Wednesday 31 January 2007

Grange I v Tyne II (Wed, 31.01.07)

With Tyne placed 3rd from bottom, and a 15-6 win to Grange in the first half, expectations were high.

Al opened with a shakey start and frustrating 1-3 loss against Stuart Falconer.
but everyone else brought in the results:
Gerald put all memories of his loss in the first half to the female Tyne player Lisa out of his mind, until later in the bar, and beat Gerry Ireson 3-1.
Dougie beat the enormous Stephen Paul in a David and Goliath reenactment 3-0.
Mike beat John Booth 3-0, dropping only 4 points (good job too, I don't reckon Mike was fit for many more rallies).
and Allan "Richard and Judy" Hamer beat Shane Presley 3-0.

Franco didn't get a look in either, against Al's homemade lasagne. Any volunteers for our next home game - a valentine date with Dalgety Bay?

Dougie, Mike and Allan dropped a total of only 9, 4 and 6 points in their matches. Mike nearly clinches man of the match on this count, but this week it has to be:

Man of the match: Allan Hamer - in recognition of good effort through the season. And as this may be his last match for us, it was his last chance for this prestigious accolade.

Overall 4-1 (16-4 on points).


Next week we're away at Dean, who are 2nd from bottom. Our rivals for promotion took 15, 16 and 17 points off Dean in the first half, so we will want to do likewise - or better. Our first half result was 17-3 on home courts.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

With the table as below prior to this result....
Marco's Leisure 149
Watsonians 147
Grange 143
Waverley 130
we could be back in the hunt to win this division, as long as we get 16 points in most matches and beat both Marcos and Watsonians!

Anonymous said...

Grange certainly seem to be on a bit of a roll. Early season leaders, Watsonians 3, managed a good 17 point win this week at home to the students. However they travel to Tyne next Wednesday and will do well to raise five players at this rate. They aren't expecting to come back with many points.

I can't see Watsonians or Grange being relegated this season.

Anonymous said...

Grange I & II's ambitions are loftier than not being relegated, we need promotion to retain our stronger players.
Like Watsonians, we are subject to the vagaries of player availability and are about to lose 2 strong players to work placement for the rest of the season.