Hello darts fans
Another couple of weeks to catch up on and what a funny couple of weeks they were!
An away trip to the Queens Head followed by a home game against the Ex Servs A and two totally different games.
Firstly at the Queens, we seemed to playing well and found ourselves 5-2 down before we realised it. Oz and Moysie opened up and played a pretty good game right down until the end. To say they struggled to hit a double is a bit of an understatement, between the pair of them they couldn’t have finished a sentence! Needless to say we went one down. Two very good games from Hos and Glynn and Billy and Me got us ahead before Shoot em up and the Midnight Cowboy went on last. With Paul hitting three tons we were hoping to extend the lead but unfortunately they ran out of steam and we were all square at 2-2. before we had time to blink, Glynn (had peaked in the doubles), Oz (still couldn’t finish) and Stridey (unlucky) had all lost and we were behind 5-2. Two good games to pull us back from Hos and Bungle (once he got away) gave us hope but a loss from Paul left us needing the last two games to salvage a point. Fortunately Moysie and Me managed to hold our nerve and we got the point we all felt we deserved.
So to last week and the Ex Servicemens A. Having played well last week, we managed a complete turn around in form on Friday. We managed to win the opening doubles thanks to Billy and Me (well Billy really, no Billy totally) as he was the only one of the four to play well hitting a 140 on the way. The second of the doubles saw Clint and Moysie with a special one-off appearance from Magoo. Yes you’ve guessed it, one of those classic Ozzie short sighted moments that occur every now and then. On this occasion, with their player wanting 108, he threw one dart and asked what he had scored. Now Ozzie knows his eyesight is about as good as a bat with cataracts but he still tried to help and said 15 (treble 5). It was subsequently revealed that he had in fact hit 60 (treble 20) and could have gone for the finish. A brief discussion about the options saw the game continue from where it was and I think it was probably fair that we did in fact lose it to go 1-1. In Ozzie’s defence, there was no caller and we normally do not need them but a word of advice to any visiting teams that may read our blogs. If Ozzie steps up to chalk, please provide a caller, a checker, a spotter, a reserve spotter and someone up the bar with binoculars! Its for your own good! Anyway, after this we had two further wins for Hos and Glynn followed by Oz and Goochy (albeit the latter against 1 man) to give us a 3-1 lead going into the singles. The singles did not start very well with Me (if I pulled them any further to the left I would have to stand in the snooker room to hit the board) Hos (couldn’t start) and Bungle (not great) and we were 4-3 down. A win for Moysie (somehow) and a loss for Clint (played Harry in the best game of the night) and we were 5-3 behind. Good solid wins for Goochy and Oz to get us to 6 -5 and Glynn will claim he went on last and got us the win (no chance they only had seven and it was a walk over).
To sum up the night it must have been the worst darts match we have ever played against each other but somehow we got 2 points to keep us solidly mid table.
Lets hope we can find a bit more form and play better next week. Its nice to win but it feels better if you’ve played well to do it!
Ill let you know
See you soon
Atko
