Results & Match Reports

• In the top of the table clash at St Caths, Fifth Finger confirmed their status as champions by beating the home team

• Electric Pigs saw off the X-Pats down at the Sun in September

• Ethel Rodin eased home against Albert Park in a seesaw match at the Red

• Snoopy's Friends couldn't raise a team 'cos of the Easter hols, and had to concede a walkover to Stumped

• Opsimaths played with themselves after Albert also had to scratch and concede a walkover (oh, and in case you're interested the Opsis beat the Maths 33 to 23)

Quiz Paper Verdict

This week's setters were the History Men.  Feedback has been pretty favourable so far.  Interesting themes with plenty of points for those in control of their tongue tips.

The average aggregate score this week was 76.3.  Actual aggregates around the games varied from 74 (Pigs/X-Pats & Ethel/Park) to 81 (St Caths/Finger).

The Question of the Week

The Ethel/Park vote for 'Question of the Week' went jointly to (Round 8 Q3 & Q4):

Yuppie acronyms:  What is a SINBAD (as might be applied to, for example, the fictional Bridget Jones)?

&

Yuppie acronyms: What is a LOMBARD (as might be applied to many Premier league football players)?

(to see the answer to this and all the other questions click here.

Chatterbox

T'Cup

Only this week and next week for the league, and then we are straight into the cup competition. 

To get the basic Cup facts (like who plays whom - and who is setting when)  see the fixtures page.

End of Season

I have now booked the Albert Club for the evening of Wednesday June 9th to hold our Grand End of Season Quiz and Presentation event.  As far as I can tell there are no likely clashing events (like European Cup Finals) so all please get this date in your diaries!!

Thursdays?

You may recall that we had a vote at the end of last season on changing from Wednesday to Thursday evenings as our regular match day.  It was a close run thing but Wednesdays just won the vote.  Chatting to the teams at the Oak a few weeks ago there was a feeling that the groundswell for Thursdays has increased and that we need to have another vote.  Can we please use the website as a sounding board for this issue?  I'll publish any feedback I get.

Feedback 1:

St Caths and X-Pats discussed this issue after their recent match and were firmly in favour of sticking to Wednesdays.

Feedback 2:

Copland has come back saying that Stumped also vote strongly against switching to Thursdays.

Feedback 3:

Mary O'Brien (Albert) favours keeping to Wednesday - at least until we've had a chance to debate the issue again at this season's gala night.

Feedback 4:

Ethel Rodin are finding Wednesdays at the Red Lion almost impossible to negotiate, what with wide- screens and football at every turn.  They would favour moving to Thursdays.

Feedback 5:

On balance the Fingers wish to stick with Wednesdays.

Fr Megson

Fr. Megson's housekeeper opens the door.....and her heart

"Oh hello, what do you want?  No love, I'm his housekeeper.  Priests don't wear headscarves.  You should know that.

"No, Fr. Megson can't come out to play this evening.  He's indisposed.  Hors de combat, as Fr. Wenger used to say in that funny accent of his.  No love, that ill-bred Fr. Colleymore took him down to Cannock Chase on a doggin' weekend and the poor thing only crawled back last night.  You should see the state of him - cuts and bruises all over the place.  More gore than in that new Mel Gibson filum, The Passion of Beckham or whatever it's called.  The poor little fella spent all last night in his basket licking his belly.

"... No love, that wouldn't be part of a housekeeper's job description.  But I'll sew his ear back on when I've put it through the mangle.

"No love, he didn't say what happened. But he's been whimpering and crying out something shockin' in his sleep ....... something about them having an altercation with some pointers who kept laughing at them and calling them names.  Honestly, he's not cut out for that type of stuff, poor wee lamb.  His little nose is all hot and dry and that's never a good sign, is it?

"Yes love, you're right, I blame that naughty Fr. Stan as well.  Disgrace to the cloth he is and always has been.

"No love, you're right, not worthy to wear a dog-collar.  I tell you, that nice Saint Jude must have been working overtime to get a cur like him through his final Doctor of Divinity exams.  Combined Honours in Theosophy and Celtic Studies my erse!  Wouldn't know the difference between a druidic fertility symbol and a Swedish weather forecaster if you ask me!

"Don't fancy coming in for a drink do you, love?  It gets a bit lonely here when he's stuck in his kennel.  We could maybe crack open a tea bag or two.  I've got plenty of tea bags.  No strings attached

"No?  Are you sure, love?  Lots of men would jump at the chance, you know.  Underneath this nylon housecoat beats the heart of a passionate woman.

"No?  Sure?  Oh well.  You'd better sod off then.  Bye.

"Now. How do you get offline on these things?  Let's try this button.  Sod it.  That's the hoover.  Must be this one then.  Oh sugar!   Has anyone got a torch? ..........................................."