…plus Quiz Night highlights…

Another difficult day for the Red-and-Black boys apart from the 5’s who are shooting up the table, unfortunately another cancellation. One small crumb of comfort is despite losing all the players we have this season, we are still getting 5 teams out.

Other games, oi vey, 38 goals, just the 9.5 average goals per game. The 1’s may have lost to Chichester but, crikey, they drank the fixture back in the bar and put the home team to shame. Shy, retiring Justine decided to liven up proceedings with some pint races and after disposing of 2 of the team, the call went out to Chichester to put forward a man, or woman, to take on our rambunctious Saffer. Of course, they all wimped out so up stepped the coach, Dunc, who just edged out the champion whose response to losing was to then take on skipper, Luke, for a 4th pint race in 15 minutes or so. My informant couldn’t tell me who won that as he was laughing so much and the place was in uproar by now!! Think this might have affected Justine’s Quiz Night performance (he fell asleep but was conscious by the end and last punter to leave the club!).

The second and third teams were playing Wycombe, top in their respective leagues and very strong. The 2’s scored a couple of good goals, Shaun finishing neatly after Dame Bettsy had done all the hard work (according to himself - doesn’t sound like him to be honest) and he got the 2nd which strangely he went into no detail about. However the 2’s saved their best form for the Quiz Night where they supplied 3 teams! Kudos to skipper Cole who decided to use the night to work their Fines slush fund down, think they may have started a bit early i.e 4 hours before the quiz started and they were rocking by the start and didn’t feature at the top of the table (my source, Podge, was claiming to be in the best shape of his team (must be some strange shapes) saying Fry, Symes and Crabhands were censored ‘not at their best’
Controversial scenes at the end when the Westlakes having been declared winners were moved to 2nd when Mr and Mrs Shaggy’s team were awarded another point by Quiz supremo, Sherpa, who had struggled manfully to retain control of proceedings – mind you, not the easiest of tasks with the sbab-fuelled 2’s, Justin when he was conscious and a cheating Freddie. Very successful night, well done all!!!

Ah back to hockey, the 3’s, well all our fun was up front – Freddie’s amazed cry of ‘you’ve got a wife!!?!?!’ to Big Amit amused us all day. Good news was we had the water bottles – no water though – but the ball cage-thing was in the locked clubhouse leaving us with 2 balls – then the clubhouse was unlocked. Goody! Shag gets the balls, puts him in his car, then promptly doesn’t take his car so we arrive at RAF Naphill and are greeted with the sight of a smoking-hot Wycombe doing an award-winning warm-up (some snakey-12 man move ending up with some undercut/reverse smack) and they had about 800 balls – we found another ball, we had 3 balls!! One to warm up ‘keeper Ryan, and 2 for the rest of the motley crew. I’d love to report that we then wiped the floor with them (well I could but it wouldn’t be true!), no they are good but we did draw the last 20 minutes 1-all (Freddie scoring from our only shortie) and we had our best 5 mins when Gordo got sent off for the first time since I don’t know (15 years?) hitting the ball away at about 10 miles an hour (‘into the crowd’ as the umpire said – ok at Gordo speed along the ground – anyway, get off!) after they had hoofed the ball into the goal for number 8. Maybe I should get sent off more often…

4’s was obviously a toughie; long trek for no reward but they have done very well this season overall.