Match Report 12th December 2018 RB3 vs Lutterworth II (A)
We had a new line up for this match, as Rich and Jack joined Rob and Dave for their first away match of the season. All players arrived bright and cheery at Lutterworth, eager to gain our first win.
First up was Rob and Dave, and first game in the bag to 16. Dave doing plenty of running (as expected) and risking life and limb on, what can only be described as an ice rink! Next two games didn’t go so well, loosing to 16 then 13.... what happened?
Sure Rich will secure our first rubber, we watched on to see the same story... winning the first to 17, then getting beat to 17 & 14. Two rubbers down, and this was not in the script. Things did not improve for the next 2 rubbers, both struggling with the slippery floor and loosing in 2.
However, this also saw what can be described as the best individual performance from Dave, going to ground at the back of the court, getting up, then back on the ground again, then picking up another two shots to win the point. Outstanding, especially when everyone realised he had lost his glasses two shots ago! 4 rubbers down, and the match lost, we move to the split. Rob and Jack did better than expected to their two best, with 17 and 13, but still a loss. Now Rich and Dave, playing for pride manage to steal a rubber in two. 5-1 to Lutterworth, and despite some good play from all the team, on a difficult court with plastics, still another loss for the season.
In the spirit of democracy, I am prepared to accept a leadership challenge for RB3... but before you vote, bare in mind that someone will have to do it if you vote me out ;-)
RB3 Captain Rob
The clubs last session for this year will be Monday 17th December 2018. We will be back to normal on Monday 7th January 2019 🤠 We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🎄🎉
Match Report 9th December 2018
LM2 vs Huncote III (A)
Alright guys. So, unfortunately we lost. I think it was a night of shoulda, coulda woulda. I know that’s true for myself and Daan, as we had won the first game comfortably against their 3rd pair, and then lost the next two. We also repeated this process against their first pair. Then it was down to the last game against their 2nd pair, which we’d lost the first game, came back to win from being 19-14 down in the second, but then losing the final game disappointingly 22-20.
As for the other guys, Rich had an expensive night with a racket broken out of frustration, but him and Alex did well with 2 wins out of 3, and the two Sam’s gave it a good go getting 1 win, but things just didn’t work out. Technically this is our first loss under my captaincy of LM2 (I say technically as we’d lost a game 7-2 last season but they’d played with an unregistered player so we had won on paper), so it was a very disappointing night. All we can do now is play to our best ability for the rest of the season, and hope that our time and effort pays off. Well done guys.
LM2 Captain Nathan