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Post by joefoxon on Jun 23, 2021 9:53:05 GMT
As some are aware, I'm moving to Cambridge very shortly and I'm curious as to what the three pin set-up is like there. I know a lot about the 4-pin league, but it's really hard to find details on 3-pin.
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Post by daveuk1 on Jun 24, 2021 6:20:36 GMT
This is taffy land, I think he has contacts with most in the area.
I'll give him a nudge if he doesn't reply soon
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Post by barbelman on Jun 24, 2021 9:35:49 GMT
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Post by taffy on Jun 24, 2021 15:52:29 GMT
Lee_Mason is active here and may spot this.
the three pinners were meeting last night I believe to sort out their future. They still have at least two tables looking for pubs and hope that the Swavesey White Horse will still want a table back someday.
As it stands they have the White Horse at Milton and the Bottisham Sports and Social Club.
Taffy
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Post by tommo III on Feb 24, 2023 11:17:44 GMT
3-pin in Cambridge Other news reaching us is that the 3-pin league is all but dead. The table was eventually removed from the Swavesey White Horse as the landlord said it didn't earn its keep. The B team has retired and the A team have turned to pool. Although aware of the offer of a table at Willingham - just 2.4 miles away - they haven't done it. This left just three teams and means only two of them can play at a time! very slow going then...... They have an AGM in a few weeks time when they will discuss what to do. I have offered them informally - as there are no formal channels - to try and play a few games on the 4-pin tables in April/May and Sept/Oct and keep it short and sweet. My tables are offered and that is 8 of them with 7 suitable. At the same time, if it is the end for them then I hope they quickly turn to 4-pin and join us. For instance the 3-pin table at Milton White Horse must now be under threat through lack of use but the offer of a bar billiards league come november might let it stay there! Both M-WH and Bottisham CSSC are right in the middle of our 4-pin area and would be welcome editions. "Carpenter's Arms", previously of Gt. Wilbraham but now without a home so also playing at the Bottisham CSSC could probably be found a pub just outside Gt. Wilbraham. Taffy (Comments invited from CBBA.) |
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Post by taffy on Feb 25, 2023 7:34:19 GMT
I can now take this a little further. I met Jim last night, a stalwart of Bottisham CSSC team and we get on really well. Jim told me that just the night before the AGM has been called for
Monday 20th March for 8pm start at the Milton White Horse.
There they will discuss winding up the league and the association; Cambridgeshire BBA. They have around £1,400 in funds to consider.
It appears my offer of a table at Willingham certainly didn't reach the two teams at Swavesey, others may have known but not the players. Apparently, the 'A' team have changed to pool and the 'B' team or all old and stopped.
Even the Gt. Wilbraham and Bottisham teams are iffy because they haven't played for 14/15 months.
The wheels have come off the wagon.
I made the offer again to Jim of the Sept/Oct and March/April 3-pin "if" teams cared to try it at my 7 tables.
I also mentioned that if it was the Cambridgeshire BBA did it not represent BB in all its forms and therefore there is a need for it and not to close it up? I have offered to go on the 20th and speak of my thoughts.
We 4-pin'ers aren't yet a democracy which is a double edged sword. Our first AGM is likely to be in September just before the new season as I want us to see how the land lies before we set out a league structure. Currently we have 5 teams but we may have 10/11 or even 12 by next Winter. Tables are in 5 pubs looking for teams, tables are going into others and although you can't count your chickens it could be a team or two more......
Taffy
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