The Beers Bury The Blockbusters

Blockbusters should stick to Quiz's
We meet The Blockbuster in the cup again. This year we have got the better of them in the league, but in the past we have always failed against them in cup matches. This has to stop.
Tricky night for me as The Sexy Bristols also have a darts match at the other end of the Earth.
As a result Mrs G has agreed to drive us over to darts later, (thank-you).
Mrs G and The Model Y open our attack with a solid 84. Mrs G with 38, and Y with an excellent 46. We lead by 5 pins. The 1933 Model Y, think we might be making these again soon.
Points are irrelevant in cup games so will be no mention. I played now with M3/452, but was poor hitting the 3rd worst score of our team with 31. M3 held us up with a fine 39, deserved more, but we still pulled out another 5 pins. We now leave venue to battle for the Sexy Bristols.
Unfortunately we have temporarily robbed the team of captain Mrs G, and rudderless we flounder a bit. Guinevere without a quiver hits 27, The Weld misses the spot with a 26. The team drop 10 pins, and its all level.
Next on we have The Prof and The Whistler. With a slide-rule and a little tune they notch up a 37 and a 40, and we pull out another 5 pins.
Our penultimate pairing of Lancelot and Toyah score a very reasonable 40 and 38, another 2 pins profit. We are now 7 pins up going in to the last pair.
We play our usual anchor pair of Chippy Minton and The Wizard, but they will be up against Captain Peacock and his preferred partner Mr Humphries. These 2 (much as I dislike them) have won the Scrumpy Town pairs competition before, and as such need to be treated with some skittling respect.
Chippy on the other hand chose to show no respect and took the pick axe straight out the bag with a stonking 46. Backed up with solid 34 from The Wiz. Mr Humphries failed with a dismal 31, while Captain Peacock crashed and burned with a 26. Chippy and Wiz pulled 23, match won by 30. Two 46's kitty rollover.
"Are you free Mr Humphries?". Well he will be free on semi-final night when we play The Newcomers.On Your Knees Blockbusters.

Darts, Monday Drum v's Waggon, bad day for Bluto.

Stikingly good likeness
Cup semi final for the Drum Monday night team against The Waggon and Horses. A strange cup this one. The first player competes over 5 legs 501, all legs count, then we play a doubles match over 5 legs, followed by a triples over 5 legs. 15 legs available, first to 8 is going to win.
We open with Bubbles as our singles player, he will be playing The Thief, who is also captain. Bubbles puts up a good fight losing 3-2, but the last leg could have gone either way. In the doubles I am playing with Elvis, and this match would turn out to be the turning point. We are playing The Bream (freshwater fish), and Popeye Natch. The Bream is a reliable but rarely exciting player, Popeye the opposite. Unlike the cartoon Popeye, whose source of strength comes from spinach, this Popeye relies on Natch. This is not scrumpy, and you might lose your friends.
Natch is not Scrumpy, but is a fairly strong bottled or canned fizzy fighting cider. With the right quantity Popeye is a very good darts player, but he can go too far. If he's tripping over the oche, not sure where he is, he's dangerous. Tonight he has brought his own supply, coat pockets brimming with litre bottles of Natch.
Luckily for Elvis and myself he has gone too far, not even too sure where the board is. We win first 2 legs comfortably.No help for Popeye
Bluto, Popeye's sometime friend, sometime nemesis, is at this time struggling to control his temper. Bluto is a big man who likes to mix his drinks, but whose temperment has often come into question. As Elvis and I take the next leg, Bluto cannot help himself and is now shouting and threatening Popeye, and will soon be joined by the Thief. The Bream, now shedding scales, manages to take the 4th leg, but with no Olive to turn to, and his team mates turning on him Popeye's pipe goes out and we take the last leg.
Our triples are The Wanderer, Trigger and Bonnie Tyler. They face Bluto and two other pirates. We lose the first leg and now lead 6-5. In the next leg the Wanderer is struggling, but Triggs and Bonnie are playing well, and despite Bluto's side getting to their double first, but missing, Wanderer changes the game. With 28 left he manages to throw one dart in the tyre, one dart in the wall, and with the last hits double 14. This hurts Bluto big time. Drum lead 7-5. The next leg goes much the same as the last, yet again Wanderer struggling, but Bonnie leaves him 60. As before TheWanderer hits the tyre with first dart, then hits 20 followed in lightning by double 20. The Drum win 8-5, we explode with cheering, Bluto explodes out the exit, Hoorah. Waggon refuse to play last 2 legs.
For the Waggon, quote Bonnie Tyler- "Its a Heartache".Hmm, still good.

3 in 1, Oil not Scrumpy, Don't Drink

Been a bit lazy and now have missed 5 skittles results, so will do 3 in 1.

The Beers home to the The Cavaliers. I couldn't make this match but looking at results it doesn't seem that eventfull. We lost 8-14 at home to a team below us in the league, and almost everyone in the team had a bad or average score except Wiz on 39, and a tie for the kitty between Guinevere and Toyah on 40.
Who's best, Toyah- with her punk/futuristic look, or Guin- with her beguiling medieval maid, but stab you in the back and leave you for your mate look.Giunevere,watch your back
I don't know I like them both. There's only one way to sort this out-FIGHT.
Or instead we just have a rollover and the kitty doubles up for next weeks lucky winner.
In a bizarre twist as I'm writing this, Toyah is on Television battling Kikki Dee on bargain hunt.
Beers away to Gems. We are back at Scrumpy Town football club, one of our better scoring venues. The Gems are below us in the league and fighting to avoid relegation. True to The Beers manner we flirt with defeat to a lower team, but manage a win in the end 16-6. Highlights are The Whistlers 42 and Toyahs 43, which should have taken the rollover had I not had a couple of lucky spares and a 53. It was another night on the Guiness and the next morning there was no sign of my winnings, but Mrs G's purse, (a black hole) is clearly bulging.Mrs G's purse seen through telescope- the closest I get to it.
Beers home to The Saltys. Missed this match again. The Saltys are also fighting relegation, and yet again we gave them a chance, although we did have some good scores. Mrs G with 38, The Prof with 39, Model Y with 41, Lance with 42. But the team was saved by an outstanding score for the Wag alley of 49 by Chippy Minton.

Chippy takes the Kitty.
Just missed the end of bargain hunt, don't know who is best, Kikki Dee or Toyah-FIGHT.