The madness continues

Laughs aplenty at the Dog & Duck this week, where malicious saboteurs (or kids) had taken great delight in ripping the Aunt Sally pole from the ground in the afternoon before our match. With a distinct lack of engineering prowess and only a small and ineffective toffee hammer available, all attempts to drive the thing back into the sun-baked ground proved comically futile. Help was at hand though, as a conveniently placed traffic cone slipped neatly over the top to provide some measure of stability, and the Brewers team never tired of shouting out cone! instead of iron, and then rolling about with laughter for the next five minutes. Simple things...

The Dog clearly had record-breaking in mind in their first leg. After drilling their first stick and setting Brewers' hearts aflutter, they then proceeded to miss their next 47, to finish with a remarkable score of 1. This topples the previous record of 44 consecutive misses in one leg set by the Hope & Anchor. Congratulations all round.

Elsewhere, the Wanderers continued their worryingly fine form with a 3-0 over Norreys Barn, who apparently all turned up in fancy dress. Any photographic evidence of this would be much appreciated. The Evil Empire kept themselves bang in contention with a 3-0 stuffing of the Brams, but the Queen's Head have lost their grip on the league with a 3-0 reverse to the Frog & Wicket. As consolation, though, I have now been informed that they did in fact only lose 2-1 to the Brams a few weeks ago. Doubtless next someone will tell me they actually won 2-1. What fun.

There were also a couple of minor inaccuracies in the league table, which I believe I have now corrected. However I would like to make sure that everything is correct as it is a very close league this year and I wouldn't want a stewards' enquiry at the end of it over some crucial boob I've made. If everyone could send me their complete results for the year then that would be a great help. Ta.

Here are the results in thus far, with league table. The Evil Empire are provisionally top again as the Bell & Bottle have not checked in with their result. Tsk tsk.

Brams 0 - 3 Elephant
H&A 0 - 3 Pheasant
D&D 0 - 3 Brewers
Wanderers 3 - 0 Norreys
Frog 3 - 0 Queen's

Team	Played	Won	Lost	Forfeit	Legs won	Legs lost	Points
.	Elephant & Castle	14	10	4	0	30	12	39
.	Wanderers	14	9	5	0	30	12	39
.	Queen's Head	14	10	4	0	29	13	38
.	Bell & Bottle	13	11	2	0	27	12	37
.	Jolly Farmer	13	9	4	0	25	14	34
.	Three Brewers	14	8	6	0	23	19	31
.	Pheasant	14	7	7	0	22	20	29
.	Norreys Barn	12	5	7	0	16	20	20
.	Frog & Wicket	12	4	8	0	15	21	18
.	Hope & Anchor	12	3	9	0	9	27	12
.	Dog & Duck	13	2	9	2	8	31	10
.	Bramshill Hunt	14	1	10	3	4	38	5