Watney Mann Cup/All-England Team Champs

[Richard]

Yes it was a great game last night well done to my team also well done to the three horseshoes for giving us such a tough match.

scores were: -

Marcus* 8710 - 4840 Ian L
Gareth 1540 - 15430 Ricky D*
Nigel 8340 - 6870 Geoff D*
Chris* 8790 - 10770 KT
Richard 6310 - 790 Mal Speir*

A great match !!

[Mark James]

The draw for the semi-finals has taken place, and is as follows:

Swan v Warren Club
Brewery Tap v Elms

The first-named teams to be at home in the first leg of these ties.

Matches to be completed, and results to me, by Sunday 19th August.

[Richard]

The first leg of the semi-final was played last night and the Tap won 5-0 at home , only now needing one leg at the elms to make the final.

Gareth Lloyd* 18580 - 760 T Denyer
Richard Wooton 11830 - 2450 P Mansfield*
Steve Mariner 14080 - 310 Dave france*
Marcus Chipman* 7840 - 3690 V blake
Chris Reeves 11160 - 1480 R Brewer*

A good friendly night.

Well done to my team for all playing very well.

The second leg is booked for 16th August , due to holidays and my wedding and honeymoon that is the next available date.

[dipper]

Watney Mann first leg 9/8/07 Swan 4 - 1 Warren Club.

Nick Brown beat Matthew Squire in the first against the break.
Roger Taylor beat Paul Barnett against the break.
Doug Mahy beat Gary Ridley against the break.
Phil Oakley beat Tony Burgess with the break.
Barry Holt beat Neil Higgins against the break.

Good night as always with the Warren Club, looking forward to the second leg.

[doug1502]

SWAN (Worthing) V WARREN CLUB (Worthing)

RESULTS (match played at Swan 9th August 2007)

M Squire 3120 N Brown 3440
R Taylor 6910 P Barnett 1710
D Mahy 7040 G Ridley 6070
P Oakley 5570 T Burgess 720
B Holt 5820 N Higgins 3100

Interesting table!.
Mat kicked off with a 2k, both players then proved how difficult it was to get the break back for most of the game until Nick, with impeccible timing, got the break back and played the bar to sneek the game at the end. 0-1, with the Swan losing their break.
Barney did not take advantage of his break. Roger gets a 5K break in the middle of the game to kill it. 1-1
Gary kicks of with 1.5k. Doug comes straight back with 2.5k. Gary hits back again with 3.5k and Doug touches up on 4.5 k, 1000 in front with about 30 seconds to go. Gary on the table as the bar goes. 900 needed with all balls left. Plays a white into the 200, kindly kiss off another ball to fluke the white, with the red still left. 4 balls left, 600 needed. Tries to put one into the 100 but unfortunately (?) pegs it. 2-1.
Phil kicks off with too many for Tony to recover. 3-1.
Neil and Barry share a scrappy game with Barry getting the break back too many times. 4-1.

Looking forward to the return on Monday, at the Gardeners.

[doug1502]

SWAN (Worthing) V WARREN CLUB (Worthing)

RESULTS (match played at Gardeners Arms 13th August 2007)

With the Swan leading the first leg 4-1, and receiving three breaks in this leg, it was never going to be easy but should have been straightforward on what amounted to a neutral table, which ran for only 16 minutes!! For those of you who know the Swan table this is very much a sprint.

Game 1 Gary gets off to a great start, leaving Roger to play the bar out, but needing another 30 seconds. 1-0
Game 2, more or less a repeat of the first, with Doug failing short by about 60 seconds. 2-0
Game 3, again, a repeat but with the Swan again falling short agan, 3-0, and the match score now 4-4
Game 4. Neil on break looking confident but plays a forcing short. Takes peg and worse gives Phil the break back. Phil kills the game with a slow but sure 5k. 4-5
Game 5, Barry too strong for Tony 4-6 to the Swan.

G Ridley 6030 R Taylor 5230
N Brown 6420 D Mahy 5430
P Barnett 6240 M Squire 5190
N Higgins 260 P Oakley 5370
T Burgess 1390 B Holt 8010

Looks a very good venue for Bar Billiards, choice of real ales, good table, and the food was excellent. Looking forward to playing here again. Could this be the new home venue for the Warren Club?

[Richard]

The second leg of the semi final was played last night between The PBT and the Elms.

With the Tap 5-0 up just one leg was needed.

Nigel 2260 - 2700 C Scott*
Richard* 4800 - 1690 V Blake
Marcus* 2300 - 4220 J Hayward
Gareth 4060 - 1620 R Brewer*
Chris* 850 - 8820 T Denyer

A 7-3 win for the PBT, a good night out and good food.

We look forward to playing the Swan in the Final

[iang]

Sounds like good evenings all round.

Best of luck to both teams in the final should be some good games.

:) :)

[Richard]

The first leg of the final was played last night at the Swan and a very good night it was too.

Game 1

Matthew Squire took the break against myself but only made a few hundred, I got the break back , made enough and touched.
m squire 600 - 10740 r wooton.

Game 2

Nigel broke off in the second against barry holt and made about 5000 then got back on after barry missed early on . 2 nil to the tap. b holt 630 - 9460 n senior

Game 3

Steve mariner our sub was to break in the third, he had a huge kick on 1000 and both balls missed the 50 holes by about 8 inches, roger taylor got the balls back straight away and finished off the game.
r taylor 7930 - 4200 steve mariner

Game 4

Phil Oakley to break in the fourth anainst Phil Oakley, this game i missed most of , but I think it was a bit scrappy , Phil won it though to make it 2 - 2
p oakley 4440 - 1350 g lloyd

game 5

chris reeves to break against doug mahy. chris played his usual game and won with 11750
d mahy 180 - 11750 c reeves

PBT 3 - 2 Swan

A good close game and a great night overall, always a pleasure to play the swan.

Look forward to the rematch in a couple of weeks

[Mark James]

richard said:

Phil Oakley to break in the fourth anainst Phil Oakley

I should imagine this was a close game, between two such evenly-matched players.....

[Q]

I'm just glad that Phil Oakley won it ;D

[Alan Messer]

The second leg of the final btween the Tap and the Swan takes place at the Brewery Tap on Sunday the 7th of October.

[Richard]

The Preston Brewery Tap are Champions again !!!!

Each game went as follows


Chis Reeves had the break against Barry Holt in the first, chris made about 7500 before missing, they had another go each and Chris the got the break back again but only made a further , 1400, Barry then got the break back and ran it out only to lose by 640. C Reeves 8970 - 8330 BHolt

I went on second as Nigel was still on his way home from Reading , I played alan Messer, he made 1500 and left me really awkward shots , i missed and he missed until 6 minutes in I black pegged, Alan with 10 minutes gone was about 3200 up , I eventually got the break back and made 7k and touched. Two nil
R Wooton 7900 - 3600 A Messer

Nigel made it back in time to keep the breaks in order and he went on against Matt Squire, Matt went off with just under 3000, Nige got the break back and made about 7000, Matt fought cback back but ran out of time, 3 nil
N Senior 7330 - 5720 M Squire

Gareth was on fourth against Doug Mahy, Gareth missed the opening break with the white spinning out he went up the table for a few shots and opened up the scoring with 250. Doug then made 120, Gareth got the balls back and again attempted the break shot, the white whipped out again but went down the 200 hole !!, he then sorted himself out and ran out the table with a staggering 23380 BREAK !!!!!!, total score 23630, he would have made 25000 if the break was from start to finish, but what a fantastic break , well done mate !!, four nil

Down to the last game, Roger Taylor against Marcus, Roger pegged his opening break and gave Marcus the balls back , Marcus made 2800 , Roger got the balls back and the game was over , 4 -1
M Chipman 3170 - 10790 Roger Taylor.

7 - 3 to the Tap overall,

A great night of Bar Billiards, follwed by fresh crusty bread , Pate and Cheeses.

Hopefully we can win the All England on 21st of this month

Well done the Tap and well done Lloydy.

Reading the write-up, I cannot think of a better example of a player struggling to begin with and managing to "read a table" and compensate to perfection.

Well done again.

tommo

[milko]

richard said:

The Preston Brewery Tap are Champions again !!!!

Hopefully we can win the All England on 21st of this month

Well played Richard, we hope to join you there, but first we have got a difficult Final to play this Friday (my birthday 45 ;)), against a powerful Didcot Con Club side @ the Bletchingdon Football Club.