Mid-Sussex Table Performances 2007/08

[BB Warrior]

Please find below the "End of Season Table Report" showing the total scores made by home and away teams in League Matches this season.

Information courtesy of the Old Fella. ;D

Home Team Performances

Pos Team            Total Points Team Average Player Average
 1  Hurst Club         294680        22668         4534
 2  Hurst B            248550        19119         3824
 3  Greyhound          248330        19102         3820
 4  Handcross Z        227510        17501         3500
 5  Droops             170890        13145         2629
 6  Watermill A        165320        12717         2543
 7  CKRBL              163510        12578         2516
 8  St Francis         156390        12030         2406
 9  Plough             145850        11219         2244
 10 Sportsman          128250        9865          1973
 11 Bravos             104680        8052          1610
 12 White Horse        100280        7714          1543
 13 Windmill           88050         6773          1355
 14 Watermill B        80110         6162          1232

Away Team Scores on Tables.

Pos Team            Total Points Team Average Player Average
 1  Hurst B            158170        12167         2433
 2  Hurst Club         154350        11873         2375
 3  Sportsman          153210        11785         2357
 4  Handcross Z        146880        11298         2260
 5  Bravos             145530        11195         2239
 6  White Horse        145290        11176         2235
 7  Greyhound          144570        11121         2224
 8  Watermill B        138650        10665         2133
 9  Plough             129890        9992          1998
 10 Windmill           122520        9425          1885
 11 CKRBL              121270        9328          1866
 12 Droops             118540        9118          1824
 13 Watermill A        116180        8937          1787
 14 St Francis         109800        8446          1689

[theoldfella (R.I.P.)]

Thank you Ros, you have prepared a table that is very friendly to visitors but is perhaps a little unkind to its home side. I remember the Hurst table being of the same ilk a few seasons ago, we couldn't work out why we couldn't score as many as everyone else could on our own top.

I don't think Big Norm uses the forum, but these tables do seem to show he really doesn't have a lot to grumble about, as The Watermill table is one of the most unfriendly to visiting teams.

[BB Warrior]

If you could let me have the figures for last season Roy, it would be interesting to see how these scores compare....??

Maybe then we could see which tables have improved..... ;D or have gone downhill (or in one case that I can think of - uphill with a severe left hand roll on it! >:() ...... ??? :o

[BB Warrior]

Jun 3, 2008 11:51:51 GMT theoldfella (R.I.P.) said:

Thank you Ros, you have prepared a table that is very friendly to visitors but is perhaps a little unkind to its home side. I remember the Hurst table being of the same ilk a few seasons ago, we couldn't work out why we couldn't score as many as everyone else could on our own top.

I don't think Big Norm uses the forum, but these tables do seem to show he really doesn't have a lot to grumble about, as The Watermill table is one of the most unfriendly to visiting teams.

Totally agree with you Roy, the Sportsman is a lovely table that is well looked after and in a really nice location with a very supportive landlord! Hopefully it will prove to a home for Ros and her team for many years to come. ;D

With regards to the Watermill table, we have seen 2 very different pictures of this table during the course of the season...... :o ???

After it had been looked at by Tarratts, the scores increased quite dramatically................ for a few weeks, before the rolls returned and it became almost unplayable according to some reports! :(

However, the evening that we played our match down there Norman had levelled the table (at BB Reapers request! ;)) and it played well. ;D

Proof I feel that any table can be improved with a little bit of TLC! 8-)

Was just looking back over the thread 'Table Conditions', which contains four pages of discussion, to find out when we turned the corner at Handcross: as you know, we weren't happy with it in the first half of the season.

And I found this:

Dec 16, 2007 23:45:34 GMT tommo III said:

You may expect the Handcross table to pick up from now on: Fed up with it playing like a dog, I went up there early last week and brushed it back to front, sprayed it with BCE Cloth Cleaner, and then laid the nap back down with the block smoother. It certainly seemed to put some life back into it. ;)

Well worth the effort, wouldn't you say ? ;)

[Ros]

Jun 3, 2008 11:51:51 GMT theoldfella (R.I.P.) said:

Thank you Ros, you have prepared a table that is very friendly to visitors but is perhaps a little unkind to its home side. I remember the Hurst table being of the same ilk a few seasons ago, we couldn't work out why we couldn't score as many as everyone else could on our own top.

Thanks for your kind comments Roy and Dave. 8-)

We have always believed that having a good home top is the only way to improve. Unfortunately we were unable to make this a reality in our last 2 seasons at the Victory.
By the time we had sorted out why the table was constantly changing (which didn't affect the away teams too much, but destroyed our confidence) we then had to contend with the table being put in an open ended shed every Thursday and brought back into the pub on a Monday morning.
We don't blame the Victory, they were short of space - indeed we are grateful to them for sticking by us until the end of the season, even though it was massively inconvenient to them.

All our team have started to play very much better and I believe this will continue as our confidence continues to grow and we start translating the bigger scores and bigger breaks we put together in practice to performances in matches. We knew that having a friendly top would put us on the wrong end of a few drubbings, but we believe that in the long run it will pay dividends.

From the wooden spoon last year, we have doggedly held on to third place all season, even though we have often struggled to field a full team.

Credit must, of course, go to Steve Mariner for recovering our table so well.

We are at the Sportsman, and having an enthusiastic and supportive landlord makes a huge difference - we too hope we (and he) will be there for years! 8-)

Congratulations to Hurst for having the best table in the league (I defy anyone to argue with that!) but also congratulations to the Farmer for the highest away break (at the Sportsman) and Mama Hall for the Ladies away break and highest away score (also at the Sportsman) ;D

[BB Warrior]

I thought I would revive this thread to show H how the tables in Mid-Sussex played last season......... ;)

Hopefully he will be able to read them a bit later when he is feeling better....!! ::) :P ;) ;D ;D