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2009

Our worst game of the year, seeing us drop from 2nd in the league to finish 4th after losing 3-8 at Sheepscar was completely obliterated by an amazing team performance in the cup final vs Nags Head.

Awesome stuff, lads!!!

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  • 2009-04-07

    So, you may have noticed that I've finally updated the pool site! Only took a season to get the back-end clever stuff working properly (I hope)

    Not many changes, other than it looking far nicer than it used to (big shout out to the design skills of Vinny and the clever coding of frugi!)

    Most of the content from the previous site is there, though I may have cunningly hidden it (top singles/doubles by season are now visible by looking at that season).
    I guess you'll find what you need by having a good trawl around.

    Now it's up and running, I'll look at bolting on some extra features so let me know if you've any ideas and I'll try to make them happen.

    Anyhow, enough about websites - bring on the pool!

  • 2009-03-27

    Again, congratulations for a great finish last season.
    Ended up 2nd in the league after showing some real character and battling back from a mediocre start.

    And kudos to Gav for a quality 2nd place in the Singles tournament and making the semis in the doubles too.

    With a couple of new players and a condensed core team, let's get out there and start scoring some wins.

  • 2008-06-20

    Congratulations to Sy for battling his way to a brilliant win in the singles competition!
    A small mistake gave Bob Johnson the only chance he needed to take the 1st.
    Then came the outrageous 8-ball clear from Sy after a dry break from Bob to tip the scales back to even.
    In the 3rd, the head was on and an unlucky double-kiss from Bob left Sy to make a good clear to take the match and the title!
    Great work Sy! and well done to Bob for being there in another final.

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Mexico beat France in the Worrrld Cup 2-0 tonight and I thought that was a great result until we recorded this baby, thoroughly deserved but against an opposition with some good players in their team but who collectively were clearly lacking confidence. We also outnumbered them in the bar, which is not gonna buy them many frames. Dom almost got a 9.5 in his singles but won at the 3rd attempt and I suppose that kind of summed up an easy vistory. Twice though their ball into the top left went down into the pocket and out again which is not gonna help them, Jamie Addams in particular losing out. Sy managed MVP and Brett recorded a confidence boosting singles win. Strangely Gav lost the frame but hardly made a mistake and I guess how his season is going, quite crazy really considering how good he is. This was a really good team effort. As we walked in as a unit we had them at 'hello'

2010-06-18