Hi guys
Its been a while since we had an update on the b team, sorry about that but I’ve been a bit stuck for time. Before Christmas we had a good run of games including a good draw away at the marquis and a good win away at the ex servs b, which keeps us well in the top half of the league. The first game after Christmas was the knock out cup and this proved harder to lose than we had thought! Amazing how much easier it is to play when you are not trying. This may sound a little strange but, as last year, it is very doubtful we can get a side to play on good Friday and we don’t want to get fined for getting through again so we had to make sure we didn’t. We didn’t think we would have too much trouble playing the lake lothing as we thought they would beat us easily anyway but the match was played in a very relaxed good spirit and we found ourselves unexpectedly winning legs. Fortunately they managed to hold out and beat us 5-4 and the game went a long way to repairing the damage between the two teams from previous encounters.
Since that we have played our first league game of 2011 and Christmas hangovers were very evident. Poor starting and poor finishing were the order of the night and we struggled to beat hearts of oak c 7-5 thanks to three excellent wins in the last three singles. Goochy who even had time for some showboating with a 66 finish (10, d16, d12), Oz who had a 180 hit against him and held on to check out on 93 and Glynn who was never in danger despite a magoo moment from Stridey on the chalks (yes chalks) who failed to see the winning dart in the double and made him throw another one. All in all a good two points to keep us right up there.
So what has happened over the Christmas period? Poor old Stavros has been laid up with a kidney stone and hasn’t been out, get well soon Darren, Judith King has jetted off to god knows where again and there have been lots of new year resolutions:
Wally has given up the club
Shaun has given up shaving
Moysie has given up hope of Ipswich getting promoted
Billy has given up dartitis
I’ve given up hope of west ham ever playing well again
Stridey has given up the Michael Jackson spin (or rather it has given him up since he showed up with a new friend, Si Attica – unpleasant individual, bit of a pain in the arse)
The score board has given up working (how quaint, a return to chalk and memories of cave paintings – maybe we can all learn how to throw spears again)
In addition to the score board, the club video covering the darts was also not on last week. Apparently this was not a malfunction but as with everything else these days it appears coverage has now moved to Sky so they can extort even more money for watching sport. Coverage of the pot black b team games will now be shown on Sky Sports 234 and home games against the ex servicemens hg will only be available on pay per view at a cost of 10p an hour.
All the best
Quiff
Its been a while since we had an update on the b team, sorry about that but I’ve been a bit stuck for time. Before Christmas we had a good run of games including a good draw away at the marquis and a good win away at the ex servs b, which keeps us well in the top half of the league. The first game after Christmas was the knock out cup and this proved harder to lose than we had thought! Amazing how much easier it is to play when you are not trying. This may sound a little strange but, as last year, it is very doubtful we can get a side to play on good Friday and we don’t want to get fined for getting through again so we had to make sure we didn’t. We didn’t think we would have too much trouble playing the lake lothing as we thought they would beat us easily anyway but the match was played in a very relaxed good spirit and we found ourselves unexpectedly winning legs. Fortunately they managed to hold out and beat us 5-4 and the game went a long way to repairing the damage between the two teams from previous encounters.
Since that we have played our first league game of 2011 and Christmas hangovers were very evident. Poor starting and poor finishing were the order of the night and we struggled to beat hearts of oak c 7-5 thanks to three excellent wins in the last three singles. Goochy who even had time for some showboating with a 66 finish (10, d16, d12), Oz who had a 180 hit against him and held on to check out on 93 and Glynn who was never in danger despite a magoo moment from Stridey on the chalks (yes chalks) who failed to see the winning dart in the double and made him throw another one. All in all a good two points to keep us right up there.
So what has happened over the Christmas period? Poor old Stavros has been laid up with a kidney stone and hasn’t been out, get well soon Darren, Judith King has jetted off to god knows where again and there have been lots of new year resolutions:
Wally has given up the club
Shaun has given up shaving
Moysie has given up hope of Ipswich getting promoted
Billy has given up dartitis
I’ve given up hope of west ham ever playing well again
Stridey has given up the Michael Jackson spin (or rather it has given him up since he showed up with a new friend, Si Attica – unpleasant individual, bit of a pain in the arse)
The score board has given up working (how quaint, a return to chalk and memories of cave paintings – maybe we can all learn how to throw spears again)
In addition to the score board, the club video covering the darts was also not on last week. Apparently this was not a malfunction but as with everything else these days it appears coverage has now moved to Sky so they can extort even more money for watching sport. Coverage of the pot black b team games will now be shown on Sky Sports 234 and home games against the ex servicemens hg will only be available on pay per view at a cost of 10p an hour.
All the best
Quiff
