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Match Report: Monday 3rd December 2007 – Bohemians v Almonds I apologize for the late production of an MR for our match on 3/12 against the Bohemians, St. Teresa’s Club. I have been in deep trauma for the past week, rendering my motor skills inactive, & can only assume this was brought on by the chocolate I missed out on, even though Compact was busy handing out lollipops to all the boys again…
Compact was in charge of proceedings, DoSA Reg being AWOL until later. Lodge & Turk were first up, & Lodge obviously found Divine Inspiration in his surroundings, surprising everyone with a 26. Turk complained loudly throughout his ups, finished on a 12 & said in far too loud a voice “at least I beat that little old man” – presumably not willing to risk any Hail Mary’s, ‘that little old man’ didn’t beat Turk around the ears with his stick. Compact had dared him to drop pins or he’d wish he’d left him at home after all, presumably having dragged Turk out in the first place, but completely unfazed Turk said he wished he could’ve stayed home as he wasn’t in the mood to play skittles anyway! That little tantrum over, the children left.
16 pins in the lead, next up we had AndyMan & Taffy. The kindest thing here is to say nothing at all: with 11 & 9 respectively our lead was diminished by 10 pins to leave us 6 up as Orical & aRCe had a go. Orical was a little disturbed at having to take his hands out of his pockets, fearing for coppers of a different kind as he half expected The Collection Box to be handed round any minute… being a conscientious objector of such things, he couldn’t concentrate on the task in hand & finished on 11. aRCe, who it was remarked upon is arriving later & later at our games, just like the post, fared twice as well despite the usual abuse, adding 23 to the board. Their efforts saw the game all evened out at half time, & Compact now chose to play Wiggle with Sparky.
This decision was questioned, by whom I don’t recall, but it was decided to let it lie & put down to our Craptain moving in mysterious ways – to which aRCe piped up “you’ve seen him walk as well then”!! Compact felt the time was right for some ‘slow’ skittlers, & considering the venue I have decided to take on faith that he only meant bowling wise… I was very nearly brilliant, save for one stupid fcuking dcuk – Hammer put me off, otherwise I’d have been assured a 34. As it was I had to settle for 25, pulling 1 pin on my Bohemian & leaving Sparky to take care of pulling another 5 with his 26 to put us 6 pins back in front again. Sparky would have been assured a 30+ as well had it not been for the fact he threw the worst ball that anybody has ever seen him throw – straight down the gully: he claims the ball hit his foot before careening down the gully, & with no-one wishing to incur the wrath of any sort of God we turned a blind eye.
DoSA turned up just as the 4th pair finished, so Compact walloped his name up on the board next to peRV’s. Whether this tactic was anything to do with the fact that DoSA tried to take Compact’s seat I don’t know, but he ended up sat amongst the riff-raff instead whilst Compact reclaimed his turf. peRV played a blinder to start – or do I mean ‘blind’? After 2 dcuks he took 6 pins out with his first ball on his 3rd up & everyone cheered, but Compact remarked that he bet peRV wouldn’t get any more: that man’s ability to prophesise is uncanny, even Orical is impressed with CD’s second sight & how he’s right every time…. even when we wish he wasn’t! peRV put 12 on the board, whilst Craptain – whom Orical was disappointed not to be able to rename RIP after establishing Reg’s middle name was definitely not Ian – scored 18, which saw us drop 2 pins to be 4 in front as the ‘ankers did their worst.
Orical ruined my Rumpelstiltskin game by taking first guess when I refused to tell Compact my own middle name… but my disappointment was short lived once Hammer was on the alley & the whole horse issue reared up again. Hammer, playing 1st ‘anker to Chuckle 1 as 2, was in civvies & when questioned why said that he had thrown his team shirt out after last week. The Boys reckoned that a more likely story was a horse down at HallEn was wearing it, & that it was a perfect fit! Barnesy was the only one who tried to sympathise with Hammer, by looking on the bright side & telling him he should be glad his initials aren’t GG…
Anyhoo, both ‘ankers managed a 28, pulling 13 pin to give us a healthy win by 17 pins over the Bohemians, who conceded defeat graciously as you would expect of good Catholic folks.
Next match was Tuesday 11/12 on our home alley against Greystoke!
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