Get men talking | Monday 08/04/24

Good to see everyone again and have a good ole catchup (nothing new, no gossip, no one's played at all apart from Wayne obviously and the gimp finished last! Nice one buddy) and I think it's great that we can all discuss what's going on in our lives but taking it past the limit, again, is James Field who decided it's perfectly acceptable to discuss his sex life. I'm betting that Mrs. Field had a shit night and there is no way to permanently delete the mental images that he managed to insert (among other things).

Big shout out to Pete Sears who's now into his 2nd year of captaincy, Dave Wrafter for the fixture sorting and Shaun for herding the financial cats.

Winner on the day was John Hodge, narrowly pipping James into 2nd place, thank god, well played that man. Actually the winner was Craig Spink but he's just one of the masses now so doesn't count.

1st round matchplay was drawn and can be viewed here

Couple of cards wrong, as per, with Ken scoring 30 not 29 and Wrafter scoring 35 not 34. Point's duly deducted. Oh and I don't know if you've noticed but there's more than 1 column on scorecards that you're allowed to write in. 

Anyways Walsall.......lets do this.

Ready for another one? | Thursday 25/01/24

Wotcha, hope you're doing well and all that, and are ready to read another load of old nonsense.

Business first, all the fixtures are loaded up and can viewed on the usual page. Shout out to Dave Wrafter for all of his hard work and obviously me as well. Game 1 see's us going to Perton Park (now called The Mount) so, if you could do the necessary on whether you're attending or not.

Member numbers are now 24 (with Paul O'Mahony and Nick Pinfield joining our ranks, welcome both) so the decision was taken to have 3 leagues of eight players, last seasons promotion/relegation is still in effect (yes Jim, you do stay in the prem and I still get relegated) with the 2 new members starting at the bottom as is the norm.

Not including the weekend away the fixtures have been reduced down to 12 so with this in mind the Perton game is going to be included in the matchplay with the draw taking place beforehand. Shock horror though as Dave has broken the bingo machine, so it's gonna be electronic! Damn technology eh?

That's it then folks, take it easy and I'll see you soon.
Craig

All roads lead to this | Saturday 30/09/23

So, by all accounts the weekend was another standard BG afternoon in the sun with Mr. No Life doing what Mr No Life does and walloping the opposition again. Not saying well played as I don't mean it. 

The matchplay final will see Mr Lister doing battle with Mr Peach and that should be a good old tussle.

Captains bowl is looking like a repeat of last year with Mr 'I need a dating profile' rinsing everyone, that's unless Tony Doyle can amass 45 points.

Leagues looking tighter however with just a single point separating 'No mates' and Tony Doyle in the prem. Not sure who I wanna win that one however, as Tony didn't come round to look at my bathroom! Relegation could see any two of 4 players dropping out.

The championship is almost done and dusted though with Robin cantering home, Tom and Ken heading for league 1. Although Paul Read and John Hogde are duking it out for the final promotion spot. I would have included Steve Fuller in this but lets face it he's no winner.

Dan and Wrafter look to have done enough to escape League 1 with Paul Alex and Mick O'Connor escaping in the wrong direction.

League 2 is deffo sewn up though Tim and Mick Henn doing the business.

The nearest the pins is a shootout between Robin, Tony Doyle and James Field. Only 1 thing to say about that really and that's "Come on Robin" and I guess I should add that he who shall not be named is gonna win the Risk/Reward challenge also. Boring.

Bromsgrove next for the final game of the season and we can all look forward to James Field having a platform to abuse people. #hatespeech

Oh and I'm sure I'm not alone in not having a clue about the Champion of Champions match so, I can't comment on that. #lackofcommunicationfromthecaptain

:) 

Winners, winners and the weekend away | Friday 15/09/23

So, it's been a while (again) and since I've been away there's been 2 fixtures played out.

Super Lee Rogers cemented his legendary status by winning at Kidderminster and then going back to back by winning at Walsall. What an absolute superstar. I wasn't there for either so other than this nothing interesting happened.

Matchplay update.....I got absolutely mullered 4&3 by Dan Peach in the last remaining semi final. So, he'll take his place alongside Stuart Lister in the final. Good luck to ya both.

Pete Sears is showing what a proper captain can do by booking the weekend away for next year and the details are as follows:

Location: Greetham Valley
Date: 30/08/2024 to the 01/09/2024
2 nights including bed and breakfast and 3 rounds of golf:
Friday: Lakes course : 11:46
Saturday: Valley course : 10:58
Sunday: Lakes course : 09:54
Prices: £265 pp sharing and £345 for a single room (of which there's only 1 remaining but more can be booked should more than 16 people be in attendance)
Deposit: £65 is required by Febuary of next year and, obviously, costs can be spread by paying £20-£25 a month into the society account.

Proper captain behaviour that is.

Enjoy the weekend away boys.

Craig

Only real golfers play Cocksmoor | Sunday 13/08/23

So, it turns out that over half of the society are shandy drinking southeners whereas the other half are real men who turn up through thick and thin. You know who you are, time to have a word with yourselves.

Anyway turns out that Cocksmoor wasn't the dogpit that people said it would be (greens could do with a bit of TLC, the fairways mowing, the rough brutal and brooks everywhere) but it played alright. I figure it's not like we're good enough to notice anyway.

Winner on the day was el Captain James scoring 33 points, well played that man. He does need to sort his shirts out though, absolutely diabolical.

Stuart Lister pipped Tony Doyle in the matchplay semi final which went to a play off hole. Well played both.

Only 1 card wrong with Steve Fuller scoring 27 not 26 and just in case anyone was wondering he still can't get out of bunkers. He said that there wasn't enough sand in them, all I know is there definately wasn't by the time he'd finished in em.

Until the next thrillng instalment!

C