Reg Bamford won the Northern Championship (the Faulkner Cup)
[<<] [>>] by Ian Lines
at Bowdon
28th August 2007
(AC - Championships)
First Round | Second Round | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Winner |
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Robert Fulford |
Robert Fulford
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Rutger Beijderwellen
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Rutger Beijderwellen
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Reg Bamford
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Jerry Guest | |||||
Marcus Evans |
Rutger Beijderwellen
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Rutger Beijderwellen | |||||
David Maugham |
David Maugham
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David Maugham
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David Maugham
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Andrew Winn | |||||
Jonathan Bowen |
Sam Tudor
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Sam Tudor | |||||
David Goacher |
David Goacher
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Keith Aiton
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Ailsa Lines | |||||
Mike Sandler |
Keith Aiton
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Keith Aiton | |||||
Reg Bamford |
Reg Bamford
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Reg Bamford
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Reg Bamford
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Colin Irwin | |||||
Steve Comish |
James Death
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James Death | |||||
Ian Lines |
Ian Lines
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Ian Lines
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Ian Lines
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Martin Granger-Brown | |||||
Ken Cooper |
Peter Trimmer
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Peter Trimmer | |||||
Steve Lewis |
Tim Wilkins
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Chris Clarke
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Tim Wilkins | |||||
Andy Davies |
Chris Clarke
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Chris Clarke |
Plate
Sam Tudor beat Ian Lines (for the 2nd year in succession) in the Final of the Tollemache Plate.
Quarter Finals
James Death beat David Goacher +26tp
Ian Lines beat Jonathan Bowen +23tp
Tim Wilkins beat David Maugham +13tp
Sam Tudor beat Jerry Guest +16tp
Semi Finals
Sam Tudor beat James Death +17tp
Ian Lines beat Tim Wilkins +7tpo
Final
Sam Tudor beat Ian Lines +11otp
Handicap Changes
Marcus Evans from -2 to -1.5
Andrew Winn from 0.5 to 0
Report on the Final
by Chris Clarke
Sorry I didn't manage to last to report the final stages of the semis. I worked out last night that a stroke was played every 37 seconds in the Lines/Bamford match despite the fact it was virtually all break-play!
Anyway, game 2 of the final just before 2. Here's the story so far. The tactical nuances are beyond my limited understanding ;)
Northerns Final 2007
Game 1
Rutger wins the toss and goes in
- Rutger to c1
- Reg croquets to 17y N of c1 and 5 feet E, then goes 18y S of c3
- Rutger misses Reg from c3
- Reg hits partner from A and rolls to c3 leaving rush to 1 (?)
- Rutger to c2 (?)
- Reg goes to to 1-b
- Rutger misses
- Reg peels 1-b before 1, under-approaches 1 and bounces off
- Rutger to 4-b, peeling Reg to 2, with MSL (with balls wrong way wrong - 2-b ball on 2)
- Reg hits from c3 and finishes
Game 2
Reg choses to start
- Reg Super-Shot
- Rutger 4y E of it
- Reg hits dribble from C1 at Rutger. To 3-b
- Rutger hits and goes to 1-b
- Reg misses
- Rutger QPO, ball 6y N of hoop 4 (straight rover peel)
- Reg under-approaches 1, takes long position
- Rutger to S boundary behind 4
- Reg takes 2 foot position (?)
- Rutger snicks in. Fails to get position at 1-b and takes good position
- Reg to S boundary behind 4 (?)
- Rutger runs 1-b hard, hits Reg, sends Reg to 3y WNW of 2, failing to get position and takes 5 foot position. (??)
- Reg turns down/forgets 8y lift and hit guarded 20-yarder, gets break, fails 5-foot straight 4-b giving lift
- Rutger rushes to 10y E of c1, makes 2-b, fails 4 foot straight 3-b
- Reg hits 7 yarder at ball in hoop, rolls Rutger toward C2, getting 3y 20 deg position at 4-b, but front ball goes off in C2
- Rutger to 5y angled position at 3-b
- Reg takes position at 4-b ??
- Rutger takes position at 3-b
- Reg runs 4-b, takes position at pen ??
- Rutger finishes
Two good quality games then saw Reg end his 15-month win-less streak and take his first Northern championship.
Game 3
Rutger chooses to go second
- Reg 15y Super-Shot
- Rutger 4y E of it
- Reg misses dribble from C1
- Rutger hits double, goes to 4-b MSL
- Reg lifts balls at 4 and hits long lift. Goes to 1-b peeling Rutger to 2
- Rutger misses
- Reg finishes
Game 4
Reg chooses to go in
- Reg 15y Super-Shot
- Rutger 4y E of it
- Reg misses dribble
- Rutger misses 15-yarder
- Reg to 1-b peeling Rutger to 2 and more interestingly using Fulford's 1-b leave (can't remember whether he did in previous games)
- Rutger misses
- Reg finishes