Post by Hem Cleveland on Jul 5, 2008 15:29:17 GMT
Well Thursday was a night of foul shots, pegs for money and close shaves, as well as some awesome shorts. Playing a well-established team presented us with no fear, as shown by our glorious defeat, and we played the best night of bar-billiard playing in, well, since the team began. I begin our adventure with the first match.
Match One
*Dave Roberts 1490 Grover 1380
Dave started with the break, and only managed to put 20 away, and then returned for another seven before Grover cost himself the first twenty pence of the night by knocking over the white. It takes a while after this monetary fine for the home-boy to score and he knocked us dead by touching up with 3. Oh but Dave misses and Grover takes his sweet revenge by scoring 31 and forcing Dave into catching up. He goes for 37. Grover fails to respond to this scoring threat. Dave takes advantage and get 52, but he misses the ball sitting behind the 1 hole. And so does Grover. It was a true display of the ability to miss a ball.
Finally letting our verbal abuse get to him, Grover responds with lighting speed to gain the break and put himself one point in the lead. Dave pegs his response, Grover replies with a measly 11 which is quickly equalised by the Roman’s first player. The Bar drops on Grover as he begins his triumphant run to the end, but the idiot “mis cues” (he says – personally I reckon he bowed under the pressure. Stupid boy!) Dave pots the remaining and clinches the first win.
Match Two
*Hem 2010 Mickey Moore 1430
Jay Shurey Reporting LIVE from the Schooner Inn
Hem opens the break with 49. Mick replies with 26. Hem was playing great, then alas the white peg gets clunkt. Mick replies with 29. Hem missed : ( Mick hits with a few blinding shots. Hem scores 3... Yay. I CAN’T WRITE FAST ENOUGH! Some more balls move around the table. Mick chucks the ball down the hundred hole and pots some more balls before putting a white ball by the white peg. Hem returns with 16. Mick forgets how to play… So does Hem, who blames Arthur for cleaning the damn balls. Mick fails to score. A skateboard comes into view and ruins my view. But hem scores 55 Woooooo!! Mick almost manages to send the ball up, and then back down into the hundred hole, but fails. Hem gets that red down the hundred hole. Hem sets herself up a tricky shot and succeeds, wind sup with 64!! Mick plays some shots… Hem scores 9. Mick fails to score. Hem scores 2. Mick fails again. Hem fails. Mick succeeds in scoring 9. Hem scores 3 to result in the final ball remaining to be potted. Which after a few shots she succeeds and wins the game.
(In my defence, I didn’t blame my dad, everyone else on the Schooner B did.
Ok so I’ll admit to cleaning one hole.
Sorry Dad)
Match Three
Andy 1060 *Brain Bartram 1180
We return to me commentating, and the table begins by not breaking its unbroken record of breaking down whilst we’re at home. So after that, Brain refuses to be put off and scores 7 to begin. Andy takes his first peg down to owe the collection box 20p. then his next go, the red spins out off the 2, then out of the red to fall calmly back into the 2. then naturally, 20p isn’t enough so he hits the white to owe 40p. It’s a fairly low scoring game to begin with, neither hitting much more then 7 or 8, but finally the game turns and Brain racks up an impressive 43.
Andy returns to the table, serious about the game now Brain has opened a good lead. He. Chalks. The. Cue.
He still fails to score however. When he is allowed access to the table again he pots twice down the 10 hole. He’s got his serious head screwed on properly now and returned the game to the break and drops only the red. The bar drops and he is 2 points in the lead. Common my son!
But Brain, rightly so, puts an end to our captains possibly victory and pots the remaining balls to clinch a 2-1 lead for the Romans.
Match 4
*Jay & Grover (I’ll leave it to the end and surprise you all with their amazing score) Mickey Moore & Pete Nicholls 2550
Jay decides he would start off in the most sporting fashion and takes the first shot with Mickey’s cue… we do have special people on our team, I urge you to watch out for them, possibly offer them mercy. Returning to his own cue, he busts a cap in the white peg’s ass and owes his first 20p. Basically I didn’t write much about this match, because between Jay and Grover they didn’t score much. Pete went on and scored an impressive break well over a hundred, and Grover’s only response was a pathetic 9. Jay’s contribution was to only just double it, to 19. And bugger me, some how they managed to scrape another 3 between them to bring their total score to 22.
Yes that does say 22.
Alright onto the Romans, Pete was the true star of this game, and for a long while he was the only person of the four to actually score. Well deserved guys.
And Grover and Jay… shakes head in shame – you tar the name of Schooner, in some other universe
Match 5
Andy & Hem 2100 *Dave & Brain 2320
We return once again to our roving reporter, Mr Jay Shurey (I would say sorry, but I can’t actually decipher much of what is written or who ‘Geoffrey’ is. He is either referred to as shortsman as well, or maybe Geoff is both of the Roman’s players… Man Jay confuses)
Geoffrey to break and he scores a bungle (45). Andy returns, and returns the break with a FLUKE into the hundred. Then back on the break twice! And he splits the red into the hundred hole. He touches up to result in a score of 115!!! Some guy with shorts come back to the table to get some points before chucking a peg down. Some more shots happen
Hem does…. Well nothing. Geoffrey returns like a Jedion a quest for Zippy. Andy pegs and costs himself another 20p. Shortsman returns and scores a few. Hem returns to show how is down and score 6. Geoffrey doesn’t do much. Andy score 26! Geoffrey fins a rainbow and (Can’t you tell I need sleep) flukes a 10. Woooo!
Woot we’re 11 behind. Hem returns for a 20p fine.
Anyway it ends up the Roman’s potting the white down the hundred to win because Andy missed it down the two hundred.
They win!!!
Thanks muchly to Jay for that… I will be confused over that one for a while. Anyway, all four matches that breached a grand were very close and could have gone either way. It was a shame to have to play a team that was also only made up of four people and hope that in the future that more people would join our sport to bolster the teams. The food I hear was very good, the three catering trays full of chilli, rice and curry, and music was awesomely times as usual and I wish to congratulate myself for keeping up our trend of losing 4-1. Yes I am a God.
Achievements:
Hem 1st win
Jay & Grover Lowest combined score know to man
Jay Peg Cost = 40p
Grover Peg Cost = 40p
Hem Peg Cost = 60p
Andy Peg Cost = 60p
Match One
*Dave Roberts 1490 Grover 1380
Dave started with the break, and only managed to put 20 away, and then returned for another seven before Grover cost himself the first twenty pence of the night by knocking over the white. It takes a while after this monetary fine for the home-boy to score and he knocked us dead by touching up with 3. Oh but Dave misses and Grover takes his sweet revenge by scoring 31 and forcing Dave into catching up. He goes for 37. Grover fails to respond to this scoring threat. Dave takes advantage and get 52, but he misses the ball sitting behind the 1 hole. And so does Grover. It was a true display of the ability to miss a ball.
Finally letting our verbal abuse get to him, Grover responds with lighting speed to gain the break and put himself one point in the lead. Dave pegs his response, Grover replies with a measly 11 which is quickly equalised by the Roman’s first player. The Bar drops on Grover as he begins his triumphant run to the end, but the idiot “mis cues” (he says – personally I reckon he bowed under the pressure. Stupid boy!) Dave pots the remaining and clinches the first win.
Match Two
*Hem 2010 Mickey Moore 1430
Jay Shurey Reporting LIVE from the Schooner Inn
Hem opens the break with 49. Mick replies with 26. Hem was playing great, then alas the white peg gets clunkt. Mick replies with 29. Hem missed : ( Mick hits with a few blinding shots. Hem scores 3... Yay. I CAN’T WRITE FAST ENOUGH! Some more balls move around the table. Mick chucks the ball down the hundred hole and pots some more balls before putting a white ball by the white peg. Hem returns with 16. Mick forgets how to play… So does Hem, who blames Arthur for cleaning the damn balls. Mick fails to score. A skateboard comes into view and ruins my view. But hem scores 55 Woooooo!! Mick almost manages to send the ball up, and then back down into the hundred hole, but fails. Hem gets that red down the hundred hole. Hem sets herself up a tricky shot and succeeds, wind sup with 64!! Mick plays some shots… Hem scores 9. Mick fails to score. Hem scores 2. Mick fails again. Hem fails. Mick succeeds in scoring 9. Hem scores 3 to result in the final ball remaining to be potted. Which after a few shots she succeeds and wins the game.
(In my defence, I didn’t blame my dad, everyone else on the Schooner B did.
Ok so I’ll admit to cleaning one hole.
Sorry Dad)
Match Three
Andy 1060 *Brain Bartram 1180
We return to me commentating, and the table begins by not breaking its unbroken record of breaking down whilst we’re at home. So after that, Brain refuses to be put off and scores 7 to begin. Andy takes his first peg down to owe the collection box 20p. then his next go, the red spins out off the 2, then out of the red to fall calmly back into the 2. then naturally, 20p isn’t enough so he hits the white to owe 40p. It’s a fairly low scoring game to begin with, neither hitting much more then 7 or 8, but finally the game turns and Brain racks up an impressive 43.
Andy returns to the table, serious about the game now Brain has opened a good lead. He. Chalks. The. Cue.
He still fails to score however. When he is allowed access to the table again he pots twice down the 10 hole. He’s got his serious head screwed on properly now and returned the game to the break and drops only the red. The bar drops and he is 2 points in the lead. Common my son!
But Brain, rightly so, puts an end to our captains possibly victory and pots the remaining balls to clinch a 2-1 lead for the Romans.
Match 4
*Jay & Grover (I’ll leave it to the end and surprise you all with their amazing score) Mickey Moore & Pete Nicholls 2550
Jay decides he would start off in the most sporting fashion and takes the first shot with Mickey’s cue… we do have special people on our team, I urge you to watch out for them, possibly offer them mercy. Returning to his own cue, he busts a cap in the white peg’s ass and owes his first 20p. Basically I didn’t write much about this match, because between Jay and Grover they didn’t score much. Pete went on and scored an impressive break well over a hundred, and Grover’s only response was a pathetic 9. Jay’s contribution was to only just double it, to 19. And bugger me, some how they managed to scrape another 3 between them to bring their total score to 22.
Yes that does say 22.
Alright onto the Romans, Pete was the true star of this game, and for a long while he was the only person of the four to actually score. Well deserved guys.
And Grover and Jay… shakes head in shame – you tar the name of Schooner, in some other universe
Match 5
Andy & Hem 2100 *Dave & Brain 2320
We return once again to our roving reporter, Mr Jay Shurey (I would say sorry, but I can’t actually decipher much of what is written or who ‘Geoffrey’ is. He is either referred to as shortsman as well, or maybe Geoff is both of the Roman’s players… Man Jay confuses)
Geoffrey to break and he scores a bungle (45). Andy returns, and returns the break with a FLUKE into the hundred. Then back on the break twice! And he splits the red into the hundred hole. He touches up to result in a score of 115!!! Some guy with shorts come back to the table to get some points before chucking a peg down. Some more shots happen
Hem does…. Well nothing. Geoffrey returns like a Jedion a quest for Zippy. Andy pegs and costs himself another 20p. Shortsman returns and scores a few. Hem returns to show how is down and score 6. Geoffrey doesn’t do much. Andy score 26! Geoffrey fins a rainbow and (Can’t you tell I need sleep) flukes a 10. Woooo!
Woot we’re 11 behind. Hem returns for a 20p fine.
Anyway it ends up the Roman’s potting the white down the hundred to win because Andy missed it down the two hundred.
They win!!!
Thanks muchly to Jay for that… I will be confused over that one for a while. Anyway, all four matches that breached a grand were very close and could have gone either way. It was a shame to have to play a team that was also only made up of four people and hope that in the future that more people would join our sport to bolster the teams. The food I hear was very good, the three catering trays full of chilli, rice and curry, and music was awesomely times as usual and I wish to congratulate myself for keeping up our trend of losing 4-1. Yes I am a God.
Achievements:
Hem 1st win
Jay & Grover Lowest combined score know to man
Jay Peg Cost = 40p
Grover Peg Cost = 40p
Hem Peg Cost = 60p
Andy Peg Cost = 60p
