With a couple of reserves called in to cover for one international traveller and the Chairman who would much rather play in Stratford with plastics, and with two new members, the team coped very well. They had a sound 7-2 win against a reasonably strong team. Kwai and Terry, the new members, paired up to start what we hope will be a pairing which will go from strength to strength. Thanks to Leigh and Jon for covering so admirably. Well done team!!

Unfortunately the Chairman had to drop out during the warm up (nothing to do with the Captain’s insult, something about being 3-0 down ) so a valuable reserve, John, was grabbed just before he could start a club night game.

The match was a very tight affair and went down to the last 3 rubbers but the magnificent effort, well that was what the pairs said, was not quite enough and the final result was a loss 4-5. The visitors had a very useful first pair and none of our pairs could really get close to them. Overall a very decent effort.

Well played all and many thanks to John for standing in at the last minute.

Yet again Mens 2 had to call in reinforcements due to injury and unavailability, thanks to John and Matt for helping out, and Mark was feeling under the weather as well so I was not very optimistic. And so it proved.

The result went the same way as in the previous match, we lost, 6 – 3 this time against an Ernesford team who were out to NOT make my night!!

Anyway all of the team tried their hardest and my “banker pair” – Matt & Chris – well I think I said “banker pair”, could not quite make it a full house losing their first rubber in three but winning the other two. Roy & Mark worked extremely hard and were rewarded in their last rubber by winning quite easily against the pair that downed Matt & Chris’s colours. Terry & John did their best but unfortunately did not trouble the scorer.

All in all the last two matches were against two of the teams who will be battling for promotion so could be expected. Thanks to all of the team for their efforts.

Games were 17-7 and points 480-410 and 10 of the games we lost were 21-17 or closer including 2 which were 23-21, so we made them work very hard for the win.

It looks likely we will be safe but it would be nice if we could win the rest of our matches.

I would just like to thanks Ryan for carrying me in our games.