Billingshurst league - 2006/7

Ian has allowed a couple of Billingshurst news items on the Horsham board, so I'm sure he won't mind me giving an up-to-date table for the benefit of any guests viewing in who might be interested :

Roffey SSC P19 W17 L2 Pts 75
Railway A P19 W15 L4 Pts 65
Alfold SC A P20 W12 L8 Pts 56
Three Bees P19 W12 L7 Pts 54
Norfolk Arms P20 W11 L8 Pts 53.5
Bridge House P19 W13 L6 Pts 53
Limeburners P20 W9 L11 Pts 47
Railway B P20 W5 L15 Pts 41.5
Alfold SC B P20 W5 L15 Pts 40
Black Horse P19 W7 L12 Pts 39
Hare&Hounds P19 W7 L12 Pts 38
Blue Ship P19 W7 L12 Pts 38
Dun Horse P19 W5 L14 Pts 30

Noteworthy scores of the week:
Tony Franks (Bridge House) 12,930
Jim Greensted (Norfolk) 11,620
Lee Cable (Roffey SSC) 11,030
Micky Fairs (Roffey SSC) 9900
John Miller (Roffey SSC) 8750

[petem]

See Tony Franks is still playing well :)

[Sparky]

petem said:

See Tony Franks is still playing well :)

Oh yes indeed Pete, we don't get to see averages in Billingshurst but since I've been playing with him in the Bridge House team this season his average will have been very respectable :D

[bigtj]

Can`t keep an excellent player down, pity we don`t see Tony playing in Brighton nowadays.

Yes it just occured to me today that Billingshurst doesn't get much exposure, and it's a good league.

It's a pity someone can't have a word in its Hon.Secretary (Peter Gibbs) 's shell-like to have a go on our forum. He's computer literate or so I would think.

Failing that we've always got Sparky who could keep us clued up with the odd writeup from his Wednesday night match.

IanG could do similar to me by giving an up-to-date Horsham League table on here too ? 8-)

[Sparky]

I agree that Billingshurst is a good league, both for playing standard and friendliness, there are quite a few good players hiding in these backwaters ;D and they are probably quite happy to stay mostly out of the limelight 8-)

I will try to remember to make a few notes over the remaining few games this season but don't expect literary masterpieces :-/ but will be returning to Mid Sussex for Wednesdays next year (pity I didn't do the write-ups during my winning streak - which seems to have come to an end >:()

[iang]

Absoultly dont mind Billingshurst info on here the more the better.
Tommo see 4 to go for Horsham tables. :D :D

[iang]

sparky said:

but will be returning to Mid Sussex for Wednesdays next year (>:()

Typical Sparky always good news bad news ;D
It will be good to see you back where you should be it's just a shame that your Billingshurst outings have to suffer in the process I hope that Tony finds a suitable quality replacement for you & also that Doug makes a good recovery & can take his place back in the team.

[Sparky]

iang said:

sparky said:

but will be returning to Mid Sussex for Wednesdays next year (>:()

Typical Sparky always good news bad news ;D
It will be good to see you back where you should be it's just a shame that your Billingshurst outings have to suffer in the process I hope that Tony finds a suitable quality replacement for you & also that Doug makes a good recovery & can take his place back in the team.

Thanks Ian and I too hope Doug recovers and returns to the team, but there are rumours of another 'retired' player being persuaded to play some games and I hope it happens...but ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies :D

[iang]

Dont think you can dangle a carrot like that & get away with it I will be interogating you on Tuesday !!!!!.
What do you mean "another retired player" didn't know you considered yourself a retirted player :D :D ;)

iang said:

Dont think you can dangle a carrot like that & get away with it I will be interogating you on Tuesday !!!!!.
didn't know you considered yourself a retirted player :D :D ;)

Well you wouldn't call him retarded, so you must mean "re-tarted"
;D ;D
The mysterious Sparky seems to be inviting us to guess his replacement. My money's on a guy with the name of a small bird as his surname. ;)

I too offer my best regards and wishes to Doug Covey for a speedy and full recovery. As you will see if you read this old thread, I owe him !
barbilliards.proboards30.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1158261720&page=1

[Sparky]

iang said:

Dont think you can dangle a carrot like that & get away with it I will be interogating you on Tuesday !!!!!.
What do you mean "another retired player" didn't know you considered yourself a retirted player :D :D ;)

:-X to the first part as it may or may not happen and I was referring to the fact that 3 of the current players had returned to the game after some years of retirement including Franksy, although he doesn't look very rusty to me :D

[iang]

ooops I wish my fingers would press the keys my brain tells them to. but you know what I meant.

Bump !
The new season's started without us hardly realising !

Oct 3rd results and tables:
Hare & Hounds 2, Southwater SC A 3
Railway B 2.5, Alfold SC A 2.5
Limeburners Cricks 3, Three Bees 2
Alfold SC B 1, Railway A 4
Southwater SC B 1, Roffey SSC 4
Black Horse 2, Blue Ship 3
Dun Horse 3, Norfolk 2

Div 1
Roffey SSC 4 4 0 18
SWSC A 4 4 0 14.5
Norfolk 4 3 1 11
Railway A 3 3 0 11
Three Bees 4 1 3 9
Alfold SC A 3 1.5 1.5 7.5

Div 2
Blue Ship 4 2 2 9
Lime Cricks 4 1 3 8.5
Railway B 3 0.5 2.5 6.5
Alfold SC B 4 1 3 6
Black Horse 3 1 2 5
Dun Horse 3 1 2 5
SWSC B 3 1 2 5
Hare & Hounds 2 0 2 4

Best Scores of week :
Tony Franks 9160 SWSC A (v Hare & Hounds)
Mick Fairs 6840 Roffey SSC (v SWSC B)

[Sparky]

Looks like the SWSC 'A' aren't missing me too much....not sure how I feel about that ;D ;D ;D

well done team :D

[iang]

I must find somewhere to buy the County Times.
The shop on our parade has been closed down & I can't always get into Smith's where did you buy yours Tommo ?? & thanks for putting up thread it's good to see.
I don't mind if we started a new thread for Billingshurst info for this season !!

Margo gets the WSCT from the local garage, and has to be in there quick as they only stock a few copies.

Ideal situation would be if we could get a few Billingshurst people on the forum and then they could have their own board (to which this thread could be transferred and divided.)

Ding will be a good start, but Gibbsy would be the ideal person to feed all his own league's information - and to moderate.
But knowing Gibbsy it will take a lot of arm twisting. I tried to tap him up when we played the Jubilee Team Cup final last month.
What better place than here to publicise the expanded competition for next season ?

I'll continue to put up a periodic update, and please add your own input should it not be regular enough.

[Sparky]

It would be good to get some Billingshurst players active on the forum, most especially Gibbsy, so they could have their own section.

[iang]

iang said:

I must find somewhere to buy the County Times.

Have found a new source Tesco express on peterhouse parade even though the main Tesco's don't have it.
very nice coverage this week.