As you can imagine, I’ve had a few nights over the last week, where at 3am, I’m sat alone with my thoughts in the dark....with my deepest and darkest fears, real and imagined. Spectres of sins past, transgressions considered and felonies planned, float before my eyes like....well, ghosts I suppose.
I sat last night in my room, my mind a maelstrom of thought when, suddenly, I had a vision of real clarity. I saw into the depths of another man’s soul. I saw his hopes, his dreams, his fears....oh yes, his fears.....
Maybe it was my imagination, but I thought I was in Justyn Price’s head. He was awake. In the dark. Ruminating on life, the universe and everything.
His thoughts, as mine, had done the rounds. But eventually, in the still, cold watches of the night, when reality and imagination merge and are as one, he got round, as you inevitably do, to the immutable facts of life. The things one should never do as they lead to irretrievable disaster:
One, never get involved in a land war in Asia,
two, never tell your wife that you think her sister is rather attractive,
and three, most importantly, never, NEVER, EVER let Lucas be the only player in your side to win his match.
Foolishly and I imagine to his eternal regret – Justyn has let this happen in his first outing as Westies Men’s 2s captain. I presume the barrage of “Me, me, me, me, me!” from Fatboy during dinner after the match has now ensured that he and the rest of the team do not let this happen again.
Against rather a strong Cov & North Warwicks III who have also just joined the league, Doylie lost 3-0, Fatboy took the honours 3-2 in his match, Justyn lost 3-1, Vicky and Kev Taylor both went down 3-0. Not the most auspicious start to the season – but hey ho, better it happens now than at the end of the season when we need a win to get promoted!
The Westies Men’s 1s are in the middle of what seems like an interminable run of away games. This week, they had the pleasure of travelling to Kenilworth to face their 2nd team. In matches past there have been some pretty good ones between them and us. This ranks up there with the 25th time you were forced to watch Notting Hill with your Missus for memorability.
Once again the closest the opposition came to getting a point was when one of our players got lost and turned up after everyone else had won their matches. This time it was Tasty Tatey using Dave’s satnav. In the end Tasty, Red Mist Rocket Robbie, Head Hacker Harps, The Man from Dachau and new boy Ali Jafari, all won 3-0. And Westies won 20 – 0 in points.
I’ve been asked to think of a nickname for Ali, which, as I haven’t met him yet could be difficult. Maybe The Babe or The Toddler.....because to be perfectly honest, everyone needs to learn to walk before they can run. I’ll get advice from Tasty Tatey on that one.
A couple of years ago we had a difficult year in Div 2, but this year it all seems a bit different. I assume that the league is going to get tougher, the evidence from the last 2 matches seems to show it. Last week the opposition totalled 35 points in all at an average of 2.33 points per game, this week it was 34 at an average of 2.62, so at least the matches appear to be getting harder.
The tie of the week was at Solihull Arden between the 2 clubs’ ladies teams. This would have been at the top of my report but as most men will know, the concept of time is never highest on the list of female priorities. Any bloke who has waited for their significant other to get ready for a night out will testify to this, so it was only at the end of the week after I had written the other reports that I managed to get the results of this one.
And what a pleasure it is too.........the Westies Ladies travelled to Arden and in a very tight match beat them 3-2. Sue Underwood and Lindsey Vickers had a tight one with the Arden girl sneaking it 3-2. Jane Owen at 4 also had a hard match against Grace Talbot coming out on top 3-2. Lisa Key unfortunately went down 3-0 before Vicky Davies defeated Jane Armstrong 3-2 to set up a decider between Mandy Gatherer and Ann Frew. Mandy proved too strong and took her match 3-1, winning the tie for our girls. Fantastic result.
Anyway, there you go. Speak to you next week! | 