Club coach Andy Longman never sleeps.
Here he is with two of his proteges at Kelly's Irish Bar in New Haven.
Apparently Charlie and James both drank him under the table. Poppa Mark paid.

Christmas Hat Club: Dec 20th: Get Your Tickets Now!

A suggestion that you get your tickets asap for the Christmas Hat Club next Friday.
I believe that there are perhaps 10 tickets left.
Here's another snippet of what you will be missing out on...
This is Luce and Marcus performing 'Who You Were Born To Be'.

Tigers Update

Dan Fernandez writes:

As Gazza recently seems to be spending more time renting/moving house or travelling overseas than playing squash, the required team capt role of writing up match reports is sporadic to say the least.
So another batch of match reports across Dec.

GX v Tigers
The week after playing GX we played them away. Another import came in at no2, Nev, who was a much better player than the previous ringer Steve. Mike tucked up Trevor Loran in minutes. Jonny won in 5 v Nev who ran out of gas despite nice racket work. Trying to repeat my win v Andy Peers l pulled my back badly and went down 0-3. Chris lost 0-3 to Mile Burnett as did Gareth who didn't know where to turn v Heff. So 2-3 loss

CB1B v Tigers
A tricky fixture v bottom team who had strengthened with Darren Withey at 1 but Jonny was off watching spurs so a tight match entailed.
Mike was just too sharp for Darren 3-0.
Despite Priya's expert hands l was only able to hobble about even more slowly than normal and lost in 4 to Mike Thorpe. Gareth had a good run v spiky haired Simon but was too predictable 1-3. Chris G had a close match v his nemesis Neil Hinds who he has only beaten a handful of times in 25 years. From 0-2, he dug in, got to the 5th but just couldn't pull it off. Dave Powell stepped in at 5 and was too classy for Rob Ely 3-1

HG v Tigers
In theory a weaker Tigers played the high flying HG this week but the depth of talent within the club shone thru for a famous win.
Mike McL took on Alex Hartley and on a cold court the boasts were quite working and the ball was dying in the back. At 0-2 down Mike informed us he'd had the lurgy so we were unsure how the match would pan out. We needn't have worried as he controlled the next 3 with lovely weight of shot and control to win 3-2.
Meanwhile Jonny was involved in a hackathon on next court with Tor. Going 1-2 down and looking fragile JM listened to advice from the balcony to hit better length and attack and won 3-2.
Brakes were then put on our progress as the Pig playing a chippy youngster who wound Olly up last week lost in 3 and l was out run by James Harley.
So match was all in the hands of the recently 'retired' Dave Powell up against Oz. Dave started well and just continued playing flawless squash not letting his larger opponent get a sniff 3-0. I wont spoil Dave's win by saying Oz had a bad back and had already played earlier that evening but you can only play whats in front of you...  Score 13-10.

Bulls v Chesham Wrinklies

Captain Piggin's match report: 

We played some squash against some old chaps.  
- I lost to a young chap who was bald and thereby qualified for their team.  
- Jim had a sorrowful experience against Rob who made him look a bit silly really (no offence Jim).  
- Olly beat an old man.  
- Harry almost lost to a very old man, but managed to scrape through thereby preserving his proud “I only lose to girls” victory chant.  
- Kev beat Tristan Farley Wotsit, which clinched the match for us.  
We then reminisced about how we much we missed Trev, although reflecting that we may have lost the match overall if he had played.  
Swings and Roundabouts, etc.