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.