For some time to come, each time I ven­ture in­to the Tri­ni Posse Stand I will ex­pect to see Sean "Gruff" Grosvenor, one of the founders and share­hold­ers of this mot­ley bunch of pa­tri­ot­ic Tri­nis. Gruff suc­cumbed to a heart at­tack last Sun­day. Back in the day, be­fore an en­tire sound sys­tem was in­tro­duced in the stand, Gruff be­came fa­mous for his cas­sette play­er, sub­se­quent­ly up­grad­ed to a CD sys­tem, from which he played con­tin­u­ous mu­sic at the Queen's Park Oval and at every in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et venue in the Caribbean; so, be­tween overs, dur­ing in­ter­vals, at the fall of a wick­et and with every bound­ary Gruff would play one of his favourite dit­ties.

When prompt­ed to play a song, amongst Gruff's favourites were Coun­try road Take me home, Un­der the Sycamore Tree and Sweet Car­o­line. When he got every­one in the stand to sing, Gruff would say, "take that!," then pro­ceed to play I Don't Like Crick­et. That was Gruff in a nut­shell-the life of the par­ty in an imp­ish sort of way, a broth­er and friend to all. Gruff, from peo­ple like Sam Sal­loum, Nik­ki and Col­in Bor­de, Dr Nigel Ca­ma­cho, Michael Moses, Theron Mar­quez, Pe­ter Matthews, Scott Fab­res, Re­jaine De Four, Deb­bie Gor­mandy, Karen La Bor­de, Peg­gy Ca­ma­cho, Paige Tim Pow, Ra­mona Pa­zo, Jen­nifer Hosam, Pix­ie du Coudray, Grant Mil­lar, Dario Woon Sam, Derek Cum­mings, Dane Arm­strong and my­self, thanks for the un­for­get­table great times. Sam has promised that he will en­sure that your favourite tunes and songs, and your parang par­ty, live on, and has arranged a "farewell lime" in mem­o­ry of you to­day, from 4 pm, in the Tri­ni Posse Stand.