England selection 2023

[curtd]

I am pleased to announce the group of players selected to play for England in our home tie against Guernsey. This will be played over the Sussex open weekend on the evening of Saturday 3rd June 2023.

It’s always great when new players are selected so I would like to congratulate Alan Donovan for making the top 12 and Dave Ingram for getting back into the line up.

I would also like to congratulate both Stuart Carruthers and John Slee who have both stepped it up this year and get their names in the mix for the first time.

Well done all

Come on England


1. Curt Driver
2. Nigel Senior
3. Mark Trafford
4. Matt Jones
5. Matt Knight
6. Joe Oakley
7. Phil Osborne
8. Simon Coleman
9. Dave Ingram
10. Alan Donovan
11. Martin Cole
12. Martin Smith

Reserves
Stuart Mepham
Gerry Fitzjohn
Stuart Carruthers
John Slee

Curt

[dipper]

Hi Curt , can I ask how the players are selected ??

[milko]

More practice for the Open ?

I hope the organizers for the Sunday tournament can make sure that the players who play on the Saturday do not go on any table they played the day before in the first round of the Open. This would help all the mere mortals that don't get that chance.

Good luck to all taking part and Happy Christmas everyone.

Hope to make a return one day.

Keith

[curtd]

Dec 5, 2022 17:56:00 GMT dipper said:

Hi Curt , can I ask how the players are selected ??

Hi

We have 7 players from 5 different counties who make up the selection team. We normally meet before the AEBBA AGM. Nigel supply’s stats for around the top 30 players for the previous year and sends them out to all those involved.
We all pick our own top 12 in the order of preference . For those that attend we then go round the room and give our selections in order including reserves. Then its just a case of who has the most votes gets in.
The top 6/7 players are usually unanimous then the votes can get lower as we get to the last places. This seems to be a fair way of doing it . I’ve been involved in this process for the last 7/8 years and I may be wrong but I think there has been someone new into the team in most years.

It’s always good to see new names appear on the selections but this is always as a result of them playing well and getting through to latter stages of competitions.

Thanks

Curt

[curtd]

Dec 5, 2022 18:38:08 GMT milko said:

More practice for the Open ?

I hope the organizers for the Sunday tournament can make sure that the players who play on the Saturday do not go on any table they played the day before in the first round of the Open. This would help all the mere mortals that don't get that chance.

Good luck to all taking part and Happy Christmas everyone.

Hope to make a return one day.

Keith

Hi Keith

That’s definitely something to look at but 7 of the England team may well be playing in the local Sussex comps that day as well so could be difficult to make sure no one plays on a table they may be on in first round of the open. I’m no expert when it come to scheduling but it could be difficult I guess ??

Curt

[dipper]

Thanks Curt for the info, sounds fair, some of the top rated players are not in the team, is that because they are not available ??

[curtd]

Dec 7, 2022 17:17:03 GMT dipper said:

Thanks Curt for the info, sounds fair, some of the top rated players are not in the team, is that because they are not available ??

Some of the top players have informed me over the last 6/7 years that they don’t want to be considered for selection anymore. Some top players haven’t performed as well as they used to in opens so that opens the door for others who have performed to get spoken about . There’s no exact science to it really but the stats Nigel produces do help as it can be difficult to remember who has done what over the course of a year.

Thanks Curt

[oge]

Guernsey players for England international 3rd June

Darren Ogier captain
Ian champion
Paul le gallez
Leon Ogier
Ash Harrison
Bob McKenzie
Kyran Perkins
Chris Bourgaize
Bob chapple

Team to face England ladies 29th April

Roy le page captain
Leon Ogier
Matt Wilcox
Norman Wilkinson
Luke bush
Ben Wilding
Claire Gauvain
Carla Allen

[oge]

England ladies team to face guernsey

captain michelle baden,
jean brackenridge,
anita blackman,
karen bacchus,
sue oakley,
terri king,
paula kemsley

[jordans]

Good luck to the England Ladies - kind of wishing I was there now :(

[oge]

Guernsey team to face England in Sussex has grown by 2. Luke and Adrian bush. With one more pending.

[tommo III]

So what happened in the two Internationals ? It seems to have gone all quiet on the Western Front !

[bobhall]

May 4, 2023 19:03:01 GMT tommo III said:

So what happened in the two Internationals ? It seems to have gone all quiet on the Western Front !

Copied from Facebook by oge

Guernsey retain the interinsular v jersey. Trevor Gallienne becomes the individual channel island champion. And a Guernsey select team beat the England ladies in the international.

Good night at the office.

[tommo III]

Thanks Bob.
Perhaps Darren would care to provide some further details such as the score-lines for the two matches, and who Trevor beat in the C.I. Championship.    For the Timeline.

Would like to add a comment that Guernsey are no longer the poor relations and are now a force to be reckoned with, especially on home soil:
Bob Chapple winning his second Open, and an all-Guernsey Pairs final.

[BB Warrior]

May 4, 2023 23:16:23 GMT tommo III said:

Perhaps Darren would care to provide some further details such as the score-lines for the two matches, and who Trevor beat in the C.I. Championship.    For the Timeline.

Trevor beat Dave Lomax in the C.I. Championship Singles, I believe it was Trevor's 25th appearance in the final which is a truly remarkable record.

In the Inter-Island game, Guernsey retained the cup on aggregate score. I know that Trevor gave Guernsey a good start with a 10k score in the first, only for Dave Lomax to level the match with 7k in the second game. I am not sure who played the next 2 games (I was scoring one of the Guernsey Select v England Ladies games) but I believe that they were both won by Guernsey in fairly close games, Emma Noel pulled a leg back for Jersey in an incredible 5th leg against Paul Dyer (she won on the last ball with a score of 260 v 220 after both players had lost numerous scores) which left Graham Le Monnier needing to win the last leg by about 7-8k to win the match for Jersey, he did win but not by enough to take the match.

The Guernsey Select team won by a fairly comfortable margin against the England Ladies Team, although a lot of the games were very close and could have gone either way.

[tommo III]

Thanks Dave, should give me enough to go on to add something meaningful.
Well done on your Runner-up achievement in the 2023 Guernsey Open.

[oge]

Tommo do you have an email I can send all the info to. As I have it as photos

[Chris_Sav]

For the forum, results are best easily typed into Excel, copied  and the 'tablify' function used to generate the nice tables on the forum.

[tommo III]

May 6, 2023 5:06:56 GMT oge said:

Tommo do you have an email I can send all the info to. As I have it as photos

Hi Darren,
That would be great.
I have PM'd you my eMail address.

tommo

[Sir Chancelot]

Will the results for the International Guernsey Select v England Ladies count towards Ranking Points ?

[curtd]

May 6, 2023 16:35:12 GMT Sir Chancelot said:

Will the results for the International Guernsey Select v England Ladies count towards Ranking Points ?

There hasn’t been ranking points in internationals for many years so there will be none for this match.

Thanks

Curt

[Sir Chancelot]

Carla will be disappointed.

[tommo III]

Inter-Insular	2023	(at KGV playing fields)	29/04/2023
GUERNSEY		JERSEY
Trevor Gallienne	10500	Nigel Ryall	1650
Darren Ogier	480	Dave Lomax	7220
Paul Le Gallez	4200	Jenny Noel	1370
Mat Ogier	5230	Sean Le Beuvant	3160
Paul Dyer	220	Emma Noel	260
Ian Champion	2370	Graeme Le Monnier	3530
3		3
Aggregate score	23000	Aggregate score	17190

Guernsey win on aggregate.

(Many thanks to Oge for providing the above)

[tommo III]

2023 International	Singles,dbl legs		(at KGV playing fields)	29/04/2023
GUERNSEY SELECT			ENGLAND LADIES
Ben Wilding	1080	0	Jean Brackenridge	5400	3
Carla Allen	2330	2	Karen Bacchus	2020	1
Roy Le Page	9710	3	Teri King	1160	0
Leon Ogier	3800	2	Caroline Jones	3600	1
Norman Wilkinson	3820	3	Anita Blackman	2960	0
Matt Wilcox	7350	3	Michelle Baden	2460	0
Claire Gauvain	3000	3	Paula Kemsley	1140	0
Luke Bush	5720	3	Sue Oakley	1610	0
Result		19			5
2023 International	Pairs,over 4 legs		(at KGV playing fields)	29/04/2023
GUERNSEY SELECT			ENGLAND LADIES
Roy/Leon	13730	5	Jean/Karen	5930	0
Ben/Carla	7150	3	Anita/Paula	8020	2
Matt/Luke	5720	3	Caroline/Sue	5960	2
Norman/Claire	6080	3	Michelle/Teri	4050	2
Result		14			6
Overall Result	Gsy Select	33		Eng Ladies	11

(Many thanks to Oge for providing the above)

[curtd]

Pairings for Sat 3rd June

Curt Driver / Alan Donovan
Nigel Senior / Martin Smith
Mark Trafford / Martin Cole
Matt Jones / Simon Coleman
Matt Knight / Joe Oakley
Phil Osborne / Dave Ingram

[oge]

Guernsey team and pairs now confirmed.

Darren Ogier and kyran Perkins
Ian champion and bob McKenzie
Paul le gallez and Adrian bush
Bob Chapple and ash Harrison
Leon Ogier and Chris Bourgaize
Luke bush and Robbie help

[Auntie Pauline]

England Ladies team

I am pleased to say these are the Ladies playing against the Guernsey/ Jersey Ladies on Saturday 3rd June at the Roffey Club.

Pauline Withey (Captain)
Jean Brackenridge
Dawn Jordan
Michelle Baden
Jenny Florey
Anita Blackman

Ladies pairings are :-

Jean/Jenny
Pauline/Anita
Dawn/Michelle

Wishing you all good luck Ladies, enjoy the evening xx