WEEKLY UPDATE 10 OCTOBER 2025

I understand that not everybody was able to view last week's update, so I've done a cut and paste, and reposted it below. As far as I can see it now seems to be OK. Just a reminder that this season's league fixtures are now on the Fixtures and Results page. I've also updated the Past Winners page and added a couple of tables on the Knock Out Competition page. The first one shows average scores of each player so far, and the second is the traditional Players Table but with handicaps added to everybody's scores to determine wins and average. After a computer update next week I'm hoping to produce handbooks shortly.

This week's two matches both resulted in home wins. Pudsey were still without top board man John Allan, and after running Princeville B close the previous week, were well beaten in the return fixture. Meanwhile, Princeville A were only able to field three of the six players selected for that team before the season started, but still finished only 27 points adrift at the Deaf Centre, and so secured the aggregate point over the two fixtures. Consequently the league table now shows the Princeville teams in first and second places in the table, but Pudsey, at the bottom, are only 4 points behind Princeville B at the top, and with two more rounds of fixtures still to play all teams have 5 more points to compete for.

With handicaps added Dave Howarth and Peter Allan had small wins for Pudsey but Princeville B's winners were all by larger margins, with Paul Devitt's being the best against Ralph Allan. Ralph generously commented of Facebook

'I've had some good games over the last few seasons but last night's was one of the best in my short career. I got absolutely hammered by a true gent, billiards played how one day I'd like to play, just simplicity to the highest standard and control of the balls second to none. Thank you for the lesson Mr Devitt it was a pleasure to have been on the same table' (Editors Comment - Very magnanimous in defeat Ralph - and good luck with the continued development of your own game).

At the Deaf Centre Richard Bowes seems to have hit something like top form, with break of 50 and 42 in scoring 203, but Chris Jarvis stuck at it to score 143 in the 50 minutes (highest combined scoring of the season - 346). Jeremy Dixon also topped 200  in a big win against Brian Haigh but stand in skipper Gareth Kershaw pulled some back for Princeville A and Dave Bowers, making his first appearance of the season, kept close to Ian Ford in a low scoring game, which helped Princeville's aggregate position.

The final two rounds of fixtures in this short competition sees the Deaf Centre playing  Princeville B (at Princeville this week) while Pudsey will welcome back John  Allan for their matches against Princeville A (this week at Pudsey)

Stephen Kershaw

Secretary