Thursday 16 May 2013

Racketball home v Waverley 14/5/13

First up tonight was Derek Addison playing at number 6. Derek was complaining before the start of his game that he should have been playing further up the order since he beat some of the other players at practice on Saturday and he soon managed to deliver a 3-0 victory to make his point. We will however still ignore any such whining in the future.
 
Brian went on court at the same time against frequent Grange visitor Domenic. As Domenic is used to playing on the Grange courts he seemed to get overly upset at some of his misses and the gallery was amused to see the stamping fit in the 2nd set. We will be ordering a pram and some toys for the return visit at Waverley.
 
Andy Whitelaw made his team debut and for the first 2 games appeared to be narrowly in control edging out his opponent by the odd extra point. Question marks will be asked about Andy's fitness however after losing the next 3 games and coming off the court looking like he had spent several hours too many in the sun. Never the less, a good performance in his first match.
 
In the battle of the John's, John Matthew narrowly edged a 3-0 victory despite trying his best at several stages to throw away convincing leads. The spectators were at one point wondering if John was having trouble seeing the ball but the thought passed as we realised he couldn't possibly get hair in his eyes and with his opponent just returning after several weeks injured, it couldn't be sweat either.
 
Mike Douglas took on Brian and eased out another 3-0 win. Unfortunately I didn't see much of this match but I am told the 2 competitors looked roughly the same in ability and physique. I would note however that Brian has been drawing his pension for several years now.
 
I was last up against Mike and despite my best efforts on the night I was well beaten by a better and more mobile opponent even with a Waverley umpire trying his best to assist me.
 
After retiring to the bar, Brian Sloan took on the chef's apron for this week and did a fine job of providing a two course feast of tomato soup followed by cottage pie. Voting on the best meal will happen at the end of the season but Brian has put himself in the running. Thoughts are also turning to a charity booklet of racketball tea recipes being sold towards court refurbishments.
 David Grieve
RB Captain.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sorry Brian, but at this early stage of the seaon, my vote goes to Hatton, with cheesy pasta, cottage pie, pizza, bhajees, samosas, lemon swiss roll and, to top it off, chocolate swiss roll.