The unbeaten St George are welcomed to the Romans for the return leg of a game that previously saw us drubbed and never looking likely to win!
This time, we find ourselves facing them after consecutive defeats (Royal George and Pebbles) but in a much better run of personal performances that have deserved more.
But, here we are.... Helen was selling the teams on the footy card, Ray didn't want to play as we already had 6 thanks to Keeno finding some cover at the boozer and Ian turned up with printed copies of the league table that saw us begin the night 3 places behind our opponents! It made very pleasant reading!!!
Well, even though the fortress known as the Romans can more than accomodate their squad of 643 players they only came down with a bare bones 6 (until Kevin, Adam Griffiths and Mo turned up). After a chat with Pete Roughton Longy knew he was worried that it wouldn't be as easy as he first thought!
Luke Hassan, who didn't play against us last time out, was called up first with Jim as Longy picks a solid starting doubles pair of Gaz and Keeno. The 2 boys from St George left the oche empty handed as Gazza rattled 123 followed by a 2 dart 32 finish in leg one with Keeno doing his fair share in a slower scoring 2nd leg with 2 dart checkout for 20! 2-0 in legs, 1-0 up in games, I bet these scummy wankers haven't felt that in a while!
Still, we have a long way to go.........
We swiftly found ourselves 3-1 down as the following happened:
Joe (the first sacrifice of the night) was in top form as he pushed Jon Palmer all the way in the first singles of the night (they had to put a player like him on to get back into it) and Joe was unlucky not to go 1-0 up with 4 60 scores followed by a half an inch miss at double top for a 48 checkout in leg 1. In the second leg he got down to 56 and again hit 4 60 scores to get an 55.63 average for the leg. Nice work and against any other player, any other week that would have been good enough to win the game!
Pete and Longy followed up with a fast paced start to the game that saw them bomb 200 points in front but they hit a bit of double trouble! Longy going for double 4 and hit single 13 was enough to push him over the edge (he knew the chance was gone) and he threw his dartsin anger at the board (surprised they both hit!) but they still weren't thrown as hard as Harley's!!! Even a 57.75 and 52.50 average in the 2nd leg wasn't enough to keep the wolves from the door but there you go! A 2-0 loss that never should have been!
Longy, the final sacrifice, went straight on for a singles game that saw him with chances in all 3 legs of this 2-1 defeat against Kevin (or was it John Burton Race - The TV Chef?):
Longy didn't hit a 100 score in his game! Poor really!!!
Ian was called on to put a stop to the losing streak and made a mincemeat of his opponent as he cruised to a 2-0 win! Great darts and to hit a 65.35 average in leg 2 without hitting a 100 score was very imressive!
Keeno to make it 3 a piece was up next to take on Luke Hassan! Keeno needed 21 darts to get to 32 and a further 18 darts to get to 0 but 1-0 up was a good position to be in! But I am not sure what happened next.... Well, other than 'I could be so good for you.........' blaring out of the jukebox - Cheers Helen!!! Keeno fell apart! He lost the next 2 legs with 75 and 166 left on the chalks! 1-0 up to 2-1 down! Unlucky mate. Don't worry, get in yr car, stick Lionel Richie's 'Penny Lover' on and shag the Mrs 'All Night Long' (another Lionel Richie track!!!) and if it isn't your own Mrs, use someone else's and have fun ha ha
Good old Mo Sizlak came up trumps with the football card (after he only entered with Jon Palmer lending him a quid out of his own dole money!!!) Fucking brilliant, ponse to ponse! He won £15, split it half each and proceeded to pump about £30 into the fruity... Look:
From this to this ha ha
Back to the darts, time for a bit of Superleague quality (and I don't mean Dave Hetherington!). Our very own Gazza.... With only one 100 score he sailed to a 2-0 win (quite comfortably) but a very modest average! Listen to me complaining ha ha! A good win mate and puts in a good position of 4-3 downwith 2 to play!
We knew they were gonna go with Dave Hetherington in a singles and Pete was far from bashed up! A 2-0 loss that saw them win the match (quite relieved they were too cos I saw their assholes twitching from the first game!). Tak nothing away from Pete a 70.83 average in leg 2 was flippin mustard mate! You were allowed to throw the same number of darts in each leg as Keeno took to get from 32 to 0 in his first singles leg = 18 ha ha ha. Well played mate.
That leaves Ian and Joe to play for nothing more than pride and to royally piss them off ha ha! They against Pete Roughton and Mo Holmes (although they look more like Barney and Mo Sizlak from The Simpsons!?!)
With Ian smashing 4 100 scores and Joe hitting 1 100 it made for a a great game to watch. Mo chipped in from the rough with a 180 in the 2nd leg (obviously followed up with a 22.... Class darts!!) but that wasn't enough against a team that saw Ian finish leg 1 and 3 with averages higher than 22.8 and Joe finishing the match with a pat on the back from Pete after checking out 39 in 2 darts! Get in there.
The only 5-4 defeat against an unbeaten, top of the league side that a) I would be dissappointed (after the way we played) at not winning and b) that I was chuffed with the fact that we pushed them all the way!
A fucking great performance lads and as I have said in the last 2 write ups (against Royal George and Pebbles) we played well enough to beat any of the other sides in the league.
Thanks to Di, for serving up something other than Pizza.. Thanks to Helen for selling all of the footy card spaces and thanks to Ian for adding to his ever growing list of offensive comments for the season. Picture the scene..... as Jon Palmer was playing Joe, Jon had about 200 ish points left and hit a single 4 with his last dart:
Ian: 'Jon, why did you go for 18's with the last dart?' with a puzzled look on his face
Jon: 'I didn't' with an ever more puzzled look on his face
Ian: 'Well, that was even more shit that I first thought then' ha ha laughter breezes through the Romans team ha ha ha ha. Fucking classic!
Well, enough of my rambling... Gaz, get on with some work ha ha.
