July 4th : 4-4 Draw versus Clan

The Bakers earned an unexpected home point against promotion challengers BPC Clan on Wednesday, the matched was marred by controversy but Bakers return to form was the news headline.

The match started with a series of bakers frame victories, Tony Stormed to to a win in the opening singles with a series of difficult pots to finish in style, punishing a miss by his opponent. This was followed by a long drawn out frame won by Peter Kempster who seemed to escape from endless snookers when he only had the black ball remaining. A great frame by Stuart McClemments made it three singles frames in a row, followed by a total 8 ball clearance by Mitch Dawson to make it 4-0 and clinch at least a draw. The clan were rocked by Bakers strong start.

However this is when the controversial element of the night started, certain members of the Clan seemed to see their promotion push fall away and engaged in barracking from the sidelines. Normally this would not have bothered our more experienced players, but this is still the lowest form of gamesmanship. This not an excuse for Yon, Adam, denis and Terry losing but left the whole club with a nasty atmosphere to deal with and at one stage this seemed it may escalate further. As the match progressed 'Insults' rather than 'barracking' became the oppositions tactics, this trend seemed to be increasing along with their beer consumption

The end result was a 4-4 all draw and an unexpected point, plus this result can be seen as the start of our 'run' to avoid relegation.

As a footnote both myself and mitch registered a complaint with the league regarding the minority of the opposition who engaged in what we considered to be ungentlemanly conduct.