The declining standards of educational standards, in maths at least, was ably demonstrated at our Team Clothier game last night against Team Alvis.
It was a really close game against a good bunch of lads and lasses, and their last man needed a seven to win. The Team Clothier heckling machine was out in full force but Tintin (as was chalked up) hit them much to his delight.
However, on counting up the leg totals and player totals things didn’t quite match up. It turned out they had got a few leg totals wrong and we hadn’t bothered to check. In the end it turns out that we won by four!
It was one of the weirdest ends to a game I can remember, which leads me to ask the question: What’s your weirdest conclusion to a skittles match? Get commenting…
What all this adds up to is that we may well be champions now. We are not sure because we don’t think the score card from last week’s game has been handed in yet. By the last table we had six points more than the teams in equal second. If you add four points for the wins last week and last night we would be 10 points clear with only four games to go.
Top scorer in the team last night was Nashy, who hit 51 with a spare on his last leg, followed by Joe The New Kid who, despite having futon issues, hit 46. Wyatt Earp was back from his finger-op so was on the bottom, but hit 54 to firmly cement his place back in the side. I hit 39, which was not helped by hitting a two on my first hand. The Fat Controller was in the Chair, hit 43, and pretty much broke even.
We don’t have a game next week as it is cup week again, so our next match is the following Tuesday. It is against Team Cambourne at the
Bell Inn, Leigh-on-Mendip. I’ve never played there before, does anyone know what it’s like? Anyway, until then…
Go for wood!
Tim
Player of the week: DJ – the team’s official party animal, DJ (pictured right with his big jugs) has calmed down recently due to him getting a missus. That hasn’t stopped his missile-like deliveries which are done with the sort of speed Steve Harmison would be impressed by. I also still maintain that DJ has less hair than me…
It was a really close game against a good bunch of lads and lasses, and their last man needed a seven to win. The Team Clothier heckling machine was out in full force but Tintin (as was chalked up) hit them much to his delight.
However, on counting up the leg totals and player totals things didn’t quite match up. It turned out they had got a few leg totals wrong and we hadn’t bothered to check. In the end it turns out that we won by four!
It was one of the weirdest ends to a game I can remember, which leads me to ask the question: What’s your weirdest conclusion to a skittles match? Get commenting…
What all this adds up to is that we may well be champions now. We are not sure because we don’t think the score card from last week’s game has been handed in yet. By the last table we had six points more than the teams in equal second. If you add four points for the wins last week and last night we would be 10 points clear with only four games to go.
Top scorer in the team last night was Nashy, who hit 51 with a spare on his last leg, followed by Joe The New Kid who, despite having futon issues, hit 46. Wyatt Earp was back from his finger-op so was on the bottom, but hit 54 to firmly cement his place back in the side. I hit 39, which was not helped by hitting a two on my first hand. The Fat Controller was in the Chair, hit 43, and pretty much broke even.
We don’t have a game next week as it is cup week again, so our next match is the following Tuesday. It is against Team Cambourne at the
Bell Inn, Leigh-on-Mendip. I’ve never played there before, does anyone know what it’s like? Anyway, until then…Go for wood!
Tim
Player of the week: DJ – the team’s official party animal, DJ (pictured right with his big jugs) has calmed down recently due to him getting a missus. That hasn’t stopped his missile-like deliveries which are done with the sort of speed Steve Harmison would be impressed by. I also still maintain that DJ has less hair than me…
That's a double-parking if I ever saw one!
ReplyDeleteThe declining standards of standards eh Tim? Who does your proof reading?
ReplyDeleteRight, 'Number 1 Fan' who are you as l'm getting the wrongful blame and Neil AKA Pasty (called that as he was dropped at birth l believe) is getting excited by having an admirer.
ReplyDeleteI did that on purpose Joe. Ahem...
ReplyDeleteWeirdest conclusion to a skittles match:-
ReplyDeleteWatching you struggle to hit four pins to win the match, l do recall one pin on your first ball, two pins on the second ball, should have been oh so easy