"THE BEST EVER!"

Benjamin Francis   Sunday 26th January 2014

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Friday night was the most enjoyable, entertaining of all our games played so far. The tension was unbearably brilliant! All players were glued to the action as Morgan took the game to a 4-4 and a final game shoot off. As Ryan Simon stepped up to the oche the nerves of the IC were plain to see, it was pressure on their shoulders, they had to beat the ladz. Ryan Simon had other ideas blistering away in the first leg getting under 200 before the IC player broke under 400. Ryan after a long period of missed doubles tried the arm technique, it went in! 1-0 to the ladz and the whole of the squad erupted! The noise and excitement spread to the rest of the club room soon near 100 people were gathered around to watch would be a close second leg. Ryan hit some solid score to which the ladz reacted overjoyed to. He got down to double 3 & 1 and wired it  on multiple occasions, with the IC ready to pounce. 1-1. The Ladz still believed and so did Ryan as the IC player missed loads of darts in the final leg to wrap it up for Ryan Simon to come down to set up double 16 beautifully working his way a round the board wiring each double. The IC player eventually got one lucky dart and won the game to the ladz disappointment. 

To see the action watch: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQRaW6wYdUQ

This was nearly the game! Like I've said before, "one week our 2-1 loses will turn into 2-1 wins", this happened with all our games 2-1 wins for Jake, Will.P, Ryan & Kevin, Morgan. It is still our best game to date, a score of 5-4. A vast improvement on the 8-1 from last time. Now 12 players have won a league game and the 3 that haven't  have all been very close. 

In terms of my mid season aims we are excelling. We have already smashed our best result! Our points difference is -11 in this second half of the season, we will definitely be under -99 by the end of the season. So new target is to get everyone to have won a game.

Rotation is back in full swing for the second half the season. This week we left out three very strong players in William Kingtson, Kurtis Bevan and George Bishop therefore one would expect a dip in performance, not so! This result proves all players are improving and a lot of players have narrowed the gap on the so called 'best players'. 

I would like to congratulate all players who attended, as well as:

• Benjamin Francis for making the draw

• William Pottle hits 106+ (121)

• William Pottle wins his first match in singles, 2-1 to William

• Jake Towler continued to win in a ladz shirt, 2-1 in his singles

• Alex Walters & Ben Cole won a leg in their doubles match

• Ryan Amps & Kevin Francis for winning doubles 2-1

• Kevin Francis for hitting a 106+ (125)

• Benjamin Francis for hitting a 106+ (115)

• Morgan Smith for winning his singles 2-1

Man-Of-The-Moment: Ryan Simon

As we won the most games this week it is extra hard with notable performances from all the team. But I feel on entertainment, courage and bottle it has to go to Ryan Simon who had the whole of Moreton Hall take time to watch. He may have lost but this is something I personally will remember for a long time, a defining moment! Thank You Ryan Simon.

League Update WK17:

http://buryidl.webs.com/Wk17%20Results%20and%20Stats.pdf

Next Friday: Colin Green & Associates Open Pairs