20/09/2007 Match report: Goodfellows Close but no cigar

It seemed last night that the supercomputer running the pool matrix had thrown a few glitches, a highly depleted bakers had another unusual night of play in the BDLP Div 1 fixture away versus the Goodfellows, the bakers were missing Mitch, Dale, Dave, Pete and Stuart leaving, bulleted list of the action below

• Tony at the number one slot beat the league singles points leader (ok matrix control room only slightly buggy)
• Scott Rose was victim of a nice clearance after playing a nice frame (Matrix control room now start flicking switches)
• Terry plays a cool frame against useful opponent only to drop 'in off' the winning black in the middle pockets (Matrix control room now moving into action)
• Adam plays a very highly rated lady player, gets his chance to clear fouls twice on two consecutive yellows by flying straight into the object pocket, the lady player then can't clear leaving Adam to roll in the 'pot black' of the century to win in great style (matrix control room now start enjoying themselves)
• Yon plays an 11 year old boy, (insert own joke here), who reached the final of the under 16 uk championships, tight frame (go for another joke here), but Yon still with a pool holiday hangover missed the clearance (matrix control team now move the controls to 100% parallel universe)
• Denis the gladiator enters the arena, his suit of shining armour gleaming under the lights……..Denis gets to the table after the break….pots three yellows in a row….good pots great position, pots two more good pots perfect position (Cossey states on the sidelines he will retire if Denis dishes the 8 ball clearance), Denis considers his options, pots the 6th yellow leaving a stun into the centre to pot the final yellow and leave the black into the centre, the yellow drops leaving a 3/4 ball cut into the middle for the black (Cossey on the sidelines start writing his resignation & retirement speech), Denis steps back, lines up the black, executes the shot (boys in the matrix control room come back from the tea break and quickly adjust the controls back to 'normal'), the black just clips the inside jaw and misses……no 8 ball, BAKERS GUTTED. Denis snookered out of the game and loses (matrix control room go off shift).

Bakers lose 6-2 which could have been a 5-3 win if the matrix control room had shorter tea breaks, NEXT week is MASSIVE match versus the MATAPAN in our relegation battle….JUST BE THERE.

Crown 5th of September Report (Mitch)

Just a quick match report from Mitch (while Tony is on Hols)-

Based on The crowns league position we expected a white wash but we dug in hard and gave them a game - Denis and Scott both played very tight frames making their opponents work hard and both were only narrowly edged out in the end - well played boys. Stu was up next a put in a typical gritty performance and got to the black, his opponent then put him in a couple of snookers but failed to capitalise with his two shots, leaving stu a thin black and hampered cueing - stu duly potted the black and registered our first frame on the board.

I was up next and faced their supposed best player who according to reports was a bit jaded due to family problems - After a few opening exchanges my opponent was in amongst the balls and I feared a clearance - I managed to get to the table and produced an 8 ball clearance with a rather lucky black, after jawing the black from a reverse double in the middle pocket the black trickled back across table clipped my opponents yellow and dropped in the opposite middle pocket - much to my opponents dismay - Happy days two on the board for bakers ! Adam and my dad followed Adam potted a few before " double hitting " a ball and giving away two shots to which his opponent produced a clearance to win ( better luck next time Ad, and stop playing balls so close to the white, you will get fouled for it ) My dad played next and had covered a couple of pockets but unfortunately fouled by touching a close ball with his hand, the opponent then cleared to take this frame also ( again better luck next time ) we had to surrender frames seven and eight as we had no one to fill the spots.

Overall not a bad performance, disappointing we had to give away two frames but we gave it a good shot and it certainly was no walk over - well played boys !

Mitch (Covering for Tony)