Club League Update

Bob In His Working Clothes

I am again indebted to Ron for the following report on last nights game. By all accounts it was some game: -


The main club league is now well underway and it looks to be shaping up into a very open tournament. In the latest encounter last night (Sun) Robert would argue that he was Myles better but in actual fact it came down to a fantastic stone by the Dalbog skip to seal the victory (More later)

Colin took an early lead and looked to be charging ahead with a potential steal of 2 at the second until Bob played a fine draw through a narrow port (well 2 feet) to secure his 1 shot. Colin played a fine end to secure his 2 shot advantage but Robert and his team played some mouth watering shots at the 4th end to put Colin in all sorts of bother. Bob should have had a 6 but failed with an easy draw to the house and had to be content with a big 5.

Colin came bouncing back at the next end and the fine play of his team resulted in an immediate count of 3 to level the scores.

2 shots a piece were traded at the next 2 ends and this set up a tremendous last end decider with Bob holding last stone…….and what an end of curling it was !!!

David Myles played a short guard but Ron came round to lie just beyond the button. David followed with an excellent freeze and Ron also followed with a fine freeze. But with Colin lying shot, he elected to guard for victory and he and his team were making a fine job. Alastair Inglis made a fine tap back to remove the back stone but David’s draw was still the winning stone and there was every likelihood of this being the winner until Bob’s first stone. Mortal curlers would have played a raised take out on the short guard and the sweepers thought this to be the case but with Alastair shouting louder he dominated the (power) sweeping influence and raised the long guard to nudge out David Myles long standing winning stone and effectively secure victory. The only question that must be asked was whether this was the shot of the season or of Bob’s entire curling career or was it the biggest fluke that sent Bob home happy…… (an unusual occurrence in Forfar for Councillor Bob these days !!) I know what Colin thought but he was too much of a gentleman to think or say otherwise !!

Let’s have more games like this throughout the season.

Reported by an unbiased skip playing lead for Bob.