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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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Lardyboy just two corrections. We can't play on Tuesday at Biggin Hill not becasue we're trying to get a strong teams out; it's becasue one of our other teams is playing at home that evening. All our home games therefore have to be on another night.
As you will see from our game against T wells away, we played on a Tuesday night.
The other correction is that we're not going to give you guys a good kicking, we're going to have to work damn hard to win! As agreed with your captain DL, we're playing on the Wednesday night to accomodate you guys only becasue we all want to play a competitive match - which it will be I'm sure.
The line up is:
Farzan Rasheed v John Brewer
Rory Pennell v Malcolm Parker
Mark Lennox v Graham Harraway
Gordon McManus v Tom Woods
Dean Newberry v Martin Clarke
Anyone who wants to come up to Biggin Hill and watch this one is more than welcome.
Cheers
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over the hill
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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ML is right, looks like a great match.
As far as Cascades are concerned. They asked for the night to be changed for a reason. Four of the players couldn't play because of family comments over the Bank holiday weekend. When PC was consulted he admitted that he had forgotten that it was a Bank Holiday and half term. In fact had the match been played on the Tuesday the Cascades team would have been stronger, with Neil playing at 4 and no other ol' Cascades players in the team.
This is not the way Cascades would want to play so we asked to re-arrange to the Thursday to which David was kind enough to agree. If you look at all the other matches they are on a Tuesday. The one exception being the BH game which is on the Wednesday because the courts at Cascades are being referred over night on the Monday and if they run late the match might had to have been called off. Both ML and David where fair and true gents about this.
Lardyboy, the two players who would have played instead at 1 and 2 would have beaten them both 3-0 or 3-1 at worse.
In fact because of the change to the new 'play two game' rule they might have to play in the return. |
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Jolly John
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| ML wrote: |
The line up is:
Farzan Rasheed v John Brewer
Rory Pennell v Malcolm Parker
Mark Lennox v Graham Harraway
Gordon McManus v Tom Woods
Dean Newberry v Martin Clarke
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Anyone who wants these line ups in their Fantasy Teams - it would cost you at least £25m for the first four players.  Maybe the real Priory should have a budget cap too?  |
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alex99red
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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Risky selection ML? could be steering the good ship BH through some troubled waters here.
FR v JB = FR should be too strong here.
RP v MP = RP once again should be too strong here.
ML v GH = with recent Forum entries and the previous result, GH favourite here.
GM v TW = on past results etc. TW too good for Old Mac.
DN v MC = have not heard of Rodders' MC so this one up in the air!!
Good luck. |
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over the hill
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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| alex99red wrote: |
Risky selection ML? could be steering the good ship BH through some troubled waters here.
FR v JB = FR should be too strong here.
RP v MP = RP once again should be too strong here.
ML v GH = with recent Forum entries and the previous result, GH favourite here.
GM v TW = on past results etc. TW too good for Old Mac.
DN v MC = have not heard of Rodders' MC so this one up in the air!!
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looking at that line up, in my opinion,
Fr vs JB- FR 3-0
RP vs MP- RP 3-0
ML vs GH v.close ML 3-2 or 3-1
GM vs TW- TW 3-1
DN vs MC- DN 3-0
So either 4-1 or if ML's over trained 3-2 to the Hillbillies. |
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lardyboy
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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Looking forward to Wednesday's match, sorry to any BH players or Cascades players if I got it wrong, I typed it all in after a few beers late the other night!
I think the result on Weds will be 3:2 Rodmersham, TW, GH & MC to win, I think Malcolm may get a game, but never seen the number 1 play so can't really comment on that. JB thinks he is in for a stuffing at 1 though so I will take his word for it.
OTH never heard of a side not putting a strong team out, but rearranging until they can get a weaker one, but if thats the case, then thanks (i think) 
NB at 4 when you told him 1 or 2 though, surely 'Cascades' have other club players that could turn out, you don't just have to call in more pro's to play when you are short of a player do you?
I think I must be missing the point of all this, what are we all playing for, is there money in it at the end of the season? |
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over the hill
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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Looking forward to Wednesday's match, sorry to any BH players or Cascades players if I got it wrong, I typed it all in after a few beers late the other night!
I think the result on Weds will be 3:2 Rodmersham, TW, GH & MC to win, I think Malcolm may get a game, but never seen the number 1 play so can't really comment on that. JB thinks he is in for a stuffing at 1 though so I will take his word for it.
OTH never heard of a side not putting a strong team out, but rearranging until they can get a weaker one, but if thats the case, then thanks (i think)
NB at 4 when you told him 1 or 2 though, surely 'Cascades' have other club players that could turn out, you don't just have to call in more pro's to play when you are short of a player do you?
I think I must be missing the point of all this, what are we all playing for, is there money in it at the end of the season? |
LB, I've already explained about why we asked for the match to be moved to Thursday. As HS pointed out Alex nom is 5 and PR's is 6. We are of the BH school of thought which is that we want to win but there is no point in putting out a team where no one is going to get a good game. The same as the Hillbillies we want to play or core club players in the team.
They are NB, Mo, Fatboy and Sicknote. Now NB is our no1, but against a couple of clubs he will be playing lower down the order as he did against you. He wanted to play Graham so we selected a team to enable that to happen. He played 3 against you not 4.
ML being the gent he is, use to phone us to asked how strong our team was and would then pick a team to win but not waste peoples time. Funny enough I spoke to him today and I would like to point out that I think we are going to get stuffed  ML please remember that our team are fatboys and teenagers  Be nice 
Looking forward to it. We are playing on Wednesday the 11th, and if anyone would like to come along and see us get stuffed they are more then welcome. |
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ML
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OTH, I've been thinking about this and there is no doubt you guys will have a great side out i.e. with Neil Baker at 4 and Lamprell at 5. We in turn can call in a few stars to all play and be equally strong however, it's not really a true representation of either team. It would actually mean for us that 1st team regulars like Dean Newberry and Gordon McManus would be sidelined while a bunch of pro's battle it out for a few extra points that are going to be wiped out come the play off stages. Don't get me wrong there would be some great matches to be seen however I'm not sure the Priory league match is the place to do it.
I personally would like to have a gentlemens agreement that we knock off the top two players so I can play my regulars and you can play Ashley, Mo etc. Line up could be:
Farzan v ?
Rory v Neil Baker
Me v Mo
Gordon v Stu Lamprell
Dean v Ash Tomlyn
If anyone's worried about not seeing top squash, well this 'diluted' side would have some brilliantly contested matches.
And, I'm sure your team would thank you for the opportunity to play in a great match.
Just my thoughts.. |
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Mark, thanks for your thoughts but that's not our regular team this summer. A couple of our guys don't want to/and can't play every week over the summer (one's away for the whole of August, earning far to much ) which is why we didn't enter 2 teams into the division. Don't think Neil will be playing 4 probably higher.
We are still playing a core team with either 2 or 3 players playing as often as possible but due to a couple of retirements and one who has far more work commitments, we have had to make some changes to our team. I think the team will not change much over the next year. So I would expect the players who play to be available for the play offs and beyond.
Think that team you posted has enough superstars  I still think you'll win |
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OTH, been reading your posts over the last few weeks and i can confirm that you type and talk such dribbbbble. |
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caron, fair enough, at the end of the day it's not important, I'm look forward to seeing some great squash and hopefully inspiring some new people to play our sport more.
I don't expect us to win but we intend to have a good time (in the bar at least). |
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caron, fair enough, at the end of the day it's not important, I'm look forward to seeing some great squash and hopefully inspiring some new people to play our sport more.
I don't expect us to win but we intend to have a good time (in the bar at least). |
Leave it out OTH, top 7 registered players not members; AI only No5 I think you are out to get rid of the Cascades whipping boys tag  |
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How much more waffling on can we possibly have about who is a regular club player, which pros are going to play in which week ... blah, blah, blah?
Whilst I'm sure some people will think it's a case of the pot calling the kettle black (since PL were probably the first team to have a paid player), I think we've totally lost the plot with this whole league now - Surrey Cup div 1 mark two here we come.
That having been said, there's undoubtedly some good squash to be seen each week, and it at least serves the purpose of keeping people talking about it all (even if a lot of it is bitching).
The main problem with hired guns really (and I don't blame them for one minute since it's their living) is that the whole emphasis changes. A lot of the time they travel in from God knows where, play, go and are generally anonymous. Not all do this, but that kind of thing is somewhat inevitable after the novelty wears off. |
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Oh London dear chap it was you that started all this off, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
I presume you'll be taking your paid players over to Hillbilly terretory and give them a good thumping. That's what they need, a damn hard thumping  |
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Well, Jester "dear chap", I suppose you're right about starting it off, but not so sure about the shame. JR (and before him Jamie Davis) have appeared for PL since 1999. This started off purely in the Super League when the likes of Paul Johnson, Adrian Grant, John Russell and Ben Ford were playing in it, so it seemed like a fair enough tactic.
When the SL folded we kept our paid player on since Priory appeared to be strengthening up and I couldn't persuade the other PL captains that we should run one full strength team.
Having thus opened Pandora's box I suppose we'll all have to suffer the consequences, be they good or bad. |
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can i just say that by bringing in paid players it increases the level of squash which i can only see as a good thing, yea it might give the homegrown players no chance but it is the same in surrey league which is one of the strongest leagues around, how else will squash become bigger if we dont try to increase the standard of squash at grass roots. the people that disagree must be scared of loosing their place in the team! one word training  |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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We have never paid players before. We still want to keep a core player group.
HS your wrong about who's a member at our club. Anyway this is priory div1. |
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as everyone is giving their thoughts on it i might as well have my moneys worth!!!!
I played alex ingham first match of the season......got a tonking but had a great game enjoyed the challenge of playing someone far better than me.....and to top it off.....he and phil rushworth stayed for the food even had some drinks (it was alexs 18th birthday the next day) and really had a good laugh with us rodmersham yokels........i think thats the standard to set.
got farzan tomorrow so another whipping, but as the world famous marathon man (check out your latest squash mag back page for details) i shall be duely running myself into the ground and diving about in the process. and well done to BH for not rising to temptation to totally demolish us 2moro to get revenge on mr 'dodgy tactics' steve smith!!!!!!! |
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Well put Hackerman |
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ML
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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Indeed it is well put Hackerman, looking forward to a great matchup tonight and a good kicking from Graham.
You say a whipping JB but I seem to recall you and Farzan having an awesome match at Cascades - 3-1 I'm sure.
It had crossed my mind to put out a stronger team but that would mean bringing in extra players for the sake of it - not what we're (now) about as you've read before.
Looking forward to seeing you guys. For everyone else, you're more than welcome to come up and heckle the BH lads over a good pint.
Cheers
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That's if we are not plunged into darkness ML |
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| That's if we are not plunged into darkness ML |
If things start looking that bad I may pull the fuse myself |
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The great homegrown train from Rodmersham steamed into Biggin Hill last night and not unlike the Eurostar cruised into a 2-0 lead. Unfortunately, like most things associated with our railways, the wheels quickly started falling off
Once again some great games, personally Malcolm Parker's being the win of the week if not season, and some great retreiving from Mark after it seemed that Graham was able to nick anything at will in the first game.
Apologies to John and Farzan for the poor eyesight of their marker but he just could not deal with the 150 shot rallies then be expected to give a let
Good game, friendly atmosphere and, from what I understand, good beer and food afterwards. |
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Yup a great night, good squash, good company.
Here's Dean's match report just in case you haven't read it. Deano, you're a gifted man..
Rodmersham snatch defeat from the Jaws of Victory!
Now the match was rearranged from Monday, this meant rather than spending my time watching the matches to note amusing incidents to include in the match report I spent the first half of the evening playing my Surrey Cup match then driving like I stole it up to Biggin Hill.
The scene that greeted me was not good. Rory (Sheep Head) Pennell has already lost 3-0 to Malcolm (Tenacious) Parker. By all accounts this match consisted of Malcolm playing tight deep retrieving squash and Rory going for the nick.. AND MISSING!
Fazarn (Racketball) Rasheed and John (Famous Marathon Man) Brewer had just started knocking up as I took marking duties on the other court. Gorden (Silver Fox) McManus was playing Tom (Explosive Deceptive Nick) Woods. The first two games rolled of very quickly with Silver Fox not playing very tight and Tom sending Silver Fox the wrong way or slamming it in the nick at 100 mph. At this point I looked across to the other match and Racketball was 7-0 down. Where was Mr Lennox? I looked over to see him standing in the corner head in hands looking very white and muttering “it’s all gone wrong, it’s all gone wrong!”
Silver Fox went 7-1 down in the 3rd and then started to finally play some tight squash. Tom to be fair was just too good and ran out 10-8 with a 3-0 win. At this point Racketball had smashed his way to 1-0 over Famous Marathon Man, from this point Racketball seemed in control and snuck a rather close 3-0 win. (2-1 to Rodersham)
Mr Lennox was on Court against Graham (Sometime I wonder why I play this game!) Harraway. By all accounts this was played at a fast pace and as I popped my head up to ask for a marker (Thank you Mr Stimpson!) Mark was 1-0 down having lost to Graham 3-1 in a cup match last year.
On the other court Dean (Dedicated Follower of Fashion) Newberry versus Martin (I’ve never played so bad in my life) Clark. I raced to a 7-0 lead. At this point Martin tightened up and I didn’t, 7-7. Then as per usual with me some sheer determination and I’ve grinded out a 9-7 win. The second game was a reverse of the first and with some good support from the away crowed 9-7 to Martin. In the start of the 3rd hundreds of people appeared to watch and I figured Mr Lennox had just finished losing. The next two games followed a pattern of Martin trying to play some very ambitious winners and hitting the tin and I just playing tight simple (well I am simple anyway) squash.
With some pride restored I walk upstairs to find that Mr Lennox had started to play varied squash (whatever that is!) and won 3-1. So Game set and match 3-2 to Biggin Hill, Mark is still smiling now! Off to the bar for some good chat, beers and Sheppard’s pie with some Special Biggin Hill Brown Source (you’ve got to try it)!
Next week we are off to Cascades. That could be interesting ….. |
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