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Post by AndyG on Mar 14, 2007 10:29:50 GMT
31st March - 1st April 2007Keep up with how we do at www.epa.org.uk/intlea07res.php, Group 15. 9AM start again  Every time we have been we have got 1 stage further, need to reach the last 16 this time. ;D
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Post by stelmagic on Mar 27, 2007 8:23:42 GMT
Good luck to the run and to dale's team this weekend at Yarmouth
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Post by loopytunes on Mar 28, 2007 8:00:10 GMT
any1 intereseted in going down, there will be plenty of fliers to play in, think me, joff and mr conlan will be going down 4 the weekend.
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Post by orrible on Mar 28, 2007 10:22:18 GMT
some of us have to work
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Post by loopytunes on Mar 28, 2007 13:32:26 GMT
some of us have to party
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Post by AndyG on Mar 29, 2007 14:11:26 GMT
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Post by millerman on Mar 30, 2007 1:45:27 GMT
COME ON THE RUN!!!
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Post by orrible on Apr 1, 2007 6:40:31 GMT
Update:
KSR: lost in group stages.
Ely: Thru to last 16
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Post by orrible on Apr 1, 2007 12:28:20 GMT
Update:
Congratulations to Ely for reaching the last 8, receiving £750
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Post by cueist on Mar 21, 2008 12:38:35 GMT
YARMOUTH 2WEEKS WHOOOP WHOOOP no not allowed have to be good and make sure head is screwed on rather than fell off but thank god we dont have a 9am start Lets have it cambridge
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Post by orrible on Mar 22, 2008 13:25:53 GMT
Good luck to KSR and Ely.
I can't see any problems for Ely.
KSR have to get past 4 times champions Trent Trophies "A" huge task but not impossible.
Elite have to beat Dawley "A" 2005 winners.
The best thing of all is that none of us have a 9am start. woooohoooo!!!!
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Post by mr8balls on Mar 25, 2008 20:12:51 GMT
all have to start walking the walk instead of talking the the talk ....thursday for the piss friday night chilled ,saturday for stepping up to the plate and kicking some arse whatever time we are all on.......come on cambridgeshire....lets have all see who are the best in region 4......good luck all...the most luck to the elite boys...come on...the rathmore boys.....!!!!lol
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Post by millerman on Mar 26, 2008 4:32:54 GMT
all have to start walking the walk instead of talking the the talk ....thursday for the piss friday night chilled ,saturday for stepping up to the plate and kicking some arse whatever time we are all on.......come on cambridgeshire....lets have all see who are the best in region 4......good luck all...the most luck to the elite boys...come on...the rathmore boys.....!!!!lol Think someones been on the Wrongbow!! ;D Come on...the Rathmore boys.....!!!!!...not heard that shout, too often This Season!  Trent WHO?  |
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Post by orrible on Mar 26, 2008 22:46:41 GMT
I'm really looking forward to this one. There is a lot of determination to do well from the Elite side and i'm very optimistic. Thirs night is the Beer night. ;D ;D ;D  We are on strict orders to behave Friday night  Good luck to all 3 Cambs teams. What time is the Poker Friday night Martin? |
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Post by AndyG on Mar 28, 2008 15:46:15 GMT
Tom Fahey's overview has been released. www.epa.org.uk/intlea08over.phpTable 26
Not to sure what to make of this group but Shropshire's Dawley A will take on a team that is here for the first time. If I were to give Berkshire's Hammersmith captain a bit of advice it would be spend a few minutes looking at the archive section of the Interleague and take in just how good their opponents have been over the years and to make note of the fact that are quite likely to hit you hard if you don't make the most of any opportunities that come your way.
That's a lot easier said than done and countless teams before Hammersmith have tried and failed to do just that. Dawley's team will consist of Craig Reynolds, Dale & David Blagbrough, Ian Duffy, Ian Eldridge, Keith Blackham and Scott Yardley. That might not mean much to Hammersmith right now but I think they will remember those names after they have played them.
Hammersmith's team will be selected from the following players, Chris Ayres, Dean Preston, Frank Callaghan, Joe Kelly, John Barry, Kat Pollard, Kenny Bryant, Lee Creaven, Michael Hefferman, Neil Brady, Paul Taylor, Steve Monniynan and Tom Drewell. Without being disrespectful to Hammersmith there aren't any names I recognise there. For them to be able to topple the mighty Dawley would rank amongst the all time great achievements in the interleague.
I am sure they will feel they can do it, and so they should, but they might change their opinion once they have played them from one of new team enthusiasm to one of we were never going to beat that lot. In doing so they will have learnt lesson one in the Interleague bible. Thou shall not beat a top 8 team in the group stage.
Hammersmith will then move on to Cambridge Elite to try and restore their confidence, the Cambridge team will consist of Adam Amstrong, Barry Lindsay Craig Benstock, Ian Norris, Jim Munnelly, Johnathon Middleton, Mathew Bradford Michael O'Boyle, Mick Conlon, Paul Stelmazuk, Rob Cork, Simon Stepney and William Scott.
From the look of that line up it's clear that the majority of the team are actively playing county pool so Hammersmith's road to recovery may not start with this match.
I would expect a Cambridge team with that standard of player to be a bit too hot for Hammersmith to handle. It won't be as brutal as the first match but I think that Cambridge would have enough in their armoury to hold a feisty Hammersmith team at arms length.
If Hammersmith go away having learnt just how hard frames are to come by in the national finals of this event they will have gone a long way to become a team that can compete later on.
Dawley will find Cambridge Elite a bit harder to get the better of than they did against Hammersmith but as I have said so many times before it's at the back end of any match where the overall strength of a team will be judged. Although I see Cambridge keeping pace with Dawley in the early to middle stages of the match I cant see being able to sustain their momentum through to the end of the match.
I see Dawley having the resources to make the decisive break away from Cambridge in the latter stages of the match and put the match out of Cambridge's reach and marching on to the last 32 as per usual.
Table 32
And so we come to the final table and like the table above there will be two teams thinking to themselves what did we do to deserve this draw.
As with the group above someone has to get drawn in to it and this time round it's Andover (Hampshire) and Cambridge K.S.R.
If you wonder why the teams would rather not have been drawn in this group the Trent Trophies a team will consist of Adam Davis, Carl Morris, Darren Henshall Darren Lightfoot, Darren Shorne, Gareth Potts, Jamie Croxton, Jamie Latham Lee Kendall, Liam White, Mark Blackshaw, Steve Bridgewood and team guru Tony Latham.
That team, in my opinion, if it could play in the World Championships would win it hands down.
If that line up does not impress you then you obviously not involved in pool to any degree. Pound for pound this is the strongest interleague team there is around at the moment. They can and indeed have been beaten in the group stage before by Colchester but that is the only time I can recall that happening.
Andover whose team is Andy Green, Chris Newman, Chris Newth, Craig Kennedy, Gerry Breen, Graham Parker, John Francis, Kev Travis, Nigel Bannan, Richard Teague and Richard Thompson. Will do well to win three frames off Trent Trophies.
Personally I hope Trent Trophies have a bad day at the office and Andover beat them but that really is not going to happen.
Once Andover has been beaten by Trent Trophies they get to play a more normal match against Cambridge K.S.R.
Cambridge K.S.R. will consist of Andy Greenley, Dave Hart, Dom Cobley Duncan Graham, Ed Savory, James Griffiths, James Mayes and Martin Early.
This is where Andover can restore some self belief as I think they will get the better of Cambridge - not by much but enough to remind themselves that they can do it.
The final match of this group will be Cambridge v Trent Trophies and I can see only one winner in this match.
It would be nice to be proved wrong in this group and as such it's up to Andover and Cambridge to rattle Trent Trophies cage. The only crumb I can offer though is that sometimes Trent Trophies can be a little slow out of the blocks.
But if you let them warm up then they will just grind you down and claw back the frames you gained, once you get your noses in front you just have to make sure every chance you get is turned in to a win for your team.
Loads of teams have tried before and failed so good luck to Andover and Cambridge K.S.R. He's got our team wrong, looks like our team from a few years ago. Only 3 of that list are going Think this is the team we actually have going Me, Martin, Dom, Benny, Neil, Lat, Ju, Steve, Mel |
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Post by P.A.U.L on Mar 28, 2008 16:24:58 GMT
Looks like the Elite are also short on player names - Mr Rivers! - that name alone might have swayed Tom's judgement.
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Post by millerman on Mar 28, 2008 17:39:34 GMT
Sounds like were going to Walk it!!!  I didn't know we were taking Drunken Duncan!! Oi, Oi (Get the Piano Ready!!) |
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Post by millerman on Mar 28, 2008 17:46:15 GMT
Thoughs Trent Triffles sound quite good!! lol |
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Post by stelmagic on Mar 28, 2008 18:23:11 GMT
Tom Fahey's overview has been released. www.epa.org.uk/intlea08over.phpTable 26
Not to sure what to make of this group but Shropshire's Dawley A will take on a team that is here for the first time. If I were to give Berkshire's Hammersmith captain a bit of advice it would be spend a few minutes looking at the archive section of the Interleague and take in just how good their opponents have been over the years and to make note of the fact that are quite likely to hit you hard if you don't make the most of any opportunities that come your way.
That's a lot easier said than done and countless teams before Hammersmith have tried and failed to do just that. Dawley's team will consist of Craig Reynolds, Dale & David Blagbrough, Ian Duffy, Ian Eldridge, Keith Blackham and Scott Yardley. That might not mean much to Hammersmith right now but I think they will remember those names after they have played them.
Hammersmith's team will be selected from the following players, Chris Ayres, Dean Preston, Frank Callaghan, Joe Kelly, John Barry, Kat Pollard, Kenny Bryant, Lee Creaven, Michael Hefferman, Neil Brady, Paul Taylor, Steve Monniynan and Tom Drewell. Without being disrespectful to Hammersmith there aren't any names I recognise there. For them to be able to topple the mighty Dawley would rank amongst the all time great achievements in the interleague.
I am sure they will feel they can do it, and so they should, but they might change their opinion once they have played them from one of new team enthusiasm to one of we were never going to beat that lot. In doing so they will have learnt lesson one in the Interleague bible. Thou shall not beat a top 8 team in the group stage.
Hammersmith will then move on to Cambridge Elite to try and restore their confidence, the Cambridge team will consist of Adam Amstrong, Barry Lindsay Craig Benstock, Ian Norris, Jim Munnelly, Johnathon Middleton, Mathew Bradford Michael O'Boyle, Mick Conlon, Paul Stelmazuk, Rob Cork, Simon Stepney and William Scott.
From the look of that line up it's clear that the majority of the team are actively playing county pool so Hammersmith's road to recovery may not start with this match.
current county players there 6 out of 13 funny majority, 2 of them are not even going to Yarmouth ;D I would like to know what Mr Rivers has done to upset this fella lol do you feel left out Si   |
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Post by orrible on Mar 29, 2008 22:00:39 GMT
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