......"THE BEST PERFORMANCE EVER"

Hi Guys

I know it has been a while since you heard from me but I have been having a lazy break in the Canary Islands. The night before I went I knew there would not be much to report as we were away to the world famous Ex Servicemens HG and were bound to get the usual thumping. WRONG! God only knows what happened but on a night which saw the greatest giant killing upset since David beat Goliath, Andy Murray beat Rafael Nadal and Norwich City beat....well anyone really, the Potty B Team did themselves proud and won the match!. Not only did we win, but we won 8-4 after going 3-1 up in the doubles AND having darts to win the other game! We managed to keep it going through the singles for the best performance ever by the B Team. Well done lads. I would just like to take this opportunity to thank the boys from the A Team for their belief and support on the way to this victory. At 6-3 up I sent a text to advise them of the situation and, as you would expect received great words of encouragement. Not just the usual “well done”” or “keep it going” but their own special praise “can you send me a photograph of the scorecard because we don’t believe you”! Cheers lads!

In light of this great achievement I tried to report in from abroad but by the miracle of modern science and technology (coupled with my inexperience of internet cafes and lots of San Miguel) I am afraid I could not get the message sent.

While I was away, the team kept the great run going with a fine victory over the Queens Head before our run of four (yes four) straight wins was ended, not surprisingly by our A Team. (The Home Guard heard we were losing and asked for a copy of the scorecard because they didn’t believe it).

This brings us up to last Friday and a home game against the football club. To say the standard wasn’t great is being kind but given the way the darts went from both sides the final result of 6-6 was probably fair. Special mention to Paul Tyler who played a great game and we are now looking forward to Friday. Regular readers wishing to know where we are playing please think back to an earlier report – if we haven’t played the Ex Servicemens for a couple of weeks they are probably next! This time we are away to the “C” team.

See you soon

Quiff

THE BIG ONE A V'S B

(Gottsfreecabs) - how does he drive with just a head?

What a match up! The Pot Black legends vs. the EX Serv HG destroyers.

Predictable result though! 10 - 2 to the 'A' team and Danny only let Shaun win as he was getting slightly agitated with the excess noise from Fluffy and PH.

Oh sorry! My mistake, Hud (Paul) wasn't with us this evening, which was good in one sense as he would have been my doubles partner!!! Not for the first time this year, Hud had left us to spend a night with his work colleague, Becky (The one he's apparently not interested in) at Boogie Nights! Not sure on all the details yet, but you could ask DG (Gottsfreecabs.com) as he went to pick them up about 03:00 in the morning!

Nice to see some other faces out that evening. Mr Chillingworth (Fisherman), Vinyl (Nick Marsham), and Vinyl's mate 'Crazy Drinker'! Crazy drinker looked drunk at about 22:00 that evening but was the only one still drinking at 02:30 in the morning round Vinyl's, very impressive indeed!!!

Sorry for the delay guys!

Capt Cob,
Vice skip,
Linx

A-Team 19/9/08

Got a draw with the Ole Frank! Brilliant!

Matt was on last and even got beat with his 100th 180 of the season! Thanks for playing Kelvin.

Slipped up after the B-Team gave us a helping hand, typical!

Enough Said

Captain 'Mega Cob' Linx

SORRY!!!!!!

As you all know this friday I went out with the people from work and missed my 2nd darts match of the season (no 'Tony the quiff' Atkinson did not pay me off to increase the B teams chances) as usual it has taken me a couple of weeks longer than everyone else to realise I am being a bit of a d**k and I feel an apology is in order as I missed Gary 'fluffy' Flatts wet the baby's head night,sorry mate and congratulations as i wasn't there i'm sure you then got promoted to number 1 t**t for the night and that is a title I wouldn't wish on anyone, being the reigning champ in this area, I should know what its like. Just to cheer you all up I can confirm that on this evening I began drinking at an exceptionally late 8.15 (usually on my 6th) no fun was had (adult behaviour), at no point could I let out the trademark laugh (very out of character) I didn't make a fool of myself or lose any money at silly pub games, overall I wasn't loving it and I'm sure you all had a better night than me as you lot probably could not stop laughing at my expense. Well played guys a good win against the Homeguard slayers and i will be back next week to have the p*ss taken out me on a regular basis, and will be seen at the bar at 7-12pm for the rest of the season.

Paul 'Weekendsportsman' Harrod
(in the doubles for the rest of his life)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Congratulations to Fluffy and his wife. They have had their second baby, Ethan James Fluff born on 16.09.08 at 20:12 weighing 8lbs 7oz.

12/9/08 A-Team V's Seabreeze

Sorry it's a little late again guys! I'm making sure I don't have to do 4 in a row again!

Firstly I must say a big thank you to the 'B' side for giving us an advantage over the Ex Serv 'HG' so early in the season as they beat them 8 - 4. Well done guys, lets hope we can do our bit now???

Lets get the wise cracks out of the way now.....

When you walk into the Pot Black around 19:00 you'd expect to see one of the bigger drinkers, HUD (Paul) already supping away!!! Oh he was there, but he was drinking "HALF PINTS" of larger! He had a crap excuse for it as well.....

He'd already been on a date with a "colleague" from work, I know what you're thinking, but this was actually a female! Well, he told us then that he'd made his mind up after around half an hour that he wasn't interested in her, but DG (Gottsy) said they were all over each other in the back of "Gottsfreecabs" that evening at around 03:00.

Well I gave Weekend Sportsman (Paul) the benefit of the doubt, as I know how people can exaggerate stories about you! Especially if you go for a Ruby and order a Vin - da - spoo, Doh!

After asking about the sissy half pints he was consuming it was down to this "colleague" from work again (by the way her name is Becky). So this is a second date then HUD (Paul) ? I'm sure you've told me before that no woman can come before your drinking and darts, but I guess you've bent the rules quite a bit here! She popped across from the wine lodge to see HUD (Paul) and wanted him to go back with her! HUD (Paul) put his foot down and persuaded her to stay which cost him a few drinks. At this point no-one had anything to say, as he'd done pretty well for himself as the lads and I thought she was rather tempting. Of course we contemplated about what was wrong with her as she was interested in HUD (Paul) but maybe it was his irresistible laughter!!!!!

The laughter may have been the attraction you know? On a couple of occasions during the evening we could hear the cackling giggles from Weekend Sportsman (Paul) only to find out they were coming from Becky! This was the thing they had in common with each other (apart from drinking and working in the bank)!

They left to go up Hush as I went with DG to his second home, Broadview (Not South Africa).

See you Friday HUD (Paul). It's nice to see you with a decent woman mate. Me and Fluffy are short of a stag for 2010 if you were planning anything?

Just some harmless fun HUD! You'll get you own back as usual no doubt!

Capt Cob (Linx)
Vice Skip

PS - We won 12 - 0

05/09/08 A-TEAM V's K.W.M.C

My eyes are bleeding now! I can't keep this up!

Anyone else getting pissed off with that Sultana channel keep showing the England games?

Firstly I have to apologise to Serious (Matty) as I missed out his 180 from last week.

05/09/08 vs K.W.M.C.

HUD was back to strengthen the side this week, but unfortunately Dunston (al) was playing cards and couldn't make it to darts!

This looked like a formality from the start and after a 4 - 0 lead from the doubles things looked comfortable for us. Particularly comfortable for Serious (Matty) and Smasher (Georgey) as they hit 180, 140, 180, 60, 78 to finish their leg off (Serious hitting the big ones there). Natural joined in the fun this week with a decent performance and a 180 in the doubles! Fluffy was teasing me about the Chesney already as I had been drawn out last in the singles!

Serious up in the singles and made short work of J Weavers (get in there) with a 17 dart game, including 108st, 121, 132. Then things started to go wrong! Liquids (Kelvin) had what we thought was an easy match against D Rogers as he'd averaged around 26 a throw in the doubles! Liquids would have settled with 26 a throw himself as he played like a puppet and lost! Smasher (Georgey) missed two at a double which let in the very dodgy D Cable for a win and now 5 - 2. After a ten minute wait, super team player Sheepy (Spence) turned up to dispatch of their player D Hewitt, who Liquids (Kelvin) would have even had a chance to beat!!!

6 - 2 now and the draw was secure, but we were chasing legs to keep in tact with the Ex Serv HG! Well the legs were out of the window as we lost the next two and at 6 - 4 with HUD (Paul) and Me left we were now concentrating on the win and not the legs or a Chesney! HUD was up against Action Jackson who is probably their best player so we were concentrating on the final game and hoping that Capt Cob would have enough bottle to come through against Buster!

We were correct to write off HUD as Action was on a double with HUD still in the 300's! 30 darts later saw Hud get a chance on a 100+ finish but no joy! Action missed again, and HUD made no mistake this time to get the 7th leg (Thank Fook). Last game was easy with no pressure and a 97 finish in two darts secured the 8 - 4 result.

Serious (Hooky) you were amazing this week, so keep it up! The rest can learn a lot from him apart from Dunston (Al) who wasn't there and Natural (Ed) who's lost three on the spin and is unlikely to get another chance this week!!!!

Other Matters

Gottsy still finding it hard to pull anything but a muscle at Broadview, but we love you for driving each week!

Paul managed a little kiss with a pretty young lass this Saturday, so the rumour has it!

Statistic's so far

MOST WINS - M. HOOK
MOST 101's - M. HOOK
MOST HIGH STARTS - M. HOOK
MOST 180's - M. HOOK
HIGHEST START - M. HOOK
LEAST DARTS -M. HOOK

Finished at last!

I don't want anyone moaning about the content in these blog pages as it is really hard to try and be funny when you're writing for over three hours!!!!

See you all soon.

Capt Cob
Linx