I knew it was going to be a difficult night at the bad boys club. Pete, CM, Dave, Ian and Doddy arrived in good time; this however was followed by severe dart maintenance by Dave and Doddy.
Once this was over we started flipping the flipometers. Believe it or not the five of us flipped five reds three times before we had a team draw on the fourth flip. If there are any mathematicians amongst you I would love to know what the odds are of that, it’s an awful lot of reds for a 50-50 outcome!
The (finally) flipped teams were: Casablanca Mike and Tedforth Rushton ‘v’ Pedronius, Davina and Dodderer.
Casablanca and Tedforth belted away from the starting grid to easily take the first game, first blood the opposition thought, nothing to worry about but not ideal. Well dear readers I can tell you that by the time CM & T had taken the second, third and fourth games your humble narrator was feeling pretty pissed off!
There seemed nothing we could do, we raised our game but it made no difference they were still trouncing us, M & T were definitely outplaying us.
During the closing stages of the fourth match we decided the evening had to be ‘A game of two halves’. Accordingly we took our first blood in the fifth game, about time we thought! Then despite a close game Red Ted and Chairman Mike still managed to win the sixth and sealed our fate.
It was now a damage limitation exercise; Dave, Doddy and I managed to take the seventh and eight games, we were definitely in ascendance but sadly too late in the day!
No complaints, Rogers and Hammerstein made beautiful music and deserved their win. The final score line was: CMI 12346 / 578 PDDO.
Notable Events: This is now getting very hard to report. In terms of skilled darting every week there are stunning darts thrown that a year ago would have been newsworthy but are now just good darts! There were a couple of double semis scored which in my book are always worth a mention!
Of course there are other notable events, Rushton very nearly had his tits pierced for being annoying, hmmm... but maybe that isn’t unusual?
Actually I have just remembered a proper notable event! CM & IR were way behind on a game and nearly took the pants of us.... They caught up from way behind and had to be defeated at the last second. For some reason they refused to believe we were just toying with them!
Bull Wars: CM 1, Peter 1, Doddy 1. No massive Bullmeister stuff this evening, must have been a lot of semi’s...
Chart Changes: Pete drops to 4th place as Mike Weaver goes up to 3rd position. Papa maintains his lead from Ian. This year is certainly continuing to be exciting and competitive, it is still anyone’s game, who knows who will lift the Bad Boys 2009 trophy!
Oh... Yes... There is going to be a trophy this year! I am arranging for an engraved ‘tulip’ pint beer glass for this year’s winner. So don’t forget to ‘C***c For Chalk!’
Game On!
Peter x
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