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LONDON SLATES SNOOKER v THE DUKE of GLOUCESTER
CONEY CUES v THE ADDICTS
GOODFELLAS v THE WADDON WIZARDS
LANGLEY SPORTS v POND Q's
MAGNUM FORCE v BLOODHOUNDS
PENGE TRADES v FARLEY EDEN
BRITISH LEGION v RILEYS UNPREDICTABLES
THE PROPELLER v FARLEY LOYALISTS
MAPLE TREE v RED DEER EAGLES
HOT SHOTS v IMPERIALS
SURREY 193's v THE PATRIOTS
THE S.A.S. v KELLY's BAR
THE RACK PACK v BYE

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I have a funny feeling, we may scrape a win this round :)

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I'm probably missing something but why is there a bye in round 2?

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Can anyone explain this? We played a preliminary round in this only to see there's a bye in the next round.

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drillers...???

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No doubt after Round 2 there will have to be another whole host of ''byes'' because the numbers don't stack up....

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I believe the round was drawn before the Drillers pulled out.

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I don't think Drillers even entered in the first place.

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Is there a plate for this comp as well? If so that would explain the numbers.

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Yes,there is a plate competition in the knockout cup. The Drillers didn't enter any of the competitions.They didn't have time.The original intention was to play out of Frames in Coulsdon. When they found that this wasn't going to happen,they lost half their team before they'd hit a ball. Hannah tried to do them a favour by allowing them to play at Purley Way but they only had five dependable players. Hence their premature demise. I certainly can't remember anything like this happening in the top division. It's very sad !!

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As I'm no longer a team sec. and was unable to go to the AGM
To help me work out what the hell is going on with all the knock-out cup and plate draws so far. can some one please post the proposal on this site to give all us confused people a look at the original proposal.:?::wall:

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Any predictions for tonight's games?

I'll go for the following teams to go through . .

LONDON SLATES SNOOKER
CONEY CUES
THE WADDON WIZARDS
LANGLEY SPORTS
MAGNUM FORCE
PENGE TRADES
BRITISH LEGION
THE PROPELLER
RED DEER EAGLES
HOT SHOTS
SURREY 193's
THE S.A.S.
BYE

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Danny,what drugs are you on ? How long have you been hallucinating ?

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:?: I don't understand?

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You cheeky sod, I have only just read this and you are saying Bye will beat The Rack Pack!!!!

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Do you honestly believe that Langley Sports can beat us ? They've got about as much chance as your Donna beating you at nine ball !! Whoops !!

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Are you playing tonight Daniel? Or can we safely PREDICT you have been DROPPED again?

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Wow . . Three bites!

Harry - :nerner:

Pondlife - I wouldn't have thought you'd have got relegated last season but you did. I wouldn't have thought you'd then find yourself mid-table in Division Two but you are. It just shows that things don't always go to plan, especially in the KO Cup!

ThePower (grrr) - Under normal circumstances I would have been dropped again tonight following out 7-0 win last week but we have no Shaggy or Jake tonight as they're at snooker so I'm back in . .

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I guess its not as fun when you can't PICK your games....

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I don't quite follow?

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Eden v Eagles....

I was told you choose not to play.

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You were told wrongly I'm afraid . .

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By all your team mates?

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apparently it was a feiry evening at the elmer. 3-1 down the coney had not missed a shot. spry makes it 3-2. saxton steps up all kinds of controvercy over a jump shot / not jump shot their guy leaves him an impossible black down the rail. saxton gets it. they pick him again he wins. coney in the next round and all kinds of arguments still going on. Glad I missed it but big up the sexy saxton

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Farley Eden beat Penge Traders 4 -1...
Prop. beat Farley Loyalists 4 -1...

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blood hounds 6 magum force 1 well played but unlucky.player of the match was the magum force's number 1 how was unlucky not to bake and dish by potting the black and one of our balls:clap::ohmygod::hanged:

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All ended fairly amicably. Apart from 2 usual suspects they were a really top group of blokes and once again probably wonder how they left without a win. We knew they had a good top order and we really didn't play at all badly to be 3-1 down. My bloke dished from the break so was hoping they might pick me again but that was left to the Saxtonator. At 3-2 down he played a 1 in 20 pot to make it 3-3. He then turns to me and says 'I'll be really pissed off if they pick me again after that' and 2 seconds later he's picked again. A very tense frame followed but he pulled out one hell of a positional shot to give himself a straight black along the rail. He doesn't miss those so 4-3 to the Coney. I would like to apologise to the Addicts though for instinctively calling a foul when i wasn't reffing. I, like the rest of my team, believed that if the white jumped over a ball it was a foul. Their player was on the black, miscued and the white hit the top of the black and jumped over it. In the old rules that used to be a foul but seemingly not in World Rules. Thanks to the refs and to their team for letting the refs get on with their job and make the right call. Aside from the controversy, well played Ansell and to Saxton, who was a real hero tonight! Bye next round please...

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Hot Shots 4-0 Imperials
A bit sad we only had 4 players and got beat up big time.:(

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we were well and truly turned over by the eden tonight, well played to them and al the best in your final season.

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Rack Pack 3 v 4 Bye.

Good luck to the Bye's opponents in the next round :)

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All these byes are stupid, the league has turned into a joke, last season for me.

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To be fair Spudangles, it's not the Leagues fault that this change in the comp has come about.

The Croydon & District Pool League has always been run by the people, for the people. The poor mugs on the Committee simply carry out what the majority of eligible votes call for.

The League was simply trying to do what was asked of it. Bottom line is; it hasn't worked.

Damned if you do & damned if you don't. :roll:

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So you cant work byes into the first round to leave 128,64,32,16,8 in the following rounds? It dinnah take a brain surgeon! :lol:

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I don't think I ever got an answer to my question about why we played a prelim when there was a bye in the next round. For that reason alone the system is flawed.

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Are you sure? Jump shots were fouls last time I looked.

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Sorry Sass, you got that wrong.

We actually just scraped a 4 3 win against bye.

Enjoyable evening.

Good luck to the bye for the rest of the season.

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[quote]Spudangles wrote:
So you cant work byes into the first round to leave 128,64,32,16,8 in the following rounds? It dinnah take a brain surgeon! :lol:[/quote it has run just like that for years .... but with the new comp coming in and the conditions attached to it, it sort of messed up the figures a bit ... I will be advocating at the half general meeting that all entries are entered into the comps in the first round (including 1st div players) in future to do away with the farce that is running at the mo. The fundamentals behind the plate comps I am in total agreement with but the practicalities of running it with the present conditions just does not work. So you being a brain surgeon n all that ... work this into a tidy little comp ... 62 1st Div players - 147 others

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The 62 Div 1 players get a bye into last 128. That leaves 66 spaces to fill. Multiply that by 2 = 132, that gives the number of players needed in the 1st round (last 256). Take 132 from 147 = 15, which is the number of matches needed in the prelim.

I'm off to perform a frontal lobotomy.

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Anyway Nuttmeg, did you cruise into the 3rd Round last night?

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we won 4-1 with no Jake and no Shaggy I came out of retirement (hence the -1:lol:).as always playing the Maple tree (the old manor A) we had an enjoyable evening against a good team on a strange slow 6 x 3 table, nice to see Gordon Beard still dipping his toe in the pool.

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Danny Evans is a pool god:bow:

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Well he aint bad for a reserve.

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:blush:

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Tell me about it Sass. As I wasn't reffing and it was getting a bit heated, I took a back seat and didn't actually read the rule myself. Grettal and their ref read the rule and interpreted it as not being a jump shot if it strikes the object ball and then jumps. Their player did strike the object ball before it cleared it so guess it is ok? I'll read the rules myself later to make sure.

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im a god as well

shame its buddha

:lol:

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Not what I heard...:gossip

Lets hope you all behave yourselves next Tuesday and Saxton has long forgotten how to pot a sick black. :lol:

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A jump shot is only a foul if the white jumps over a ball it would have hit if it has stayed on the bed of the table in an identical shot. If it hits that ball however, it is NOT a foul.

Hope that helps.:handshake:

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Oh, Goodfellas went through against the Waddon Wizards 4-0.

Takes someone pretty special to pick a team like THAT . . . ;):bounce:

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He miscued and jumped the white over the black which he was going for. The black was the object ball and would have been hit had he not jumped. The cue ball made a thick contact on the black as it jumped it. I read the rules as legitimising that shot. Spank me if I'm wrong.

:chair:

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:lol: Note my use of 'fairly amicably'

Not in the same league as Coney v Eden controversy!

Nice try Power - tell me what you heard and then I'll comment...

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I think The Flower's referring to the tantrum I threw at the end of the night after everyone had left and I found out someone had nicked my jumper. It was a cold walk home in the rain :(

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"Spank me if I'm wrong."

Berty will spank you if you are right!

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i'll spank you regardless

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Longshanks is my hero. :clap:

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Letita Dean is my hero

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Letita Dean = Miss Piggy lookalike:sick:

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All I have heard is the Addicts are at your place again on 18th December and intend to give you all a nice present for Christmas....

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No I wasn't actually, but now you come to mention it, yes I do recall you embarrassing yourself. Once on the table and one more time off it.

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Where's your contigency for the plate comp ... the 15 losers from the prelim or are they added to the losers of the 1st round .... thanks for your input but at the end of the day don;t matter which way anyone paints this up theres only one way to go and thats everyone goes into the hat with byes attached accordingly and then the main comp and plate plays off adjacent to one another being 256v256 - 128v128, etc etc and this to apply for all comps.

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All I have heard is the Addicts are at your place again on 18th December and intend to give you all a nice present for Christmas....[/quote]

Fantastic. I'll tell Ted to get the Mistletoe ready...

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You're such a shit stirrer Alex :lol:

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Lol, what a load of bollocks :bite:

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The last time you had a set of those was when you played for the Eden.

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Given the choice of staying with the Eden or being castrated I think I made the right choice. Though I do speak in a higher pitch now.

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Mind you, you would have more spare time on your hands next season if you had stayed at the Eden. :sprint:

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Just noticed the Pond Q's in the Plate KO . . Surely you can't have lost to the Langley Sports Pat? No high flying Division Two team would possibly lose to the Langley Sports . . Never . .

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Golden, that wasn't Pat's fault. He probably just forgot which team were responsible for ending the Pond Qs participation in last winter's ko cup.
:roll:

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We really should have battered them,but we didn't. I would like to wish them a continuation of all the luck in the world against the Hotshots,but I still don't think that it will be enough. Perhaps,if they were to move the table again as they did against us. Might I suggest that it would be more useful if it were a little nearer a fireplace,or better still,in it !! That is about all it's worth !!

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There you have it.
We had all the luck in the world and I moved the table (which should be burned) into the same place as I have for the Cue Masters last two home matches including the Hot Shots game this week.
Obviously I'll try to find somewhere else to hide it before they come back for the third round cup match.:lol: