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Carly and myself are out of the doubles as Carly has a sports injury from work and our opponents weren't prepared to re-arrange.

Hopefully there will be some better news from the rest of my team.

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1st round doubles plate
darren porter & omar aslam won 2 - 0 against spencer barnes & paul picton
we played well and took our chances when they were there. but unlucky to the losing pair who had the worst luck with a few bad shots and in offs. good luck for the rest of the summer.:handshake::handshake:

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Luke Turnbull and Terry Poynter beat Arthur Hewson and Barry Watkins 2-0

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:no:

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Chris Eden and Steve Aldridge beat Daniel White and Claire Redman 2-0. :clap:

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Kapeashty Lads 2-0 Mark harris, Andy Gray

All Warbank 2nd round :worship:

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HAVE IT!! :)

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When did you contact Clive Forrest and Corrine Grattan of the Better Halfs to let them know you couldn't make it Sassy?

If it was reasonable notice, then that's terrible sportsmanship. Can't believe people still do that. (Well, outside of the Imperials, that is . . . ;) )

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Claiming games is the way forward . . It's almost as satisfying as cheating . .

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Deliberately hadn't posted the names as I play county with Corrine and by all accounts she was prepared to re-arrange.

Carly rang me yesterday morning at 10.30 having just injured herself. I immediately called Steve (their team secretary) saying that we certainly couldn't play that evening and could we re-arrange. He called me back about 8.30pm saying that Corrine would re-arrange but Clive wasn't happy as he'd turned up for the match.

What is even more annoying about this one is that we'd turned up to play them 2 weeks earlier on a league night and offered to play the match early only for Clive to say no to that too.

I only went in this comp in the first place to give Carly a partner, but since then we had a good win in round one against a Div One pairing and felt maybe we could go a round or two further.

Honestly can't see myself bothering with the knockouts in future if this is the way people want to win matches :(

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I heard a little rumour last night that a certain young Prop player had to forfeit his singles match against a player from the Better Halfs because he was too young to enter the pub in the evening, and the player wouldn't rearrange.

I know their Sec really well - talk to your team, Steve!! Your team will get a reputation!!:no:

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Never thought for a second that Corrine wouldn't have been prepared to rearrange.

If you phoned at 10.30 in the morning, then why/how did it take their Secretary 10 hours to contact the player?

We played them in a friendly and it was a good laugh. The likes of Keeley, Laurie and Chris are a good bunch - I can only gather Clive Forrest either wasn't there or was one of the blokes I played, in which case I can understand why he'd claim, as otherwise he wouldn't see another round. . .

Whatever the reasoning, it's poor form. They're a nice team and as the Teach says, it'd be horrid for the decent players to be tarred with the same brush as these apparent idiots.

:(

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[quote]Teach wrote:
I heard a little rumour last night that a certain young Prop player had to forfeit his singles match against a player from the Better Halfs because he was too young to enter the pub in the evening, and the player wouldn't rearrange.[quote]

That's the spirit!!!!!!

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That's proper moody . . It's amazing what being scared of losing to a 13yr old does to a player!

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Or losing to a pair of girls! :elol:

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I'd rather lose to little James than a bird I must admit . .

. . at least James knows what playing with side means :nerner:

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Thanks for that, as you said you took your chances and we didn't. Luck comes and luck goes, it's out at the moment but I'm sure I'll patch up my relationship with lady luck before too long.

Well played last night, 2-1 would have been nice but I don't think I can honestly say we deserved more than that.

Good luck for the rest of the season. :thumb:

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Side is for people who run out of position . . . :nerner:

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:lol::lol::lol:

It was pretty funny when they were drawn against one of the players again in the doubles the next season and tried to rearrange the match! :wall:

What goes around comes around. :wrong:

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our team is getting a lot of stick here! i can only apologise for thre bad sportmanship. Chris and I won 2-0 last night to a pair from the duke of Glouster :winkgrin::winkgrin:

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I think you've just strengthened Golden's argument.

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Well done Keely! And you shouldn't feel the need to apologise for the ignorance of others.

As said before, the majority of your team are a good sort and it would be a shame if the 'bad eggs' besmirched the team name.

Hey, now THERE'S a word you don't get to use often. Longshanks will be so proud of me for being all eloquent 'n shit . . . :)

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everyone in our team are always reasonable, i dont even no there reasons for not rearraging, im sure they have a good reason, (i hope!!)

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Keely you have nothing to apologise for.

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Crikey Lils! You really do speak right proper England, just like what the Queen does, or summink or nuffink!
:worship:

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Absolutely Keely, we don't blame you!! :hugs:

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Gary Moylan and Ted Freeman beat
Kevin Barlow and Peter Harding 2-0

A nice match it was too :drunk: