3 Man Team 1st Round

3 man team draw - 1 to qualify from each venue - to be played Thursday 8 December 2011 8pm.
Match Format - Best of 5 Singles

Den Inn
Argyle (1) - M Fairgrieve, T Oates, K Wardhaugh
Den Inn 'A (2) - G Brunton, S Simpson, P Simpson
Swan Hotel (2) - R Izatt, J Heggie, M Kettles
Swan Hotel (3) - B Aitken, J Aitken, S Ruddock
Buck'n'Hynd - J McIlroy, J Guidi, T Clark, R Crockatt (Snr)
Blazers - G Kinninmonth, T Biggerstaff, A Laverty. S Warren

Molly Malones
Den Inn 'B - A Finnie, A Cutherbertson, N Ferguson, L Lowe
Argyle (2) - B O'Donnell, S Wedderburn, D Johnston, D Hamilton
Argyle (3) - Derek Keillor, David Keillor, J Keillor
Douglas (1) - A McWilliams, A Moreland, B Methvin, N Coleman
Brig - D Allan, S Bradley, J White, S Wedderburn

Sunbeam
Sunbeam (1) - P Chenie, R Frape, P Gordon, K Wilson
Douglas (3) - G Anderson, M Anderson, S Penman, B Wilson
Den Inn 'A (1) - M McHale, D Hutchison, K Corcoran
Douglas (2) - C Smith, B Smith, S Smith
Sunbeam (2) - K Paton, W Cherrit, D Law, S Warrender

Swan Hotel
Auld Hoose Windygates (1) - R Warrender, C Corcoran, K Corcoran, G Goodsir
Swan Hotel (1) - T Bell, N Bell, C Lang
Auld Hoose Windygates (2) - I Murray, C Saunders, B Thomson, W Dunlop
Molly Malones - N Johnston, S Gillies, R MacGregor, D Slater

looking at the venues and number of teams that took part this year to last year their is a drop in intrants, what will it be like next year and after ?

4 venues
den had 6 teams, blazers was added to this venue
molly malones had 5 teams
sunbeam had 5 teams
swan had 5 teams i think a team got added to the original 4 teams
so i think there was 20 teams entered in total £180
swan - mollys never turned up so loss there £9

dont know of any other teams that never turned up

last year there was 8 venues with 30 teams £270

are you saying the entries are down because it costs more to enter a team??

that probably is the case but it beats turning up to a pub which is ment to have 6 teams there and there only being 2 because other teams have just put any teams together cause it hardly cost anything. doing it this way means most teams turn up.

i know over the years theres been more entries in competitions but lets be serious, how many actually turn up?? better percentage turning up these days

what did you say to me on thursday about how long you give teams to turn up before or after 8 pm
how many teams turned up at your venue, molly malones never turned up was there more at any other venues

it dosent matter what i think the fact is there is a lot less teams entering competitions
part of making the entry fee higher was to make teams turn up (more to lose)

thought i had to point this out, the income for the total amount is less than last year nearly £100 less
2 years ago at £1, 8 venues and 6 teams each, income was only £48 a third of what it is now, so the entry fee had to be increased

if the entry fees had been slowly increased every couple of year or even 5 years , i was at the 2002 AGM and wanted the entry fee increased to £2 each , but this was not done
If it had went up then we may be playing for a £5 a head by now and no one would be bothered
so blame the comittee at that time and the present committee just because