Match report v Erith B

Post date: Apr 23, 2014 2:02:59 PM

A local derby with a bit of a bite... Erith D v B . Not much love lost here!

We were lucky to sneak a 5-4 early on in the season in this fixture.

We played on bar table this time. Which is our home table. But it wasn't behaving. It had been reclothed a few weeks back, and has been playing ok. But a few quick shots on it, and it had slowed to a snails pace. Not nice to play on. Maybe change of temp had slowed it down, or it needed a good iron. But it was the slowest table in the whole of div 1 now. Not good, hopefully we can speed it up somehow for next week. .

On to the frames and it our starting pair of singles failed to notch again. Both Pinkie and Sherwood are lacking confidence in league games and it shows, the difference between practice and league frames is noticeable. They lost to Lee and Dave to leave us trailing 2-0

Mop took his winning streak to 7 in a tactical match v Martin. His winning streak has taken him to a place in the Karen Bell. Currently sitting 3rd in rankings. (behind Halfway Marc and our own OSW) But there is no I in team Mop has been told, and more importantly it got the first frame on the board for Erith D

Blaster had 2 frames.; The first was a rerack as both Blaster and Steve K would not knock the black of the cushion in a black ball game. So a re-rack was called due to the crowd getting restless and wanted pots! Blaster missed first chance at black and it cost. 1-3 down. Not good!

Luckily we haver a solid rear end :) OSW and Rat both won their frames to least give us a chance of winning this vital match!

3-3 after singles. We needed more but least we were not behind!!

Mop/Blaster won the first doubles., to put us in the lead for the first time.

Controversial doubles match next. Pinkie/Sherwood v Martin/Steve. Pinkie rolled up behind a ball. As it was a slow table and it was rolled to dead weight behind it. You had to be watching closely to see if it touched. I wasn't, so didn't see either way. Pinkie didn't say anything, leading to Martin questioning whether it hit or not. Pinkie took offence to being questioned as he said he would call a foul if it was. To be fair I have never seen Pinkie not call a foul when he knew he fouled. As we had no ref Martin had the right to ask as well. This encounter seem to put off Pinkie more , but Martin did pot a very good black to win. 4-4

Luckily our good rear guard saved the day again with a nice finish by the Rat in final doubles.

Result: 5-4 is a win, but we needed more points as this was a chance to catch up on the leaders. Especially as the Oak had done us a big favour by pegging back Halfway by beating them 5-4 . Missed chance again. Still it is not over yet. We are 4 behind with 2 to play. Hopefully the winning line is difficult to cross!