Lions v Chesham Bois

Dan Fernandez writes:

On Weds l turned up for the Lions match v Chesham Bois and it appeared that the band members of YMCA had taken over.

Nic together with debutant Jim Cooper both looked queer as coots with their handlebar moustaches, closely cropped hair and tight shorts/strange walk combo. Paul looked like a fairy with frills decorating the end of his shorts. I'm a doppelganger for Jimmy Somerville and Mark is ginger so obviously gay.

Frivolities over we set about CB.
Mark played the human dynamo Tim King and was involved in a cracking match. Tim has improved and rarely loses but MT was on fire playing the ball early and hitting some great kills. Winning 1st then went 6-1 up in next only for Tim to claw his way back with great retrieving and long quality rallies. Unfortunately this was the pattern of the next 3 games as Mark made a strong start to each game only to be pipped to the post. 1-3.

Jim looking felching in black was up v Peter East. JC started well winning 1st but then game became a bit of a slog fest. Rather than looking at Nic thinking of the post match fun in the showers he should have listened to his words of wisdom to vary the pace. 1-3.

Paul took on upcoming county youngsterJonny Maloney who is trying to get a UK squash ranking and training 4 hrs a day. It didn't do him any good as he was well beaten by PB who put him under too much pressure forcing his opponent into many errors. 3-0.

Nic played Dan Colquhorn at 3. A tough-ask and a match we were not expecting much out of. Nic had other ideas really playing well and playing some great shots. Winning 1st could a surprise be on the cards? At 1-1 and 7-1 up we thought so. Unfortunately Dan dug in, ran well and avoided the unforced errors of earlier and won a hard 3-1.

At 5 l was up v Sam Pothwecary who resembles Mr Tickle and about half my age. Having joined the Beaconsfield Velos for a trip thru the Chilterns on Sunday l was feeling fit and got into my stride quickly going 2-0 up. Pushing on in 3rd l managed to get to 8-1. Then Sam staged a strong come back and the game went 9-10, as did 4th. Big effort in 5th and won 3-2.

So a 2-3 defeat (9-15) but some good individual performances to take forward into December.