Team: Bob and Jo Debbie and James Fiona and John

Rare away win despite playing with colourful yellow plastics, Ash Green 2 is a new team with an age range of 14 to 68 ! We won the first 3 rubbers fairly easily; their first pair then began to play rather better taking both their remaining matches to 3 and eventually winning the final rubber. Good to see a couple of teenagers playing even though they were not quite ready for matches yet, they at least will get better unlike our ageing team, Jo apart.

Bob and Jo only conceded 25 points in the entire match, well played both. Debbie and James won all three. Fiona and John somehow managed not to win the final rubber despite taking the middle game 15-5, must be the pressure of joint captaincy !

Team: Bob and Fiona Debbie and Glyn JJ and John

Fiona and Bob won all 3, despite "easing up" (their view!!) in their final rubber and going to 3
JJ and John won 2 albeit their last was by default due to an ankle injury to the opposition lady
Debbie and Glyn picked up 1 but were very close in their final rubber losing 17-16 in the third.

A good result against a team that had come down from the division above

Many thanks to Tricia D for her "professional" help with the injury.

Team Debbie and Bob (2-1) Tricia and Glyn (0-3) Mary and John (3-0)

A very tight match that did not finish until 10 past 10 with Debbie and Bob "playing to the crowd" by going to 3 and finally triumphant at 15-12 to the huge relief of all those watching.
Tricia and Glyn went close in their first match and put in plenty of effort in their other rubbers but in the end were not able to gain a win.
Mary and John won all 3 despite taking the best part of an hour to win the first rubber 15-9 in the third against their 3rd pair !
Many thanks to Mary for helping out in the absence of Fiona.

Next match 15 November v Styvechale 2

Very close match with Fiona and John finally losing the deciding rubber 17-14 in the third at 10.40 pm....the crowd could barely watch, fortunately the bar was still just open.

Thanks to Tricia for standing in at short notice

Thanks again to Mary for standing in at short notice after Jo failed "a late fitness test" having overdone her return to club on Wednesday.

Thanks to Jo for standing in for JJ who is still hobbling on her injured knee, she hopes to be full fit again after Christmas.

Mixed 3 injury news .....JJ is on the mend and "back in training" Bob is fully strapped up (or is that clapped out) but insisting on playing on despite two dodgy knees, heroic or what... answers on a post card to ...

Mixed 3 injury news ...... Bob still reckons he has 20 years left in those legs despite the heavy strapping..... and JJ is available for matches again so things are looking up.

The result speaks for itself, we played below our ability in sub-zero temperatures, what a wonderful venue Barkers is in the winter only needed hanging icicles to finish off the atmosphere. The only saving grace with the cool conditions is that we had longer to discover whether Fiona had actually, by her own admission, forgotten to put her shorts on; she has problems dressing herself these days poor thing. Thanks to Harry for stepping in last minute as Mixed 3 once again found themselves short of players. Very little of positive note to mention about this match, Fiona & John did manage to take two of their rubbers to three but came up second best twice, at least the "après badminton" was more entertaining can't remember what we were laughing about but it was certainly raucous, probably some joke at Bob's expense.

A welcome return to "glorious victory" after the poor away result earlier in the week.

Once again unable to field our normal team with Glyn being unavailable and the supposed legion of spare players being also not able to play on Friday, many thanks to James for stepping in at the last moment.

Having only scrapped a 5-4 away win to CHA it felt good to post a comprehensive victory especially with Mixed 1 in the hall beating their opposition 9-0.

The result consolidates our mid table position with only 2 matches remaining.

Team News: Despite playing Netball before the match Fiona managed to turn up properly dressed this time, not a bib in sight.

This was always going to be a difficult match made worse by a severe lack of ladies able to play. We managed to turn out a team thanks to Tricia and Cathy but started effectively 3-0 down as Tricia is not eligible to play for Mixed 3. With no regular pairings possible it was more in hope than expectation that we set about trying to win 5 out of the 6 valid rubbers, there was no lack of effort but we were never in the match losing 8 out 9 in straight sets with only Tricia and James managing to take one of their rubbers to three. Thanks especially to Tricia, Cathy and Harry for turning out in a lost cause, at least we avoided being fined.

Thanks to all who played this season, and hopefully a more successful campaign next time out.