The MCC cricketing world has looked on in astonishment over the past 2 years as tenacious 21 year old Chris Wood defied the odds by becoming the youngest OSCC Club President in the clubs illustrious history. The appointment came on the back of several years of guidance under the iron fist of OSCA President and glamour boy Tim Shearer. Whilst this position was probably more suited to a Nick Spargo type*  the club went in a different direction, appointing a young kid who's greatest achievement in the first three years of finishing school was having to manually add another hole to his belt after tripling his waistline. Nevertheless, the club pushed on, obviously impressed with his social climbing skills and ability to write lists and then never act on them.

Chris Woods rise to fame was long, arduous and somewhat uninteresting however I will press on for the sake of ‘good’ journalism (I don’t need a run in with Media Watch, a la Ben Doherty 14.04.08). At school, Chris was quite gifted at the sports that don’t impress girls and that only become enjoyable when you are on the far side of 40 (golf and tennis). A proud member of Generation Y where the young people don’t live to work, but rather work to live, the concepts of ‘career’, ‘ambition’ and ‘personal well-being’ were very low on his list of priorities. On the relationship front, things weren’t much better with his 5 year pursuit of Monique Andrew leaving him firmly stuck in the friend zone, or as Andrew ‘DAK’ Mitchell (below left) refers to it, the ‘end zone’. The heartbreak of seeing her snatched away from his outstretched arms by the OSCC’s Best Clubman became too much to bear and Wood appeared to be headed on a one way ride to the West Gate.

However, sympathy works in mysterious ways and at the end of 2007 he was thrown a lifeline and offered the position as OSCC President. Equipped with his favourite book ‘How to Win Friends And Influence People’, Chris realised this was his chance to make his triumphant entrance back into the spotlight. Bearing the title but not the responsibility, he spent most of the 07/08 season as a Bush-like figurehead receiving kudos for the successful season whilst the real brains worked hard behind the scenes.

As Spiderman’s Uncle once so wisely said 'with great power comes great responsibility' and as such we can thank the heavens that ‘Marky’ Mark Griffith is OSCC treasurer and not Chris. Chris comes from the US Financial Crisis school of financial  dealing in which personal debts can be easily erased by borrowing from other mates (E.g starting a footy tipping competition and demanding payment up front to enjoy his 22 week loan interest free).