POT BLACK LOST 8V6
But I checked out 9!!!!!
Friday, 29 May 2009
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
THE WRITING'S ON THE WALL
Pot Black Under 15's, Ready and the resident Pot Black peado Senior Wall (the only player above 50 with a group of kids around him) went into this game flying high after the previous weeks draw. During the week, there were various injury doubts with Butchers leg somewhat falling off again and new starlet Liam Harvey suffering from an STD on the side of his elbow. However, after much worrying, the team came together and Senior Wall was bolstered by the return of Liam (missile darts) Harvey, Simon (I don't need practice) Blyth and Max (I don't want to play) Wall to the squad which lead to Peter (ringer) Baker not even making the starting 10.
The quadruples and trebles were shared alike to the last week. Double 2 got a peppering with each Pot Black finish coming on this low double (shows the high standard of darts). Notable performances were from Chris (Even more snail) Read and Max (Maybe I do want to play occasionally) Wall who's scoring was impressive throughout.
The singles got under way with a 123 and 100 from Butcher on the way to an emphatic victory (double 2 finish again) which left Senior (peado) Wall distinctly unamused "Why can't the prat ever do that in the doubles as my partner?!" Aaron (has he ever thrown a dart) Cooper was up next with a resounding defeat before Adam (the blonde Wade) Bird got undone by a superb 138!!!! finish. The score was at 5-4 and up next was the previous weeks superstar Jason (same top) Russell. The crowd waited impatiently for what surely would be a certain victory. To there dismay, he was SHOCKING. With not one score over 26, the end of season drinking funds were looking arousingly good. Ash (Chris Griffin from Family Guy) Moore was up next and fell to a man who looked certain to have been a german soldier in the 1st World War (he was too old to have fought in the 2nd world war). Simon (steady) Blyth pulled one back to leave the score perched at 6-5. Senior (flick) Wall was below par with his usual flick ending up more like a nervous twitch by the end of his dour defeat and meant PB could now only salvage a draw. Chris (drunken snail) Read stormed out of the blocks with rumours going around that he was Mervyn Kings new practice partner. However, the heat of the lights and PB oche got the better of him, and similar to Andy Fordham, he began to feel faint and found it hard to hit anything other than the big 1. The crowd were relieved that they didn't have to perform any resuscitation techniques at the end of the loss. Ready has handed in his sick note and will be unavailable for selection for the next 2 weeks (Oh no, what a disaster). Liam (missile) Harvey was up last and lived up to his name to pull a consolation leg back in style, by far the best leg of the night. Senior Wall was rather unhappy though after he found that the underpinning from his foundations of the dart board wall needs replacing after the sheer force of power that Harvey throws his darts with.
Please note- Darren (tonne head "I'm gonna win") Laws was not present in this weeks singles after failing to live up to his previous weeks hype.
All and all, another great week of darts with another impressive and surprising result!! Lets keep it up!!
BREAKING NEWS- A recent theory has leaked that it wasn't actually Jason (same top) Russell who stormed to a first week miraculous singles victory...it has emerged that Shagggggggyyyyy was actually the player but the dark lights in Ex Servicemans lead to no PB member noticing! Scoooooobyy Dooooobyy Dooooooooo.
Next game- Dutchmans.
The quadruples and trebles were shared alike to the last week. Double 2 got a peppering with each Pot Black finish coming on this low double (shows the high standard of darts). Notable performances were from Chris (Even more snail) Read and Max (Maybe I do want to play occasionally) Wall who's scoring was impressive throughout.
The singles got under way with a 123 and 100 from Butcher on the way to an emphatic victory (double 2 finish again) which left Senior (peado) Wall distinctly unamused "Why can't the prat ever do that in the doubles as my partner?!" Aaron (has he ever thrown a dart) Cooper was up next with a resounding defeat before Adam (the blonde Wade) Bird got undone by a superb 138!!!! finish. The score was at 5-4 and up next was the previous weeks superstar Jason (same top) Russell. The crowd waited impatiently for what surely would be a certain victory. To there dismay, he was SHOCKING. With not one score over 26, the end of season drinking funds were looking arousingly good. Ash (Chris Griffin from Family Guy) Moore was up next and fell to a man who looked certain to have been a german soldier in the 1st World War (he was too old to have fought in the 2nd world war). Simon (steady) Blyth pulled one back to leave the score perched at 6-5. Senior (flick) Wall was below par with his usual flick ending up more like a nervous twitch by the end of his dour defeat and meant PB could now only salvage a draw. Chris (drunken snail) Read stormed out of the blocks with rumours going around that he was Mervyn Kings new practice partner. However, the heat of the lights and PB oche got the better of him, and similar to Andy Fordham, he began to feel faint and found it hard to hit anything other than the big 1. The crowd were relieved that they didn't have to perform any resuscitation techniques at the end of the loss. Ready has handed in his sick note and will be unavailable for selection for the next 2 weeks (Oh no, what a disaster). Liam (missile) Harvey was up last and lived up to his name to pull a consolation leg back in style, by far the best leg of the night. Senior Wall was rather unhappy though after he found that the underpinning from his foundations of the dart board wall needs replacing after the sheer force of power that Harvey throws his darts with.
Please note- Darren (tonne head "I'm gonna win") Laws was not present in this weeks singles after failing to live up to his previous weeks hype.
All and all, another great week of darts with another impressive and surprising result!! Lets keep it up!!
BREAKING NEWS- A recent theory has leaked that it wasn't actually Jason (same top) Russell who stormed to a first week miraculous singles victory...it has emerged that Shagggggggyyyyy was actually the player but the dark lights in Ex Servicemans lead to no PB member noticing! Scoooooobyy Dooooobyy Dooooooooo.
Next game- Dutchmans.
Max 'Jnr Wally' Wall
Friday, 22 May 2009
MINI CIDER CUP PART 2
Paul "TW@T" Harrod vs. Tony "QUIFF" Atkinson
Tw@t was at a wedding the evening of the mini cider cup so had asked Fluffy to fill in for the captaincy duties!
A 3 hour happy hour was on offer so most people had turned up promptly to take advantage of the offer!
The Players
15 players were in attendance which made it a little awkward but after several suggestions we decided to draw names out on the 7 man team to play in spare position!
The toss of the coin went to Fluffy which gave him the all important first pick!
The Teams
The Extra Man
Fluffy had now numbered all of Tony's squad 1 - 7 so that we could determine who would play twice in the singles, double and fours!
Fours - Linx
Doubles - Hidesy
Singles - Linx
Not too bad for Tony's team in deed. He was quite happy with the extra man in each and felt he was slightly favourite!!!!!
The Draw
The fours were picked and could go either way. They looked fairly even and it would all come down to hitting the double, hey Tony!
The doubles next and I feel this is where we got some of it wrong (apart from picking Chillo)! The pairs looked even enough to be fair so we should have a good match lined up so far.
The singles next and again I feel the Captain got this wrong (apart from picking Chillo)! Wasting himself against Fluffy and expecting Chillo to beat Gemma was in hindsight a little too optimistic!
The Cob
I was asking Fluffy for the two weeks leading up to the event if I need to bring my darts along! He said that you all have to use the clubs darts so that it makes it more interesting! "ARE YOU SURE MATE?" - "Yes for Fcuk sake Lincoln, you can't use your own darts!" "Ok Fluffy, just wanted to be sure."
Before we started I asked Wally what darts he had in the tin to use and everyone said they are using their own, that's what we did last time!!!
Brilliant I thought! No wonder he didn't pick me then!
I must have sulked for only a couple of days from then till after the event so I think I took it rather well!
The Result
Final score going into the quiz was 10 - 4 to Fluffy (TW@T)
The result was somewhat disappointing if you were on Tony's team! All the matches seemed fairly even apart from:
The doubles,
Hooky vs Me,
Stridey vs Tyler
Gottsy vs Yiddo
Hos vs Oz
and of course Gemma vs Chillo
The game of the night
Best match by far (to watch) was Gemma vs Chillo. If he looks nervous playing on a Friday in the summer league then that was nothing compared to how unsteady his arm was! He was first to get away and probably had 15-21 darts start on Gemma which meant she was trailing by around 75 points at this stage! He also got down to the double first and had 15-21 darts to win the league and get us winning again as we were currently 5 - 1 down from the fours and doubles!
Eventually after wasting so many darts at the double he finally managed to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lose the leg! The roof nearly came off and I'm talking about both teams supporters as it was bl00dy brilliant! Well done to you Gemma x
The Quiz
With a 6 point deficit to claw back it looked almost impossible for our team to pull themselves out of this! But with Wally not knowing any of the answers and Kevin sneaking into our team he wasn't so sure! The quiz finished 21 points to 20 points in favour of Tony's team so I make the final result 1 - 1 but according to the official rules it was a 5 point massacre by Fluffy's team!
Player of the Evening
Fluffy had now numbered all of Tony's squad 1 - 7 so that we could determine who would play twice in the singles, double and fours!
Fours - Linx
Doubles - Hidesy
Singles - Linx
Not too bad for Tony's team in deed. He was quite happy with the extra man in each and felt he was slightly favourite!!!!!
The Draw
The fours were picked and could go either way. They looked fairly even and it would all come down to hitting the double, hey Tony!
The doubles next and I feel this is where we got some of it wrong (apart from picking Chillo)! The pairs looked even enough to be fair so we should have a good match lined up so far.
The singles next and again I feel the Captain got this wrong (apart from picking Chillo)! Wasting himself against Fluffy and expecting Chillo to beat Gemma was in hindsight a little too optimistic!
The Cob
I was asking Fluffy for the two weeks leading up to the event if I need to bring my darts along! He said that you all have to use the clubs darts so that it makes it more interesting! "ARE YOU SURE MATE?" - "Yes for Fcuk sake Lincoln, you can't use your own darts!" "Ok Fluffy, just wanted to be sure."
Before we started I asked Wally what darts he had in the tin to use and everyone said they are using their own, that's what we did last time!!!
Brilliant I thought! No wonder he didn't pick me then!
I must have sulked for only a couple of days from then till after the event so I think I took it rather well!
The Result
Final score going into the quiz was 10 - 4 to Fluffy (TW@T)
The result was somewhat disappointing if you were on Tony's team! All the matches seemed fairly even apart from:
The doubles,
Hooky vs Me,
Stridey vs Tyler
Gottsy vs Yiddo
Hos vs Oz
and of course Gemma vs Chillo
The game of the night
Best match by far (to watch) was Gemma vs Chillo. If he looks nervous playing on a Friday in the summer league then that was nothing compared to how unsteady his arm was! He was first to get away and probably had 15-21 darts start on Gemma which meant she was trailing by around 75 points at this stage! He also got down to the double first and had 15-21 darts to win the league and get us winning again as we were currently 5 - 1 down from the fours and doubles!
Eventually after wasting so many darts at the double he finally managed to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lose the leg! The roof nearly came off and I'm talking about both teams supporters as it was bl00dy brilliant! Well done to you Gemma x
The Quiz
With a 6 point deficit to claw back it looked almost impossible for our team to pull themselves out of this! But with Wally not knowing any of the answers and Kevin sneaking into our team he wasn't so sure! The quiz finished 21 points to 20 points in favour of Tony's team so I make the final result 1 - 1 but according to the official rules it was a 5 point massacre by Fluffy's team!
Player of the Evening
Gemma! She scored 100+ in all her three matches including a bull in each of those scores and beat Chillo!
Worst performing dart player
Yiddo! He knows that he's rubbish and he did lose to Gottsy! Obviously it would have been Chillo but the award had "dart player" in the title.
Biggest Cob on during the night
Wally! Despite my reaction to people using their own darts at the start of the night it still goes to Wally. When we had to chase a 6 points gap in a 25 point quiz we noticed Kevin and his Wife turn up for a drink and poached them to play in our team! After much debating Fluffy's team allowed this, or so we thought! When Kevin was conferring for a question Wally had had enough and ordered Kevin to leave if he couldn't keep quiet!
Best Organiser
Wally! as I'm trying to keep his support following the write up above.
Best Captain
Harrod 2 - 0 (TW@T)! Although he was not present he must have gave Fluffy clear instructions "You better fcuking win this"
Summary
It was an absolutely brilliant even being part of a losing team. Well done to Wally for the 3 hour happy hour and putting the event in motion. Thanks to all that turned up (apart from Chillo) and lets hope we can have another one very soon so I can bring my own darts along!
See you all when I see you!
Linx
Capt Cob
Vice Skip
Saturday, 16 May 2009
READO'S REPORT
GET YA DARTS OUT!!!!!!A new season and a new team, made up mainly of brand new dart players with an average age of 15 (only upped by Capitano Wally). The first game saw us drawn away against the Ex-Servicemen 'B' (probably best so the club's regular's couldn't take the juice out of us all-night!). There was an air of nervous tension and aprehension ahead of the teams 'first ever match', with most players down the club practising at 5 o'clock (unheard of in the winter, let alone the summer league!) Spirits were raised by the un-expected appearance's of past darting star Pete Baker and partner in crime Cess. The team were now optimistic that they could win at least 2 legs and BillyHills had an 11v3 defeat favourite at 4/9.
With a minimum of 8 players required for the match Belle's Coaches were surprised to get a booking for the Pot Black of a 56-seater to take the team to the Ex-Servies. On arrival the team were informed of the B-Team fines system, whereby any score of 26 or under would see you reaching for 10p and anyone scoring 101 or more would see the whole team delving for 10p. With this news on-hip most players jumped to the bar for a bag of 10's!!! (and not because they thought the team would be throwing tons for fun)
Aaron christened the team with a solid throw of 41 in the opening 4's match and to everyone's surprise 78 dart's later Baker lived up to his reputation and checked out 62 to see the Pot Black 1v0 up (yes winning!!!) Just what the team needed, they now could start believeing. The next few legs were shared and after the 4's and doubles were completed the score stood at 3v3.
Incredible, but now to the singles, no-one to hold your hand anymore, just your own legs to stand on and own ability (or lack of it) to rely on! Adam 'James Wade Birdy' Bird was up first and by this stage (several pints later) every throw was cheered, whether it be 60 or 3 the team were so pleased to be involved it didn't matter. After umpteen darts at double 1 Pot Blacks first singles win was in the bag!!
With another win coming from the club's 2nd left-hander Jason 'Shaggy' Russell the score was 5v4 to the Pot Black with wild-card, banker to win Bakes up next..... could we go 6v4 up, sniffing for the win??? the answer... NO. Baker became the subject of most of the night's mickey taking by losing his leg when supposidly being the only capable dart player on the team. Butch restored the lead only for Wally to lose to leave the game all square at 6v6 with 2 to play.
Next up Ready (Me) with all three results still possible. Usual form followed with plenty of 10p scores mixed in with a 121. The leg ebbed and flowed until both players were left on a double, The B-Team had everything crossed hoping for me to hit a double to secure the draw..... 45 darts at a double later and the roar of Wally's W**kers could be heard ringing around the Ex-Servies as I cooly (shaking like a leaf) planted double 1 (classy finish)
Daaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrren 'Lawsy' Laws on for the win then. Bragging all night about how good he was and that he was the man to anchor the team. With this in mind we really believed that the unthinkable could happen... a WIN! Oh what a disappointment. With what only can be described as an 'AWFUL PERFORMANCE' (Captain's words) and £2.50 in fines later and Daaaaaarrrren secured the draw.
All in all a result the team could only dream of to start with and a thoroughly enjoyable night with laughs aplenty.... what it's all about!!!!
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