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Corrections to the PROGRAMME 2008/2009

The Pivot Teams of Four will now be held on Friday 31st October instead of 24th October - please note that this date has been changed again.

The April 8th BGB Simultaneous Pairs event should be April 15th.

The Georgina Pairs competition is determined as "The best 8 scores out of the first 12 times each pair play together".

The Worthington Individual competition should be the best 12 positions and not percentages.

The phone number for Kevin Higgins is 522792 and not 522793.


Recent Updates
Director's Rota
6th October 2008
Current News
1st October 2008
2008 Successes
1st October 2008
Send any interesting news items to  Kevin Higgins for inclusion on these pages.
New Notices on Club Notice Board

The club notice board has had some new notices posted:

a.   Rules about the NICKO (National Inter-Club KnockOut) competition.
b.   Short version of relevant new EBU rules.
c.   EBU Q & A paper on play to play.
d.   Welsh Teams of Four Competition.

Last updated : 1st October 2008 13:44
Results of Extraordinary meeting on 18th June 2008

On the proposal to accept the Village Club offer as outlined 14 were in favour and 28 against.  The proposal that we move without there being disabled access was rejected unanimously.  On the proposal that if we could have exclusive use 24/7 of the upstairs room with disabled access and facilities 38 members were in favour and 4 against.

The main club has now gone ahead with refurbishment.  Once this is done then we will be asking members what we should do.

Last updated : 24th August 2008 19:42
Jenny Morris elected to Manchester County selection committee
Congratulations to Jenny having been elected to the Manchester County selection committee at the Manchester AGM on Thursday 5th June.
Last updated : 24th August 2008 19:23

CONGRATULATIONS

To Peter McWhirter on  winning The Chairman's Trophy for 2008

  1.    Peter  McWhirter      69.79
  2.     Peter  Kirk               65.54
  3.     Joyce Hishmurgh      63.43
  4.     Rod    Franks           62.43
  5.     Shiela Hildage          62.30

This trophy is awarded to the highest % achieved by the chairman's partner in the year. It is open to all members and the chairman, Ron Steedman,  is now looking for partners both on Friday and Wednesday for the coming year.

Last updated : 16th June 2008 17:32
Gardens Cities Regional Final
The Bramhall Team of 8 represented the Manchester County at the Garden Cities Regional Final.  This was held at Bradford on 17th May 2008. Bramhall finished a creditable 5th out of 8 teams, winning 4 out of 7 matches.  The standard was high and the higher placed teams all had players of National note contained within them.  Also the same team: Rod Franks, Kevin Higgins, Howard Stubbings, Dhun Daji,Jim Morris, Jenny Morris, Bill White, Joyce White did brilliantly beating our other Manchester based clubs (including Manchester Bridge Club) in qualifying for this event in the Gazette Cup.
Last updated : 15th June 2008 12:15
Duplimated Boards

Final Result of the poll of members was:

 In Favour  74
 Against  33
 Undecided  12
 No preference  33
 No reply  13

It was agreed at the AGM that all members would be further balloted with a straightforward "Yes" or "No" vote in mid-August when their subscriptions become due.  A show of hands of members at the AGM resulted in 16 votes against duplimated boards and 31 in favour.

Last updated : 14th June 2008 18:15
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