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Wilton Bridge v MPC – 3 April 2025

Our friendly match with Wilton Bridge took place under sunny spring skies in Ross-on-Wye. Both teams were fielding 14 players apiece, with three rounds of play ahead.

The first round comprised four triples and one double. The results of the five games were pretty close, with MPC edging Wilton Bridge 3 wins to 2 (60-48). It was good to see some of our less-experienced players, such as Keith Miller and Linda Lippett, playing well.

In round 2 there were seven straight doubles to play and the best result came from the two Lindas, Lippett and Thomas, who won their game 13- 2. There were also wins for Bernard & Mike, John Maroney & Keith Thomas and Keith Miller & Peter Lippett. Overall we won the round by 4 games to 3, but the points difference of 72-68 shows how close the games had been.

So, with a lead of 7 games to 5, it was all to play for in the final round of two triples and four doubles. Wilton Bridge still had a chance to come good. But it wasn’t to be. We took four of the six games, giving us a final result in the match of 11 games to 7 (202-164). Congratulations to all our players and especially to three players who completed a hat trick of winning games: Bernard, Linda Lippett and Keith Miller.  Well done to them and to all our players for giving up a day to play for our club.

Wilton Bridge are a developing club and they want to improve. Their performance in this first match shows that they are on the right track and we look forward to hosting them in the next leg.

Roger Griffin

2024/25 Super League Week 11

Only time for a short summary this week:

  1. Mammoths beat Mustangs 3-1 [41-34]
  2. Mavericks beat Marlins 3-1 [51-26]
  3. Meerkats beat Mercenaries 3-1 [43-31]
  4. Marvels drew with Misfits 2-2 [44-43]

2024/25 Super League Week 10

The shocks continued in this week’s Super League matches. On Wednesday, Marlins who could not buy a win before Christmas, took their second win in three games over the only teams who had not lost a game before the break when they overcame Meerkats (3-1) lifting them up to 4th in the table.

The week commenced with Mercenaries going down (0-4) to Mustangs although Meerkats remained top of table.

On Tuesday, Mammoths pipped Misfits (3-1) lifting them one place to 3rd in the table. Finally, on Thursday, Mavericks took on Marvels in the rain after all the other matches had been played on fine, if slightly chilly, evenings. The conditions proved too much for Marvels who lost (0-4).

2024/25 Super League Week 9

Into the second week of the Super League after the winter break. where Mustangs and Meerkats, the only 2 unbeaten teams in the first half of the season fought out a draw (2-2) which, as Mustangs had lost last week, left Meerkats as the only unbeaten team.

Misfits gave Mercenaries a sound thrashing (4-0) to lift them off the bottom of the table but more significantly dented Mercenaries chances of catching the leading 2 teams, Meerkats and Mustangs

In the remaining two matches, Marlins continued there improved start to part 2 of the season by holding Marvels to a draw (2-2) whilst Mammoths overcame Mavericks (3-1) which meant Mavericks slipped to the bottom of the table.

The results are already showing that the teams that were at or near the bottom over Christmas are not giving up the fight and with only 3 points covering third place to seventh place, one win, or loss, can have a big effect on a team’s league position.

Winter Friendly v Caerleon 2nd Leg

The 2nd Leg of the annual winter friendly took place at Caerleon on Sunday 9 February. The first Leg at Monkstone before Christmas was a very tight affair with Caerleon leading by 2 points at the end. It seemed that there was all to play for and Monkstone were optimistic of wresting the cup back from Caerleon.

On a fine but blustery day things didn’t quite turn out as might have hoped. I was going to point out the highlights but there weren’t many other than the excellent pointing from Sharon who was a late replacement for Vickie who was not well. In the opening singles, which she had never played competitively before, she took Tansy Mayfield to the wire before going doe 11-13 at the end.

So its just well done to the few Monkstone winners and congratulations to Caerleon, winners overall by 75pts to 39, in retaining the cup for another year.