Contact Numbers: 

• 01785 600260 (Chairman),
• 01785 665020 (Secretary),
• 01889 801996 (Captain),
• 01785 246611 (Club, during bridge sessions).

Stafford Bridge Club is located at the back of the Grandstand on the County Showground, ST18 0BD (Ordnance Survey ref:  SJ 958 053).  This "Staffs & Shrops" EBU affiliated club meets regularly throughout the year except during the County Show etc on Tuesday, Thursday & Friday evenings (7:00 for 7:15 p.m.) and Monday & Wednesday afternoons (1:15 for 1:30 p.m.).  In addition the club also holds American Suppers on Saturday evenings usually on the 3rd or 4th Saturday of the winter months (6:45 for 7:00 p.m.), see 'Club Sessions and Times', 'SBC dates' and 'Calendar'.

Club Reopened 4th January 2022 after the holiday season

In the light of the current covid situation, and in response to the views of several Club members, your Committee has decided to defer the closure of our Monday online Room. Monday online sessions will therefore continue for the time being. A new date for their ending will be announced in due course.

All online players are advised that the Committee has agreed in principle to raise the fees for each session played in the Club's online Room. This will probably be at the rate of an additional £1 per person per session, and possibly from January 3rd. A separate notice will be circulated about this.

The Committee extends its best wishes for 2022 to all members of our Club, with the hope that the year may see the restoration of some sort of normality in our bridge programme, with buoyant support for our face-to-face sessions, for these are our Club's bread and butter..

Michael Metcalf
Chair, Stafford Bridge Club

Robin's Thursday morning popular lessons for intermediates are going strong and now the Friday morning lessons for improvers have also restarted (19/11/21). The Thursday lessons often take the form of playing hands from a recent club session such that a minimum of 12 pupils is needed for the lesson to be viable. Please contact Robin if you would like to attend so that he can organise an exact number of tables.  Hand show is from the 6th January 2022 Lesson (or click this link for Christmas pictures and notes).

Have you a hand to send to Robin for his new new "Agony Uncle" page!  

Robin has produced plenty of material for the website, including one on Splinter bids, Gambling 3NT, CRO, Redoubles, Trial Bids, Jacoby and his all time most read page on McKenny signals and Discards.

Summary of his latest lessons along with some of Steve and Jan's pictures can be seen here with links to the individual lessons.

Beginner's Lessons.

Some interest has been shown in starting a beginner's course in the New Year.  Please contact Ann (01785 822233) if you would like to join the group and suggest a suitable time/day when you would be available.

In addition BCL are looking to introduce a new virtual club for EBU members as clubs reopen.  One Stafford member gave this a very successful  trial run at the morning session on Tuesday 31st August, the Tuesday morning sessions are the only sessions apparently up and running so far..

Bridge Club Live is the online favourite Stafford Bridge Club Members are invited to use to enjoy the on line club activities, to get going click here to see the basics and here for general information.