This re-scheduled match started in an interesting fashion with everybody's cars struggling up a snow-bound and un-gritted Katesmill Lane and slithering around the Colinton Castle carpark in a humorous and fortunately non-fatal manner. The spectacle of the muscular bulk of Andy Whitelaw trying vainly by himself to push your's truly's BMW backwards out of an ill-judged sloping parking space with wheels spinning ineffectually is one that I'll not forget for a while since the only thing I could see was the straining face just poking up over the bonnet…
The business end of proceedings started out with Mark Dutton at no 3 taking on Kevin Vincent in what has been universally described (particularly by the two participants) as the worst match of squash in the history of ..well…squash. Two comfortable (if clumsy) wins to Mark were then followed up by two equally comfortable and equally clumsy wins by Kevin. Mark took the final game and then the pain was finally over. 3-2.
Debutante Richard Nisbet's match was unfortunately unobserved by this author, but the scoresheet showed a very confident start to his team career with only a few points being conceded in each game against Sandy Williams. 3-0.
Pete Young took on Adrian Caxton at no 4. All of the games were close and in all the player who took command initially then went on to be overtaken. Pete came off second best on the night for 1-3.
Andy Whitelaw at No 2 had a tough match and for some periods both players showed some discomfort with the cold conditions in a match that didn't really flow as well as most. Some good play in amongst it all with Andy drawing away to win 3-1.
There's always someone who delays the beer and grub and in this case it was Christy at no 1, repeating his titanic struggle from the third team against the very capable Gareth Wright. Both players played particularly well and there was a lot of flowing play in the cold conditions that the rest of us couldn't manage. Christy looked to be heading for a quick shower initially as Gareth took command, but Christy came right back into it. Unfortunately history repeated itself with a close 5th game going to Gareth. 2-3.
Overall a 17-11 win and that's enough to edge us to the top of the table at the half way point.
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Apparently that wasn't Richard Nisbet's debut, he's subbed for us earlier this season. Regardless, he was striking the ball very well, put in some nice volleys and drops and just had too much against Sandy,. Some great rallies but Richard was comfortable in almost all of them while Sandy was getting more and more out of position.
Garth, not Gareth, was my opponent and I'm surprised we seemed to play well as I thought we both showed a lot of Christmas rust compared to the time we played each other in October.
Richard: the food was penne pasta with bolognese sauce, the portions were extra big due to Whitelaw, Sandy and James all having to leave early. Better still, piping hot! Scrumptious to mop up the excess sauce with garlic bread. Yummm ;-)
Sounds like Colinton nearly had us there and the Dutton match was the clincher!
So there was no food left, despite the extra large portions then?
It might have been Sandy Williamson, rather than Williams.
Richard
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