23and in particular cricket.
38:25You know,
38:26even with England,
38:27you get put together
38:28a group of people
38:29that I reckon
38:30unless you're playing cricket,
38:32you would never meet.
38:33But,
38:34just respect them,
38:35just learn how to get along.
38:36You don't have to be
38:37best of mates for people.
38:41It seems to be a bit
38:42of falling out.
38:43Is that fair?
38:44What is it about
38:46the two of you
38:46that clashes?
38:47You just don't like
38:48each other.
38:48Don't like each other
38:49or you don't try
38:50with each other?
38:52How can you solve it?
38:53Because the problem
38:54is with you two,
38:55such strong characters,
38:57is if you're kicking off
38:59or not getting on,
39:00I think it's going
39:00to affect everyone.
39:03I don't actually know.
39:05Do you think there's
39:05a world in which
39:06the two of you get on?
39:08No.
39:08Why?
39:09We never get on.
39:10Why?
39:10I don't know.
39:11It's about trying.
39:15You don't have to get
39:16on best of mates.
39:18We can respect
39:19each other, can't you?
39:20Yeah.
39:21Try and not row.
39:23Kick off.
39:25Just be team mates.
39:27Yeah?
39:33I just can't keep going
39:34as it are, can it?
39:36I'm meant to be trying
39:36to be closer as a team
39:38so we can then play
39:39matches and we can
39:40do more things.
39:41But if they keep
39:41kicking off with each other,
39:43that's not a possibility
39:44at the minute.
39:48With problems mounting
39:49in Blackpool,
39:50Freddie's headed back
39:51to Manchester
39:51where he's hoping
39:52to create his third team
39:54and restore Newton Heath
39:56Cricket Club
39:56to its former glory.
39:58Yeah, it's been about
39:58a month since we were here
40:00and last time
40:02there was all sorts
40:02going on.
40:03We had the clear-up,
40:04didn't we?
40:04So people had turned out,
40:05there were people in bushes
40:06picking litter up,
40:08doing every little bit
40:09they can.
40:09And coming back,
40:12you can see nothing's
40:14been done.
40:15The ground just keeps
40:16growing.
40:17The clubhouse is just
40:18getting slowly worse.
40:19It's just been left.
40:21It seems at the minute
40:22everything's just come to a
40:23halt at this place.
40:25Keen to find out
40:26what's been happening,
40:28Freddie's catching up
40:29with John,
40:29one of the club's
40:31trustees.
40:31There's a problem
40:33with the lease,
40:35Freddie.
40:36The lease
40:37has gone missing.
40:40We've spoken to solicitors,
40:42we've received advice
40:43off them
40:43and we're going to act on that.
40:44What's the advice?
40:46Find the lease?
40:47Well, that's the first one.
40:50This is the original
40:51lease,
40:53which was from
40:531859.
40:55It's written in old
40:56English and
40:57it mentions sport in there.
41:00But it doesn't actually
41:02mention
41:02Newton Heath Cricket Club.
41:04So we need to
41:06find
41:07the lease.
41:09But you don't know where that is?
41:10At this moment,
41:11it's misplaced.
41:13Right.
41:14It's one thing after another,
41:15isn't it?
41:15If you don't get it resolved...
41:18No, it will be resolved.
41:19No, it will be.
41:20I don't say you won't, John.
41:22Yeah.
41:23But,
41:24again, it's time, isn't it?
41:25It is time, yeah.
41:27That's the issue.
41:29Yeah.
41:30The way I understand it is
41:31if we don't sort this lease out now,
41:35everything we're doing
41:37is in jeopardy.
41:37In some ways,
41:38it's not even a...
41:39It's a non-starter.
41:41Yes.
41:42We fully understand that
41:43and the need to
41:44get that sorted ASAP.
41:49We don't even know
41:49if we've got the ground.
41:50We don't know where we stand.
41:51You can't then go to people,
41:53ask them to help
41:53or give money.
41:55But why would anybody do that
41:57if you've not got a lease?
41:59Yeah, this is just becoming
42:00far harder than
42:02I ever imagined.
42:04It's just barrier after barrier.
42:06It's just obstacles everywhere.
42:08But also, as well,
42:10I'm going to go and try
42:11and get a team tonight.
42:13You know,
42:13we've put an open session
42:14out for people to turn up
42:16and come and
42:16try cricket,
42:18hopefully come and join the club.
42:19But what are they joining?
42:21With the clubhouse
42:22at Newton Heath
42:23still not fit for purpose,
42:25tonight's tryouts
42:27for Freddie's third team
42:28are being held
42:29at an established cricket club
42:31in North Manchester.
42:33Is it just us two?
42:34No, it's going to be about...
42:35It's going to be more of you.
42:36No, I don't think they're...
42:37A couple more.
42:39Come on, lads.
42:40How are you?
42:41All right?
42:42Cheers, lads.
42:43You're welcome.
42:44The thing about this is
42:45it's meant to be a tryout,
42:47but whoever comes is in.
42:50You know, it's not like a trial.
42:51It's not how good you are at cricket.
42:53If you turn up,
42:54we'll have you.
42:56There you go.
42:59Yeah, I'm just looking over.
43:01There's another one, mate.
43:02Yeah, we'll have him.
43:05I think with everything
43:06going on at the club
43:07and all the problems,
43:09I think this is probably
43:10even more important now.
43:12You know, if you're going to say,
43:13what, there's people
43:14waiting to play.
43:15You think I'll be
43:16the next Freddie Flintoff?
43:23Hiya, Kyle.
43:24Nice to meet you.
43:25You too.
43:26Nice to meet you.
43:26You all right?
43:27Nice to get out on grass.
43:28Come on, lads.
43:29Great shot.
43:34Which one?
43:35Presley.
43:36Presley?
43:36What a name that is.
43:38Like Elvis, innit?
43:39My hero, Elvis.
43:40You all right?
43:40Thanks for coming.
43:41I'm Fred.
43:42You all right?
43:42You all right?
43:43Nice to meet you.
43:44You all right?
43:44Come join us.
43:44Come join us.
43:45You coming?
43:47All right, first,
43:47I'm Fred.
43:48This is Kyle.
43:50I just want to thank everyone
43:51for turning up today
43:51and coming down.
43:52Throw yourselves into it.
43:54Whatever standard,
43:54whatever level,
43:55encourage each other
43:56and have some fun.
43:58It's not the hardest game
43:59in the world.
43:59You've got to throw a ball,
44:00catch a ball and hit a ball.
44:01All right.
44:02Kyle?
44:03Yeah, should we get going?
44:04Should we head over
44:04to the nets in the corner?
44:06We'll do a bit of batting
44:07and bowling.
44:08Use these balls.
44:09You know, they're quite soft.
44:10It's not going to hurt
44:11or anything.
44:12If you've never bowled before,
44:14think of a windmill.
44:15This bowling arm,
44:16imagine a windmill coming over.
44:18That's going towards the batter.
44:20Just have a go.
44:21Let's try.
44:21See what happens, yeah?
44:22Does that have to bounce?
44:23Yeah, yeah.
44:23Bounce once.
44:24Whoa.
44:24Yeah, like this.
44:26Here he is.
44:27Come on, Hass.
44:27Look at what he's got.
44:30Boy, what is that?
44:31Now, one more, one more,
44:32because that was nothing.
44:33Eleven boys have turned up
44:35for the tryouts,
44:36but some have never even
44:37picked up a cricket bat before.
44:39Hi.
44:40Out.
44:41I don't even know
44:41what you're doing.
44:42One up, down, over.
44:45It's OK.
44:46It's OK.
44:46It's OK.
44:46It's OK.
44:46I can't control it.
44:50I can't control it, wallah.
44:51It's so much harder than it looks.
44:53I've got to control it.
44:55Various degrees of ability,
44:56but it's so far out.
44:58Come on, Presley.
44:59Come on, Presley.
45:02They'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.
45:0916-year-old Presley
45:13is no stranger to sport,
45:15but he's never been part of a cricket team.
45:17I'm pretty cocky in sports and stuff,
45:20but it's the way to be.
45:21You know what I mean?
45:21Confidence is key.
45:23Most important thing,
45:24these.
45:25Yeah, yeah.
45:26Watch it as hard as you can.
45:28Send it!
45:29My favourite thing to do
45:30is going fishing,
45:32because I'm not old enough
45:33to go out to a pub and have a pint,
45:34so that's where...
45:36That's my pub, the pond.
45:37I don't know.
45:40Teach me how to cricket.
45:41I'll teach me how to play fish.
45:44You ready?
45:46Here we go.
45:47I'm used to doing it with plastic.
45:51Yeah?
45:51It's more heavier.
45:53I'm blaming the equipment
45:55until I get better.
45:56Get yourselves a drink.
45:59I'm knackered.
46:00I'm dying now.
46:02Yeah, it's hard, isn't it?
46:03Freddie.
46:04Yeah.
46:04Honestly, I thought cricket was a lazy sport
46:06until I played, then.
46:07Oh, a lazy sport?
46:09Yeah.
46:09Really?
46:10What do you usually do?
46:11When you spare time?
46:12No, I just chill at home.
46:13I go fishing now and then.
46:14What do you fish for?
46:15Cork.
46:16Yeah?
46:16Yeah.
46:17How big?
46:18Do you want to tell you a lie, or...?
46:20Tell me a lie.
46:21No, like...
46:23Catching decent.
46:2410, 13 pounds.
46:25Are you?
46:25Have many of you played cricket?
46:27No?
46:28No.
46:29Is everyone enjoying it, though?
46:30Yeah, it's good.
46:31Yeah, good.
46:33Hey, fancy doing more?
46:34Yeah.
46:34Do you know, the nicest thing, after the day I've had,
46:42going to Newt and Eve and listening to John's Tale of War
46:45and leases and pitches, you know, I was expecting tonight,
46:50nothing, but it was a good turnout.
46:53The nicest thing was, when you talk about putting a team together,
46:57you know, because you get a load of lads,
46:59they've got nothing in common, really,
47:01and you're just lumped together.
47:02And sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't,
47:05but definitely, from what I've seen tonight,
47:07that is the makings of a team.
47:11Do you want me to catch a carp, or...?
47:12No, I've caught roach, bream.
47:15I think it was brilliant.
47:18Everyone comes back, medical plummets,
47:21exchange numbers and that.
47:22Well, my ganas told me always to kiss the fish for good luck.
47:25My breath must have stunk.
47:28Something like a snog in the fish.
47:32Hopefully everyone gets better and we'll just start being the best that we can,
47:38the dream team.
47:41There's so many things that need doing, there's so many obstacles,
47:45but when you see what's just happened there,
47:47you think, yeah, we'll have to have a go at this.
47:49We'll have to do it.
47:50Yeah, yeah.
48:03Does anyone know what we're doing?
48:05No.
48:06In Blackpool, Freddy's still keen for the girls to play their first match as soon as possible.
48:11So in a last-ditch attempt to bring them together as a team,
48:16he's taking them away from the cricket pitch
48:18and into the countryside to try and fix the rift in the group.
48:22One of the things we want from him is to become a team,
48:25a proper team and work together.
48:27I don't want to bond with any of you.
48:30I don't want to bond with me.
48:31God.
48:32Hopefully when we leave today, they become closer as a team
48:35and we can take that into the matches and what lies ahead for us.
48:40It sounds very easy, doesn't it?
48:42Putting white suits on, building a raft, cold water.
48:45What could possibly go around?
48:48You all right?
48:49No.
48:50How was the bus trip?
48:52It was a nightmare.
48:53Come on.
48:54Where are we going?
48:55What are we doing?
48:56I'm seeing a lake.
48:58Look at this.
48:59How nice is this?
49:01Yeah, I'm going back to do raft building.
49:02Are we actually...
49:04I don't like raft building.
49:06I'm not going in that.
49:07Oh, my God.
49:09One of the things I want to work on today is becoming a proper team,
49:15working with each other, communicating with each other
49:17and spending time possibly with people you don't spend too much time with
49:21within the group.
49:22Go and get your wetsuits.
49:23Off you go.
49:24Oh, there's a snail on my coat.
49:26Ah!
49:28I already feel like there's going to be, like, so many dramas
49:31and I'm not in the mood for it.
49:33Hopefully it will benefit us and not make it worse.
49:36Right.
49:37Are you helping with this tarpoll?
49:41Right, so under there is everything that you're going to need
49:44to build these rafts.
49:45What I'm going to do now, I'm going to split you into two different teams.
49:47What?
49:48Team A.
49:50Maddy, Summer, Amy, Carla and Mila.
49:53I'm not happy with you.
49:54Right, come on.
49:55In your teams.
49:56I don't want to be in this group.
49:58It's interesting, isn't it?
49:59It's right away, Summer don't want to be in that group.
50:01It's not the people she knocks around with,
50:02but that's the whole purpose of today.
50:06Honestly, when I played, I hated anything like this.
50:09It's a spider!
50:10Oh!
50:11I didn't like building a raft,
50:12but then you've got to realise other people do,
50:14and I didn't at times.
50:15We're in it together, aren't we?
50:16Yeah.
50:17Oh, there's poo!
50:19I'm a toad!
50:19Both teams have been given an hour to build their rafts
50:24before testing them out on the lake.
50:26Right, over there.
50:27Yeah, like that.
50:28They're getting it wrong with water.
50:29You've got to do it proper.
50:31There is a consequence to not getting involved here.
50:33Yeah.
50:33Right, are we lifting up a corner each then?
50:35Oh, Max!
50:37Sorry, kick that one under.
50:39Thanks.
50:40We need to flip it.
50:43Look at theirs, they haven't flipped it.
50:45Yes, they have.
50:45Yes, they have.
50:46No, they haven't.
50:46Yes, they have.
50:48No, they haven't.
50:48Yes, they've flipped the thing.
50:50Look at them.
50:50Look at the long one going across.
50:52No.
50:53It doesn't matter.
50:54They've flipped the thing.
50:56Oh, no, what's happened?
50:57I think there's a bit of a head clash.
50:59Oh, my God.
51:00Oh, I want to go home, mate.
51:01This is dead.
51:02I want to go home.
51:03One minute you're enjoying it,
51:05and the next minute it's just all going off.
51:07I'm bored.
51:09Molly's given up.
51:10OK, whatever.
51:11This is just a joke at this point.
51:14So much for a team, isn't it?
51:16Everyone's against each other.
51:17Oh, my God, no.
51:21You know, we're going to play the first game of cricket soon,
51:23and we need everyone to be working together.
51:25Get back in, Molly.
51:26Come on.
51:27Oh, can you not just do this?
51:28Wait.
51:30Wait.
51:34It's not moving.
51:36Molly, we could use your help right now.
51:38Come on.
51:39Molly, mate, come over here, mate.
51:40We need your help.
51:42Bloody hell, Mo.
51:43All right, get that one.
51:46That can go in the middle.
51:48I'll lift you place.
51:50All right, you ready?
51:51Go.
51:52Go.
51:53How am I doing this?
51:53No.
51:54I love Molly.
51:55I love Mo.
51:55Get that corner.
51:56This looks like a team.
52:00Teamwork.
52:02Nearly done.
52:03Now, how are we going to tie them?
52:05Right, pass me that in, man.
52:09There we go.
52:10Here we go.
52:11Yay.
52:12Look, we built a wrap.
52:14See, we did it.
52:15Well done.
52:20It'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.
52:36Woo!
52:38Nothing to see, just two 40-odd-year-old men.
52:41Right, shall we get in there?
52:42Let's get these rafts on the water.
52:43Oh, that's not sitting on.
52:46Oh, my God!
52:47Imagine that, wouldn't it?
52:48That's so safe, isn't it?
52:49Mate, we're having a right nightmare.
52:52Ah!
52:53This water's funky, mate.
52:55No, wait, wait, wait.
52:56So cold.
52:57I'm scared.
52:58I'm scared.
52:58I'm scared.
52:59I'm scared.
53:00I'm scared.
53:00I'm scared.
53:01I'm scared.
53:01I'm scared.
53:01You're going to get paddling.
53:02You are.
53:04My arms are too.
53:06Doing so well.
53:08Yeah, that's right.
53:09I'm going to win.
53:11Oh, no.
53:12Sorry.
53:12Go.
53:12Go.
53:13Oh, here you go.
53:15Stop, don't worry.
53:16Oi.
53:18No, delete.
53:19Everywhere we go.
53:21Oi.
53:23Oh, that got me.
53:24People want to know.
53:26People want to know.
53:28Who we are.
53:29Who we are.
53:31Where we come from.
53:33Where we come from.
53:34So we tell them.
53:36So we tell them.
53:37We're from Blackpool.
53:39We're from Blackpool.
53:40The mighty, mighty Blackpool.
53:42The mighty, mighty Blackpool.
53:44The mighty, mighty Blackpool.
53:44The mighty, mighty Blackpool.
53:44The mighty, mighty Blackpool.
53:49Today's been perfect.
53:51It was so fun.
53:55I think it's built our confidence back up from when the last time we all had drama.
53:59We've gone a lot closer together.
54:06It was just hilarious.
54:08It was so good.
54:09It was incredible, wasn't it?
54:16They got in the water.
54:17They were enjoying it.
54:18Everyone's smiling.
54:18Everyone's laughing.
54:19Helping each other.
54:20Everything that we could have expected.
54:22I think it has helped us bond as a team.
54:50We've all got, like, more comfortable with each other.
54:53So if we need any help, we'll just ask for the help.
54:56To be fair, I got on with Molly quite good today and I was quite shocked.
55:00It's all about team yielding, to be fair, innit?
55:02And just getting on.
55:05I've really enjoyed it and I hope you have.
55:08Yeah, pushing you off.
55:09Yeah, that was the best part.
55:12The pleasing part for myself and Kyle is that when you turned up off that bus,
55:17you saw what you was going to do.
55:18And there's so many people saying, oh, we're going there.
55:22I don't want to build a raft.
55:22I don't want to do this, that and the other.
55:24And then every single one of you bought into it.
55:27And every one of you worked together.
55:30This is the first time I thought, actually, we've got a cricket team here.
55:35You're talking to people you don't necessarily spend a lot of time with within the team.
55:39And for me, I've got to say, I'm so proud of you.
55:43And you should be so proud of yourselves as well.
55:47Even Maddie's trying not to smile again.
55:50Molly might crack one in a minute.
55:52We feel like a proper team right now.
55:54That is a team.
56:01Everything that we hoped for from today happened.
56:05And that will put us in good stead going into a cricket match.
56:08They've come so far.
56:10They should be proud of themselves tonight.
56:11I think, you know, me and Kyle are definitely.
56:14We're the only two masked lesbians on here.
56:16That'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 where you're straight, are we?
56:24I'm not a lesbian.
56:27What is this?
56:28So close.
56:29You're out.
56:31Oh, mate.
56:32Fuming.
56:33Got to run, you hit it.
56:34Doing three hasn't made it three times harder.
56:37It's almost made it ten times harder.
56:39All we want is just a team to play with.
56:43Who are they after, please?
56:45Someone's getting niffed.
56:47How are you coming in here?
56:49Take him back out.
56:51Take him back out.
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