Posted by The 11th Cobbetts Poppy Appeal Doubles was held at Burridge on Sunday, November 10th and the aim was to repeat the £1000 raised in 2018. The Burridge Club again allowed us to use a small area of car park which enabled us to accept an extra 4 teams giving us an entry of 42 teams. Sadly 6 more teams had to be turned away! After all the recent rain we were lucky to get a sunny day although the temperature dropped rapidly as the semi-finals and finals were played after the sun had set.
At 11am play was stopped for the traditional two minutes silence for Remembrance Sunday. A big thank you to Mike Moss from Fareham who attended especially to recite the exhortation during the act of remembrance.
There were 9 morning leagues of 4 teams and 1 of 6 teams. The top 16 teams qualified to play in the main competition in the afternoon, the next 16 in the plate and the final 10 in the wooden spoon. After the morning leagues, last year’s winners Karen and Callum Lombard from River Hamble were top seeds with 3 wins +32. There were plenty of Cobbetts’ players through with Steve Daykin (and Phil Bradshaw from Bath) in second place with 3 wins +31 and also through were David Franco Cruz (with Dave Plumhoff), Mike Tull (with Harrison Ash), Dave Stubbs & Richard Greeves and Marc Franco Llado (with Louis Rinaldo).
More success for Cobbetts in the afternoon with last year’s runners-up, Dave and Richard, beating David and Dave 13-12 in the quarter-finals before losing to Phil & Steve in the semi-finals. Mike and Harrison also reached the semi-finals before falling to Paul & Sheila from Fareham. Despite Phil playing with an injured hand, he and Steve went on to beat Paul & Sheila in the final.
A Cobbetts win in the Plate competition with Lee & Diane Redfern defeating the River Hamble/Ship combination of Steve Lombard & Dave Lucas in the final. Steve and Dave had beaten another home player Rod Bennett, partnered by Danny Corp from Shedfield, in the semi-final.
The Plate Consolage saw another Cobbetts player in the prizes with Alan Forse (and Chris Chubb from Muscliff ) winning the final against the City of Bath team, Gay and Jeremy.
The Wooden Spoon competition saw Steve Love & Sue Sandy just miss out on the top prize, their 3 wins +17 not quite enough to stop the two Tonys, Kidd and Mann, who finished on +20.
Thanks to the great support shown by club members and all the visiting players it looks like we have a very good chance of reaching the target of £1000 for the Poppy Appeal when all the sums are done.
Main Competition
- Winners: Phil Bradshaw (City of Bath) & Steve Daykin (Cobbetts)
- Runners-up: Paul Hayward & Sheila Hayward (Fareham)
- Semi-finalists: Dave Stubbs & Richard Greeves (Cobbetts)
- Semi-finalists: Mike Tull (Cobbetts) & Harrison Ash (Bordon)
- Quarter-finalists: David Franco Cruz (Cobbetts) & Dave Plumhoff (Baldock Town)
- Quarter-finalists: Callum Lombard & Karen Lombard (River Hamble)
- Quarter-finalists: Peter Kidd (River Hamble) & Graham Elcome (Adur)
- Quarter-finalists: Kate & Alan Douglas (Ship)
Main Consolage
- Winners: Sam Thatcher (River Hamble) & Jay Willcocks (Southampton City)
- Runners-up: Liam Floyd & Jamie Brooks (England Juniors)
Plate Competition
- Winners: Lee Redfern & Diane Redfern (Cobbetts)
- Runners-up: Steve Lombard (River Hamble) & Dave Lucas (Ship)
- Semi-finalists: Mark Robertshaw (Fareham) & Sam Rattue (Muscliff)
- Semi-finalists: Rod Bennett (Cobbetts) & Danny Corp (Shedfield)
Plate Consolage
- Winners: Chris Chubb (Muscliff) & Alan Forse (Cobbetts)
- Runners-up: Gay Evans & Jeremy Colledge (City of Bath)
Wooden Spoon
- Winners: Tony Kidd (River Hamble) & Tony Mann (Brighton)
- Runners-up: Steve Love & Sue Sandy (Cobbetts)
- 3rd: Frank Charlesworth & Christine Peat (Oxshott)
- 4th: Bill Mackrell & John Bailey (Handcross)
