Fixtures Week 18 22nd February 2018

[bigtj]

Week 18			22-Feb
Marquis of Granby	4	1	Albion C
White Hart / Henty	4	1	Swan A
Albion A / Pocket Rocket	4	1	Smugglers B
Smugglers A	3	2	Tarring Club
Swan Nomads	4	1	Marine View
Alexandra A	2	3	Alexandra B
Bye			Albion D / Pocket Rocket

["Silent"]

Marquis v Albion C being played on Sunday 18th February 2018

[BB Warrior]

Match played tonight, many thanks to our opponents for agreeing to the switch....

Home	Team	Marquis of Granby	v	Albion C	Away	Team
Legs	Score	Player	v	Player	Score	Legs
0	4,510	Grant Tully *	v	Dave Reeves	6,410	1
1	6,980	Jack Baden	v	Matthew Knight *	4,070	0
1	6,560	Dave Ingram	v	Chris Tupper *	4,570	0
1	7,030	Kevin Hall *	v	Jean Brackenridge	3,780	0
1	6,650	Jim Millward	v	Nigel Senior *	2,020	0
4	31,730	Totals	v	Totals	20,850	1

I know that one of Matthew's favorite sayings is that it was a "raucous" evening.... would probably be fair to describe this as one of those with the usual suspects being most guilty! It would also probably be fair to say that the table proved "tricky" and seemed to get harder as the evening went on.... plenty of chances for all, plenty of scratched heads and plenty of laughs as well.

A good result for the home team that (temporarily) lifts us out of the relegation zone and up to the dizzy heights of 3rd place in the league, certainly our highest position so far this year.... and almost as high as our team mate (Lloydy Van Gerwin) who was away climbing Mount Kilmanjaro this week! There was also a rumour that a nice tasty curry and chips arrived just before the start of the game, sadly the vultures descended so I am unable to confirm the truth of this rumour!

Brilliant evening in superb company....

["Silent"]

Thank you for an excellent report as always Dave....

I would like to add a couple of thanks, to the person responsible for the right-hand cushion at the Marquis of Queensbury (or is that boxing) which decided not to play ball or take any balls close to the right-hand 50 pocket very often. This being conveniently summed up by the players in the last leg, who, occasionally throw in a decent game managing a grand total of 800 between them after they had a break each

Also, to the scorer who I thought was excellent after the first leg, but as the match was slipping away from the visitors I was beginning to doubt his credentials. Sadly this was confirmed as he oversaw a victory for his brother in the fourth leg which gave the home team the match.....

Fortunately, I can confirm an enjoyable night despite the result

[bigtj]

Alexandra A	22-Feb		Alexandra B
Loz Hickman *	1110	4230	James Whittle
Chris Cox	0	8900	Mal Spier *
Ben Goodwin	2700	2430	Tony Jenner *
Pete Hickman *	7070	370	Steve Aylmore
Pete Brown	1090	6040	Joe Oakley *
2	11970	21970	3	33940

Good night at the Alex despite the home team thinking they were the away team and therefor when we arrived they had not had a practice, also understand Smugglers A v Tarring Club not played as both teams were awaiting their opponents at their respective home venues as Tarring had looked at the original fixture list and not the amended one. Joe held up in traffic and arriving during the 3rd game.

Loz off early then a battle at the top end where Loz got no run of the balls at all, James got the break back twice too make sure of a very good win.

Mal opened with 6320 leaving Chris a very small chance as only bout 7 minutes left, but Chris could not get the break back and Mal added some more.

TJ off at 500, Ben got them back but off at 750, the  a battle at the top end, TJ on the table when bar dropped and in the lead, but lost a small break missing the all behind the left hand 30. Ben got and got the break back to sink the last 4 balls to make sure. Another bad night for the captain.

Pet opened with 4.5k and whatever Steve done he could not get the balls back, Pete eventually did and made sure it went to a decider.

Joe opened with 5370 and then neither he or Pete could get the balls back, giving us another hard fought win.

[SirKT]

Henty 4 Swan A 1

A good result for the leaders putting more space between themselves and the chasing pack.

Molly 13110 v 290 Vern - A steady opening 9k from Terry who added more on his next visit
Curt 7600 v 10610 Barry - A faultless 10k opener from Barry, Curt finished off for another high scoring leg
KT 8220 v 4220 Dipper - Roger was going well until a whipper up the top ended his break. I replied with 7800 and whipped out just missing the peg
Fitz 9200 v 3170 Brian - A couple of breaks for Gerry was enough to take the leg
Chocie 14560 v 2230 Colin - Being stuck on the A27 for over an hour would make me angry. After Colin's initial break, he suffered the wrath of Chocie who pretty much played the rest out.

Thanks to the Henty for the Stew and nan breads😛

[bobhall]

I dont have the scores on the doors
But pocket rocket A won 4-1
Bob lost to phil
Having whipped my 3rd split it sat on peg and that was game over

Geoff beat ros
Ros off early geoff killed the game

Ian beat colin
Colin went off with 5k but ian got balls back first time and touched on 10k

Martin beat bob
Martin as usual consistant at home and 10k n touch to win the match

Up steps our super super sub
Mama hall beats dave white

Took a while for both players to get going but two 3k breaks sealed the win and moved the pocket rocket off bottom and up to 4th

Feels abit dizzy being this high

[gandalf the untidy]

Feb 23, 2018 10:07:22 GMT bobhall said:

I dont have the scores on the doors
But pocket rocket A won 4-1
Bob lost to phil
Having whipped my 3rd split it sat on peg and that was game over

Geoff beat ros
Ros off early geoff killed the game

Ian beat colin
Colin went off with 5k but ian got balls back first time and touched on 10k

Martin beat bob
Martin as usual consistant at home and 10k n touch to win the match

Up steps our super super sub
Mama hall beats dave white

Took a while for both players to get going but two 3k breaks sealed the win and moved the pocket rocket off bottom and up to 4th

Feels abit dizzy being this high

great evening, plenty of chatter and thanks to Matt the perfect host, ps Phil and I beat Geoff and Martin 2-1 in the doubles

[neilh]

Think there was a fair bit of confusion this week, due as far as I can see that some of the fixtures on the wdbbl site and proboards are wrong. The Smugglers v Tarring Club should have been at the Smugglers, according to the official fixture list, whereas the wdbbl site shows it the other way round.

We very nearly also went to the wrong venue! The fixture list shows us at Home to the Marine View and wdbbl shows it the other way round. It was purely by chance that I spotted the error, in fact until late in the afternoon we were all set to go to the Marine View. Thankfully our opponents probably don't use proboards or the internet, so they were where they should have been. The error is borne out by the fact that wdbbl shows our return fixture against the Marine View on the 19th April as being at the Swan. That would make for an interesting evening, as the other Swan team are also at Home that night! As an aside, some helpful person had also told the Swan that there was no match, consequently there was no food. Never mind.

Anyway, here are the scores -

Swan Nomads 4 1 Marine View

Gary Ridley 7400 2910 John Hayes*
Paul Barnett 4710 740 Bepo*
Tony Burgess 1300 1500 Martyn Grubb*
Nick Brown 8970 1030 Dave Catchpole*
Neil Higgins 2860 1160 Matt Mason*

[bigtj]

My apologies I had the correct fixture list but after changes were made I forgot to update my master copy I use for here and the web site, now done. Smugglers A and Tarring Club rearranging their game.

[davejones]

Smugglers A v Tarring Club arranged for Thursday 12th April

[davejones]

Smugglers A Tarring club

C Lucas 3210 2060 D Collins *
A Farmer-Wright 2120 1610 M Formoy *
T Stringer 1420 2530 M Jones *
P Moyes-Robb 2520 2190 T Collins *
D Jones 1870 4470 J Osborn *
3 2

Total Score 11140 12860
Average per man 2228 2572

Another good win for the Smugglers for the postponed match