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Well, it had to happen eventually, the Almonds pulling off a win, and all it took was playing a team 3 Divisions lower than us in the league! Anyone else feel like a playground bully when they left the battered remains of the Trebels behind at the Ardagh club Tuesday night? peRV’s Totty summed it up quite well when she said “We didn’t come second, we was slaughtered”.
We all found ‘the house on the hill’ with varying degrees of difficulty following CD’s helpful directions, and its inhabitants proved to be much more welcoming and friendly than the weather! What an odd place though, where you can’t see the alley at all except by watching the CCTV system – although with us all sat together for a change it felt quite cosy, almost like being at home gathered around the TV! I have to say that I found the conversation about the football absolutely riveting.
The game eventually got underway some 20 minutes late, once Georgie Boy arrived with the balls & our Craptain deigned to turn up. Jen was paired with the hugely competitive GD, who had to stoop to dirty tactics in the form of psyching me out on the last up to make sure his male pride stayed intact, following his trailing me on the scoring up to that point... like father, like son I say, because CD couldn’t resist urging me not to get a duck either – I didn’t suffer that ignominy, like some I could mention, but I have to admit to not feeling particularly elated to finish with 1! Still, 27 felt pretty good, until TB pointed out that it wouldn’t count in the averages and GD hit 6 down on his last up to score 31... it didn’t make me feel any better to be told I’d been ‘rinsed’ either!!
As compensation there was the satisfaction of knowing my score put us 26 ahead of the opposition and a smile on our Craptain’s face! The Welsh Boys were next up, and although I am not in the habit of pointing out completely unnecessary facts... they were the only pair NOT to pull pins. Jockey hit 16, TB 22 and this halved our lead to 13. Next up were Jake & Sparky, and it was nice to see that Sparky held back on his usual game to finish with 24 and let Young Gun 2 shine, putting aside his strategy of not playing to ensure he jumps up 5 places in the averages! Jake, unlike YG1, put in a quiet, unassuming performance and finished with 33, and, oh dear!, I do believe that means he ‘rinsed’ his mate Georgie... what a flippin’ shame – and even more of a shame that as GD, Lodge & Ryan threw team solidarity on the floor and stomped all over it by leaving early and not offering moral support to the rest of the team, I didn’t get to see the expression on Georgie Boy’s face.
We were now 33 pins up on the game and actually feeling quite pleased with ourselves for the first time this season. peRV, who had shown his unerring ability to attract stunners by gaining the attentions of Totty by now, was paired up with aRCe and they were obviously inspired by one another - or possibly just competing for Totty? - as they pulled an obscene 51 pins on the Trebels to put us way out in the lead by 84. peRV was obviously trying to impress his Totty by not only scoring 29 but pulling out all the stops to score a 9. How cruel then that this coincided with the excitement of the pontoon tickets so that we all missed it, including the object of his desire!! And as for aRCe, well surely drug testing should have been called for after his blistering 36?!!
Craptain put himself on next with JL, and it is still a mystery to me that JL remains unadorned with– or should that be unhampered by?! - a nickname!! I do have a few suggestions, but I am under threat of personal injury on disclosure... Our 5th pair put in a performance of perfect symmetry by both scoring 27, which kept things friendly in my opinion.
Barnesy was very disappointed when Craptain now chose to play CD and Chuckle 1, thinking he might have taken the opportunity to play her as we were now a safe 101 pins up. Reg’s view was that he needed to give his regular players a game to build their confidence in view of the fact we are sat smack bang at the bottom of the table - isn't it uncanny how a man always has an answer for his questionable actions?! CD was too busy taking advantage of the fact that peRV had left early, enabling him to make a move on Totty, to concentrate fully on the game in hand, fending off Craptain’s own attempts to muscle in on the action at the same time, and only contributed 20 to the pot. PeB, no doubt cursing the fact he’d made Sue come out after all and couldn’t therefore enter into the race to win Totty’s affections, focused his sights on the skittles instead, and still competitive even with our stonking 101 pin lead, didn’t relax until he was assured of a final “well played the pair”. Adding this last 5 to the total means we won by 106 pins, and the Trebels must have been the most gracious losers we have ever seen!
All we have to do now is repeat that performance against all future opponents... although it’s OK if you start off slowly and just win by a few pins next week, when our game takes place Tuesday 18th October on our home alley against the Roundabouts. I'm gutted I won’t be there to make reference to Florence, Zebedee, Dylan, Ermintrude...
Hopefully John’s and my time away from the team will be a brief interlude; we will look forward to reading how you get on over the next few weeks - someone can surely manage to put at least THAT much information on the web site for us?! Depending on how patient a patient my Dearly Beloved is, I could well be bribing our Craptain to text me and lie about being desperate enough to need me to play!! Will miss seeing you all and enjoying your company – maybe I will write Progress Reports instead...
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