Wednesday 14 March 2007

Seconds home v Watsons 4 (Tue, Mar 14,'07)

While our firsts entertained the myreside 3's, we waited on the Myreside 4's to turn up 7:30-8ish.
Todd Mitchell needed to dash off to write his latest polemic on global warming - his match against #3 Martin Macari warmed up the court a lot with loads of 20 shot rallies. Todd won the first easy and just had the edge in the next two; 3-0.

Mark Dutton took up cudgels with his opponent from the first round, #2 Andrew Constable. This was a see-saw battle with Mark going 2-1 up in very tight games but Andrew came back strongly to take the last two; 2-3. Plenty of trademark blood on the dancefloor as Mark's dives were of the desperation rather than the winning variety.

Peter Cockburn was on at #4 against Roger Weir, won the first but his man put in some tremendous charges to take the next 3; 1-3.

Tweedster was always in control against Barry Turnbull, the soft measured home touch versus the smack-it-for-a-winner-or-tin approach of the Myreside man; 3-0.

Christy had never played Paul Macari at #1 before. Paul had a slow start to lose the first, it was tighter in the second but Christy was middling every ball and a plethora of fading boasts, slam-nicks, reverse angles and skid boasts saw him thru in 3.

Overall 3-2 (15-8) On target with the score, another 15 points at C-rooks2 on Fri next will see us promoted. Great team effort.

Man of the match: Todd Mitchell probably the steadiest player I have witnessed at Grange, in the world, ever, in his last team match.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Despite this being Watsonian 4's 12th defeat out of 17 matches, it's quite an encouraging result for us considering that we'll be playing division six squash again next season and Grange 2s will be playing divison four squash.

Optimistic of Myreside

Anonymous said...

I think if Watsons 4 hadn't lost Paul and Gavin for half the season, they wouldn't be demotion fodder. Martin, Roger and Andrew look like a very strong backbone. Paul is not yet back to his best after the back injury. I haven't really seen Barry play. If they can get these 5 out every week and get Gavin back playing, they should smoke Div 6 next year.
As for Grange 2's, this is the first time we have had the same 5 players in the 8 seasons I've been at the club. We will lose Todd back to the USA but there are one or 2 new faces to make up for that so I think we have a better chance of staying up next year.

Anonymous said...

Grange 2 still need 15 points home v C-Rooks 2 to guarantee promotion as Abercorn are just 14 points behind and playing the bottom team.

If we do the job, it should be Royal Bank, Accies 2 and David Lloyd come down into Div 4. Waverley 2, Col-Muss, Hatton and Edin Uni Studs 2 plus Linlithgow 2, Bank of Scotland and Grange 2 would complete the Div 4 complement in 2007/08.

This is still a tough line-up next year to stay up.